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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 …

The wife of Salman Iftikhar, the executive recently sentenced for threatening a Virgin Atlantic flight attendant, has come forward to defend her husband, attributing his actions to mental health struggles. Abeer Iftikhar, social media influencer from Pakistan.(Instagram-abeeriftekhar) Abeer Rizvi, a social media influencer based in Pakistan, shared her thoughts on Instagram days after Iftikhar was sentenced to 15 months in …

The Naked Gun co-writer/director Akiva Schaffer knew he struck gold with the wild snowman montage in his movie starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson. But he had to put his entire job on the line to save it. “It was polarizing in script reads,” Schaffer said on Monday’s episode of IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “People I really respect like Andy Sandberg, when …

Sharon Stone revealed in a recent interview with Business Insider that a blowout fight she had with Michael Douglas at the Cannes Film Festival allegedly made him refuse to screen test with her during the development of “Basic Instinct,” Paul Verhoeven’s 1992 erotic thriller. “Michael Douglas did not want to put his bare ass out on the screen with an …

OLD FORT, Tenn. (AP) — Officers found 14 improvised explosive devices while executing a search warrant for a man who had threatened to kill public officials and tried to detonate the devices as he was being arrested, Tennessee authorities said Saturday. Detectives and deputies went to a home Friday in Old Fort, about 45 miles (70 kilometers) east of Chattanooga, …

Authorities in Tennessee have arrested a man who threatened to kill public officials and had explosive devices in his Polk County home. Polk County Sheriff’s deputies on Friday executed an arrest warrant for 54-year-old Kevin Wade O’Neal at his house in Old Fort, an unincorporated community about an hour east of Chattanooga, for allegedly threatening to kill public officials and …

Matt Ryan, the actor behind Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag’s main character Edward Kenway, recently told a fan that they might have a reason to replay the 2013 pirate game. The Constantine actor said this at a convention signing, and fans took this as a tease of a potential remake or remaster. However, it sounds like Ryan wasn’t in the clear …

The 10 jobs least and most threatened by AI  Axios 20 jobs and careers AI is unlikely to ever touch, according to Microsoft  Fortune AI Is Wrecking an Already Fragile Job Market for College Graduates – WSJ  The Wall Street Journal 7 Jobs Most at Risk from AI Disruption, Microsoft Says  Barron’s Painters, nursing assistants, and more: Microsoft’s top 10 most AI-safe careers  CNBC Source …

WASHINGTON/TOKYO — The U.S. and Japan have agreed to a trade deal that would bring down both auto tariffs and the “reciprocal” levies threatened by President Donald Trump from 25% to 15%, culminating months of negotiations ahead of an Aug. 1 deadline. Writing on Truth Social Tuesday night, the president said, “We just completed a massive Deal with Japan, perhaps …

The Avengers star opens up about how it feels having to live through those “clickbait” moments in the public eye — and shares where thing stand between him and Sonni Pacheco now. It’s hard enough having to go through the breakup of a marriage, but then having details of it — whether accurate or not — smeared across international headlines …