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- Today marks 150 years since Alexander Graham Bell made the first tele- phone call from his Boston lab to his assistant in a nearby room.

- Harvard researchers say AI is giving workers "brain fry."

- Two men who brought explosives to a protest outside New York City’s mayoral mansion said they were inspired by the Islamic State extremist group. (Gothamist)

- Iran’s 88-member Assembly of Experts selected Mojtaba Khamenei as the country's next supreme leader, succeeding his father, Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an Israeli strike last month. Israel and the US have indicated they would not accept Khamenei as leader. (The Dick Cheney of Iran)

- A Georgia teacher died after a good-natured prank by his students resulted in a fatal car accident.

- Colombian nationals with running a sham immigration court scheme in which they allegedly duped an untold number of "vulnerable" immigrants into handing over more than $100,000 to defendants posing as lawyers, judges and other federal officials.

- Trump says Iran operations likely to last 4 to 5 weeks, but he’s prepared ‘to go far longer’

- Shia LaBeouf says he's 'scared' of gay people in post-arrest comments

Welcome to the dating recession: Why young Americans are giving up on love - Fox News

Armed man shot and killed at Mar-a-Lago last weekend (NPR, AP)

Meanwhile, in Afghanistan…

- Federal Aviation Administration to suddenly close the airspace over El Paso, Texas last Wednesday, in response to U.S. Customs and Border Protection using an anti-drone laser last week to combat drug cartel manned drones.

- OpenAI executive Ryan Beiermeister fired in January for alleged sexual discrimination after opposing ChatGPT adult mode

- Instagram Head Denies Social Media Is ‘Clinically Addictive’

- Ring, the Amazon-owned home security company, ended its partnership with a surveillance technology firm after a Super Bowl commercial generated backlash.

1. Disney names parks boss Josh D’Amaro as its next CEO to succeed Bob Iger
2. Native American tribe that owns land under Billie Eilish’s LA mansion says singer has never contacted them.
3. On the new A.I.-only social network Moltbook, thousands of chatbots are discussing topics such as cryptocurrency sales and the nature of consciousness.
4. FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show
5. President Trump assailed the Super Bowl LX halftime show, headlined by Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, as “one of the worst, EVER” and “an affront to the Greatness of America.”
6. WEF World Economic Forum Matthew Liao: We can induce 'meat allergy' by using Lone Star Ticks to stop the consumption of meat and “help the planet”

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- Federal Prosecutors Open Investigation Into Fed Chair Powell (NYTimes)

- 15,000 Nurses Go on Strike Against NYC’s Richest Hospitals (Indypendent)

- The Department of Homeland Security has promised to send hundreds more federal agents into Minneapolis, days after one shot and killed a woman there.

- US Overdose Deaths Drop as Fentanyl Supply Weakens, Study Finds (Bloomberg)

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- 2025's biggest business story: The rise of Artificial Intelligence.

- Iranian President declares "full-scale war" with the United States, Israel, and Europe.

- Say goodbye to the dining room. It’s disappearing from new home designs.

- Melissa Reviews: The New Dave Chappelle special sucked.

- The Justice Department on Friday released thousands of unclassified files related to the prosecution of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, though many remain heavily redacted.

- Wall Street Journal published a report on the rise of the Invitation-only stock market for the wealthy

- The Metropolitan Opera wants to court a younger generation with an abridged production of Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute.

- A glimpse into Turning Point USA’s America Fest Conference

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- Anti-artificial intelligence activist Sam Kirchner has been missing for two weeks

- Hep B vaccine controversy

- Why Restaurant Quality Is Declining

- AI Actress signs NDAs for multi-million dollar film projects

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- What this Black Friday weekend is show ing about the US economy

- Le Bal des Debutantes París 2025

- Lilly Wachowski tells us what fascism does and is

- Gunman fires on members of the West Virginia National Guard in Washington DC last Wednesday