Lifestyle
Taylor Swift’s Wedding: Dress Predictions, Guest List Rumors and Reception Details
Dark-windowed black SUVs were waved through security clearance outside of Madison Square Garden Thursday morning. Dozens of camera crews and reporters were camped out in front of the side...
US, Iran Leave Qatar Talks With Hormuz Future Still Unclear
The Strait of Hormuz remains a centerpiece to ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and Iran to end their four-month war, but two days of talks between the parties in...
Kobe Bryant’s Nike Line Is Getting Its Second Dodgers Sneaker
For the second time in as many years, a Nike Kobe sneaker is shouting out the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Nike Kobe 5 Protro “Dodgers” follows the lead of...
Authentic Brands to Purchase Care Bears
Care Bears is becoming part of the Authentic Brands Group portfolio. On Tuesday, the brand and entertainment platform said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the intellectual...
World
Alibaba and its US payment processor will pay 600 million dollars to settle a DOJ probe into illegal drug sales
TL;DRAlibaba and its US payment arm will pay 600 million dollars to resolve a DOJ probe into illegal pharmaceutical sales on its e-commerce platform. Alibaba and its US digital...
TikTok settles second addiction case, leaving Meta and Snap to face a jury alone
TL;DRTikTok settled with a Florida teen ahead of the second bellwether social media addiction trial, leaving Meta and Snap as the remaining defendants. TikTok has reached a confidential settlement...
Google makes Gemini’s personalized image generation free for all US users
TL;DRGemini’s Nano Banana image generation, which creates AI images from your Google data, is now free for all eligible US users instead of paid subscribers only. Google is making...
Baidu’s chip unit Kunlunxin is targeting a $50 billion Hong Kong IPO and asked investors to buy its semiconductors
TL;DRBaidu’s Kunlunxin targets a $50B Hong Kong IPO and asked investors to commit to buying its chips, blurring the line between shareholder and customer. Baidu’s AI chip unit Kunlunxin...
Cloudflare’s engineering headcount surged 45% after it cut 1,100 jobs, and its CEO has a framework for who survives AI
TL;DRCloudflare’s engineering team grew 45% even after mass layoffs, as CEO Prince says AI kills “measurer” roles while builders and sellers survive. Cloudflare’s engineering headcount surged 45 percent in...
Business
Taylor Swift’s rumoured wedding celebrations kick off in New York
For several days, media outlets have watched every move outside the arena. They spotted trucks with cryptic labels like "GP" and "garden party" on it and crews unloading tons...
Starmer to formally apologise to victims of forced adoptions
Sir Keir Starmer will make a formal apology on behalf of the British state for its role in historical forced adoptions in England and Wales.An estimated 185,000 babies were...
Wimbledon 2026: Serena Williams injures knee and a doubt to play doubles with sister Venus
Missing the doubles would be a hugely-disappointing ending to Williams' highly-anticipated return to the All England Club.The American superstar has been the centre of the attention in SW19 over...
Mateus Fernandes: Tottenham agree £85m deal for West Ham midfielder
Fernandes was understood to have an open mind about where he goes, with his agent Jorge Mendes speaking to both Tottenham and Manchester United.Manchester United are sticking to their...
News
Angry Trump Humiliated as Effort to Prosecute Dems Backfires Again
In a hard-hitting assessment of the DOJ’s targeting of Trump’s enemies, Politico columnist Ankush Khardori notes that they’ve produced a string of embarrassing pratfalls. Those include the stalling-out efforts...
Minneapolis Mayor’s Emotional Message to Trump: You Failed to Break Us
In today’s episode, we talk to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey about the latest developments in his city. Donald Trump and border czar Tom Homan have said they’re winding down...
What Today’s Democrats Can Learn From Jesse Jackson
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Jesse Jackson died this week at age 84....
FCC Attempt to Kill Stephen Colbert Interview Completely Backfires
The Trump administration tried to prevent late-night television host Stephen Colbert from airing his interview with Texas state Representative and Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, but the attempt has...
Beauty
A Los Cabos Wedding Where Lush Florals Met the Desert at Acre Resort
Food and drinks were an important part of the guest experience throughout the wedding weekend. The celebration included multiple events beginning with a pool party and welcome celebration before...
