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Kerry Gates is a news writer for Midlandia Press. She writes about arts, automotive, travel, and fashion. She also loves to spend time with her family and friends, go on road trips, and read historical fiction.

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Ivica Zubac and James Harden help Clippers snap out of slump and beat Jazz

It may be premature to label a game in early February as a “must win,” but the urgency, if not the execution, was there for the Clippers from the moment they stepped onto the Intuit Dome court Saturday night against the struggling Utah Jazz. Facing an undermanned opponent with the second-worst record in the Western […]

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Kiki Iriafen and Kennedy Smith lead No. 7 USC to victory over No. 8 Ohio State

When she committed to USC in November 2023, Kennedy Smith understood she was stepping into the long shadow of a budding superstar. The same calculus applied, five months later, for Kiki Iriafen, a potential top-five pick in the WNBA draft who traded Stanford and a starring role for USC, a school where she’d regularly be

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Lakers' trade for Charlotte's Mark Williams rescinded after failed physical

The Lakers’ trade for center Mark Williams has been “rescinded” because of a “failure to satisfy a condition of the trade,” the Lakers announced Saturday night. Williams failed his physical, according to people with knowledge of the situation not authorized to speak publicly. Dalton Knecht and Cam Reddish will remain with the Lakers, who also

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Apple’s new research robot takes a page from Pixar’s playbook

Last month, Apple offered up more insight into its consumer robotics work via a research paper that argues that traits like expressive movements are key to optimizing human-robot interaction. “Like most animals,” starts the report, “humans are highly sensitive to motion and subtle changes in movement.” To illustrate its point, Apple pays homage to Pixar,

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Declining Trump Thinks He Took Away Biden Security Clearance That Doesn't Exist

PoliticusUSA is ad-free and not bending the knee. Please support our work by becoming a subscriber. Most of what Donald Trump says is nonsense. He provides endless fodder for cable news and late-night comedians, but his steady stream of words are verbal empty calories that mean nothing. Trump’s ramblings can be broken into three non-exclusive

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Democratic Congressman Urges Americans To Call Republicans And Tell Them To Grow A Spine

PoliticusUSA is ad-free because of the support of readers like you. If you would like to support us, please consider becoming a subscriber. Because Democrats are in the minority in Congress, their options for action and blocking Trump are very limited, so Democrats need public support more than ever. Popular reaction and outrage against the

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Donald Trump And Elon Musk Are Destined To Crash And Burn

PoliticusUSA is ad-free, corporate-free, and genuinely independent media. To support our work, please consider subscribing. The Trump presidency has been different than anything that most people expected. There aren’t troops on the streets. Trump’s mass deportation is more like a steady trickle. The warnings of immediate authoritarianism and doom have not come true. Instead, it

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Christie’s announces AI art auction, and not everyone is pleased

Fine art auction house, Christie’s, has sold AI-generated art before. But soon, it plans to hold its first show dedicated solely to works created with AI, an announcement that has been met with mixed reviews. The auction, which Christie’s is calling ‘Augmented Intelligence,’ will feature artwork from artists including Mat Dryhurst, the founder of AI

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