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Every week, we ask readers to think like an advice columnist and submit their advice to a question Carolyn Hax hasn’t answered.

[Richard] Gadd, by his own admission, is a very damaged guy who took a lot of drugs, enthusiastically pursued a chaotic lurid sex life, and did lead on Martha in a way that may have fuelled her obsession.

Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesA federal appeals court dismissed Hunter Biden’s latest attempt to get his gun case thrown out on Thursday, all but ensuring the president’s son appearance in court next month.Biden had gone to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, hoping to have the three-judge panel overrule prior decisions by Delaware District Judge Maryellen Noreika, who is overseeing the trial, and has consistently swatted down Biden’s many attempts to get the charges dismissed.The legal team of special counsel David Weiss, who brought the felony charges against Biden, succeeded in convincing the appeals court that it did not have the jurisdiction to review the case.Read more at The Daily Beast.

OG Anunoby could join Julius Randle and Mitchell Robinson out of the lineup again, a scenario that forced Josh Hart into the starting lineup in the first place in late January. But to Hart, Anunoby’s potential absence going forward after leaving the Knicks’ Game 2 win over the Pacers in the third quarter with a...

Parece que Spotify siempre ha estado en los oídos de Latinoamérica, pero apenas ha pasado una década desde que la plataforma de streaming llegó a la región y en esos años el panorama ha cambiado infinitamente.

Max Muncy has found his bearings in the field over the past month, stringing together 23 straight errorless games entering a weekend series at San Diego.

Days after Miss USA resigned, Miss Teen USA UmaSofia Srivastava also quits, saying that her personal values 'no longer fully align' with Miss USA Organization.

Obituaries for TNT's NBA coverage might be premature.

Mark Makela/ReutersRobert F. Kennedy Jr. has given conflicting explanations on how he learned about a worm that he said implanted in his brain—one of the strangest stories in the presidential race so far.In a 2012 deposition during his divorce negotiations, Kennedy said he was suffering from cognitive issues, including brain fog, which he seemed to blame on the parasite. For the purposes of the divorce, he argued that the maladies had reduced his “earning power,” according to The New York Times.As the Times reported on Wednesday, Kennedy said that several neurologists originally believed he had a brain tumor after discovering “a dark spot” on his scans. He planned to have an operation at Duke University Medical Center, the outlet said. But at the last moment, “he received a call from a doctor at New York-Presbyterian Hospital” who believed that Kennedy “had a dead parasite in his head.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Los abogados de Donald Trump interrogaron el jueves a Stormy Daniels sobre la transacción al centro del juicio que se le sigue al expresidente por acusaciones de que pagó para suprimir noticias desfavorables, increpándole sobre por qué aceptó 130.000 dólares para no revelar la presunta relación sexual que tuvo con Trump, en vez de revelarlo públicamente.

The revelation that presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a parasite that ate parts of his brain is just the latest bizarre news this election cycle.

The Rangers have propelled themselves to a +425 tri-favorite to hoist the Stanley Cup

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A cruise ship sailed into New York City with a 44-foot endangered sei whale dead across its bow.

The Issue: Stormy Daniels’ testimony in the hush money case against former President Donald Trump.

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Stormy Daniels and Trump lawyer Susan Necheles engaged in a heated back-and-forth for more than two hours Thursday during the hush money trial in New York.

"This is not a policy designed or implemented to help families achieve stable housing and self-sufficiency and integrate into our city," NYC Comptroller Brad Lander said Thursday outside the Roosevelt Hotel.

The country icon will be in Sin City all year long.

Minouche Shafik’s work on social contracts offers an unintended warning.

Sara Rivera, 17, was an outgoing teen who frequently feuded with friends -- until a spat with a pal cost her her life when she was stabbed to death near a Queens subway station, friends and family say.

Donna Kelce explained that she and her ex-husband Ed Kelce had a plan in place when they would ultimately divorce after 25 years of marriage.

Republican Senators are ripping President Biden over his vow to withhold weapons from Israel if it follows through with its invasion of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.

The gambling scandal surrounding Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani's interpreter is coming to the small screen, as Lionsgate Television plans a scripted series around the real-life drama.

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Artur Widak/Getty ImagesSpicy material might be coming to AI-powered chatbots run by OpenAI, according to a sneaky commentary hidden in a document published by the artificial intelligence pioneer.The company’s mission statement says it’s dedicated to providing “safe and beneficial” AI, and it has a strict ban on deepfakes that it won’t be amending. But in a document released Wednesday that lays out guidelines for its AI development, the company said it was open, pending further review, to allowing users to generate some NSFW content in the future. That content could include “erotica, extreme gore, slurs, and unsolicited profanity,” according to the document.While the general guideline for developers states that AI assistants shouldn’t serve prompts asking to generate graphic content, the authors of the document explained that the rule could be changed at some point soon.Read more at The Daily Beast.

