A look inside Jackie Kennedy Onassis' luxurious homes, from sprawling estates to full-floor apartments

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Jackie Kennedy walks down the steps from her new home in Georgetown.
Jackie Kennedy walks down the steps from her new home in Georgetown.

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  • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis lived all over, from New York apartments to East Coast mansions.
  • She said her family's "happiest years" were those spent with President John F. Kennedy in the White House.
  • Here are all of the impressive places she lived in and owned in her lifetime.

Throughout her life, Jacqueline

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Conspiracy Theorists Think Biden Was Hit With Directed-Energy Weapons During Debate

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President Joe Biden delivered a stunningly bad performance last week during his debate with Donald Trump, causing many Democrats to worry about the future of American democracy. But some folks on social media think they’ve figured out why Biden looked so puzzled and frequently spoke haltingly with a blank stare in his…

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This is Big Tech’s playbook for swallowing the AI industry

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A couple of months ago, I was sitting in the audience at a tech conference in San Fransisco watching Bloomberg’s Emily Chang interview Reid Hoffman.

She asked about Microsoft’s hiring of the team behind Inflection, a would-be OpenAI competitor that Hoffman co-founded. It was an acquisition in everything

Kevin Costner mortgaged his home and put $38 million of his own money into 'Horizon.' Box-office numbers suggest this was a terrible idea.

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Kevin Costner.

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  • Kevin Costner's "Horizon" was a bust at the box office, making only $11 million in its first weekend.
  • Costner invested over $38 million in the movie and paid for its marketing himself. 
  • "Yellowstone" fans may not have been enough to help "Horizon" beat out other big draws in theaters.

Kevin Costner is the

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta just got some bad news

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg got some bad news from the EU on Monday.

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  • It's not a good day for Meta in the EU.
  • The European Commission says Meta's "pay or consent" advertising model is in breach of the EU's Digital Markets Act.
  • The EU previously said Apple also violated the rule.

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta just got some bad news in the European Union.

The European Commission, the EU's

July's Lego Releases Are All Abuzz

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After the Eye of Sauron heralded a busy start to the summer for Lego fans, you’re getting a bit of a break in July—with just six major releases bidding for your time and attention to beat the heat with large amounts of plastic bricks. And one of those is a book! But that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few things keeping…

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Jill Biden could convince Joe to drop out. So far, she's vowing to fight on.

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First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and US President Joe Biden during a campaign event.

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  • Democrats think Jill Biden might be the only person who could convince Joe Biden to drop out.
  • After Biden's debate performance, some Democrats have been questioning his ability to defeat Trump. 
  • But the first lady isn't backing down. And so, neither is the president.

Joe Biden's debate performance last week was, by most accounts, a disaster.

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Ukraine says it destroyed almost 60 Russian air defense systems in June, the second-highest number of monthly kills since the war began

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S-400 defense systems, sent by Russia, are seen at the Brestsky training ground ahead of the Allied Resolve joint military exercise near Brest, Belarus.

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  • Ukraine says it destroyed 59 Russian air defense systems in June 2024.
  • It's the second-highest monthly total since the war began, compared to 73 in July 2023.
  • Ukraine has upped its

The Sims 4’s Lovestruck expansion lets you dive into a steamy polyamory sandbox

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The new Lovestruck expansion pack for The Sims 4 gives the decade-old sequel a shot of life by turning it into a full-fledged dating sim — including non-monogamous WooHoo-ing for the first time. In addition to polyamory, the $40 DLC adds an in-game dating app, an encounter-planning system, turn-ons and turn-offs and a swanky singles club where Leisure Suit Larry (apologies for the dated reference)