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Phils' Harper: Loser talk to whine about Dodgers

Phillies slugger Bryce Harper loves L.A. -- well, at least the World Series champion Dodgers' freewheeling spending on their way to a nearly $320 million payroll.

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With Gretzky on hand, Ovechkin scores 893rd

Capitals star Alex Ovechkin scored his 893rd career goal Friday night against the Blackhawks to move one back of tying and two away from breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL record.

Fast Company

Carlo Stocco

Go back to our roots for a healthier plate and planet

Even with traditional diets, food producers can innovate.

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Fast Company

Peter Wang

How to fund open source’s future

Sometimes it’s better to charge for features developed from open source to continue building on it.

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Margot Sanger-Katz and Rebecca Robbins

Trump Rejects Proposal for Medicare to Cover Wegovy and Other Obesity Drugs

Administration officials reversed a decision made during the Biden presidency that would have given millions of people access to weight-loss drugs paid for Medicare and Medicaid.

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Associated Press

Trump abruptly ousts the National Security Agency chief

Officials received no advance notice about Trump’s decision to remove General Tim Haugh, a four-star general with a 33-year career in intelligence and cyber operations.

President Donald Trump has abruptly fired the director of the National Security Agency, according to U.S. officials and members of Congress, but the White House and the Pentagon have provided no reasons for the move.

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Eduardo Medina and Nick Corasaniti

Appeals Court Orders Thousands of Voters to Verify Information in Contested N.C. Election

The ruling was a win for the Republican who narrowly lost a State Supreme Court race in November. The case has tested the boundaries of post-election litigation.

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Shane Goldmacher

Meet the 23-Year-Old Student Who Raised $25 Million in Democratic Losses

A law student in Florida has a lucrative side gig: fund-raising consultant. His firm earns a 25 percent cut of “profit” from donations, and critics have begun to pile up after two special elections.

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Amy X. Wang

The Strange Allure of Watching Other People Tear Up Their Homes

D.I.Y. influencers indulge our most ambitious housing fantasies — and cash in on them.

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Carol Rosenberg

How Guantánamo Bay Figures in the Trump Immigration Crackdown

In two months, only around 400 migrants have been held there, mostly Venezuelan and Nicaraguan citizens awaiting deportation.

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Ben Protess

More Than 500 Law Firms Back Perkins Coie in Fight With Trump

The firms signed a legal brief supporting Perkins Coie, calling the president’s actions a threat “to the rule of law.” The largest firms declined to sign.

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Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and Ken Bensinger

Laura Loomer’s Role in NSC Firings Shows Rising Sway of Fringe Figures on Trump

President Trump has always solicited information from dubious sources. But now, in his second term, he has fewer people around him who try to keep those voices away.

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Adam Liptak and Abbie VanSickle

Supreme Court Lets Trump Suspend Grants to Teachers

In boilerplate letters, the administration told recipients that the grants supported diversity efforts and were wasteful.

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Joe Rennison and Danielle Kaye

Investors Recoil From Trump’s Pledge to Remake the Global Economy

Stocks hadn’t fallen this far this fast since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. A 9.1 percent drop in the S&P 500 is the steepest weekly decline since March 2020.

Mashable

Trump delays TikTok ban for another 75 days

Well, it looks like TikTok is here to stay for another couple of months.

Just the day before a TikTok ban was set to go into effect, the Trump administration once again decided to temporarily delay the U.S. TikTok ban for another 75 days. TikTok isn't necessarily saved in the long term, but we'll at least have access to the app on June 19.

"My Administration has been working very hard on a Deal to SAVE TIKTOK, and we have made tremendous progress," he wrote in a TruthSocial post. "The Deal...

Mashable

Microsoft celebrates 50 years with major Copilot announcements and new features

Microsoft is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and the company is having some fun with it. The iconic Windows 95 logo was resurfaced, there is a themed version of Solitaire available, and Bill Gates even posted the source code for the company’s first operating system, Altair Basic. Microsoft’s Copilot is even getting some love. 

Actually, it would be more accurate to say that Microsoft has been showing Copilot a lot of love over the last few days. Announcements have been flying left and...

Mashable

OpenAI is offering free ChatGPT Plus for college students

OpenAI is offering two months of free ChatGPT Plus to all college students, as CEO Sam Altman recently announced ahead of a much-anticipated update to the AI chatbot.

The offer is available through May for U.S. and Canadian students only, and can be claimed on the ChatGPT student landing page. According to the site, Existing ChatGPT Plus subscribers and new students will be verified through a system called SheerID to confirm current enrollment. Make note: the subscription will automatically...

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Sources: Chargers add QB Lance on 1-year deal

Former Cowboys and 49ers quarterback Trey Lance reached agreement on a one-year deal worth up to $6.2 million with the Chargers, sources told ESPN.

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