3 h. ago A Salacious Saga Engulfs the Virginia G.O.P. and Weakens Youngkin

Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s failure to push out the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor over a scandal involving explicit photos showed the party’s divisions and the power of its right-wing base.

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3 h. ago Glittering blue creatures are washing up on California beaches. Here's why

Hundreds of thousands of Velella velella, more commonly known as by-the-wind-sailors, are drifting onto the coastline. Beachcombers say they look like "blue diamonds strewn across the beach."

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3 h. ago California leads lawsuit over Trump's EV charging funding change

Donald Trump's order to withhold $5 billion earmarked to grow the electric vehicle charging network in the United States is being challenged in court by more than a dozen states, California officials said Wednesday.

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4 h. ago North boys, Smithsburg girls continue title reigns in Washington County track & field

North boys, Smithsburg girls continue title reigns in Washington County track & field  The Herald-Mail

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4 h. ago Bosch Ventures is turning its attention to North America with new $270M fund

The venture arm of Bosch has a new $270 million fund that will continue its tradition of investing in deep-tech startups. This time, however, Bosch Ventures plans to put more of its money into North American startups. Launched in 2007, Bosch Ventures is now on its sixth fund. And while the corporate VC is technically […]

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5 h. ago Hochul, Looking to 2026, Pushed to Weaken Oversight of Religious Schools

Changing a law that chiefly affects all-boys Hasidic Jewish schools, known as yeshivas, has been a top priority among leaders of New York’s Hasidic communities, which tend to vote as a bloc.

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6 h. ago Late Night Anxiously Awaits the Unveiling of Trump’s Big News

“The Daily Show” host Desi Lydic said it “could be anything from ‘I’ve achieved peace in the Middle East’ to ‘I just tried bucatini, and I’m never going back to regular spaghetti.’”

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10 h. ago California regulator weakens AI rules, giving Big Tech more leeway to track you

California regulator weakens AI rules, giving Big Tech more leeway to track you  NBC4 Los Angeles

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10 h. ago 2025 Washington County Outdoor Track & Field Championships gallery

2025 Washington County Outdoor Track & Field Championships gallery  The Herald-Mail

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13 h. ago After exam fiasco, California State Bar faces deeper financial crisis

After exam fiasco, California State Bar faces deeper financial crisis  Los Angeles Times

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13 h. ago After exam fiasco, State Bar of California faces deeper financial crisis

After exam fiasco, State Bar of California faces deeper financial crisis  Los Angeles Times

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14 h. ago Swiftly deporting migrants to Libya would violate court order, US judge rules

Swiftly deporting migrants to Libya would violate court order, US judge rules  Reuters

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14 h. ago CEO of Wikipedia's Parent Foundation to Step Down After Ed Martin Questions Tax Exempt Status

Maryana Iskander, the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation — the nonprofit that owns Wikipedia — is reportedly stepping down from her position. The revelation comes just two weeks after the foundation was accused of violating its 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status by allowing propaganda and misinformation from "foreign actors" to flourish on the platform. Iskander, meanwhile, insists her forthcoming departure has been in the works for some time. The post CEO of Wikipedia’s Parent Foundation to Step Down After Ed Martin Questions Tax Exempt Status appeared first on Breitbart.

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14 h. ago Fastino trains AI models on cheap gaming GPUs and just raised $17.5M led by Khosla

Tech giants like to boast about trillion-parameter AI models that require massive and expensive GPU clusters. But Fastino is taking a different approach. The Palo Alto-based startup says it has invented a new kind of AI model architecture that’s intentionally small and task-specific. The models are so small they’re trained with low-end gaming GPUs worth […]

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14 h. ago Mother's Day adventures are in full bloom around Southern California

Mother's Day adventures are in full bloom around Southern California  NBC4 Los Angeles

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14 h. ago Judge says deporting migrants to Libya would violate his order

A judge has ruled that deporting noncitizens to Libya without due process would violate his court order, after sources said the White House has discussed such plans.

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15 h. ago California state parks are preparing for ‘oncoming storm’ of visitors

California state parks are preparing for ‘oncoming storm’ of visitors  San Francisco Chronicle

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15 h. ago Detained Tufts Student Must Be Moved to Vermont, Court Rules

Rumeysa Ozturk, an international student from Turkey, was detained in Massachusetts in March and later taken to Louisiana. The ruling said she must be transferred within a week.

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15 h. ago 205 suspected child sex predators, some from California, arrested in nationwide sweep, feds say

205 suspected child sex predators, some from California, arrested in nationwide sweep, feds say  Los Angeles Times

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17 h. ago New court filing shows that Meta execs agreed that Facebook was losing to TikTok

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram head Adam Mosseri, and other Meta execs thought that TikTok was beating Meta at its own game. That’s according to a new filing in the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant, published on Monday. The document, dated February 2022, includes conversations among a number of Meta […]

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