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What Happened When We Let Claude Pick Our World Cup Brackets
Illustration by Raven Jiang for Bloomberg July 18, 2026 at 8:00 AM UTC The long history of World Cup prognostication involves more than a few animals.
777 Co-Founder Josh Wander Among Latest Trump Pardon Seekers
, co-founder of Miami investment firm , is scheduled to go on trial on in October, but he’s already seeking a pardon from President . Wander, who has pleaded not guilty to allegations that he cheated lenders and investors in his private investment firm out of almost $500 million, recently applied for clemency with the Justice Department, according to the government website for such filings.
777 Co-Founder Wander, R. Kelly Join Scrum for Trump Clemency
Photographer: Bing Guan/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- Josh Wander, co-founder of Miami investment firm 777 Partners, and R&B singer R. Kelly have joined the crowd of those angling for clemency from President Donald Trump.
Musk Turns to Loyalists to Rebuild xAI Ahead of SpaceX IPO
Elon Musk has long viewed artificial intelligence as critical to his sprawling business empire. Now, he’s increasingly relying on allies from across his other companies as he scrambles to rebuild his AI firm, xAI, after slipping behind rivals.
Surging gas prices have hit these US cities the hardest
WASHINGTON – Gas prices have skyrocketed across the U.S. as a result of the Iran war, but the surge is causing more economic pain in some cities than others. And it’s not necessarily in the places where gas prices have risen the most, like Chicago or Los Angeles.
Surging gas prices have hit these US cities the hardest
Gas prices have skyrocketed across the U.S. as a result of the Iran war, but the surge is causing more economic pain in some cities than others. And it's not necessarily in the places where gas prices have risen the most, like Chicago or Los Angeles. Instead, it's in smaller, more spread-out cities, like Nashville or Indianapolis, according to an analysis of local gas prices through April 9 from data aggregator GasBuddy and figures on driver mileage from the Federal Highway Administration.
Surging gas prices have hit these US cities the hardest
Gas prices have skyrocketed across the U.S. as a result of the Iran war, but the surge is causing more economic pain in some cities than others. And it's not necessarily in the places where gas prices have risen the most, like Chicago or Los Angeles. Instead, it's in smaller, more spread-out cities, like Nashville or Indianapolis, according to an analysis of local gas prices through April 9 from data aggregator GasBuddy and figures on driver mileage from the Federal Highway Administration.
Surging gas prices have hit these US cities the hardest
Gas prices have skyrocketed across the U.S. as a result of the Iran war, but the surge is causing more economic pain in some cities than others. And it’s not necessarily in the places where gas prices have risen the most, like Chicago or Los Angeles. Instead, it’s in smaller, more spread-out cities, like Nashville or Indianapolis, according to an analysis of local gas prices through April 9 from data aggregator GasBuddy and figures on driver mileage from the Federal Highway Administration.
Data Reveals Details About DOGE, Government Hiring in 2025
Welcome back to FOIA Files! I hope you had a spectacular end to 2025. Just a week into 2026 and it’s already clear the news cycle will keep me very busy filing Freedom of Information Act requests.
How Banks, Regulators Spawned the ‘Zombie’ Mortgage Nightmare
Shawn Murphy is one of thousands of homeowners who were blindsided by huge bills from long-forgotten second mortgages.
Where Is Traveling by Train Faster Than Driving in the US?: CityLab Daily
Today we’re bringing you a special edition of MapLab from Aaron Gordon, our colleague on Bloomberg’s data journalism team.
Miles de viajeros en EE.UU. pierden Global Entry, pero muchos desconocen la razón
Un viajero utiliza el terminal Global Entry en el Aeropuerto Intercontinental George Bush de Houston, Texas, en 2012.Foto: Michael Paulsen/Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM UTC Ian Patterson tuvo Global Entry durante...
More People Are Losing Global Entry, But Often Don't Know Why
Ian Patterson had Global Entry for about seven years before it was revoked this summer. The nonprofit executive from the Dallas area had traveled in July, then got an email a month later saying there had been a change in his status for Global Entry, a Customs and Border Protection program for faster entry into the U.S. for “low-risk” travelers. When he logged into the CBP portal, he saw a circle with a diagonal line through it. “It said ‘information incorrect,’” Patterson said.
