Long-time “Wheel of Fortune” co-host Vanna White extended her contract and will continue turning letters on the venerable game show until at least the middle of 2026, producers said Tuesday. This 41st season of “Wheel” is the final one for retiring host Pat Sajak, raising questions about White’s future on the show she’s been on…
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Austin shopping center gunman didn’t know victims, police say
The gunman who shot two women at a Texas shopping center Thursday, killing one of them, did not know his victims, police said Friday. The suspect, Tang-Kang Dave Chiang, 38, fatally shot himself after shooting the two women at The Arboretum shopping center in Austin around 5 p.m., police said. “The motive is still under…
GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is an ‘unaffiliated’ voter, records show
Vivek Ramaswamy is one of the highest-profile candidates seeking the GOP presidential nomination, but he has not voted in a Republican primary recently enough to be affiliated with the party in his home state’s voting records. Ramaswamy, 38, is listed as an “unaffiliated” voter in Franklin County, Ohio, where he’s been registered to vote since…
Elon Musk kills the bird
The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: Farewell, Twitter, said Oliver Darcy at CNN. This week, “the text-based social media platform that played an outsize role in society by serving as a digital town square was killed by its unhinged owner, Elon Musk.” Musk officially changed the company’s iconic…
Sage Steele and ESPN part ways after settling lawsuit
Broadcaster Sage Steele has left ESPN, the company and Steele announced Tuesday. She said she made the decision so she could exercise her First Amendment Rights “more freely” after having settled a lawsuit she filed last year. “Life update. Having successfully settled my case with ESPN/Disney, I have decided to leave so I can exercise…
Elon Musk announces change to Twitter logo
Twitter owner Elon Musk said Sunday that he was changing the social media brand’s logo to an ‘X’ and doing away with the platform’s iconic bird symbol. The announcement began with a series of cryptic tweets from Musk about the letter ‘X,’ including a message which shows off a shimmering ‘X’ logo. He eventually tweeted…
NASA loses contact with Voyager 2 probe
NASA lost contact with its Voyager 2 probe and potentially may not hear from it until October. Voyager 2 is located 12.4 billion miles from the Earth and is no longer able to receive commands or send data, CBS News reported. This is because a “series of planned commands” sent to the probe “inadvertently caused the…
Threads: Meta’s Twitter clone gains a foothold
The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: Twitter’s constant crises have now put it “at imminent risk of losing its status as the watercooler of the internet,” said Dave Lee in Bloomberg. Meta last week took direct aim at Twitter with its Threads app, gaining 100 million users…
Elon Musk kills the bird
The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: Farewell, Twitter, said Oliver Darcy at CNN. This week, “the text-based social media platform that played an outsize role in society by serving as a digital town square was killed by its unhinged owner, Elon Musk.” Musk officially changed the company’s iconic…
Elon Musk announces change to Twitter logo
Twitter owner Elon Musk said Sunday that he was changing the social media brand’s logo to an ‘X’ and doing away with the platform’s iconic bird symbol. The announcement began with a series of cryptic tweets from Musk about the letter ‘X,’ including a message which shows off a shimmering ‘X’ logo. He eventually tweeted…