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Lead In June 2025, roughly 10,000 members of a collective called Unwrapped voted to sell portions of their Spotify listening preferences to AI developers, drawing a swift legal and policy pushback from Spotify. The group—organized through the decentralized data platform Vana—collected about $55,000 for the dataset, with individual contributors receiving roughly $5 in cryptocurrency. Spotify … Read more

President Donald Trump publicly called for the death penalty for the man charged in the Aug. 22 fatal stabbing of 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte’s Lynx Blue Line. Federal prosecutors in the Western District of North Carolina have charged Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, with an act causing death on a mass transit system … Read more

Matthew Berry published his positional PPR rankings for Week 2 of the 2025 NFL season on NBC Sports, updating lists for quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers and tight ends. The release highlights top-tier names—Lamar Jackson, Christian McCaffrey, Ja’Marr Chase and Brock Bowers—while listing extended rankings (30 QBs, 60 RBs, 60 WRs, 30 TEs). Berry notes … Read more

Lead On September 10, 2025, President Donald Trump issued his first public reaction after at least 19 Russian drones violated Polish airspace and were shot down, an action NATO and Polish officials described as unprecedented. Trump posted a brief comment on his social platform saying, “What’s with Russia violating Poland’s airspace with drones? Here we … Read more

Lead White House officials told CNN on September 10, 2025, that President Donald Trump will allow the 30-day federal takeover of the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to lapse, citing Mayor Muriel Bowser’s recent executive order promising indefinite cooperation with federal law enforcement. The decision removes the immediate need for a congressional vote … Read more

Lead: A UNICEF report released on 10 September 2025 finds that, for the first time, more school‑age children and adolescents worldwide are obese than underweight. The agency estimates about 188 million young people are living with obesity, a shift driven by rising consumption of ultra‑processed foods and beverages. The pattern holds across most regions except … Read more

Lead WASHINGTON, Sept 10, 2025 — A Reuters/Ipsos poll finds only 24% of U.S. adults believe recent vaccine-policy shifts under President Donald Trump’s administration are grounded in scientific evidence. The nationwide survey of 1,084 adults was conducted over five days through Sept. 9 and carries a margin of error of ±3 percentage points. The administration … Read more

Sept. 10, 2025 — Legendary wrestler Hulk Hogan died on July 24, 2025, in Clearwater, Florida, at age 71. New court papers filed in early September list roughly $5 million in assets tied to his estate, including cryptocurrency, personal and intellectual property, and a right-of-publicity valuation. The filings show daughter Brooke Hogan asked in 2023 … Read more

Lead Taylor Frankie Paul, 31, the star of Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, has been announced as the lead for Season 22 of ABC’s The Bachelorette. Paul revealed the news Wednesday on the Call Her Daddy podcast and ABC later confirmed the casting, noting her viral profile in the #MomTok community. She will … Read more

Lead NASA’s Perseverance rover has mapped a suite of finely laminated mudstones and associated mineral textures in Jezero Crater’s Neretva Vallis (Bright Angel formation) during surface operations in 2024–2025. Instruments including PIXL, SHERLOC, SuperCam, Mastcam‑Z, WATSON and RIMFAX identified authigenic Fe‑phosphate nodules, sulfide‑rich reaction cores and molecular signals consistent with organic carbon. A hand‑sampled core … Read more

Vice‑President Kamala Harris has, according to a Financial Times report, criticised elements of her party for what she described as the ‘‘recklessness’’ of remaining firmly committed to President Joe Biden. The report frames the remark as a sign of widening unease inside the Democratic coalition over strategy and electability. While the comment was reported by … Read more

Sept. 10, 2025 Lead: Ten years after twin interferometers in Washington State and Louisiana recorded the first direct gravitational waves on Sept. 14, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has transformed astrophysics by turning black-hole collisions into routine observations. This decade has produced more than 300 detected mergers and spawned an international collaboration of … Read more

Lead Anna Wintour, the outgoing editor-in-chief of Vogue, has publicly commented on Meryl Streep’s portrayal of a powerful fashion-mag editor in the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada. Speaking to New Yorker editor David Remnick on his podcast, Wintour said she attended the film’s premiere wearing Prada and expected concern from the industry about how … Read more

Lead Apple unveiled the third-generation AirPods Pro at its September 9, 2024 “Wonderlust” event, with the earbuds arriving in stores on September 19 and available for preorder now. Priced at $249, the AirPods Pro 3 position Apple’s earbuds further into fitness and translation use cases by adding a built‑in heart‑rate sensor, Workout Buddy features and … Read more

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has urged astronomers and space agencies to monitor a newly observed interstellar visitor — designated 3I/ATLAS — as it passes through our solar system, warning it could be an artificial object or release small probes. The object was first detected earlier this year and is on track to make its closest … Read more