Today we’re bringing you a special edition of MapLab from Aaron Gordon, our colleague on the data team.
NJ Transit Is NYC’s Least Reliable Commuter Rail — By a Long Shot
An analysis of real-time train data shows its passengers face major service disruptions at six times the rate of riders on other NYC commuter railways.
FIFA World Cup 2026: Andrew Giuliani, Son of Rudy, Leads Trump Task Force
This week we have an interview with Andrew Giuliani about what he’s doing in his role as head of a White House task force that’s helping to organize the 2026 World Cup.
How Gambling Sponsors Took Over the Premier League
By Aaron GordonElena Mejía August 15, 2025 When the English Premier League kicks off for its 34th season this weekend, more than half of all clubs — 11 out of 20 — will have gambling company names emblazoned across players’ chests for the second...
Transit Bounces Back in Europe and Asia, Lags in Americas
Earlier this year, I was working on a story with my colleague Sri Taylor about the fiscal crisis facing US transit agencies because ridership is still well-below pre-pandemic levels. An editor asked if transit agencies everywhere faced this problem.
One Ship, $417 Million in New Tariffs: The Cost of Trump’s Trade War
For the full experience visit: One Ship, $417 Million in New Tariffs: The Cost of Trump’s Trade War On April 24, against the backdrop of towering cranes, dockworkers at the Port of Long Beach began unloading the OOCL Violet, a hulking shipping vessel carrying thousands of containers full of goods bound for the US. The Violet is one of the first ships confronting a harsh, new reality: a steep on nearly half of its Chinese cargo, brought on by President Donald Trump’s ongoing trade war with China.
One Ship, $417 Million in New Tariffs: The Cost of Trump’s Trade War
By Andre TartarDenise LuRaeedah WahidAaron Gordon May 6, 2025 On April 24, against the backdrop of towering cranes, dockworkers at the Port of Long Beach began unloading the OOCL Violet, a hulking shipping vessel carrying thousands of containers...
Mapping the Life of NYC's Most-Used Citi Bike: CityLab Daily
Also today: Judges block Trump’s funding freeze on sanctuary cities and order for proof of citizenship to vote. Today we’re bringing you a special edition of MapLab from Aaron Gordon, a reporter on the Bloomberg News data desk. He’s been reporting on transportation and infrastructure, particularly in New York City, for the last eight years. Lately I’ve been working on my coding skills and decided to work with something I knew: Citi Bike’s ride history.
Is NYC’s Congestion Pricing Working? Fewer Private Cars Are On the Road (For Now)
Vehicles are classified just after they enter the congestion pricing zone in Manhattan. A Bloomberg analysis of 75,000 vehicles found fewer private cars and more cabs in Manhattan’s traffic mix.
AI’s Power Grab: How AI is Hogging the Electric Grid
Tech companies like to present themselves as some of the most climate-friendly corporations in the world. And in some ways, this is actually true. Amazon, Meta and Google were three of the top four corporate buyers of clean energy purchase agreements in 2023. They’d like you to think this cancels out their own electricity usage.
Commercial Real Estate Crisis Hits AAA Rated Bonds Tied to Office Buildings Original
1407 Broadway was, as far as the financiers of Wall Street could tell, as rock-solid an asset as could possibly exist.
AI Tools Make It Easy to Clone Someone’s Voice Without Consent
Tech companies have made it trivially easy to impersonate someone’s voice with artificial intelligence tools capable of producing realistic, machine-generated speech — and most of the companies behind the tools make little or no attempt to ensure that the humans being copied have consented to the process. Using just a short recording of someone’s voice, AI “voice cloning” tools can convincingly imitate a person’s speech to say anything a user desires.
Why Julia Angwin Started Proof News
Why found a new media company as many others are going under? Proof News founder Julia Angwin appeared on the “Pivot” podcast, with hosts Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway, to discuss her reasoning. Listen to the full episode in which Angwin challenges Steven Levy to a hot takes regret-off and Galloway aptly remarks that she “reeks of integrity,” here.
