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Texas state Sen. John Whitmire is projected to be Houston’s next mayor after beating his opponent, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, in a special runoff election on Saturday. Whitmire inherits a city facing many challenges, including crime, crumbling infrastructure, and potential budget shortfalls. But despite these issues, booming growth over the last decade has turned the nation’s fourth-largest city into an expanding stronghold for Texas Democrats. Houston mayoral candidates, state Sen. John Whitmire and U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, speak at a mayoral forum, Dec. 3, in Houston. (AP Photo/Lekan Oyekanmi)Jackson Lee and Whitmire, both Democrats, made it to Saturday’s runoff…

ChatGPT users say that the bot is becoming more difficult to work with. Now, OpenAI is looking into reports that the bot is “lazier.”ChatGPT has racked up 1.7 billion users in the past year.  Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app ChatGPT users are lamenting a recent situation in which the AI bot is telling them to do their work like it’s their boss or something, prompting OpenAI to investigate.The company announced on Thursday that it was looking into reports that ChatGPT began refusing user…

University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees Chair Scott Bok has resigned, following the departure of President Liz Magill.According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, Bok announced he’s stepping down from the board of trustees. The statement was made shortly after Magill resigned, the outlet reported.”Today, following the resignation of the University of Pennsylvania’s President and related Board of Trustee meetings, I submitted my resignation as Chair of the University’s Board of Trustees, effective immediately,” Bok said in a statement. “While I was asked to remain in that role for the remainder of my term in order to help with the presidential transition,…

In an interview with CBS, Kevin McCarthy endorsed Donald Trump for another term as president.McCarthy added that he’d accept a role in a Trump cabinet if he’s “the best person for the job.”The former Speaker of the House announced plans to resign from Congress earlier this week. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app Kevin McCarthy, who earlier this week announced plans to resign from Congress just months after being ousted from the Speakership, has more news: He’s endorsing Donald Trump for president in…

3/3 © Reuters. A car is buried under rubble on Main Street after a tornado hit Hendersonville, Tennessee, U.S. December 9, 2023. Andrew Nelles/USA Today Network via REUTERS 2/3 By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Severe storms and tornadoes in Tennessee left at least six people dead on Saturday and caused what local emergency services described as extensive damage with tens of thousands of residents without power. “At this time we can confirm that three people are deceased, two adults and one child as a result of the tornado that touched down this afternoon. Additionally, 23 people have been treated at…

mixmotive/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Paramount Global (NASDAQ:PARA) controlling shareholder Shari Redstone has held talks about the sale of the company’s movie studio and other assets to Skydance, whose holders include RedBird Capital and billionaire Larry Ellison’s family. Skydance, the production house behind “Top Gun: Maverick,” has emerged as a leading candidate to take over Redstone’s National Amusements, which has a controlling stake in Paramount, according to a Financial Times report on Saturday, which cited people familiar with the matter. The discussions were at a very early stage and there was no certainty that they might lead to a deal,…

Casey DeSantis recounted a few humorous interactions between her husband, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, and their children. Then she spoke in more sober tones about her fight against cancer.Vivek Ramaswamy brought his 3-year-old son, Karthik, onstage and discussed his Hindu faith.And Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, sitting beside her daughter, Rena, who recently married, said she still remembered her as a little girl “in pigtails.”The Republican presidential candidates who spoke at a “faith and family” event on Saturday at Dordt University, an evangelical Christian school in Sioux Center, Iowa, sought to present a kinder, gentler side…

Lamborghini is planning to implement a four-day workweek for its production workers.The new workweek is a historic industry win; other auto unions have failed to secure the same terms.Other companies that use the four-day workweek have reported high levels of productivity.  Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app On Tuesday, Lamborghini announced a deal with its unions to implement a four-day workweek for car production workers.The unions called the agreement “historical,” per Reuters. It is the first agreement of its kind in the…

monsitj/iStock via Getty Images Gold prices likely would suffer if the U.S. economy achieves a soft landing next year and avoids a recession, despite rising inflation and interest rates this year, the World Gold Council said this week in its 2024 gold outlook. But the WGC is not confident that a soft landing is inevitable and said a mild recession is still very much a possibility – “It’s not going to be a straight line,” WGC chief market strategist John Reade told Dow Jones this week. Gold likely will rise when the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates, Reade said, in…

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., applauded the resignation of University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill on Saturday. Magill resigned Saturday after days of criticism following her appearance at a Congressional hearing Tuesday, where she failed to give a clear answer to Stefanik’s question asking if calls for the genocide of Jews would violate university conduct. “One down. Two to go,” Stefanik posted to X Saturday. “This is only the very beginning of addressing the pervasive rot of antisemitism that has destroyed the most “prestigious” higher education institutions in America. This forced resignation of the president of @Penn is the bare minimum…