The studies, commissioned by MTV Entertainment Studios in partnership with the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and Media Impact Project, found more positive portrayals of mental health on TV.

The Florida sheriff's deputy has been placed on administrative leave after the deadly shooting of Senior Airman Roger Fortson.

The LSU alum is shooting her shot in the fashion industry.

A Southwest Airlines passenger flummoxed fellow flyers after she was filmed napping in the plane's overhead bin, as seen in a video with 5.1 million views on TikTok.

She has an AI for fakes.

Courtesy of Fortson familyThe family of the Black airman slain by Florida police in his own home last week held an emotional press conference Thursday morning, describing their loved one as a true patriot and someone who exemplified the American dream.Roger Fortson, a 23-year-old senior airman with the United States Air Force, was a “good person” who “respected authority” and followed the rules, they said.“Roger wanted to show us how to love unconditionally,” said Fortson’s mother Meka Fortson, while holding back tears and gripping a framed photo of her son in his Air Force blues. “Roger wanted to show… that it was more to life than… making a fool of himself.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has refused to throw out federal gun charges related to Hunter Biden's upcoming criminal trial in Delaware next month.

California colleges are giving student protesters 'interim suspension' notices, a disciplinary process typically reserved for the most serious misconduct.

Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been moved to an infirmary at the New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex after a 10-day hospital stay.

At a private meeting at Mar-a-Lago, the former president said fossil fuel companies should donate to help him beat President Biden.

