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CNN  —  Police are investigating a break in at a home belonging to rapper Macklemore, according to the Seattle Times. The publication linked the address of the incident to the artist’s home, which Seattle police said belonged to a “high-profile individual.” CNN has reached out to authorities and a representative for Macklemore for comment. A woman later identified as a nanny caring for children in the house reportedly “told an officer that she had put the kids to bed when she saw two men entering from a patio door before one of them doused her with bear spray.” According to…

CNN  —  Miley Cyrus does not look back on parts of her past fondly. While appearing on a recently released episode of the “Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky” podcast, the pop star talked about how her provocative persona around her 2013 album “Bangerz” impacted her life at the time. Having been beloved as a child star on Disney Channel’s hit series “Hannah Montana,” her more risqué image caused major backlash, she said. “That was the time where I just got hit so hard,” she told Lewinsky. “And I was so embarrassed.” It got to be so bad, she said, her brother…

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday told lawyers for a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days that he doesn’t plan to stop the execution because they didn’t have evidence there were problems with the state’s lethal injection process.Federal judge Richard Gergel limited arguments in Stephen Stanko’s case to just lethal injection since that’s the method the condemned inmate chose for his death Friday evening.His lawyers had wanted to argue about the state’s most recent execution by firing squad, saying Stanko changed his mind about dying by bullets because of accounts about the firing squad death…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Radhika Sharma, a 35-year-old product manager based in New Delhi. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I started my tech career in 2015 and spent the last six years working for a small-scale organization where I worked my way up to product owner. In February, I quit that job to spend more time with my young daughter.After just a two-month break, I started hunting for jobs again. This time, I aimed to get into product management.During my job search, I submitted my application to a SaaS company, and received an email…

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said he was still unable to travel freely almost a year after being arrested at a Paris airport.In an interview with Tucker Carlson posted on YouTube on Tuesday, Durov said that following his arrest in August 2024, French authorities detained him for four days in solitary confinement without access to a lawyer or phone calls.”They read the list of charges; I have nothing to do with these crimes, like organized crime, selling drugs,” he said. “But then I realized it’s serious because they’re not letting me out.”Durov said the charges pertained to alleged criminal activity by…

DENVER (AP) — Deion Sanders posted on social media Wednesday that “everything is OKAY” after not being able to attend football camps in Boulder, Colorado, so far this spring.The Colorado coach’s health has come into question because of his extended absence. Sanders wrote on X that he was “truly blessed for the abundance of well wishes, for all the thoughts and all of the prayers. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!”Sanders later added that he’s “excited to get back to Colorado to be at home with my staff, team & all associated to our program.” He said that once he…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — There are somewhere between three and five games left in the NBA season. Until then, nobody is going to be 100%.Tyrese Haliburton clearly isn’t. He’s not going to make excuses, either.The Pacers’ star guard was limping Sunday night after a Game 2 loss in Oklahoma City. Whatever the specifics of the issue are, he’s not saying. And put simply, nothing was going to hold him out of play in Game 3 against the Thunder on Wednesday night.“Really just a lower leg thing. I’ll leave it at that,” Haliburton said. “I don’t think there’s anything more to elaborate.…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The global watchdog of doping in sports said Wednesday it will urge public authorities to shut down the drug-fueled Enhanced Games planned in Las Vegas next year.“We will urge the U.S. authorities to find legal ways to block this initiative,” World Anti-Doping Agency president Witold Banka said on the sidelines of a meeting of Olympic sports bodies.Organizers of the games scheduled for next May promise $1 million bonuses to beat world-record times by athletes who will be encouraged to use performance-enhancing drugs under medical supervision.“This initiative seeks to normalize the use of potentially dangerous drugs,” Banka…

In a new essay published Tuesday called “The Gentle Singularity,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared his latest vision for how AI will change the human experience over the next 15 years. The essay is a classic example of Altman’s futurism: hyping up the promise of AGI — and arguing that his company is quite close to the feat — while simultaneously downplaying its arrival. The OpenAI CEO frequently publishes essays of this nature, cleanly laying out a future in which AGI disrupts our modern conception of work, energy, and the social contract. But often, Altman’s essays contain hints about what…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Rick Carlisle used the line after the Indiana Pacers won the Eastern Conference title earlier this month, the one that is the official motto for the state’s basketball Hall of Fame and surely has been uttered for generations.“In 49 other states, it’s just basketball,” said Carlisle, the Pacers’ head coach. “But this is Indiana.”It’s true: Basketball never loses importance here. But these days, the state — and Indianapolis especially — probably feels like the center of the basketball universe.Indiana is the state that lays claim to Larry Bird and Oscar Robertson. It boasts the most recent team…