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Aug 14, 2025, 05:14 PM ET The NFL is continuing its on-field social justice messaging for a sixth straight season. All 32 teams will feature an end zone message of their choice at each home game throughout the season, selecting from four options: “End Racism,” “Stop Hate,” “Choose Love” or “Inspire Change.” Once again, “It Takes All of Us” will …

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation On August 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act — a monumental legislative achievement that protects our seniors, uplifts our citizens, and sustains the livelihoods of hardworking Americans who devoted their professions to bettering our country.  On the 90th anniversary of the establishment …

Sydney Sweeney has made her first post since facing backlash over her American Eagle ad, which embroiled the actress in accusations of racism. The 27-year-old broke her social media silence to promote her crime thriller film, Americana. She shared several behind-the-scenes photos from the Tony Tost-directed film, including a snapshot of herself in character as Penny Jo Poplin. Highlights Sydney …

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law 90 years ago this week, he said it would provide economic stability to older people while giving the U.S. “an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.” Today, the program provides benefits to almost 69 million Americans each month. It’s a major source of income for …

Social platforms like Facebook and X exacerbate the problem of political and social polarization, but they don’t create it. A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands put AI chatbots in a simple social media structure to see how they interacted with each other and found that, even without the invisible hand of the …

Letting your hair down at the weekend might be a well-known recipe for a hangover, but researchers say it might also increase the severity of a common sleep disorder. Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) involves complete pauses in breathing or partial reductions in airflow that arise because muscles in the back of the throat relax, causing the airways to narrow or …

Musk-Altman rivalry devolves into lawsuit threats, insults in social media brawl  Axios Apple rejects Musk’s App Store bias claims  BBC Apple has a new AI problem: Elon Musk  Fortune Elon Musk threatens Apple with lawsuit over OpenAI, sparking Sam Altman feud  The Guardian Musk threatens ‘immediate’ legal action against Apple over alleged antitrust violations  CNBC Source link

A US appeals court on Tuesday rejected a bid by a group of unions to block the Trump administration government downsizing team known as the “department of government efficiency” (Doge) from accessing sensitive data on Americans. The Virginia-based fourth US circuit court of appeals in a 2-1 decision said the unions were unlikely to prevail on claims that Doge would …

New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him  The Washington Post Truth Social’s Perplexity search comes with Trump-friendly media sources  Axios Trump’s Truth Social is getting its own AI search engine — powered by Perplexity  Business Insider Donald Trump’s company is working to bring AI search to his Twitter alternative  Times of India Trump Media and Perplexity team up for ‘Truth Search …

The thing about trolling is that it’s a fundamentally self-powering cycle: You piss someone off, they react; you make fun of them for reacting, it pisses them off some more. Its textbook stuff that most of us picked up on the playground (if not the early internet), literally decades ago. But dang if it isn’t still interesting to see the …