How to Regain the Public’s Trust in Journalism
Journalism is experiencing a crisis of trust, according to Proof News founder Julia Angwin. That crisis is partially attributable to the complexity of our current information age, but journalists have also fed the problem, Angwin told Michael O’Connell on ant episode of his podcast, “It’s All Journalism.” Journalists, for instance, sometimes overfit narratives to a predetermined story line, or inadvertently overstate their findings. “We sometimes write stories that are too declarative,” she said.
How Proof’s AI Coverage Is Inspired by Science
Proof News founder Julia Angwin spoke with Reuters reporter Edward Suárez about why Proof is taking a methodological approach to covering artificial intelligence. “The debate around AI is too focused on whether AI is going to kill us or not,” she said. “It’s like talking about flying cars and how we're going to regulate them when we haven’t regulated the cars that are on the roads.” Read more about how she thinks we should evaluate AI’s problems and potential here.
Lessons From Google’s AI Mistakes
Until last week, most Americans had not used AI chatbots, according to the latest polling from Pew Research Center. But Google’s decision to include AI results at the top of its search results earlier this month changed all that. Suddenly Google’s U.S. users could see the performance of Google’s AI chatbot at the top of their search results. It wasn’t pretty.
The Multiple Faces of Claude AI: Different Answers, Same Model
In the ever-changing world of AI models, the rules are often unclear. Especially when it comes to content moderation. Let me give you an example. Curious about how AI models would answer questions about climate change, I was testing some common myths using the AI querying tool that we built for our recent investigations in AI responses to voter queries — a collaboration between Proof News and the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study.
NBA DFS Show DraftKings Daily Fantasy Basketball Preview March 8
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NBA DFS Show DraftKings Daily Fantasy Basketball Preview January 26
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Kings affiliate releases player after FBI arrest in kidnapping investigation
Chance Comanche, a 27-year-old NBA G League player, was arrested by FBI agents in connection to the mysterious disappearance of 23-year-old Washington medical assistant Marayna Rodgers in Las Vegas. Position: PF, C Age: 27 Height: 211 cm Weight: 108 kg Birth place: Los Angeles, United States of America Rodgers vanished on Dec. 6 during a trip to Sin City. She was last seen getting into a car with her friend, Sakari Harnden, 19, according to Las Vegas News.
A Computer Model Is Causing Years of Delays for Amtrak's New High-Speed Trains, Scathing Audit Finds
North America Travel 19 hours ago South Carolina City Named The Best Small City In America iheart.com - Sarah Tate • 19h Two cities in South Carolina have been recognized as being some of the best small cities in the entire country, with one Palmetto State destination … iPhones 1 hour ago How to stop your iPhone from blaring out today’s emergency alert Cult of Mac - Ed Hardy • 1h There’s a way to prevent your iPhone from joining the millions of phones that blare out a loud alarm when the feds...
Dozens of Freight Trains, Including At Least 15 Carrying Hazardous Materials, Have Derailed Since East Palestine
Grandpa Makes His Dream of Building a Miniature Railway Come True There is something so endearing about a person making their dreams come true at 83! Take your tissues out, this is the moving story of Derek Burwell and his love for locomotives. Buzz60’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo has the story.
PR Daily: 5 communications tips for weathering hurricane season
Forecasters predict an active hurricane season. Get your comms plans in order now. Communities along the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf of Mexico are gearing up for what could be a historic hurricane season in 2023. According to hurricane specialist John Morales, above-average sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean are fueling an unusually active storm pattern which warrants close attention over the coming months.
