Sen. Katie Britt’s ‘look of utter horror’ as GOP colleague’s perjury accusation unravels during Jack Smith hearing goes viral

Sen. Katie Britt had a viral reaction Tuesday to a perjury accusation against former Special Counsel Jack Smith that unraveled shortly after it was leveled by Sen. Eric Schmitt.  During a fiery congressional hearing, Schmitt (R-Mo.) suggested that Smith was lying about not coordinating his case against President Trump with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis based on text messages the senator obtained that seemingly indicated he was “in Atlanta” attending a “Hawks game” in February of 2024.  The bombshell accusation imploded moments later, when Smith explained that he actually attended a women’s college basketball game between the Maryland Terrapins…

Exclusive | Xavier Becerra appalled staff with offensive term for missing children while HHS secretary

Xavier Becerra disparaged migrant children as “little Juanitos and Juanitas” while leading former President Joe Biden administration’s health department, a former colleague alleges — fueling Democratic insiders’ fears about California’s would-be governor. “I never heard a single person disparage immigrant children,” a former Biden administration official who worked with Becerra…

Four new In-N-Outs ‘opening soon’ across California — here’s where

The In-N-Out empire keeps growing. Residents across the Golden State will soon have more chances to grab the burger chain’s famous fare, with several new locations listed as “opening soon” on its website. Three of the new sites are headed to Southern California, while the fourth will make its home…

Longtime NBA coach retires from JJ Redick’s staff as part of shakeups

A longtime NBA coach retired from Lakers coach JJ Redick’s staff, triggering shakeups. Bob Beyer decided to call it a coaching career, which started for the 64-year-old when he became an assistant coach for Alfred University’s men’s basketball team in 1983 and ended after two seasons on Redick’s staff from…

France sees US tech fines as piggy bank for EU spending, minister reveals

A top ally of French President Emmanuel Macron gloated that the European Union is treating fines on US tech giants like a piggy bank to bankroll the bloc’s own spending — a brazen disclosure the White House likened to “extortion.” France’s Europe Minister Benjamin Haddad suggested Tuesday that the EU,…

Meta releases new ‘secret weapon’ Muse assistant aimed at small businesses

AI, AI, captain! Meta today announced the launch of a new artificial intelligence assistant designed to aid small business owners with their slate of operations — from creating ad campaigns to analyzing financial performance to sorting and answering incoming mail. Dubbed Muse for Small Business, it’s part of Meta’s push…

Trump calls for ‘tremendous self-regulation’ of AI at lunch with billionaire tech titans

President Trump called for “tremendous self-regulation” of artificial intelligence at a White House lunch with tech billionaires — as he prepared to sign orders renaming AI as “super intelligence” in official communications. “There’s a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation,” Trump told reporters in the East Room, seated between…

Puka Nacua suffers bloody wound at Michael Rubin’s famed White Party

There was a little bit of red at this year’s White Party. NFL superstar Puka Nacua revealed on the latest episode of the “Impaulsive” podcast that he sustained a bloody wound while at Michael Rubin’s famed midsummer bash in the Hamptons last month. Nacua said the injury occurred after he…

New AI lets robots complete tasks twice as fast

Scientists have engineered a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that cuts reaction delays in robots by over 10 times without using additional computing power.Many robots controlled by vision language action (VLA) models move in fits and starts: reach, pause, adjust, pause again. The problem largely stems from how these models…

Stephen A. Smith makes bold prediction on Rob Pelinka’s future

Times are changing for the Los Angeles Lakers, and they’re changing fast after the team was sold by Mark Walter to former Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger and venture capitalist Josh Kushner. With so much happening so fast for the organization, television personalities have offered strong opinions. None stronger than…

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