President Donald Trump late Tuesday night endorsed Michigan Republican Amir Hassan for the U.S. House. Hassan said he only got involved in politics after a transgender woman used the same bathroom as his daughter. “When my 18-year-old daughter was younger, a man identifying as woman walked into the same restroom as her,” Hassan told Midland
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AI is already everywhere, and readers may not be as good at detecting it as we think we are. Using AI-detection tool Pangram, researchers from Stony Brook University found that one in five of the 14,000 randomly selected Kindle ebooks in their data set contained more than 25% AI-generated text. Particularly notable is the finding,
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Ear have lined up a smattering of North American tour dates behind Rumspringa, their recent A24 Music debut. The New York-based IDM-pop duo will play headlining shows in Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto, and Chicago throughout the month of September—plus a hometown gig at a helipad on the East River. Support at different dates will come from
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It’s been a meaningful year for LGBTQ+ visibility, with a number of high-profile stars publicly embracing their identities for the first time or sharing new labels that better reflect who they are today. From deeply personal social media posts to memoir revelations and candid interviews, these coming out stories have highlighted that there’s no single
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day has used its web to recapture a once-faithful audience. The new Marvel Cinematic Universe sees Tom Holland reprising his title role on the big screen for the first time since 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, which is currently the eighth highest-grossing movie of all time thanks to a worldwide gross of
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Bestselling author Carissa Broadbent returns to her Crowns of Nyaxia series with The Lion and the Deathless Dark, the first in a new duology. It’s a fine entry point into Broadbent’s backlist of interlinked stories set in the same world, though it may be a richer experience for readers who have started at the beginning,
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Love don’t cost a thing for Nick Cannon—at least he hopes it doesn’t.  The Love Don’t Cost a Thing star poked fun at having to pay child support payments for his 12 kids—with whom he shares with six different women—in a skit with his girlfriend Bre Tiesi. “Nick, it’s time to pay child support,” Tiesi said in a joint Instagram Reel shared
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Kavinsky, the French producer and DJ born Vincent ‌Belorgey, has died at his home in Paris of a suspected stroke, the French TV station BFM and newspaper Le ‌Figaro reported today (July 29). The Paris prosecutors’ office said it had opened an investigation and found “no suspicious elements” at the scene. Belorgey had reportedly been
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A former employee of PepsiCo sued the company on July 24, alleging that the company fired her after she returned from family leave following a period of repeated anti-gay harassment that they failed to stop, Human Resources Direction reported. Her lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The
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In the opening scene of Furious Violet, true crime writer Violet “West” Shelley wakes up in a pool of blood in a hotel in Salt Lake City, where she has been conducting final interviews for her book about a cold case murderer known as the Crying Killer. Sarai Walker certainly knows how to draw readers
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7 Men’s Shirt Styles Dominating 2026 (And How to Wear Them) Walk into any decent men’s shop right now and you’ll notice something. The plain white oxford is still there, sure. But it’s got company. #rmrs-cmp-shirts2026 *{box-sizing:border-box;margin:0;padding:0;} #rmrs-cmp-shirts2026{ –navy:#14213d; –navy2:#1f335c; –cream:#faf6ec; –cream2:#f1e9d6; –gold:#c9a24b; –ink:#2a2a2a; –line:#e2d7bd; font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,”Segoe UI”,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color:var(–ink); max-width:760px; margin:32px auto; padding:0 4px; line-height:1.5; -webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;
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Linda Perhacs, the folk singer-songwriter who found cult fame decades after the release of her 1970 debut, Parallelograms, has been reported missing. A group of her friends and longtime collaborators—including her former manager Laurel Stearns, Julia Holter, and DubLab co-founder Mark “Frosty” McNeill—have shared a statement online in hopes of finding the 82-year-old musician after
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The Trump administration on Monday threatened legal action and the end of federal education funding against the Anne Arundel County Public School District of Maryland for allegedly withholding information about a child’s gender identity from their parents, The Baltimore Banner reported. The federal government began investigating the school after the Education Department’s Student Privacy Policy
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Adam Wingard’s 2026 movie calendar release already looked like a welcome return to the sharp, nasty action-horror of his earlier work. The new trailer for Onslaught promises genetically engineered killers, Adria Arjona with a rifle and the kind of desert carnage that feels at home in the “survival thriller” section of a 1980s video store.
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