On Friday, Luigi Mangione confessed to stalking and killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street in Dec. 2024. Since the shooting, Mangione has become a nationally recognized figure, and for some he is a symbol of violent retaliation against a broken healthcare system. Throughout the swirl of attention on him, though, his
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Chris Kubasik during the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, July 10, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Defense contracting giant L3Harris Technologies ousted CEO Chris Kubasik on Sunday after learning he engaged in “certain conduct … that was not consistent with the values of the Company,”
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We’re turning some kind of corner in the ongoing conversation about if, where, and how to deal with the reality that AI-generated text has already made its way into mainstream publishing. Here’s a look at the biggest recent headlines: 🤖 Welcome to the uncanny valley. In the most meta (but not Meta™️) of experiments, Mother
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A new gateway-horror movie is on the horizon from a storied studio. Animated films have long offered young audiences a relatively safe space to get their first cinematic scares. Movies like Monster House, Coraline, and Paranorman introduced children to haunted homes, restless ghouls, and the possibility that adults may be absolutely useless during a supernatural
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Hayden Panettiere in ‘Heroes.’ Photo: NBC Universal. Preview: Hayden Panettiere has died at the age of 36. She was best known for her roles as Claire Bennet on ‘Heroes,’ Juliette Barnes on ‘Nashville’ and Kirby Reed in the ‘Scream’ franchise. Panettiere began working in entertainment as an infant and went on to build a career
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A firefighting helicopter prepares to drop a load of water during a fire at Russian e-commerce firm Wildberries’ logistics complex near the town of Podolsk, outside Moscow on August 16, 2026. Tatyana Makeyeva | Afp | Getty Images Russia launched an attack overnight targeting Ukraine’s port infrastructure in the southern region of Odesa, authorities said
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