DECEMBER 20, 2024

Elon Musk Wants to Pay for His Tax Cuts With Your Social Security and Medicare The point of Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s DOGE is to cut entitlement programs so Trump can give tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy and corporations  BY LINDSAY OWENS

	SZA, J. Cole, Burna Boy and All the Songs You Need to Know This Week Looking for the week’s best new music? Check out our Songs You Need to Know playlist
	Some Want High Birth Rates. Others Would Rather See Humans Go Extinct Is it ethical to have children? The new doc 'I Wish You Were Never Born' explores a movement against human reproduction
	Sabrina Carpenter Wants a Job at NPR After Her Tiny Desk Performance Singer brought a string orchestra and her bouncy curls for a silly performance
	The Newest 'Fortnite' Mode Is Just Diet 'Counter-Strike' Called Ballistic, the game copies the basics of global esports hits, while watering them down to the point of boredom

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	Spotify Denies Drake's 'Not Like Us' Boosting Claims: 'No Such Agreement' With UMG Streaming service files opposition brief arguing that rapper's petition against his own record label "should be denied"
	Is Bruce Springsteen Finally Releasing the Mythical 'Tracks 2' Box Set in 2025? A press release is teasing the release of unheard archival material, and it might be five albums that Springsteen shelved during a supposedly unproductive period in the Nineties
	Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett Join Colleen Hoover 'Verity' Adaptation Cast They will appear as Lowen Ashleigh and Jeremy Crawford, respectively, alongside Anne Hathaway's Verity Crawford
	In Our Gifting Era: The 20 Best Gifts for Taylor Swift Fans From 'The Tortured Poets Department' vinyl, to friendship bracelet kits, this list won't disappoint the Swiftie on your list