Matt Gagnon discussed the fallout from the Epstein scandal, focusing on Larry Summers’ resignations from his teaching duties and roles at Harvard and OpenAI. Summers’ ties to Epstein were revealed through emails, showing a cozy relationship post-Epstein’s jail time. Summers resigned from OpenAI’s board and stepped back from teaching at Harvard. Gagnon highlighted Summers’ influential career and criticized his decision to keep teaching amidst the scandal. He also compared Summers to other disgraced figures like Matt Lauer, advising those in similar situations to quit entirely. Gagnon recommended the Netflix mini-series “Death by Lightning,” based on the book “Destiny of the Republic,” about President James Garfield.
Melania Trump and Usha Vance took their first trip together, spending time in North Carolina on Wednesday with service members and their families to show appreciation for their service and sacrifice as the holidays approach.
Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma must pay billions of dollars to settle a flood of lawsuits over the harms of opioids, in a new deal formally approved by a federal bankruptcy judge on Tuesday.
The House voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill Tuesday to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a remarkable display of approval for an effort that had struggled for months to overcome opposition from President Donald Trump and Republican leadership.
Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare says it is deploying a fix for an issue that caused global outages for ChatGPT, social media platform X, transit infrastructure and other prominent internet services.
