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Are we in for a new age of scripted basic cable television? Given the successes of the old age, which threaded its way between broadcast and premium cable TV, a little bolder than the former, less pricier than the latter, making up what it lacked in resources with invention and charm β producing such shows…
If you ever fly to Washington DC, look out of the window as you land at Dulles Airport – and you might snatch a glimpse of the single biggest story in economics right now. There below you, you will see scattered around the fields and woods of the local area a set of vast warehouses…
The Fresno State football players wanted to be heard after so much frustration, so much uncertainty. A season that had started with their coach leaving the job because of health problems, only to deteriorate further with four losses in six games during a maddening midseason stretch, was now back firmly on the upswing. Their temporary…
San Diego Padres pitcher Jason Adam is out for the season after he ruptured a quad tendon Monday when planting his left foot while trying to field a comebacker. Now we know what can tilt a pennant race between two teams whose performance has been roughly even with a month to go before the playoffs….
The group of lenders which want to take control of Britainβs biggest water utility and keep it out of government ownership are to pledge to the industry regulator that they will not offload the company before the end of the decade. Sky News has learnt that Thames Water‘s largest creditor group, which account for the…
Doctors’ strikes have become commonplace over the past few years as they walk out over NHS pay, hours and jobs. Resident doctors – formerly junior doctors – are now threatening to strike after Easter. Sky News looks back at when they have walked out before and why. Politics latest: Starmer issues ultimatum over doctors’ strikes…
Staff are most likely to see their pay rise by the same amount as last year, new data shows. Some 44% of bosses intend to award a similar wage increase, while 28% will compensate employees more generously. Another 28% say their workers face a smaller pay rise than last year. The figures come from a…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ President Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondentsβ Assn. dinner on Saturday evening after gunshots were fired, and a person was taken into custody. A Times reporter attending the dinner sheltered in a restroom after the incident. He said he heard about four or five gunshots around 8:30 p.m. Eastern time. He said a…
Salzburg, AustriaΒ βΒ The news of Robert Wilsonβs death at age 83 in New York reached me in a Wilsonian way β at the theater and absorbed in the kind of uncompromisingly slow, shockingly beauteous and incomprehensibly time-and-space-bending weirdness Wilson took infinite pleasure in hosting when he made what he called operas. He called everything he staged…
Elon Musk took the stand Tuesday in a trial against fellow billionaire Sam Altman that could change the future of AI. Musk accused the OpenAI co-founder of lying and stealing, adding that he has “extreme concerns” about AI and who controls it.
