Inside the fallout between Gavin Newsom and Elon Musk, as their war of words gets worse by the day

In February 2023 California governor Gavin Newsom and Elon Musk stood side by side at a press conference celebrating Tesla’s new AI innovation lab in Palo Alto. They traded jokes about a $100,000 deposit Newsom had made on a Tesla Roadster, the first electric car the company produced. “That was a lot of money in 2007,” Musk, now the richest man in the world, said. “It’s still a lot of money,” Newsom replied. “Trust me, brother, you haven’t looked at my salary.” That was the high-water mark of their relationship, and it’s been all downhill, and increasingly fast, ever since.…

Why does cannabis give people ‘the munchies’?

One of the best-known side effects of smoking cannabis is “the munchies,” or an intense increase in appetite. One minute someone might feel full, and the next they appear ravenous.This effect, known scientifically as cannabis-induced hyperphagia, is powerful enough that for regular marijuana users, it can even cause weight gain,…

Heroes, zeroes from St. John’s Sweet 16 loss to Duke

Heroes and zeros from St. John’s 80-75 loss to Duke in their Sweet 16 matchup on Friday night in Washington:   Hero The likely consensus National Player of the Year, Cameron Boozer, led Duke in crunch time. His three-point play with 3:06 left pushed the Blue Devils’ lead to three.…

Barack Obama greenlit Gavin Newsom’s Prop. 50 gerrymander

Former President Barack Obama gave his explicit blessing to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Prop. 50 redistricting measure, the governor revealed in an interview. Newsom was “very nervous” calling Obama for advice last summer over Prop. 50 — which passed overwhelmingly in November and shuffled California’s congressional maps to favor Democrats in…

Vance assembles cabinet secretaries for first anti-fraud task force meeting

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance gathered Trump administration bigwigs Friday for his first anti-fraud task force meeting — saying the team would reverse a more relaxed approach to verification of social services benefits. Follow The Post’s live coverage of President Trump and national politics for the latest news and analysis “A lot…

Luka Doncic leads Lakers to blow out win over Nets

The first game after a lengthy road trip can be tricky.  Coach JJ Redick warned ahead of the Lakers’ home matchup against the Nets that games like Friday night can often feel like road games. And it showed for the Lakers, who struggled early on against the tanking Nets. But…

Lakers’ Luka Doncic picks up 16th technical foul against Nets

Less than a week after avoiding a suspension because of an accumulation of technical fouls, Lakers star guard Luka Doncic picked up his 16th technical foul of the season on Friday night, meaning he’ll have to serve a one-game suspension in the team’s next game.  Doncic picked up the technical…

Dodgers get 2025 World Series rings. Here’s how they look

The Dodgers had an idea about the grandiose nature of their 2025 World Series rings. “It is substantial,” manager Dave Roberts joked Friday afternoon. “I heard the ring is pretty over the top,” added now-retired pitcher Clayton Kershaw a little while later. Indeed, when the club unveiled the jewelry for…

ESPN personality Clinton Yates out at network after a decade

Clinton Yates is out at ESPN in the latest shakeup for the network. Yates’ role on the national radio network and ESPN will be ending amid changes to its 10 a.m. to noon ET programming window, Awful Announcing reported Friday. Additionally, Yates’ work as a senior writer with Andscape will…

Is the coming HIV pandemic inevitable? | Charles LeBaron

In a single year, the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.), has done such comprehensive damage to the extraordinarily successful HIV prevention program as to leave the country almost defenseless against a brewing HIV pandemic, right when elimination seemed possible.These unprecedented actions have…

What I’m seeing from St. John’s on eve of March Madness

Who knows what this means? If it’s a sign St. John’s is ready to go on a long run or not. One thing is certain: This looked like a loose team. Before the Johnnies took the floor for their open practice Thursday at San Diego’s Viejas Arena, they were smiling…

This is the latest sign of a quiet crypto revolution

We may be in the midst of a cryptocurrency winter, but BlackRock just quietly launched an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) for institutional clients that could make Ethereum look like a reliable investment rather than volatile speculation. The new ETF — iShares Staked Ethereum Trust — offers staking, which lets investors…

Live Science Today: Monte Verde controversy and heatwave lashes the West

Today’s top story A view of the Monte Verde archaeological site along the Chinchihuapi Creek in Chile, which was taken in 2012. (Image credit: Geología Valdivia (CC BY 2.0))A key archaeological site in Chile could be thousands of years younger than first thought, according to a controversial study that threatens…

6 everyday things that may be messing with your testosterone

In a T-rrible slump? As the primary male sex hormone, testosterone is essential for maintaining libido, erectile function, bone density and muscle mass. Men generally reach peak testosterone in their late teens to early 20s before levels slowly decline after age 30 or 40. Some 40% of men 45 and…

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