Enter the gates of Mar-a-Lago and you never know who you might run into. Guests at the sprawling Palm Beach estate — aka “the winter White House” — might brush past a foreign dignitary, a hopped-up tech titan, a mysterious Chinese billionaire or an overly Botoxed reality star. So when Casey Wasserman arrived for a private meeting in January, just …
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Everyone can have a bad day at the office. But for most of us, it doesn’t take place in front of millions of viewers at the world’s biggest sporting event. Such was the lot of Rachael Gunn, AKA B-girl Raygun, who scored a memorable nul points for Australia at the Paris Olympics in 2024 with her routine topped off with …
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In the past few decades, China has rapidly transitioned from one of the poorest nations on Earth to the global kingpin in robotics production. Between 2022 and 2023, the People’s Republic installed over 276,000 robots throughout various industries, more than every other country on Earth combined. The machines are descending on Beijing this week, flocking from all corners of the world …
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Aug 14, 2025, 10:06 AM ET Organizers of the Los Angeles Olympics will sell naming rights for a handful of its venues in deals expected to bring multiple millions of dollars to the 2028 Games while breaking the International Olympic Committee’s long-sacrosanct policy of keeping brand names off its arenas and stadiums. The organizing committee announced the landmark deal Thursday, …
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More than 40 years after L.A. produced the most financially successful Olympic Games in history, the 2028 Olympics will feature a new advertising revenue path for the Games. In an Olympic first, venues used for the 2028 Olympics and Paralympics will be allowed to have corporate sponsor names after LA28 and the International Olympic Committee came to a tradition-bucking agreement …
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Local officials and advocates for the homeless are fearful that President Trump will take draconian action against homeless people, including pushing them into detention camps, when Los Angeles hosts the Olympic Games in 2028. In recent weeks, Trump has appointed himself head of an Olympics task force and has seized control of local policing in Washington, D.C., declaring that homeless …
Read More »The right suit can help send a ski jumper soaring to gold. The wrong suit will get you grounded. Ski jumping faces more controversy with six months to go until the Winter Olympics after the first high-level competition of the new season saw numerous athletes disqualified over ill-fitting suits. The governing body says it’s “perfectly normal.” The ski jumping world …
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Los Angeles just can’t get a break. The latest embarrassment is LA28 chair Casey Wasserman, the man tasked with making sure the 2028 Summer Olympics are a massive success. At a news conference this week announcing that President Trump will head a federal Olympics task force, Wasserman offered L.A. a giant whoopie cushion. With Wasserman at his left side, Trump …
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Read More »Trump suggests he could use the military to keep the L.A. Olympics ‘safe’ The Washington Post ESTABLISHING THE WHITE HOUSE TASK FORCE ON THE 2028 SUMMER OLYMPICS The White House (.gov) Trump establishes LA Olympics security task force and threatens to redeploy National Guard LAist President Trump signs executive order creating White House Olympics task force NBC Los Angeles Trump Thanks Casey Wasserman For …
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