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Name-that-tune game Heardle dropped by Spotify after a year

Heardle, the name-that-tune game inspired by the Wordle craze, is being dropped by Spotify less than a year after the music-streaming giant acquired it. “After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to say goodbye to Heardle,” Spotify said Saturday in a statement. A similar announcement was posted on… Read More

Biden’s giveaway to illegal immigrants will cost billions

President Joe Biden announced Thursday that hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant will be able to apply for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges — a plan that will cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars a year. The action will allow participants in the Obama-era Deferred Action… Read More

One state just teed up to ban TikTok completely

Montana lawmakers moved one step closer Thursday to passing a bill to ban TikTok from operating in the state, a move that’s bound to face legal challenges but also serve as a testing ground for the TikTok-free America that many national lawmakers have envisioned. Montana’s proposal, which has backing from… Read More

Philadelphia sees $750,000 heist, all in dimes [Pic]

Thieves may not have been counting on finding a mountain of change when they broke into a truck filled with $750,000 in dimes, but they still made off with a chunk of the cargo and left coins scattered around a Philadelphia parking lot, authorities said. Authorities say the thieves apparently… Read More

Museum offers $25K reward for meteorites hitting Northeast

Somewhere in a remote stretch of forest near Maine’s border with Canada, rocks from space crashed to Earth and may be scattered across the ground — just waiting to be picked up. If you’re the first person to find a big one, a museum says it’ll pay out a $25,000… Read More

Bud Light stock price sheds nearly $5 billion after stinging boycott

Bud Light’s partnership with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney earlier this month has put its parent company, Anheuser-Busch Inbev, in the middle of the culture war — and stockholders are suffering. The trans endorsement was met with fury from conservative social media personalities, who attacked the company for turning to “woke”… Read More

Warner greenlights ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel and ‘Harry Potter’ series

Warner Bros. Discovery is sticking with safe bet franchises that will likely lure viewers, including a “Harry Potter” series and a “Game of Thrones” prequel for its rebranded Max streaming service. Executives touted Max and made original Warner Bros. Discovery programming announcements on Wednesday during a presentation for journalists and… Read More

MLB teams extend beer sales after pitch clock shortens games

Thanks to the pitch clock, the action is moving much faster at Major League Baseball games. It also means a little less time for fans to enjoy a frosty adult beverage. Sponsored: 1 Surprising Food that Feeds Cancer Cells To combat that time crunch, at least four teams — the… Read More

NPR quits Twitter over feud with Elon Musk

National Public Radio is quitting Twitter after the social media platform owned by Elon Musk stamped NPR’s main account with labels the news organization says undermine its credibility. Twitter labeled NPR’s main account last week as “state-affiliated media,” a label also used to identify media outlets that are controlled or… Read More

Elon Musk talks “painful” experience owning Twitter

Billionaire Elon Musk has told the BBC that running Twitter has been “quite painful” but that the social media company is now roughly breaking even after he acquired it late last year. In an interview also streamed live late Tuesday on Twitter Spaces, Musk discussed his ownership of the online… Read More