Elon Musk’s recent comment about Sydney Sweeney set off a wave of backlash online, not because it revealed anything new about the actor, but because it highlighted how casually power is exercised on major platforms. Photo Credit: Sydney Sweeney via Instagram The remark spread quickly, with users calling it unnecessary, crude, and emblematic of a…
When your goal is to “help Europe correct its current trajectory” because it is “weak”, “decaying” and facing “civilisational erasure”, your choice of highly trained operatives for the mission is plainly of paramount importance. In Donald Trump’s case they include: a former burger magnate; his eldest son’s former fiancee; the owner of the Houston Rockets…
Christopher Waller, governor of the US Federal Reserve, speaks during the C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, US, on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller had a “strong interview” for the central bank chair position…
Alexandr Wang—who became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at 24—is now, at 28, running one of the most ambitious AI efforts in Silicon Valley. In his first 60 days at Meta, he built a 100-person lab he described to TBPN hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays as “smaller and more talent dense than any of…
Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Bill Gates is the kind of billionaire who enjoys a McDonald’s burger — so much so that he can get one for free anytime he wants, thanks to his McDonald’s McGold Card. His famously frugal friend Warren Buffett…
The cofounder of Wikipedia isn’t so sure people trust Elon Musk’s AI-powered rival, Grokipedia. Musk launched Grokipedia in October after years of accusing Wikipedia of left-wing bias. In an interview with The Verge, Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales said that he had only looked at Grokipedia “a little.” Asked for his thoughts, Wales referenced some of…
Few expected United States President Donald Trump to abandon Israel during his second term in office, considering how supportive he had been of the Middle Eastern country in his first term. And yet, considering the still-mounting death toll from Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, and the international condemnation that has accompanied it, his continued full-throated…
One Friday in November, armed police blocked off the road that runs beside Gibraltar’s medieval city walls to clear the way for a convoy of blacked-out BMWs. The vehicles pulled up at the offices of Hassans, a law firm. The British enclave in the Mediterranean is a hub for the international ultra-rich, and Hassans counts…
Brendan Fraser then and now Hollywood celebrates courage on screen. Off screen, it punishes it. Again and again, performers who challenge pay inequality, abusive power, or unsafe working conditions discover an unspoken rule: you can succeed, or you can speak — but rarely both. There is no memo. No posted blacklist. Access simply vanishes. Calls…
Tisha ThompsonDec 18, 2025, 10:04 PM ET Close Tisha Thompson is an investigative reporter for ESPN based in Washington, D.C. Her work appears on all platforms, both domestically and internationally. President Donald Trump signed a bill into law Thursday that allows local and state law enforcement officials to disable drones during sporting events, a change…