Culture
Coldplaygate Is a Reminder That There’s No Escaping Going Viral
It doesn’t take a surreptitious phone camera to get caught in a viral video. Smartphones have cast a decentralized web of surveillance…
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Culture
“Clint” Highlights the Artistic Modernity of an Old-School Man
Clint Eastwood is as impersonal a personal filmmaker as modern Hollywood has to offer. What makes his movies personal is more their ideas,…
Fashion
UBS loses EU fight over Credit Suisse’s role in ‘Sterling Lads’, but fine cut sharply
The tribunal cut the amount of the fine from 83.2 million euros to 28.9 million euros Group lost the crux of its case against European…
Business
Citi targets Middle East ultra-rich with push to hire private bankers
Citigroup’s private bank is planning a hiring drive for the Middle East region as part of the Wall Street giant’s global expansion of its…
Business
BOJ sees trade deal as raising chance of meeting inflation goal
Japan’s trade deal with the US has reduced uncertainty surrounding the economy, the central bank’s deputy governor Shinichi Uchida said,…
Business
PNC taps Coinbase to create crypto trading offering for bank customers
The banking industry has fiercely resisted accusations that it denies services based on ideological reasons Bank is working with…
Business
PayPal to create global digital wallet platform with Tenpay, UPI
The company also plans to add artificial intelligence and stablecoin use cases to the digital wallet platform at some point PayPal…
Business
Hiap Seng shares soar 75% after Indonesian oil giant Chandra Asri buys 11.9% stake
Shares end Wednesday at multi-year high of S$0.021; future partnership between both companies could be on the horizon, says Hiap Seng CEO…
Business
Asia: Tokyo’s Nikkei leads rally after Japan-US trade deal
Tokyo stocks rallied with the yen on Wednesday after Japan and the United States finally hammered out a trade deal to slash Donald Trump’s…
Business
Chinese hackers exploit Microsoft flaws, US nuclear agency hit
Microsoft warned that Chinese state-sponsored hackers are among those exploiting flaws in its SharePoint software to break into…
Business
BOJ’s Uchida warns of downside risks to economy on trade uncertainty
[KOCHI, Japan] Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Shinichi Uchida said risks to economic activity and prices were skewed to the downside due to…
Business
RBA seen cutting three more times by early 2026, matching market
Economists expect Australia’s central bank will deliver three more interest-rate cuts by early 2026, up from two seen previously, bringing…
News
Trump claims Japan trade deal, imposes 15% tariff on goods from Asian superpower
President Trump on Tuesday said he struck a trade deal with Japan, a surprise development after the U.S. leader described the Asian…
News
Bipartisanship blooms in Senate vote to advance spending bills
Most Senate Democrats on Tuesday temporarily put aside their frustrations with the Trump administration's handling of government funding…
News
Gavin Newsom May Take Away His Voters’ Decision on Redistricting
More than 60 percent already have said they don’t trust politicians anywhere near a redistricting map. Source link
News
Senate considering nomination of ex-Trump defense lawyer for lifetime appointment to appeals court
The Senate narrowly voted on Tuesday to begin considering the nomination of former Trump lawyer Emil Bove for a lifetime appointment as a…
News
Epstein roils Washington from beyond the grave
The ghost of Jeffrey Epstein has returned to haunt President Trump and the Republican Party. Source link
News
Trump slashes 25% of IRS workforce with buyouts, firings of nearly 26,000 agency staff
Through buyouts and firings, the administration has already slashed the IRS's workforce by nearly 26,000 people, marking a 25% reduction…
News
Commentary: 3 things that should scare us about Trump's fake video of Obama
On Sunday, our thoughtful and reserved president reposted on his Truth Social site a video generated by artificial intelligence that…
News
A Five-Word Legislative Fix Could Help Quell Riots
Senator Ted Cruz’s amendment to the existing RICO statute would give the Justice Department the ammo it needs to punish the rioters and…
Culture
Women Playwrights Lose the Limelight
In the late days of June, as the old theatre season was ebbing away and new-season announcements were streaming in, a shock hit New York.…
News
A Pause in House Redistricting Cases Could Be Good News
There are multiple ways in which the Supreme Court could go even bigger against court-ordered racial gerrymanders by delaying the…
News
Justice Department to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's jailed sex-offender girlfriend
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said he intends to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned madam of disgraced financier and…
Business
US: Wall St opens muted with corporate earnings, trade talks in focus
Wall Street opened flat on Tuesday (Jul 22) as investors weighed signs of potential trade deals between the US and its partners ahead of…