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Image: Elen Winata for The Verge From OLED TVs and iPads to streaming services and games, here’s the very best of what Black Friday has to offer. Now that Thanksgiving is done and dusted, the holiday we’ve actually been waiting for is here: Black Friday. The biggest shopping event of the year has officially kicked…
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced on Friday that the department has terminated nearly 80 contracts, including for a Brazilian forest and gender consultant and a Central American gender assessment consultant. Rollins said the 78 contracts active under the Biden administration totaled more than $132 million, and more than 1,000 contracts are still under review…
A California woman was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison after she was arrested on a weapons charge and found with heroin-filled Bibles addressed to inmates in state prisons. Lucresia Stone-Rojas, 46, was initially arrested Nov. 12, 2023, after a license plate reader identified a stolen Porsche in El Cajon. During a traffic stop,…
A fiery pileup inside a tunnel on Interstate 80 in Wyoming left at least two dead with five others injured late Friday morning. Fire and smoke billowed from the tunnel as people ran for safety. Several outlets reported that its structural integrity had been threatened. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE VICTIMS OF THE PHILADELPHIA CRASH…
Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha argued that President Trump’s popularity can be explained by the fact he embraces the policies Democrats once stood for. Many Democrats, still reeling from Trump’s victory in November, are still trying to figure out how their party lost to somebody as controversial as Trump. CNN’s “Laura Coates Live” featured a segment…
Tommy Doyle is now a former football player at the age of 26. The Buffalo Bills offensive lineman announced Friday he’s retiring due to “permanent” injuries. Doyle has not appeared in a game since Week 3 of the 2022 season, and an injury he sustained during the 2023 preseason left him with nerve damage. CLICK…
Former “Dancing with the Stars” pro Cheryl Burke is opening up about her love life. During a recent episode of iHeartRadio’s “I Do, Part 2” podcast, Burke reflected on her relationship and divorce from actor Matthew Lawrence and the changes she made in her life after her marriage ended. “I’m not dating, and I’m choosing…
A federal judge on Friday extended a temporary order that blocks Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team from accessing payment systems within the Treasury Department. The extension comes after 19 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over DOGE’s access to the payment system, which has information about Americans’ Social…
Nearly 400 videos that were posted on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s YouTube page have been removed, as the Trump administration continues to pare back the agency, including its team of skilled technologists. The CFPB YouTube page, which has 15,000 subscribers and was created in 2011, has had every one of its videos removed as…
Google has disabled its Android earthquake detection feature in Brazil after many smartphone users in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro received false emergency alerts on Friday morning, Android Police reports. The alerts of a nonexistent 5.5 magnitude earthquake were sent to devices around 2AM this morning, and pinpointed earthquakes in the country’s Ubatuba and…