Algorithm software costs Denver renters extra each month, report says

Algorithm software costs Denver renters extra each month, report says

Many metro Denver tenants paid more than $1,600 in additional rent in 2023 because of a profit-maximizing algorithm that Colorado lawmakers unsuccessfully tried to ban earlier this year, according to a new report issued by the White House. The White House’s Council of Economic Advisers found that American tenants who live in apartments that use … Read more

Lauren Sánchez, Jeff Bezos’s Fiancée, Has a New Family Connection to Donald Trump

Lauren Sánchez, Jeff Bezos’s Fiancée, Has a New Family Connection to Donald Trump

Florida isn’t just home to so-called Winter White House Mar-a-Lago anymore: A new generation of MAGA offspring is also flocking to the Sunshine State in pursuit of education. Lauren Sánchez, fiancée of Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, announced Sunday that her son Evan Whitesell has committed to enrolling at the University of Miami next fall to … Read more

How hallucinatory AI helps science dream up big breakthroughs

How hallucinatory AI helps science dream up big breakthroughs

How hallucinatory AI helps science dream up big breakthroughs Artificial intelligence often gets criticized because it makes up information that appears to be factual, known as hallucinations. The plausible fakes have roiled not only chatbot sessions but lawsuits and medical records. For a time last year, a patently false claim from a new Google chatbot … Read more

FBI Director Wray says he intends to resign before Trump takes office in January – The Denver Post

FBI Director Wray says he intends to resign before Trump takes office in January – The Denver Post

By ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON — FBI Director Christopher Wray told bureau workers Wednesday that he plans to resign at the end of President Joe Biden’s term in January, an announcement that came a week and a half after President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate loyalist Kash Patel for the job. Wray said at a … Read more

Trump names billionaire banker Warren Stephens as envoy to Britain

Trump names billionaire banker Warren Stephens as envoy to Britain

President-elect Donald Trump has named billionaire investment banker Warren Stephens as his envoy to Britain, a prestigious posting for the Republican donor whose contributions this year included $2 million to a Trump-backing super PAC. Trump, in a post on his Truth Social site Monday evening, announced he was selecting Stephens to be the US ambassador to … Read more

Some Democrats are frustrated over Joe Biden pardoning his son Hunter

Some Democrats are frustrated over Joe Biden pardoning his son Hunter

ATLANTA — Already reeling from their November defeats, Democrats now are grappling with President Joe Biden’s pardoning of his son for federal crimes after the party spent years slamming Donald Trump as a threat to democracy who disregarded the law. The president pardoned Hunter Biden late Sunday evening, reversing his previous pledges with a grant … Read more

Cheryl Hines Uses Nude RFK Jr. to Advertise Her MAHA Candles

Cheryl Hines Uses Nude RFK Jr. to Advertise Her MAHA Candles

It would appear that Cheryl Hines is standing by her man, and that man, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is nude, because she’s doing that standing outside their shower. The former Curb Your Enthusiasm star has taken her husband’s recent nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services. and made marketing lemonade, using Kennedy’s … Read more

White House Says ‘Not There Yet’ On Gaza Ceasefire And Hostage Deal

White House Says ‘Not There Yet’ On Gaza Ceasefire And Hostage Deal

The White House is working on a ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza but is “not there yet,” the US National Security Advisor told NBC on Sunday, with fighting in the conflict raging on as regional leaders meet to discuss the crisis. “We are working actively to try to make it happen. We are … Read more

Donald Trump Taps Charles Kushner, Dad of Jared, As The Incoming Ambassador To France

Donald Trump Taps Charles Kushner, Dad of Jared, As The Incoming Ambassador To France

President-elect Donald Trump tapped his son-in-law Jared Kushner’s dad, Charles Kushner, as the incoming ambassador to France on Saturday—a key role in managing the fraught relationship between Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron. Kushner, an infamous figure in New Jersey, is a wealthy real estate executive who was convicted and imprisoned in 2005 after pleading … Read more

Reporters Brace for the Frenzy of a Second Trump White House

Reporters Brace for the Frenzy of a Second Trump White House

“Everybody’s exhausted and he hasn’t even taken office yet,” Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, says of White House reporters already consumed by covering a second Donald Trump administration. With no time for a break, the grueling 2024 election cycle quickly morphed into a tumultuous transition period characteristic of Trump’s … Read more