I love the previous presentation. Congratulations. So much to learn from each other.And I'd like to start saying hi. But I don't think you exist. Truth be told, I'm not even sure that I exist.So what's the point. We can just skip the formalities of recognizing one another since I'm truly not convinced any of us is here. I'm not skeptical, not in the usual sense.Um so let me explain how we often define existence by what is observable. You know we observe the behaviors for example the way we walk we talk we c ...

Why does Gen Z laugh at tragedy? From memes about pandemics to TikToks about depression, their humor often shocks older generations. But behind the irony and absurdity lies something deeper: survival. This talk explores how dark humor, irony, and memes function as coping mechanisms in an age of constant crisis revealing that behind every laugh is fear, grief, and resilience. Zeynep Küçükmustafa is a 9th grade student at Üsküdar American Academy in Istanbul, where she is deeply involved in academic and extra ...

getting some housing data crossing for that. We're going to turn to Diana Olle. Morning, Diana.>> While existing home sales in July rose 2% to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 4.01% million units, the street was actually looking for a slight decline. So that's a beat monthtomonth. Sales up 0.8% from July of last year.Now this count is based on closing. So it's most contracts signed in May and June when mortgage rates were on the decline. There were 1.55% million homes for sale at the end of July.Tha ...

The sign you see here in Douglas Dietrich's yard has sparked outrage on social media. He says he put it up because he doesn't approve of illegal immigration, but there's a specific reason that his sign asks the president to start with his neighborhood. >> Well, it appears that that the shop has, you know, has came next door to us against our wishes with illegal immigrants.The business that he's talking about is Monkeys Garage. Shop owner Enrique Garas says he is a legal citizen of the United States and thin ...

Breaking legal news. A New York appeals court has thrown out the massive civil fraud penalty against Donald Trump. It's a total that exceeded $500 million including interest after a New York judge found him liable for fraud last year.The appeals court calling that penalty excessive. Now joining us NBC's Gary Grumbach. Gary, this is literally just coming into us, but remind people what we're even talking about here and what this ruling actually says.>> So this is information that Donald Trump and his sons ga ...

And we're starting with the breaking news we ended last hour with. A New York appeals court has thrown out a massive civil fraud penalty against President Trump, a total that exceeded half a billion dollars. They're calling that penalty excessive.Joining us now, NBC News, NBC News legal analos and NBC News legal affairs reporter Gary Grumbach. Danny, break down this ruling for us. Well, it's a lengthy ruling and all the judges disagreed on the uh their analysis, but they agreed on one final decision, which ...

in terms of understanding if we're going to measure it as Bob said on the whole and you've said it as well. >> Uh you can't just lose people from the cable bundle who then go to the ESPN. You've got to get people who never had cable I guess to some extent.>> Is that the audience here. I know it was sort of when venue was up at least as a thought. That was the thought.It's going to be people who are never, you know, never cord so to speak. Uh is that who you're going after. >> That is definitely the strategy ...

This morning, the Trump administration slashing a key intel office. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announcing she'll cut her own office's staff by 40%, calling it bloated and inefficient. That just after she revoked the security clearances of dozens of current and former national security officials.Gabbard says they politicized intelligence and failed to protect classified information. But critics say it's just political retaliation from President Trump with one former intel official descri ...

Watch live coverage as California Democrats take action on their proposed constitutional amendment to temporarily redraw their congressional maps, hours after Republicans in the Texas House passed new maps of their own. California's State Assembly and Senate will consider a trio of bills that will allow for a special election to pass a constitutional amendment to replace the state’s existing congressional maps through 2030. From there, Democrats in the state must convince Californians to overturn the congre ...

The US government is in fact auctioning off that $300 million yacht that it seized as part of its crackdown on Russian oligarchs. The yacht is called Amadea and it was seized by the Justice Department off the coast of Fiji shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine back in 2022. And it was all part of that global capture of dozens of yachts, villas, art, and private jets that were taken by governments to pressure President Putin and his money machine at the time.But now most of these assets are sitting in l ...