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Texas GOP Senate nominee Ken Paxton told donors at a private fundraiser last week that President Donald Trump’s midterm convention in Dallas earlier this month had hurt him politically, according to audio obtained by The New York Times.In a recording, a person believed to be Paxton is asked, «Do you feel like he’s a little bit of a drag?» It’s not clear in the audio about whom the questioner is referring.»So to be honest with you, the numbers — when we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good,» someone reported to…

By Chris Snellgrove | Published 3 seconds ago You can get a laugh out of countless Star Trek fans by simply mentioning one character’s name: Reginald Barclay. In his very first episode (“Hollow Pursuits”), he gets busted for putting the Enterprise crew in his holodeck fantasies. The most eyebrow-raising thing about his program was that it featured a scantily-clad Troi that he presumably melded more than minds with. When they decided to bring the character back, the producers of The Next Generation went out of their way to shake off the character’s sketchy reputation. Decades later, though, this guy is…

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Eight teams entered the wild-card round on Tuesday. Three are already heading home Wednesday. That’s playoff baseball for you.The Red Sox, Astros and Cubs didn’t get to technically play October baseball. But the Yankees, White Sox and Padres made sure to keep their hopes of a deep run alive. That just leaves us one more wild-card matchup (Phillies vs. Braves) to settle.Here are our takeaways from Wednesday’s action:1. Bryce Harper Redeems HimselfRowan Kavner: The repercussions of two San Francisco Giants trades threatened to end the Phillies’ season Wednesday afternoon at Truist Park. ‘On Aug. 2, the Giants sent starter Tyler Mahle to…

STAJICEVO, Serbia — A cafe in northern Serbia has unusual hosts: six alpacas.The South American animals, of various sizes and colors, roam among the tables at the Tiganjica Ethno-Village resort near Stajicevo, north of Belgrade, happy to interact with the guests. The Alpaca Cafe here opened only a week ago and is a rare sight in Europe. Tiganjica resort owner Zoran Ostojin said he got the idea in Slovakia. “My wife and I were in an Alpaca cafe in Slovakia and we were fascinated,” Ostojin told The Associated Press. “We wanted people in our country to get to know alpacas…

Sitting in a pediatric intensive care unit last year, watching a ventilator keep her 17-month-old daughter alive, Emily Marris scoured the contents of her phone for evidence to give to California health and food safety investigators.  She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor. Marris had hoped the milk, unprocessed and natural, would help with her daughter Brooklyn’s constipation. But doctors now suspected the unpasteurized milk, which hadn’t been heated to kill off pathogens, was the source of the toddler’s severe E. coli infection.  To the regulators who’d…

The White House on Wednesday removed CNN from the press pool that’s set to cover a trip by President Donald Trump on Thursday, escalating a feud with the cable network after a federal judge blocked the administration’s push to restrict its media access.CNN had been designated to travel with Trump on Thursday, according to a press rotation document the White House released Sunday. But when the daily guidance came out for his scheduled visit to a truck manufacturing facility in Denton, Texas, followed by remarks in Durant, Oklahoma, it did not list CNN as providing pool coverage.The move comes less…

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a landmark AI law banning Golden State employers from relying solely on artificial intelligence to fire or discipline workers.  SB 947, dubbed the No Robo Bosses Act, prevents businesses around the state from exclusively using «automated decision-making systems» in matters of employee discipline and termination. It also restricts their capacity to use AI as a principal tool in such decisions. Under the bill, employers that rely «primarily» on AI output to make termination or disciplinary decisions must now have a human reviewer corroborate those decisions using additional information, such as managerial evaluations, peer reviews, and…

Along a desolate stretch of California desert highway, next to a ramshackle home, law enforcement officials on Wednesday dug for a second day in a search for bodies.Detectives working a homicide investigation discovered the remains of two people on Tuesday in a remote area of Lancaster, authorities said.They resumed digging at a sprawling and decaying property, shifting the focus from a battered greenhouse that was the center of attention Tuesday to an area nearer a home. KTLA’s Sky 5 helicopter captured medical examiner investigators and L.A. County Sheriff’s personnel working beneath a tent on the property strewn with old cars…

Teen Mom’s Farrah Abraham shared her unfiltered healing process after undergoing double-disc jaw surgery. Abraham, 35, documented her healing process on Tuesday, September 29, following the procedure to treat her ongoing jaw issues. With stitches on the sides of her face, Abraham’s jaw was wired shut, leaving her unable to eat and speak for two months. “Farrah cannot speak because her jaw is wired shut, and her face is extremely swollen,” her manager, Chrissy Johnston, told the Daily Mail, revealing Abraham will be on a liquid diet. “She is in a severe amount of pain and is really struggling, both…