Trump honors ‘freakin’ wild life’ of Teddy Roosevelt, interacts with AI-powered ex-prez in North Dakota visit

MEDORA, ND — President Trump paid tribute to Theodore Roosevelt as a “great man” while cutting the ribbon to his new presidential library in the Dakota Badlands — after interacting with an artificial intelligence-powered hologram of his predecessor. “He never stopped, never quit and never surrendered in pursuit of his dreams,” Trump said of his fellow New Yorker, who was also born into wealth before dramatically recasting the Republican Party as a trust-busting reformer. “He had a freakin’ wild life,” Trump said in a largely improvised hour-long speech, as he recounted Roosevelt’s rise from a thin, asthma-plagued New Yorker into…

California ranchers demand right to blast killer wolves with pepper balls

California ranchers sick of watching blood-thirsty wolves ravage their herds are demanding the right to blast the predators with pepper balls as Republican lawmakers are fighting what they call overly restrictive state laws on protected species. Assemblywoman Heather Hadwick (R-Alturas) rallied with law enforcement and ranchers Wednesday at the Capitol…

American vaccines that transformed public health, prevented millions of illnesses over 250 years

Before the first successful vaccine was developed in 1796, Americans had little protection against deadly infectious diseases like smallpox, measles and diphtheria. Over the next 250 years, vaccines helped eliminate or dramatically reduce many vaccine-preventable infectious diseases, preventing millions of illnesses, infections and deaths. “There is a reason that vaccines are widely…

Trump won’t renew USMCA deal with Canada and Mexico, trade rep says

President Trump has decided not to renew the United States-Mexico-Canada trade pact that he negotiated during his first term, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Wednesday. “We think there are substantial issues,” Greer told Bloomberg News in an interview shortly before a scheduled call with a broader group of news…

Lakers land Collin Sexton on  million deal

The floodgates were fully open for the Lakers’ free agency moves on Wednesday morning.  After securing Walker Kessler, Sandro Mamukelashvili and Quentin Grimes on long-term deals, the Lakers agreed to terms on two-year deal with veteran guard Collin Sexton. ESPN first reported that Sexton is signing a two-year, $19 million…

Another brutal offensive showing leads to another Dodgers loss

After a lackluster offensive performance Tuesday night, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts implored his team to “to have a better plan” at the plate. An afternoon later, however, the club was still searching. In a 3-2 loss to the Miami Marlins on Wednesday, the Dodgers not only dropped a three-game series…

Disney makes major decision on the future of ESPN

Disney has decided to keep ESPN — shelving years of speculation about a potential spinoff — in one of the first major strategic calls by newly installed CEO Josh D’Amaro, according to a report. The move signals that the media giant is doubling down on sports as it navigates a…

California’s Prop 50 plans thrown into chaos after bombshell Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana: experts

A bombshell Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that struck down Louisiana’s congressional map and gutted the Voting Rights Act will have major ramifications for California’s gerrymandering fight over its own maps, multiple experts said in interviews with the California Post. It’s not just California’s newly gerrymandered, anti-Trump congressional maps that could…

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square plunges 18% in NYSE debut

Bill Ackman‘s long-anticipated Wall Street debut flopped on Wednesday, as shares of his new closed-end fund tumbled 18% on the New York Stock Exchange despite the hedge-fund billionaire’s rampant following on social media. Pershing Square USA Ltd. (PSUS) — the flagship vehicle pitched as a way to hand hedge-fund-style returns…

Can NASA and SpaceX really build a moon base in the next 10 years?

Mars is out; the moon is in. And this time, we may be going there to stay.On March 24, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman announced new plans to build a “sustained human presence” on the moon, complete with a permanent lunar base. Construction of humanity’s new home away from Earth could…

Billionaire’s cryptic back of hand message decoded after CA governor debate

California governor hopeful Tom Steyer sported some strange ink on his hand during Tuesday night’s debate. The billionaire Democrat was seen with a crudely drawn, tic-tac-toe-like symbol on his left hand as he sparred with rivals on the debate stage. The curious scrawls fueled plenty of speculation and jokes online.…

Elon Musk gets an apology from California regulators as a SpaceX lawsuit is settled

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California regulators apologized to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk this week as they settled a lawsuit that claimed a state agency showed political bias against the rocket company and its chief executive. As part of the settlement, the California Coastal Commission acknowledged its members made “improper” statements about Musk’s…

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