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Republicans are dismissing affordability. That could be a problem in November

Republicans are dismissing affordability. That could be a problem in November

Published by Sam Flores

Vice President JD Vance speaks with reporters after his arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, May 28, 2026. Matt Rourke | AFP | Getty Images Voters are worried about the cost of living. Comments from the GOP this week are not likely to console them. President Donald Trump, in an interview Wednesday, said the word “affordability” was “devised” by Democrats to disparage him. The Republican National Committee sent out a fundraising text attributed to Vice President JD Vance that said groceries “cost what they cost.” And Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., who won the nomination for a full Senate term on Tuesday, disparaged federally run universal healthcare before recalling with nostalgia her parents heading to work even if they were sick. The set of comments over the past 24 hours exemplifies the challenges ahead for Republicans as they race to save their majorities in Congress in the midterm election, which looms less than 10 weeks away. Democrats are hammering Republicans on the campaign trail over the cost of living, which remains stubbornly high amid the …

Father of twins dies of cancer after dismissing stomach pain as a pulled muscle

Father of twins dies of cancer after dismissing stomach pain as a pulled muscle

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the Well Enough newsletter with Harry Bullmore for tips on living a healthier, happier and longer life Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore A father of twin daughters died of a rare cancer, which affects roughly two in 100,000 people, after initially dismissing stomach pain as a “pulled ab muscle”. Tasha and Serena Kainth, 30, from Solihull, said their father, Harmi, “wasn’t worried” about the initial abdominal pain in March 2022. However, after a month, it “didn’t go away”, and unusual fatigue set in. By late July, Serena said Harmi had lost more than four stones, suffered jaundice, dark urine, and lost his appetite, alongside “constant hiccups” that disrupted sleep, and “couldn’t even walk up the stairs” without breathlessness. Following a CT scan, an August 5 phone call confirmed Harmi’s cholangiocarcinoma diagnosis, aged 59. This type of cancer is found in the bile ducts, small tubes that connect different organs, including the liver and gallbladder. The main symptoms can include jaundice, itchy skin, darker …

Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler wins ruling dismissing most of child sexual assault lawsuit

Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler wins ruling dismissing most of child sexual assault lawsuit

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This A judge has dismissed the majority of a child sexual assault lawsuit filed against Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler because the statute of limitations has passed. That ruling applies in Massachusetts, where Tyler and Julia Misley, formerly Julia Holcomb, are supposed to have lived for the majority of their alleged three-year relationship. However, Misley will still be able to sue over one allegation, that she and Tyler had sex in a hotel and public hot tub during a visit to California in 1974 when she was 16 years old. California removed time limits for sexual assault cases in the wake of historic allegations against Bill Cosby. In a statement to Billboard, Tyler’s lawyer David Long-Daniels said: “This is a massive win for Steven Tyler. Today, the Court has dismissed with prejudice 99.9% of the claims against Mr. Tyler in this case. The court has …

NATO allies fire back at Trump for dismissing sacrifices in Afghan war – POLITICO

NATO allies fire back at Trump for dismissing sacrifices in Afghan war – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

“Wrong and without respect” is how Norway’s Defense Minister Tore O. Sandvik described Trump’s comments. “All fallen soldiers, their families and veterans deserve to be spoken about with respect,” Sandvik told local media, adding that he fully understood why veterans and relatives were angered by Trump’s words. More than 10,000 Norwegian troops served in Afghanistan and 10 were killed, he noted. Denmark’s ambassador to the United States, Jesper Møller Sørensen, said Danish forces fought “on the front line” in Helmand province in the Afghan war and suffered one of the highest per-capita casualty rates among NATO allies. “That was solidarity,” Sørensen wrote in a post on X. “We stood with America then — and we still do.” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk recalled attending a farewell ceremony in Ghazni in 2011 for five fallen Polish soldiers. “The American officers who accompanied me then told me that America would never forget the Polish heroes,” he wrote on X, adding: “Perhaps they will remind President Trump of that fact.” “That’s false,” said Dutch Foreign Minister David van …

AI denial is becoming an enterprise risk: Why dismissing “slop” obscures real capability gains

AI denial is becoming an enterprise risk: Why dismissing “slop” obscures real capability gains

Published by skeptic

Three years ago, ChatGPT was born. It amazed the world and ignited unprecedented investment and excitement in AI. Today, ChatGPT is still a toddler, but public sentiment around the AI boom has turned sharply negative. The shift began when OpenAI released GPT-5 this summer to mixed reviews, mostly from casual users who, unsurprisingly, judged the system by its surface flaws rather than its underlying capabilities. Since then, pundits and influencers have declared that AI progress is slowing, that scaling has “hit the wall,” and that the entire field is just another tech bubble inflated by blusterous hype. In fact, many influencers have latched onto the dismissive phrase “AI slop” to diminish the amazing images, documents, videos and code that frontier AI models generate on command. This perspective is not just wrong, it is dangerous. It makes me wonder, where were all these “experts” on irrational technology bubbles when electric scooter startups were touted as a transportation revolution and cartoon NFTs were being auctioned for millions? They were probably too busy buying worthless land in the …

Ripley burns it all down: On “Aliens” and the dangers of dismissing women’s rage

Ripley burns it all down: On “Aliens” and the dangers of dismissing women’s rage

Published by Sam Flores

Every time I watch the 1986 action-horror classic “Aliens,” a film I’ve seen so many times I’ve lost count, it takes on new meaning. I’ve long argued its merits as a metaphor for a woman enduring sexism in the workplace, due to the many trials Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley faces over the three films. In 1979’s “Alien,” Ripley’s an officer on the Nostromo who survives the infiltration of an alien that turns out to be quite the killing machine — it wipes out her entire crew — only by getting into an escape pod, setting the cargo ship she’s co-commanded to self-destruct and eventually blowing the intruder out of an airlock. In “Aliens” a salvage crew discovers her pod floating in deep space, where she’s been locked in hyper-sleep for 57 years. Does the company she’s contracted with give her a hero’s welcome? No. She’s demoted, and her account of a xenomorph — a creature that gestates inside a living human host, has an extremely hard exoskeleton, a razor-like whip for a tail and concentrated acid for blood — …