AI hallucinated case law in insurance company’s filings in L.A. County house fire dispute

Attorneys for State Farm apologized to a court for submitting legal briefings rife with artificial intelligence hallucinations and nonexistent case law, the latest example of lawyers bolstering their arguments with…

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Behind Lumiere’s flaming, 7-pound ‘handlesticks’ in ‘Beauty & the Beast’ at the Hollywood Pantages

Danny Gardner is on fire, literally and figuratively. The actor lights up the stage eight shows a week as Lumiere, the servant-turned-candelabra in Disney’s touring production of “Beauty and the…

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Why the DSA’s Medicare-for-All dream threatens us with a real-life nightmare

Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan is building his US Senate campaign on Medicare for All, promising health care coverage for all Americans “cradle-to-grave.” In Minnesota, Democratic Senate nominee Peggy Flanagan has…

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A convicted election denier went to prison. Now, she might help run elections in a California county

Tina Peters was recently released early from prison amid a pressure campaign from President Trump after the former Colorado elections official was convicted of tampering with voting machines.Now, the top…

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Gov. Kathy Hochul’s congestion pricing scam has only one ‘success’ left: Gouging drivers

Gov. Kathy Hochul considers her congestion-pricing scheme a huge success, but the city Health Department just exposed the scam by blowing up one of the main supposed benefits. “Measured pollution…

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