New York May Have Actually Lost Transit Riders by Building An $11 Billion Train Station
1 day ago No segment of bicycles is growing faster than electric bikes—and that demand is good for you, the e-bike shopper. Newer brands like Aventon, Rad Power Bikes, and Ride1Up have sprung up, offering affordable options you can buy online, bolstering the higher-performance e-bikes from more established …
Ford and Tesla Announced Biggest Electric Vehicle News in Years
19 hours ago How is it that the news of EnerVenue’s building a 1 million-square foot Gigafactory in Kentucky not leading every news broadcast in the nation? In my opinion, it should be. EnerVenue made the announcement about the Kentucky facility in late March, revealing it will be capable of producing up to 1.5 …
The Worst Transit Project in the U.S. Is Officially Dead
Elon Musk hints Starship rocket may explode on first orbital launch, predicting 50% chance of success and 'guaranteeing excitement' SpaceX is preparing to launch its Starship mega-rocket toward orbit for the first time, kicking off CEO Elon Musk's ambitious scheme to eventually build an independent human settlement on Mars. Musk has said that SpaceX is ready to launch Starship from its facilities in Boca Chica, Texas — an area …
Utah Wants to Build the World’s Longest Gondola to Solve Traffic
Here's What It Means Now That Gov. Ron DeSantis Is Taking Over The Disney District The “Happiest Place On Earth” might become a little less happy now that Florida government has taken control of the Disney district. Florida Gov. Ron …
Railroad Workers Warned 'Anyone That Would Listen' of Ohio Train's Dangers for Years
The 32N train that derailed outside of East Palestine, Ohio, was so plagued by problems workers knew it as "32 Nasty." We may earn a commission from links on this page. The train derailment just outside East Palestine, Ohio, on February 3 is a continuing nightmare not just for folks in the community but for all of the communities which share water systems down stream.
US Gov Says Tesla Self-Driving May Cause Crashes, Issues Recall
3 hours ago Linus Bikes has issued an immediate recall of its Cesta 500 and Ero 500 electric bicycles. Anyone who has one of these models should immediately stop using it and contact Linus Bike to schedule a free fork replacement. Linus is contacting all known purchasers directly, as well. The affected e-bikes …
American Cars Are Getting Too Big For Parking Spaces
http://video-images.vice.com/articles/63e14ce7c25e5e7d843fdd4c/lede/1675709890025-final-3.jpeg When Carl Schneeman, a partner at Walker Consultants, is designing a parking lot or public parking garage, he imagines every spot being filled by the same car. Not because he expects that to happen in real life, but because there are thousands of different cars and models on the road. He cannot possibly account for every one.
Freight Rail Union President Loses Re-election After Members Were Forced to Accept Contract
http://video-images.vice.com/articles/639ccf00ca8f21f35a73f971/lede/1671221222203-gettyimages-475624848.jpeg In a massive upset, the longtime president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), a major freight rail union that represents some 33,000 workers, lost his re-election bid to a real estate investor and current vice local chairman with no national-level experience.
A $100 Billion Lesson: Why US Infrastructure Is So Expensive
A $100 Billion Lesson: Why US Infrastructure Is So Expensive There's a plan to spend $100 billion fixing the Northeast Corridor by 2035. Similar countries build entire new rail corridors with dozens of new stations for a fraction of that cost. Why can't the U.S.? Read Full Article »
500 Labor Historians Condemn Biden on Railroads
On Thursday, the Senate passed legislation by a wide bipartisan margin to impose a contract on freight rail workers that four unions rejected at the White House’s behest. The Senate also did not pass, by a margin of eight votes, additional legislation that would have given freight rail workers seven additional paid sick days, which would have gone some way towards addressing their demands. A group of more than 500 labor historians have signed a letter saying this is a terrible mistake.
Aaron Gordon on Gun-Detecting AI, Infrastructure, and Bureaucracy by Peoples & Things
Aaron Gordon on Gun-Detecting AI, Infrastructure, and Bureaucracy Aaron Gordon, Senior Writer at Motherboard, Vice's science and technology website, talks about his co-authored article, "'The Least Safe Day': Rollout of Gun-Detecting AI Scanners Has Been a 'Cluster,' Emails Show," with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. They also discuss Gordon's career trajectory, going from a sports reporter to a writer focused on infrastructure, maintenance, bureaucracy, and related topics.
CA - Amtrak Shuts Down Its Second-Busiest Corridor Due to Coastal Erosion, Again
Amtrak has once again suspended train service along the second-busiest rail corridor in the country due to the human impact on coastal erosion. Pacific Surfliner service between San Diego and Los Angeles has been severely impacted, with canceled trains and replacement bus service between Irvine and Oceanside due to coastal erosion in San Clemente where the tracks run right along the coast.
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