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🚨 NEW | John Fetterman faces his first primary challenge. Palestinian, Gaza-born from Philadelphia Ahmed Moor is running for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania in 2028.

Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it. Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artist’s song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artist’s voice performs another artist’s song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now. The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. They’ll appear in playlists. They’ll count toward the original song’s chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work. Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the world’s largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4–$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7–8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028. This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artists’ permission, on the world’s largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators. A music industry analyst who’s covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music. “Spotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isn’t whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.” Here’s what Spotify’s AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself 🧵

Breaking: Google will turn off web search for schools that opt out of A.I. for kids. nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/go…

Glenn Close talks about her honorary Oscar and Michael Douglas does that...

FBI agent reveals 'existential threat' that could unleash chaos across US without warning as Pentagon prepares for blackouts... and why families must stockpile food, keep cash and pack escape bags now trib.al/WXas0wj

A celebration of friendship, community, and extraordinary strength. As Emma Fogarty turns 40, she and longtime friend Colin Farrell take on the Dublin Marathon together. #TheSlightestTouch premieres November 25 on HBO Max.

JULIA & EZRA WITH THIS 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU TO HEATH LEDGER TRIBUTE..... OMG THIS HAS ME SOBBING ALL THE WAY DOWN... ESPECIALLY WITH THE WHOLE CAST AT THE END. THIS WAS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL WAY TO END TONIGHT BEAUTIFUL'S DANCING. #DWTS #DancingWithTheStars #DWTS35 #DedicationNight

Dan Levy is a gem of a human. We need more like him.

Women writers are so much better at Coming of Age stories because they don’t just center THEIR experience, it’s that experience AND the lives of people around them and how those experiences are all interconnected and that’s why the characters feel real and the stories feel whole

Anne Carson, one of the most important writers in the English-language literary tradition, published a review of ROSALÍA and her artistry after attending a LUX TOUR performance. “I have a ROSALÍA hangover. We climbed a giant day to reach her, all twenty thousand Chicago fans. Strutting and grinning, she held their shrieking out around her like a magic cloak. At her every inhalation of breath the entire audience screamed. That voice can do anything. And the persona blooms out to contain it. The voice is a wonder. Her voice, still somehow teenage-bright, might go from wonderful to miraculous in a few years. It rises above the mad pounding of the sound system like a silver arrow shot into space, and they scream, and it rises, and they scream, and it rises. Total adoration pours towards her from the seats. I have never heard a sound like it. It is clear ROSALÍA has a serious affection for the mystic insights and saintly example of someone like Simone Weil. She mentions God as well as Christ, sacrifice, redemption. It is the religious vessel of herself that people want to contemplate, assaulted and all but overcome as it is on seas of feeling. Her voice simply knocks them flat. ROSALÍA’s face is projected six feet high behind her all the time. Her face, her theatre, her palimpsest of bad love. Emotional opulences flood across it, mythic in a technological way. I wanted to work for her, to match her heroism. We require heroism of our entertainers. We want them sacrificing themselves to a certain ultimate degree of input. No one can sing this loud, and yet she does. No one can dance this hard and long, but she goes on. No one can survive being this intensely cherished, but it is we who are wrung out like sponges watching her, hearts pounding, slightly afraid of what’s next. Do I envy her? Of course I do. She is a 33-year-old embodiment of female glamour and force. Unlike Björk, who disappears from femaleness by going into other species, ROSALÍA goes deeper into female itself, drilling down into it, past the mutilations of flamenco to some place of power where she feels new. They do not compare, they adore. She is never breathless, we are breathless. She turns you inside out like a glove. Her voice finds the real heat in you. Or the real cold. Or the real real. What is singing anyway? Why does it cut through us? Here each person is singularly in love with ROSALÍA and busy imagining their life with her, its private salvations. Each person drops into reverie, adjusting their earbuds.”

🚨 GLENN CLOSE JUST POSTED A “GOODBYE” VIDEO — AND THE INTERNET IS SPIRALING THAT SHE’S NEXT Glenn Close just posted a short video from home and it's sending the internet into a spiral. No glam. No red carpet. Just her standing outside in her late mother’s shirt, letting the wind move through her white hair, watching the sun go down. “I’m home. Calming down. I feel blessed. Hi to you all. Bye.” That last word is what's breaking everyone. This is hitting after a brutal stretch of celebrity deaths, and fans are already bracing for the next name. Some started posting RIP messages. Others said they cannot take another legend dying this soon. “That ‘bye’ gave me CHILLS.” “Please don’t let her be next 😭” “Why did that feel so FINAL?” When this many stars have died in a short window, even a quiet sunset video starts to feel like a warning. Are fans just traumatized… or did that “bye” come at the worst possible time?

Breaking News: Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist whose work caused a stir in the 1960s, while her “Infinity Room” installations drew crowds in recent decades, has died at 97. nyti.ms/4hXlFrg

The first trailer for Jordan Firstman's ‘CLUB KID’ has been released. The film follows an underground club promoter whose lifestyle is turned upside down when he must care for his young son he never knew existed. In theaters on November 6.