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Ciara Miller offers candid two-word response to fans urging her to be the next Bachelorette

Ciara Miller offers candid two-word response to fans urging her to be the next Bachelorette

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Ciara Miller has delivered an emphatic response to fans begging for her to lead the next season of The Bachelorette. The Summer House star, 30, who is currently embroiled in a friendship fallout with co-star Amanda Batula over her relationship with Miller’s ex-boyfriend, West Wilson, was speaking in a new interview about her love life. “I’m so happy being single,” she said in her Glamour cover story. “Honestly, I can’t imagine anyone being in my apartment. I don’t think it’s a bad thing to be single.” When the interviewer mentioned that some fans had been urging The Bachelorette to cast Miller, the reality star replied: “F*** no,” before adding, “I’m way too private.” Miller’s cutting response comes a month after the recent season of the hit ABC dating series, featuring fellow TV personality Taylor Frankie Paul, was axed. Ciara Miller said …

A Top Democrat Is Urging Colleagues to Support Trump’s Spy Machine

A Top Democrat Is Urging Colleagues to Support Trump’s Spy Machine

Published by skeptic

United States congressman Jim Himes, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, is privately lobbying colleagues to preserve the FBI’s power to conduct warrantless searches of Americans’ communications, WIRED has learned, arguing that he has seen no evidence that the Trump administration is abusing its authority. In a letter obtained by WIRED, Himes urges fellow Democrats to support the White House’s request to renew a controversial surveillance program that intercepts the electronic data of foreigners abroad. While targeted at foreigners, the program—authorized under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act—also sweeps in vast quantities of private messages belonging to US citizens. Himes’ pitch relies on the “56 reforms” passed by Congress in 2024, which codified the FBI’s own internal protocols as a substitute for constitutional warrants. In the letter, Himes claims these changes are “working as intended” to prevent domestic misuse, citing a compliance rate “exceeding 99 percent” over the past two years. The structural foundations of that defense, however, have been fundamentally altered by recent changes within the FBI. Himes’ “99 percent” …

Robert De Niro Gets Emotional Urging Americans To Resist Trump

Robert De Niro Gets Emotional Urging Americans To Resist Trump

Published by Sam Flores

Robert De Niro has made no secret about what he thinks of Donald Trump, but he got very emotional about the state of the US under the presidentduring an interview with MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace on Monday. “The story is our country, and Trump is destroying it, and who knows what his reasons are, but it’s sick, it’s fucked up,” De Niro said. “We have to save this country.” Toward the end of the interview, De Niro seemed on the verge of tears when Wallace asked him why he makes a point of thanking the people who work for him at awards shows. “You have to — you have to lift people up,” the actor said, with his voice starting to crack, before explaining, “You have to bring them together. You can’t divide people, you can’t win that way.” Things got emotional as De Niro pivoted back to discussing Trump’s divisive presidency. “It’s a no-win situation, and look what we have, look who we have there, it’s almost like a destiny to have this thing …

Salesforce Workers Circulate Open Letter Urging CEO Marc Benioff to Denounce ICE

Salesforce Workers Circulate Open Letter Urging CEO Marc Benioff to Denounce ICE

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Employees at Salesforce are circulating an internal letter to chief executive Marc Benioff calling on him to denounce recent actions by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, prohibit the use of Salesforce software by immigration agents, and back federal legislation that would significantly reform the agency. The letter specifically cites the “recent killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis” as catalysts, calling them the “devastating indictment of a system that has discarded human decency.” It’s unclear how many signatories the letter has received so far. The letter, which has not been reported on previously, is being organized amid Salesforce’s annual leadership kickoff event this week in Las Vegas. During an appearance at the event earlier today, Benioff asked international employees to stand to thank them for attending, before joking that ICE agents were in the building monitoring them, according to current and former Salesforce employees who spoke to WIRED. Benioff’s remarks sparked immediate backlash among employees. “Lots of people are furious,” says one source, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. Business …

A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscription

A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscription

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For Stephen, who had already been tinkering with other chatbots, learning about Brockman’s donation was the final straw. “That’s really the straw that broke the camel’s back,” he says. When he canceled his ChatGPT subscription, a survey popped up asking what OpenAI could have done to keep his subscription. “Don’t support the fascist regime,” he wrote. QuitGPT is one of the latest salvos in a growing movement by activists and disaffected users to cancel their subscriptions. In just the past few weeks, users have flooded Reddit with stories about quitting the chatbot. Many lamented the performance of GPT-5.2, the latest model. Others shared memes parodying the chatbot’s sycophancy. Some planned a “Mass Cancellation Party” in San Francisco, a sardonic nod to the GPT-4o funeral that an OpenAI employee had floated, poking fun at users who are mourning the model’s impending retirement. Still, others are protesting against what they see as a deepening entanglement between OpenAI and the Trump administration. OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment. As of December 2025, ChatGPT had nearly …

