Big Tech companies have been in an all-out bidding war to capture top AI researchers and engineers. Companies like Meta have reportedly been offering compensation packages in the hundreds of millions of dollars. They're the kind of eye-watering sums you usually only hear about in pro sports. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino explores whether this strategy of collecting expensive superstars will pay off for Big Tech firms looking to win the AI race.
WSJ What’s News - Google’s Big Win and Why it’s Good News for Apple
A.M. Edition for Sept. 3. After a 2024 ruling that Google operated a search monopoly, a U.S. district judge rejected a forced spinoff of Chrome and allowed the company to continue paying Apple to be the default search provider on Safari. Plus, GOP lawmakers release more than 30,000 pages of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And in a lavish military parade in Tiananmen Square, Xi Jinping flaunts China’s growing military power and deepening ties to Washington’s adversaries. Azhar Sukri hosts.
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Up First from NPR - Lawmakers Call For Epstein Files, Trump’s Crypto Token, China’s Military Parade
Members of Congress are trying to force a vote to make the Trump administration release more of the Epstein files. The cryptocurrency World Liberty Financial co-founded by the President and his sons started trading publicly this week. And, China held a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.
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The Daily - The Push to Revise American History at the Smithsonian
In the last few weeks, the Trump administration has turned its sights on the Smithsonian, the latest target in a campaign to remake cultural institutions in its image.
Officials are trying to change exhibits at the center of the country’s culture wars and reshape American history at one of the largest museum complexes in the world.
Robin Pogrebin, who covers cultural institutions for The Times, discusses the clash over who gets to tell the American story.
Guest: Robin Pogrebin, a New York Times culture reporter who covers cultural institutions, the art world and architecture.
Background reading:
- The White House announced a comprehensive review of Smithsonian exhibitions.
- The Trump administration’s plan to, in effect, audit the content of Smithsonian museums drew criticism from groups that represent scholars and promote free speech.
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Start Here - Congress is Back. So Are the Epstein Debates.
Congressional Republicans return to a firestorm surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein files. President Trump says he’ll be sending National Guard troops into Chicago. And the White House aims to move Space Command from Colorado to Alabama.
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The Daily Signal - Congress is Back to Fight Over the Budget, Illinois Dems are Mad, Navy Sinks Narcos | Sept. 3, 2025
On today’s Top News in 10, we cover:
- Recess is over as Congress gets ready for a big budget fight.
- Illinois officials rally against the Trump administration’s crime crackdown.
- The U.S. Navy sinks a Venezuelan narco-terrorist boat.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 9.3.25
Alabama
- AL Republicans are thrilled at Trump's decision on US Space Command
- Blount County DA puts in $500K of own money for her 2026 AG campaign
- Clean Up Alabama urges public to report any inappropriate books still in children's sections of public libraries
- More details on BLM activist charged with arson inside Homewood Walmart
- 2 changes are now in affect in AL re: State sales tax
National
- Trump says he is federally obligated to do something about crime in Chicago
- Trump to appeal to SCOTUS about lower courts ruling against his tariffs
- SecDef Hegseth to use 600 military lawyers as temporary immigration judges
- Appeals court shuts down Judge Chutkan for ruling against the EPA
- Judge Boasberg releases woman who threatened to kill the president
- MN governor Walz makes bizarre fantasy comment about Trump's death
- 5 arrests made in FL re: Truckers who can't speak a lick of English
Money Girl - 5 Ways to Help Your Kids Become Rich (Reissue)
Find out five ways to save and invest for your child's future and how it should fit into your big financial picture.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Names of Animal Groups
The English language is weird.
We have words that are spelled the same but sound different. We have words that are spelled differently but sound the same.
We have words that sound nothing like how they are spelled, and a host of exceptions that you just have to know and remember.
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Opening Arguments - Douchebag Ben Shapiro knock-offs keep thinking they’re smarter than Ketanji Brown Jackson
VR6 - For today’s Vapid Response Wednesday, Thomas, Lydia, and Matt review two examples from a newly-popular genre of lazy right wing op-eds: insecure white guys complaining about Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. What is with these losers who are so obsessed with trying to prove that one of the most qualified nominees to the high court in our lifetimes isn’t fit for the job? We take dark-money sugar baby Josh Hammer up on the joke to compare his life achievements to someone who began her SCOTUS career with four times as much courtroom experience as John Roberts, Elena Kagan, Clarence Thomas, and Amy Coney Barrett combined--before moving on to trying to even understand what Federalist weirdo Shawn Fleetwood thinks he is saying.
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“Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is an Insult to the Supreme Court,” Josh Hammer, Newsweek (7/1/2025)
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“KBJ Could Learn a Few Lessons in ‘Professionalism’ From Justice Barrett,” Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist (8/20/2025)
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Ketanji Brown Jackson’s career timeline from the Southern Poverty Law Center (4/7/22)
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