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"When Malia Shirley joined the Department of Health and Human Services in June 2025 as a White House liaison, she was charged with screening candidates for a critical health care panel that makes preventive care decisions affecting millions of Americans. She picked her dad for the job."
The Trump administration plans to install osteopathic doctor Mark Shirley as chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
“Fun” fact about Reese Witherspoon’s book club - in order to be a featured author, you have to sign away all the rights to adapting your book to Reese’s production company.
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The Pasadena Police Department releases video of what it is calling a “horseplay incident” in which an officer accidentally shoots his coworker.
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I met her long ago at a writers' conference. She was so damn kind; we had breakfast together.
A magnificent writer.
The inadvertent shooting was caught on dashcam and the wounded officer has recovered, the Pasadena Police Chief said.
"Alex Eisler, a sophomore at Brown University who studies applied math and computer science, regularly uses fake phone numbers and e-mail addresses to make reservations.... Last year, he made seventy thousand dollars reselling reservations."
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This is wild: essentially every LLM—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini—keeps using the same character when asked to make up a story, a guy called 'Elias Thorne'. He appears so much it's impacting Google Trends data and the self-published book market. Now we might know why www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
If you're against Trump's monstrous triumphal arch, the Park Service now has an open comment page, closing Jun 15, 2026 .
I would recommend against insulting Trump in your comment, richly though he deserves it. Focus on the grotesqueness of the arch itself.
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Reading Dishoom, named for "Bombay comfort food" restaurant. Beautiful travelogue of a book, nice detailed recipes. Especially grateful for "our restaurant does this, at home you can substitute that". So many restaurant cookbooks omit that step. Excited to make lamb raan. Index unsatisfactory ☹️
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LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...
Reese Witherspoon’s media and lifestyle brand for women, Hello Sunshine, is launching STORYfest, an in-person event series featuring Reese’s Book Club authors, kicking off June 16 in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards neighborhood.
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Reese Witherspoon’s media and lifestyle brand for women, Hello Sunshine, is launching STORYfest, an in-person event series featuring Reese’s Book Club authors, kicking off June 16 in Manhattan’s...
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The Judge Ross apology letter that has been unearthed by the NYTimes is pretty offensive in its vagueness and lack of responsibility.
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How bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation system inside out.
