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- Two Cleveland Pitchers Indicted For Alleged Baseball Game-Fixing
Cleveland pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis L. Ortiz face possible bans from baseball after their indictments for gambling on the game.
- Trump administration demands states ‘undo’ full SNAP payouts and warns of penalties if they refuse
In a filing in federal court on Sunday, the agency said states moved too quickly and erroneously released full money SNAP Benefits after last week's rulings.
- Over 8,500 Flights Disrupted Sunday As Government Shutdown Snarls Air Travel
Hundreds of flights out of major airports were delayed Sunday, including in New York, Chicago and Atlanta.
- Jisoo Joins Her Blackpink Bandmates With Her First Solo Radio Smash
Jisoo lands her first solo hit on the Pop Airplay chart as “Eyes Closed,” her collaboration with Zayn, joining her Blackpink bandmates Jennie, Lisa and Rosé in the feat.
- Trump promises a $2,000 tariff ‘dividend’ that Treasury secretary says could come via tax cuts already signed into law
"The $2,000 dividend could come in lots of forms, in lots of ways," Bessent said.
Technology
- The State of AI: Energy is king, and the US is falling behind
Welcome to The State of AI, a new collaboration between the Financial Times and MIT Technology Review. Every Monday for the next six weeks, writers from both publications will debate one aspect of the generative AI revolution reshaping global power. This week, Casey Crownhart, senior reporter for energy at MIT Technology Review and Pilita Clark, FT’s…
- Here’s how orbital dynamics wizardry helped save NASA’s next Mars mission
Blue Origin is counting down to launch of its second New Glenn rocket Sunday.
- Blue Origin will ‘move heaven and Earth’ to help NASA reach the Moon faster, CEO says
"We have some ideas that we think could accelerate the path to the Moon."
- James Watson, who helped unravel DNA’s double-helix, has died
His work was celebrated, but he was ostracized for racist, sexist comments.
- Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence
New "computational Turing test" reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.
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