President Trump on $1,000 World Cup ticket prices: 'I wouldn't pay it either, to be honest' Pirates vs. Diamondbacks betting preview targets the under as both offenses go cold in series Former LSU coach Brian Kelly uses AI to prepare for job interviews, proving he's just like the rest of us Newsom office source responds to planned protest against trans athlete at state playoff girls' track meet Framber Valdez gets what he deserves for punk move, suspended six games after drilling Boston's Trevor Story MLB's new automated strike zone has a hidden feature helping umpires become more accurate than ever'This can touch anyone': Gorman family speaks following loss of Sheridan'Project Freedom' could soon resume: Report Iranian people are not citizens, but'subjects' of the regime: Middle East expert Vice Admiral Robert Harward weighs in on restarting'Project Freedom' in Strait of Hormuz Largest teachers' union accused of antisemitism in federal civil rights complaint McEnany's URGENT plea: 'Be Spencer Pratt!' WHO doesn't expect large Hantavirus outbreak US blockade keeps stranglehold on Iran's economy Calipari says transfer portal rules should be the NCAA's main focus, not adding more teams to March Madness Ricky Cobb cuts through the noise on the proposed NCAA Tournament expansion to 76 teams. The expansion of the NCAA Tournament is here despite the vast majority of those involved in college basketball not seeming to be sold on the move whatsoever. NCAA power brokers have the final say, and Division I men's and women's basketball committees reportedly voted in favor of expanding the NCAA Tournament to 76 teams from 68 on Thursday. With the signs having long been pointing to the tournament growing in size, everyone has an opinion on it, and John Calipari may have the best, and certainly the most stomachable of them all. The Arkansas head coach has been among the masses who are anti-expansion, but seems to have accepted it, even before the formal voting took place.

President Trump on $1,000 World Cup ticket prices: 'I wouldn't pay it either, to be honest' Pirates vs. Diamondbacks betting preview targets the under as both offenses go cold in series Former LSU coach Brian Kelly uses AI to prepare for job interviews, proving he's just like the rest of us Newsom office source responds to planned protest against trans athlete at state playoff girls' track meet Framber Valdez gets what he deserves for punk move, suspended six games after drilling Boston's Trevor Story MLB's new automated strike zone has a hidden feature helping umpires become more accurate than ever'This can touch anyone': Gorman family speaks following loss of Sheridan'Project Freedom' could soon resume: Report Iranian people are not citizens, but'subjects' of the regime: Middle East expert Vice Admiral Robert Harward weighs in on restarting'Project Freedom' in Strait of Hormuz Largest teachers' union accused of antisemitism in federal civil rights complaint McEnany's URGENT plea: 'Be Spencer Pratt!' WHO doesn't expect large Hantavirus outbreak US blockade keeps stranglehold on Iran's economy The Panthers star told Pat McAfee the U.S. is heading to Switzerland to win, not for a vacation If anyone thought Team USA was satisfied with Olympic gold and ready to coast through the rest of the international hockey calendar, Matthew Tkachuk has a message. The Florida Panthers star joined The Pat McAfee Show on Thursday and discussed his plan to play for Team USA at the 2026 IIHF World Championship in Switzerland. USA Hockey's preliminary roster, announced May 7, includes Tkachuk for the first time, since the Panthers failed to reach the NHL playoffs this season. The tournament begins May 15 in Zurich and Fribourg, and the Americans are trying to win back-to-back gold medals at the event for the first time ever. Tkachuk made his mindset pretty clear.

Richard Dawkins caught hell on social media for suggesting it does. Richard Dawkins, perhaps the world's most prominent advocate for irreligiosity, has become besotted with the godlike power of a chatbot. According to his recent essay for the online magazine, Anthropic's Claude has really blown his hair back. After a few days of on-and-off conversations with the AI, Dawkins came away marveling at the sensitivity and subtlety of its intelligence. At one point, "Claudia"--as he had christened the bot--told him that it experienced text by absorbing all of the words at once, instead of reading them in sequence as a human would.

Three ISIL-linked Australian women have been arrested at airports in Melbourne and Sydney based on allegations of slavery and terrorism. They were amongst four women and nine children arriving from Syria after spending years in al-Roj Camp near the border between Syria and Iraq. Iran's president says he has spoken to the country's Supreme Leader US court releases alleged Jeffrey Epstein'suicide note'

The EU says it is closely monitoring suspected hantavirus cases aboard the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius and is coordinating with member states and health authorities to respond if needed. Iran's president says he has spoken to the country's Supreme Leader

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OpenAI's chatbot has some weird linguistic tics in Chinese that are driving users crazy. Are you even online in 2026 if you haven't experienced the verbal tics of ChatGPT? It loves goblins, em dashes, and "it's not A; it's B" sentence constructions. But what you might not know is that the chatbot also has plenty of strange phrases it loves to say in Chinese, and they are driving Chinese users crazy. ChatGPT does a decent job answering questions in Chinese, which is why it's widely used in China despite being blocked by the government.

Why is Israel still in southern Lebanon? A war to shape Lebanon's future Israel has carried out its first airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs since the April 16 US-brokered ceasefire, killing a senior Hezbollah commander in what's seen as a message that it can strike "at will." Iran's president says he has spoken to the country's Supreme Leader

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How well do you know Iran? Iran's president says he has spoken to the country's Supreme Leader NewsFeed Iran's president says he has spoken to the country's Supreme Leader Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says he has met with Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, describing him as'humble' and'sincere.' The Supreme Leader has not made appearances in public since he was wounded early in the US-Israeli war on Iran.