Electronic Arts, the maker of video games like “Madden NFL,” “Battlefield,” and “The Sims,” is being acquired for $52.5 billion in what could become the largest buyout ever funded by private equity firms. Silver Lake Partners, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund PIF, and Affinity Partners will pay EA’s stockholders $210 per share. Affinity Partners is run by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. The deal is valued at $55 billion if AE’s debt is included, far exceeding the $32 billion price tag to take Texas utility TXU private in 2007, which had shattered records for leveraged buyouts.

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Among the dock workers A general strike erupted across Italy on Monday and some half a million people took to the streets in one of Europe’s largest mobilisations against the war on Gaza. Actions took place in at least 75 municipalities under the slogan ‘Blocchiamo tutto’ – ‘Let’s Block Everything’ – shutting down schools, disrupting trains, and obstructing roads and ports. The largest crowds gathered in the major cities – 100,000 in Rome alone, according to organisers, where protesters occupied the main railway station before marching through the streets. The strike was called by several grassroots unions who demanded that the government end commercial and military cooperation with Israel. In parliament, Riccardo Ricciardi of the Five Star Movement described the demonstrations as an attempt to ‘restore Italy’s honour’. Ministers of the ruling Fratelli d’Italia, meanwhile, expressed support for the security services who have used pepper spray, tear gas and water cannon on the crowds. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni – in New York for the UN General Assembly – condemned the disorder at the central station in Milan. Her government has been among Israel’s staunchest European supporters, though there are signs that popular pressure is having an effect, even if largely symbolic.

A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.

Natalie Dormer has said she won’t promote ITV and Britbox‘s upcoming drama series “The Lady,” in which she plays Sarah Ferguson, following revelations over the Duchess of York’s connections to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Brit actress has also said she has donated her entire salary from the show to charities focused on child abuse. The news comes after a leaked email from 2011 was recently published appearing to show Ferguson, the former wife of Prince Andrew, apologizing to Epstein having publicly rejected him years after he was jailed for sex offenses in 2008.

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes—and every student gets their own personal chatbot. The second coming of the Trump Administration has exposed the civic sclerosis of the US body politic? Time to turn the Social Security Administration over to Grok. Climate apocalypse now feels less like a distant terror than a fact of life? Inthreeyears,roughly a tenthofUS energy demand will come from data centers alone.

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Roughly speaking, one side touts polling and other electoral data as our best guides to political reality—and thus, it is claimed, to political strategy. These tools are far from perfect, the argument goes, but they are better than alternatives. To those in this camp, hostility to data smacks of impressionism at best (just “vibes”), rank ideology at worst; either way, it’s irrational—a dangerous denial of reality—and progressives must do politics by poll if they actually care about winning. Critics, in turn, insist that it’s the data-mongers who are the ideologues, ignorant of history, lacking in moral backbone, and devoid of political imagination. The influence and professional prestige they wield as “very smart,” well-credentialed, STEM-fluent wonks—steeped in a technocratic worldview, at odds with bottom-up movements—is decried as just a way of dressing up megadonor-approved policies in the guise of neutral expertise, or just a means for media companies to capture audience attention by treating politics like sports.

A person is in custody following a shooting at the Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino in Eagle Pass that left two people dead and several others injured, according to the Eagle Pass Police Department.

A North Carolina man is accused of opening fire from a boat into a crowd at a waterfront bar, killing three and injuring five others.

The shooting happened Sunday at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, about 50 miles north of Detroit.

President Trump had said he will send troops to Portland to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he said were "under attack."

In a surprisingly persuasive complaint, President Jacob Chansley claims DJs are spies, that the NSA stole his work for a Batman movie and more.

Trump shared a bizarre AI video to social media in which he's promoting "med beds" — a far-right conspiracy involving a magical bed that can heal any sickness.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is ending his reelection bid, a move long sought by rivals of Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani who have wanted to consolidate the opposition against him.

AI bots sided with users who acted in a way that was "deemed inappropriate by crowdsourced human judgments, researchers found.

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