Late last month, the Federal Trade Commission issued what’s called a final rule—a new regulation—banning noncompete clauses in contracts for nearly all American workers. Once the rule goes into effect, it will have a dramatic impact on the U.S. labor market. Workers will have an easier time starting new companies and bringing new products to market. And businesses that want to keep their employees from leaving to work for a competitor will likely have to pay them more; the FTC estimates that the ban could increase earnings for workers by more than $500 a year on average.The rule change is a good one. It’ll give workers more power when dealing with employers, and it’ll make labor markets more efficient. And it happened for one reason only: Joe Biden won the 2020 election and then appointed people friendly to workers’ rights to the FTC’s board. Presidents typically get blamed for economic problems that, in reality, they can do little about, and they get credit for economic successes that they had little to do with. But in the case of the noncompete rule, Biden really does deserve credit.That illustrates a rather neglected fact of American politics: The character of the presidential administration that gets to run the regulatory agencies of government can have a tremendous effect on economic policy and on Americans’ everyday lives.The new noncompete ban was far from the only consequential recent regulation created recently by a federal agency. In just the past couple of months, the EPA has handed down new tailpipe-emission standards for cars, to be phased in from 2027 to 2032, which should accelerate the transition to hybrid and electric vehicles. The Department of Transportation issued a set of new rules requiring airlines to disclose various add-on fees up front, and to give passengers automatic cash refunds when flights are canceled or checked bags are significantly delayed. (The department estimates that its rules could save consumers up to half a billion dollars a year.) And the Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, arguing that the technology company quashed competition from other app makers in order to keep customers tied to its iPhones.[Conor Friedersdorf: The regulatory state is failing us]The far-reaching power of regulatory agencies should, in some sense, be obvious; after all, we live in the age of what is sometimes called “the administrative presidency.” And right-wing pundits such as Steve Bannon have long called for the “deconstruction of the administrative state.” Nonetheless, when most voters think about the differences in economic policy between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, they’re much more likely to think about differences in attitudes toward tax cuts and spending programs, and perhaps whether or not a candidate is likely to preserve Social Security and Medicare or push for entitlement cuts, than about who a candidate is going to appoint to an agency like the FTC or the National Labor Relations Board. And although tax policy and spending programs are of course very important, some of the most potent levers that presidents can pull to shape the economy these days are administrative and regulatory ones.This isn’t because of any sinister, “deep state” scheming on the part of the White House. It’s a function of the fact that the many of the laws administrative agencies have to implement and enforce are broadly phrased, which necessarily gives agencies a great deal of latitude in how to enforce them. The FTC, for example, is primarily responsible for ensuring compliance with the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Clayton Act. The first law prohibits “unfair methods of competition” by businesses, as well as “unfair or deceptive acts or practices.” That means the FTC has to decide whether a trade practice—say, fees that are disclosed only at the point of purchase—is unfair or deceptive, as well as whether the harm from that practice merits bringing a lawsuit or issuing a new rule. The Clayton Act, for its part, prohibits any corporate merger or acquisition when the effect of the deal “may be to substantially lessen competition.” That allows the agency enormous discretion—either to look the other way, except in egregious cases, or to intervene aggressively to block corporate mergers.Similarly, the NLRB is officially tasked with enforcing the National Labor Relations Act, ensuring that workers are free to unionize without undue interference by employers, and that unionization elections are free and fair. That gives the board a lot of latitude to decide what kind of employer activities count as undue interference with unionization efforts, and what makes for a free and fair election.[Adam Serwer: Why Wall Street won’t stop Trump]Last fall, for instance, the NLRB held that if a majority of workers at a company sign cards certifying that they would like to be represented by a union, the company has to recognize and bargain with the union or call an election within two weeks. And if the company commits any unfair labor practice during the run-up to that election, the NLRB will order the employer immediately to recognize the union and bargain with it. That gives employers a strong incentive to not campaign aggressively against unionization, making it easier for workers to organize.The courts, to be sure, have a role in this process, because they can overturn agency rules, and they issue judgments on the lawsuits brought by the government. But agencies inevitably have a great deal of discretion in our system. And adopting a light enforcement regime is as much of a choice as adopting a tougher one. Either way, the agencies shape the way the economy works.Some of the choices that agencies make are bipartisan: The Justice Department, for instance, is wrapping up an antitrust lawsuit against Google that was originally filed during the Trump administration. But many agency decisions inevitably reflect political values. So the question of who runs these agencies, or sits on these commissions, has profound implications for the decisions they reach.Under the Biden administration, for instance, the NLRB has been far more congenial to unionization efforts than it was under Trump. That is partly because Biden has named experienced labor advocates to key positions, whereas Trump was more likely to name corporate lawyers. Similarly, the FTC’s new noncompete rule passed by a 3–2 party-line vote, with the three Democratic appointees on the commission voting for it and the two Republican appointees voting against it. If Trump had won in 2020, noncompete agreements would almost certainly still be legal.[James Surowiecki: Why Biden’s pro-worker stance isn’t working]None of this means that new rule-making is a good thing per se, or that every antitrust lawsuit that the FTC and the Justice Department bring makes good policy sense. What it does mean is that evaluating the impact a president has had on the economy is impossible without paying attention to what administrative agencies have done. The NLRB seems unlikely to get mentioned much in the lead-up to November’s election. But if you want to know what the Biden administration has done for workers and consumers, you have to look at what the NLRB and the FTC (and the DOT, and the EPA, and so on) have accomplished during his presidency, just as much as you would credit him with the 2021 stimulus program and the Inflation Reduction Act. The same is true of Trump: If you want to know what he’ll do for the economy should he be reelected, you have to look at what those agencies did while he was in office.If November’s election ushers in a change of administration next year, perhaps the most economically significant difference will be who gets to pull the levers of the regulatory state. In recognition of this fact, the White House is rushing to “Trump-proof” President Biden’s agenda in an effort to preserve some of the regulatory changes of the past few years. But if Trump wins, he’ll undoubtedly reverse most of them. As they say, elections have consequences.

Many on Wall Street are quick to link his passing to a culture they believe values wealth over wellbeing.

The "Kardashians" star told Vogue she would call her mom, Kris Jenner, "hysterically crying" and say, "'I need them to stop the plane, I need them to turn around.'"

Two-thirds of those who switched jobs two years ago were satisfied while 62% who did not change jobs said the same thing, according to a survey.

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Getty The reversal of Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction was a gut punch to the accusers who testified at his trial. But as prosecutors prepare to retry him, a new bill making its way through the New York state legislature could give them a powerful weapon.The bill, introduced by state Assemblymember Amy Paulin, would allow evidence of prior bad acts to be admitted in sexual assault trials—the kind of evidence that led the New York Court of Appeals to toss out Weinstein’s guilty verdict last month.Survivors hope the bill would allow witnesses who say Weinstein assaulted them to testify again, even though he is not charged with crimes related to those incidents.Read more at The Daily Beast.

The price of a McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese meal has more than doubled since 2014, data show.

Original 'Lord of the Rings' director Peter Jackson, screenwriters Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens and star Andy Serkis will reunite for 'The Hunt for Gollum.'

The decision could likely be the end for the short-lived ethics panel, which was created in 2021 to replace the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, or JCOPE.

A controversial Manhattan lawyer has sparked an investigation after he claimed to have given the judge in Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial unsolicited advice. 

Leading state and local transportation officials launched a public education campaign this week that aims to reduce speeds on the 21-mile stretch of Pacific Coast Highway to save lives.

He served as the assistant special teams coach for the Jets since 2021 when he arrived as part of Robert Saleh’s coaching staff.