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Brooks and Capehart on Trump’s focus on reaching the Gaza peace deal

Brooks and Capehart on Trump’s focus on reaching the Gaza peace deal

Geoff Bennett: With President Trump celebrating victories abroad and targeting political enemies here at home, there is much to discuss tonight with Brooks and Capehart. That's New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MSNBC.With a hello to you both. Jonathan Capehart: Hey, Geoff. Geoff Bennett: So both Israel and Hamas have agreed to phase one of the peace plan. We see the negotiations there on the screen. And that was followed by today celebrations in Israel and also along the Gaza Strip.I want to start with your reaction to this real breakthrough, Jonathan. Jonathan Capehart: Look, I'm…
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Novak Djokovic knocked out of Shanghai Masters by world number 204 Valentin Vacherot

Novak Djokovic knocked out of Shanghai Masters by world number 204 Valentin Vacherot

Injury has been a problem all tournament for Djokovic and he vomited during his previous matches after struggling with the heat and humidity.The issues flared up again in Saturday's semi-final with the 38-year-old receiving medical treatment on several occasions.At the start of the seventh game, the former world number one had to take an extended medical break, lying on his stomach shirtless as a physio attended to his back.He received treatment again at the break but battled through into the second set.Despite visibly struggling, the Serb provided the Shanghai crowd with hopes of a comeback when he moved into a…
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‘Rock stars would be like, Yeah, bring the kid in’: Cameron Crowe on his wild years as a teenage music journalist | Cameron Crowe

‘Rock stars would be like, Yeah, bring the kid in’: Cameron Crowe on his wild years as a teenage music journalist | Cameron Crowe

Cameron Crowe has a vivid memory of the day he began filming his own life story. It was the summer of 1999 and he was back in his home city of San Diego, on the same streets where he had spent his surreal teenage years, flitting between suburban domesticity and his new life as a prodigious music writer, spending long weeks in the company of such 1970s gods as David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, the Allman Brothers and Led Zeppelin.Shooting was about to begin on a scene in which his 15-year-old self – renamed “William Miller” and played by the unknown actor…
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The billion-dollar infrastructure deals powering the AI boom

The billion-dollar infrastructure deals powering the AI boom

It takes a lot of computing power to run an AI product — and as the tech industry races to tap the power of AI models, there’s a parallel race underway to build the infrastructure that will power them. On a recent earnings call, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang estimated that between $3 trillion and $4 trillion will be spent on AI infrastructure by the end of the decade — with much of that money coming from AI companies. Along the way, they’re placing immense strain on power grids and pushing the industry’s building capacity to its limit. Below, we’ve laid…
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Kieffer Moore: Wales and Wrexham striker aims to graduate from World Cup to boardroom

Kieffer Moore: Wales and Wrexham striker aims to graduate from World Cup to boardroom

Moore has not yet thought about where any post-playing job would be.He jokes that had he started the directorship course - "two years and very demanding like any education" - sooner, he could have looked after his own contract talks this summer when he joined Wrexham.Moore was among 13 summer signings, and while a fourth successive promotion may prove too much to ask, the club's ambition is obvious."The sky is the limit. You only to look at what's happened over the last few years, the stand they're building and infrastructure being put in place," he said."The club is definitely destined…
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We Asked Mars Wrigley’s ‘Chief Halloween Officer’ About This Year’s Top Candy Trends—Here’s What He Had To Say

We Asked Mars Wrigley’s ‘Chief Halloween Officer’ About This Year’s Top Candy Trends—Here’s What He Had To Say

Key Takeaways Candy is expected to account for about one-third of the $13 billion Americans are set to spend on Halloween this year. While chocolate remains the bedrock of Halloween, experts say tastes are shifting toward fruit flavors, sour candies, and the combination of sweet and spicy. Viral sensations like "Dubai chocolate" are proving to be more than just a flash in the pan, according to industry insiders. October is here, which means prime-time baseball—and Halloween, the “Super Bowl” of candy sales. Americans are expected to shell out more than $13 billion to celebrate Halloween this year, according to the…
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“It’s time to go”: Nobel Prize winner opted for suicide in Switzerland

“It’s time to go”: Nobel Prize winner opted for suicide in Switzerland

Daniel Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002. (archive picture) Picture: sda At the age of 90, Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman chose to die a self-determined death in Switzerland. He spent his last days in Paris - conscious, fulfilled and quiet. No time? blue News summarizes for you The Israeli-American psychologist Daniel Kahneman chose assisted suicide in Switzerland on March 27, 2024.The Nobel Prize winner wanted to forestall a phase of mental and physical decline.His final step was well-considered - and yet difficult for many to understand. In March 2024, Daniel Kahneman celebrated his 90th birthday…
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Unlikely alliance builds cleaner geothermal energy network in Massachusetts community

Unlikely alliance builds cleaner geothermal energy network in Massachusetts community

Geoff Bennett: Now the story of an unlikely partnership between a utility company and climate activists and how they worked together to help one community switch its heating and cooling to a cleaner source.Science correspondent Miles O'Brien has the story, part of our Tipping Point coverage on energy and climate. Miles O’Brien: Retired schoolteacher Carol Canova has lived in this tiny little house in Framingham, Massachusetts for 30 years. From this humble perch, she has experienced firsthand a historic energy transition. She started with an oil-burning furnace, then switched to gas, and now heats and cools with an electric heat…
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‘Verging on unwatchable’: Guardian writers on their most stressful movies | Film

‘Verging on unwatchable’: Guardian writers on their most stressful movies | Film

FallThe only movie I have literally had to take breaks from in order to give my sympathetic nervous system time to downshift out of flight or flight mode, Scott Mann’s 2022 psychological thriller Fall is brilliant in its simplicity. Thrill-seeking climbing influencer Hunter convinces her bestie Becky to do a little immersion therapy after her husband Dan’s sudden death during a climb leaves her fearful, depressed and suicidal. The goal: to climb a decommissioned TV transmission tower deep in the California desert that’s roughly twice the height of the Eiffel Tower. When the rickety ladder that gets them to a…
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The fixer’s dilemma: Chris Lehane and OpenAI’s impossible mission

The fixer’s dilemma: Chris Lehane and OpenAI’s impossible mission

Chris Lehane is one of the best in the business at making bad news disappear. Al Gore’s press secretary during the Clinton years, Airbnb’s chief crisis manager through every regulatory nightmare from here to Brussels – Lehane knows how to spin. Now he’s two years into what might be his most impossible gig yet: as OpenAI’s VP of global policy, his job is to convince the world that OpenAI genuinely gives a damn about democratizing artificial intelligence while the company increasingly behaves like, well, every other tech giant that’s ever claimed to be different. I had 20 minutes with him…
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