Artists Circulate Letter Urging Jewish Museum to Save New Deal Murals

Artists Circulate Letter Urging Jewish Museum to Save New Deal Murals

Published by Jenni Sidey

The latest attempt to save the New Deal-era artwork from the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C., involves a letter written by a group of artists urging the Jewish Museum in New York to save the murals and sculptural reliefs created by Jewish artists like Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and Seymour Fogel. The letter, addressed to Shari Aronson, chair of the board of the Jewish Museum, was written by artists Elise Engler, Joyce Kozloff, and Martha Rosler, and has been signed by hundreds of artists and artworld figures. Hyperallergic first posted about the letter. Some of the high-profile signatories include Joan Semmel, Rochelle Feinstein, Joan Snyder, Lucy Lippard, and Kay WalkingStick. Related Articles The Cohen building opened in 1940, and initially housed the Social Security Administration (then known as the Social Security Board), with interior artworks—murals, sculptures, reliefs—that reflected its mission. In 1954, Voice of America (a government funded news organization) moved into the building, but the Trump administration suspended its broadcasts in October. The building is known as the “Sistine Chapel of …

Meloni joins Merz in urging ‘swift implementation’ of EU-Mercosur trade deal – POLITICO

Meloni joins Merz in urging ‘swift implementation’ of EU-Mercosur trade deal – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

“The question of provisional application was raised by several leaders tonight,” von der Leyen said, adding it was important to push forward the trade pact’s “benefits” as soon as possible. More than 20 ministers from Italy and Germany are meeting today at Rome’s opulent Villa Doria Pamphilj to discuss closer cooperation in areas including security and defense and resilience. Meloni and Merz will also call for “the finalization of agreements with important partners in the Indo-Pacific,” just as EU and India could sign a trade deal next week. In what sounded like a reference to tariff threats by U.S. President Donald Trump, the two leaders will say they “oppose the unilateral use of trade measures as well as the impact of non-market policies disrupting global trade.” Seb Starcevic contributed to this report. Source link

US oil majors show only moderate enthusiasm for Venezuelan oil, despite Trump’s urging

US oil majors show only moderate enthusiasm for Venezuelan oil, despite Trump’s urging

Published by Sam Flores

A meeting between the heads of American oil companies and Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, January 9, 2026. SAUL LOEB/AFP Out of all Donald Trump’s meetings that week, the one held in the afternoon on Friday, January 9, was arguably among the most important. Six days after United States special forces abducted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro from Caracas, the president received representatives of major oil companies at the White House. He was counting on them to exploit Venezuela’s hydrocarbon resources, but the meeting did not meet all of his expectations. The US authorities have planned to take full control of the country’s oil production. The regime in Caracas, which operates under the threat of further interventions, had reportedly already agreed to transfer 50 million barrels of oil to the US as a gesture of cooperation. To restart drilling operations in the country, Washington needed to secure the commitment of the oil sector’s major companies. At the start of the roundtable, Trump turned to the cameras and, pointing to the CEOs, said: “The …

Meloni joins Macron in urging European talks with Russia – POLITICO

Meloni joins Macron in urging European talks with Russia – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

Meloni warned that Europe needs a coordinated approach or “risks doing Putin a favor.” Since the beginning of negotiations over a potential ceasefire in Ukraine, “many voices have been speaking out, and that’s why I’ve always been in favor of appointing a European special envoy on the Ukrainian issue,” Meloni said. Peace talks aimed at ending the all-out conflict, which Russia launched in February 2022, have accelerated with U.S. President Donald Trump back in the White House, but Moscow has not indicated that it is willing to make concessions. The U.S. in November proposed that Russia be readmitted to the Group of Seven leading nations. But Meloni said it was “absolutely premature” to talk about welcoming Russia back to the G7 fold. Meloni also emphasized that Italy would not join France and the U.K. in sending troops to Ukraine to guarantee a potential peace deal, because it was “not necessary” if Ukraine signed a collective defense agreement with Western allies modeled on NATO’s Article 5 collective-defense provision. She suggested that a small contingent of foreign troops …

Hegseth Censures Sen. Kelly After Democrats’ Video Urging Troops to Resist Unlawful Orders

Hegseth Censures Sen. Kelly After Democrats’ Video Urging Troops to Resist Unlawful Orders

Published by Sam Flores

Hegseth said the censure — by itself simply a formal letter with little practical consequence — was “a necessary process step” to proceedings that could result in a demotion from Kelly’s retired rank of captain and subsequent reduction in retirement pay. Investigating and now punishing a sitting U.S. senator is an extraordinary move for the Pentagon, which until President Donald Trump’s second term had usually gone out of its way to act and appear apolitical. A legal expert says the choice to go after a lawmaker will complicate an already unique case. In a lengthy post on social media, Kelly said he “never expected” what he called an “attack” from Trump and Hegseth, recounting his 25 years of Navy service as well as combat and space missions. Calling Hegseth’s move “outrageous” and “un-American,” Kelly said he would fight the censure “with everything I’ve got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don’t get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.” …