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Bari Weiss, the editor-in-chief of CBS News, is scheduled to moderate a network town hall event with Erika Kirk, the widow of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the Guardian has learned.The event will air on 13 December at 8pm and will focus on “grief, faith, politics, and more”, according to internal marketing materials.According to an unpublicized online form soliciting potential attendees, the event will actually be recorded on 10 December at 12pm in New York City.The town hall is a notable bit of programming for Weiss, who took on her role in October with a mandate to bring more balance…

Tech is racing ahead while society struggles to keep up. Masha Bucher, founder and GP of Day One Ventures, built her firm around closing that gap by combining venture capital with hands-on PR to help portfolio companies not just raise money, but actually break through the noise.   Day One’s been an early backer of companies like World, Superhuman, and Remote.com, with 12 of its portfolio companies hitting multibillion-dollar valuations.  Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan sat down with Bucher to talk about why traditional PR is broken, how she picks founders, and why every startup founder now needs to be chronically online. 

Miley Cyrus has confirmed her engagement to her partner of four years, musician Maxx Morando. The three-time Grammy winner was seen wearing a gold and diamond ring on her engagement finger at the premiere of Avatar: Fire and Ash in Los Angeles on Monday.In an interview with US TV show Good Morning America on Wednesday, the 33-year-old said Morando had got down on one knee for the proposal during a recent trip to Asia.”I am not easy to surprise because I love to control every situation and I had completely surrendered and I’m telling you, I was so, so, so…

Things were looking bleak for Leeds United boss Daniel Farke.But, after the final whistle blew against Chelsea on Wednesday, the German wandered over to the crowd with a wide smile on his face.Leeds, who had started the day in the relegation zone with a miserable 11 points from 13 games, had just ended a a four-game losing streak with an impressive 3-1 victory against Enzo Maresca’s Blues.Having lost six of their previous seven matches, Farke was under increasing pressure and there was growing speculation around his future after a poor string of results.”Sources have told BBC Sport that the process…

Astronomers have spotted what is likely the “largest spinning object” ever discovered, and its rotation could hold important clues about how galaxies develop.The whirling structure, located 140 million light-years from Earth, is a long, threadlike string of gas that’s about 5.5 million light-years long and 117,000 light-years wide — wider than our Milky Way galaxy. The cosmic filament has 14 hydrogen-rich galaxies linked to it in a chain, like charms on a bracelet. These galaxies were what gave away the filament’s existence, the researchers explained in a paper published today (Dec. 3) in the journal the Monthly Notices of the…

The Pentagon knew boat attack left survivors, AP sources sayThe Pentagon was aware there were survivors after a September attack on a boat in the Caribbean sea, but the US military still carried out a follow-up strike, according to a new Associated Press report, based on two people familiar with the matter.The AP’s sources, who spoke anonymously as they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said the rationale for the second strike was that it was necessary to sink the vessel.It is still unclear who ordered the strikes and whether Hegseth was involved, one of the AP sources…

new video loaded: MrBeast Says YouTube’s Content Has Less ‘Brain Rot’ Than TikToktranscriptBacktranscriptMrBeast Says YouTube’s Content Has Less ‘Brain Rot’ Than TikTokJimmy Donaldson, who is known as MrBeast online, discussed the differences in content quality between YouTube and TikTok at The New York Times’s DealBook summit.“Jonathan Haidt — I don’t know if you know Jonathan — he’s written a book. He says that kids shouldn’t have smartphones until high school, and has been warning around the country about the impact of social media on kids’ brain. So given what you do for a living now, the success you had touching…

BMW has been peppering us with teasers and bits and pieces about its next-gen EV platform, Neue Klasse, for so long — fully two years now — that I confess I’ve become a bit numb to the hype. I’d seen the dashboard-filling displays, talked to engineers endlessly about the completely retooled active safety suite, and even got a go behind the wheel of a prototype machine.All this for the launch of a crossover SUV, typically the most milquetoast of all the automotive classifications. But after spending the better part of a day wheeling around the final version of the iX3,…

A group in Western Washington state has developed a novel gauge for their forest conservation work — thousands of audio recordings of native birds. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Listen up. Do you know what this bird is?(SOUNDBITE OF SWAINSON’S THRUSH CALL)ADRIAN WOLF: The Swainson’s thrush. It’s a lovely, ethereal sound.(SOUNDBITE OF SWAINSON’S THRUSH CALL)WOLF: Yeah, it’s beautiful.SUMMERS: Adrian Wolf knows birds. He once studied a threatened species called the streaked horned lark for over 10 years.WOLF: It has a piece in my heart, and it’s little nestlings look like grumpy old men.MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Adrian Wolf is not studying just…

Steve Cropper, a founding member of Booker T. & the M.G.’s whose distinctive funky guitar licks graced R&B and soul hits from the iconic Stax Records label and on tracks performed by The Blues Brothers, has died. He was 84. The Associated Press reported that Cooper died on Wednesday in Nashville. Pat Mitchell Worley, president and CEO of the Soulsville Foundation, said Cropper’s family told her about his time of death. According to AP, a cause of death was not immediately known. Eddie Gore, a longtime associate, reportedly said he was with Cropper on Tuesday in Nashville at a rehabilitation…