In this week’s midterm elections, many Democrats won n a landslide. Also on the winning side of many ballot decisions: animals. First, voters in Washington, DC, and Denver, Colorado, decisively supported a ban on the sale of foie gras — duck liver made by force-feeding the animals. In Colorado, voters opposed a constitutional amendment that…
Previous efforts have failed. Can the country get it right this time? Source link
Global markets fell as the first results came in, but later traded higher as investors assessed the outlook for policy as the balance of power shifted sharply in Washington. Source link
OpenAI is coming for Google Search, and it’s working. “ChatGPT’s volume of search-like queries is now roughly one-fifth the volume of queries of Google,” Adam Fry, ChatGPT’s consumer product lead, told Alex Kantrowitz of the Big Technology newsletter. It’s good news for OpenAI. For Google? Not so great. It not only shows that people are…
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Donald Trump is closing out the midterms by talking about anything but. What’s happening? If polls bear out, Republicans are a day away…
The dismissal marks another blow for the Justice Department as it tries to pursue President Trump’s favored targets. Source link
Democrats are up in Michigan, Texas, Kansas, Maine and Ohio, have an edge in Alaska and are effectively tied with Republicans in Iowa, new New York Times/Siena polls found. Source link
Catherine Zeta-Jones’ arrival in Hollywood in the mid-1990s was an ego check. The Welsh actor, then in her 20s, had starred for years on the popular early-’90s British series “The Darling Buds of May,” and was already a sensation in the UK. But when she touched down in California, she went from being recognized on…
In the last month or so, President Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again relationship with Ukraine — which has ranged from kicking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy out of the White House in early 2025 to promising new air defense missiles this summer — has once again run cold. Trump has excoriated Zelenskyy for successful Ukrainian strikes on Russian…
Texas prosecutors say Mario Alberto Morales ran over both of the man’s legs, leaving him with several fractures. Source link
