Obama improvised the viral size joke about Trump at the DNC, his speechwriter says

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Barack Obama speaking at the DNC in Chicago; Donald Trump speaking at a news conference in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Former President Barack Obama made a suggestive hand gesture while slamming Donald Trump's "weird obsession with crowd sizes" during his speech at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday.

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Watch the Obama joke everyone is talking about from the DNC

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Former President Barack Obama speaking at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Former President Barack Obama slammed GOP nominee Donald Trump's "weird obsession with crowd sizes" during his speech at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday.

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OpenAI snaps up another media partnership, this time with Condé Nast

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OpenAI has announced a new media partnership, this time with magazine giant Condé Nast, amid Wall Street worries of a possible AI bubble burst.

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Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce after 2 years of marriage to Ben Affleck, according to reports

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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez got married in July 2022.

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Donald Trump said he'd want Elon Musk in his Cabinet

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Donald Trump speaking at a campaign event in North Carolina; Elon Musk attending the annual Breakthrough Prize ceremony in California.
"He's a very smart guy. I certainly would, if he would do it, I certainly would. He's a brilliant guy," former President Donald Trump told Reuters when asked if he would offer Elon Musk a cabinet or advisory position.

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Zelenskyy said Ukraine told no one about the Kursk invasion because its allies would have called it 'unrealistic'

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaking during an interview with French media in Rivne.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country did not inform their allies about the planned incursion on Kursk because it would have seemed "unrealistic" to them.

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp says Trump's rise is tied to the 'excesses of Silicon Valley'

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Alex Karp speaking at the World Economic Forum; Donald Trimp speaking at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago.
"I don't believe you would have a Trump phenomenon without the excesses of Silicon Valley," Palantir CEO Alex Karp told The New York Times.

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Ukrainian soldiers suspected they would invade Russia when they got new rifles, but still thought it was a joke when the orders came through

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"We joked that it wasn't April 1st. The commander just smiled, knowing we had no idea what was awaiting us," a Ukrainian soldier identified only by his first name, Serhiy, said of the orders to invade Russia, per The Economist.

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X closes office in Brazil amid Elon Musk's censorship feud with Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes

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An escalation in Elon Musk's public feud with Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has led to the closure of X's office in the country.

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Jon Stewart says he thought the Trump-Musk X livestream was just 'like two old dudes in a basement talking about how hot each other is'

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Jon Stewart speaking at David Geffen Hall in New York City; Donald Trump speaking at a rally in Montana.
Jon Stewart said he felt bored watching former President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's livestream on Monday.

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