The Hidden Emotional Pressure Behind Plus-Size Wedding Dress Shopping | The Curvy Fashionista
If you have ever stepped out of a fitting room in something you loved, only to have someone else’s face drain the joy out of the moment, you already...
Survival of the Thickest Season 3: Alecsys Proctor-Turner Talks Fashion, Joy and Nyla
Survival of the Thickest Season 3 brings back one of my favorite television characters: Nala. The ambitious fashion student has a way of pulling you in from her very first...
This Plus-Size Wardrobe Dilemma Turned Into A Very Helpful Style Guide | The Curvy Fashionista
Every curvy woman knows the feeling: your closet is full, but somehow nothing inside feels like you anymore. That was the style crossroads one Redditor found herself facing when...
Celebrity
Taylor Swift Wedding Frenzy: The Power Guest List, the NDAs and A-List Panic Over Lack of Details
To attend Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding, do you need to know the bride and groom all too well? That’s the big question this week as fans, media...
How Pathé’s ‘De Gaulle’ Fought Its Way Back at the French Box Office With a Push from YouTuber Inoxtag That Lured Younger Crowds
Antonin Baudry’s “De Gaulle: Résistance,” Pathé’s ambitious two-part historical epic about the making of Charles de Gaulle as a resistance leader, has fought its way back into a leading...
‘Enola Holmes 3’ Review: Millie Bobby Brown Returns in a Frisky and Grown-Up Installment from ‘Adolescence’ Helmer Philip Barantini
It’s been a decent summer so far for plucky British gumshoes. After the cozily pastoral charms of the delightful whodunit “Sheep Detectives” and its unusual crime-stoppers, we get the...
Two Members of New Order Step Away From Touring ‘Due to Personal Health Reasons’
New Order announced Monday that Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert will not be joining their show at Primavera in Chile in November “due to personal health reasons.” “Circumstances make...
Culture
4 reasons your leadership credibility is built in private
Leadership often looks public from the outside. Team meetings, investor pitches, keynote talks, and company announcements are the moments everyone notices. But the founders who earn lasting trust know...
Scaling Your Startup: When Hiring Becomes a Founder Problem
As a startup, you are at a huge disadvantage when it comes to recruiting. You need to hire the best people as fast as possible to grow your company....
7 surprising ways physical health influences startup decisions
If you’ve ever made a major business decision after a sleepless week, skipped meals while preparing for a pitch, or found yourself overreacting to a minor setback, you’re not...
6 reasons consistency beats virality in long-term influence
If you’ve spent any time building a business online, you’ve probably felt the pull of virality. One post takes off, a video racks up thousands of views, or a...
Style
Eight Great American Novels
You know what they say: a semiquincentennial happens only once, but great American literature is forever. Whether we can all agree on what makes a novel a great American...
At Pacha New York, an Infamous Night Club Is Reborn
By the time Rampa arrived on the decks, a bit before 1 a.m., the crowd was congealing into a congenial blur: serious dancers with their eyes closed, celebratory guys...
What Happened to Your Face?
One of the things Wittgenstein implies is that we don’t theorize the faces we see. I might talk of “reading” your face, but it isn’t like reading a code...
Something Is Very Wrong with Modern Longevity Science
One hardly needs a list of blue zones to think of commonsense ways to improve life span. We can invest in biomedical research and enact laws and regulations to...
Politics
As Trump reports $2.2 billion in 2025 income, ethics experts raise alarms
Ethics experts sounded the alarm Wednesday after new financial disclosure reports revealed that President Trump’s income ballooned to $2.2 billion in 2025, with $1.4 billion coming from various new...
Gas giants use AI to raise prices, lawsuit says, another algorithmic hit to the cost of living
A federal lawsuit alleging that gas companies in California are colluding to keep prices high through their use of AI-powered software will test the state’s antitrust law at a...
After Amazon drops OpenAI movie ‘Artificial,’ film finds new home at Neon
A Hollywood portrayal of OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman portrayed by actor Andrew Garfield will be released later this year, after Amazon MGM Studios dropped the movie.“Artificial,” which chronicles...
Anthropic partners with California to expand AI use by government workers
Anthropic teamed up with California to get more state workers to use its artificial intelligence assistant Claude as part of an effort to leverage technology to make the government...
