Weekend Update was full of zingers about President Donald Trump‘s rapid about-face in the wake of the stock market crash his global tariffs spurred. Co-anchor Colin Jost kicked off the Saturday Night Live segment by quipping that POTUS “tried to rescue the economy from the disastrous policies of whoever was president last week.” Addressing corporate…
As China faces off with the United States over a punishing trade war, it is under pressure to shore up its friendships around the world, starting with its neighbors in Southeast Asia. But its relations there are complicated. China’s leader, Xi Jinping, will be testing these ties this week as he visits Vietnam, Malaysia and…
In a quiet transformation from merchandising giant to (also) healthcare giant, Amazon may be positioning its sprawling logistics network and growing medical footprint to potentially save lives, starting with your front door. According to Bloomberg, back in 2023, Amazon piloted a several months-long pilot program called Project Pulse, equipping delivery vans with defibrillators and training…
MIAMI (AP) — Alexander Volkanovski reclaimed the featherweight championship early Sunday morning, defeating Diego Lopes by unanimous decision at UFC 314. Two judges scored the fight 49-46 and the other had it 48-47. Advertisement Volkanovski (27-4) had successfully defended his belt four times before losing to Israel Makhachev on Feb. 11, 2023. Now he has…
This week, the Duchess of Sussex launched her new podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder. This is her first podcast through Lemonada, after the Sussexes were dropped by Spotify in 2023. The COAFF pod has come in the middle of so many new projects for Meghan. In the past six weeks, her Netflix show (With…
ALISON BEARD: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I’m Alison Beard. Anyone who’s been following pop culture over the past decade knows the story of Taylor Swift. An aspiring teen songwriter moves to Nashville and becomes a country music ingenue, then a country star. She crosses over into pop and becomes a…
Britain has watched President Trump’s tariffs with a mix of shock, fascination and queasy recognition. The country, after all, embarked on a similar experiment in economic isolationism when it voted to leave the European Union in 2016. Nearly nine years after the Brexit referendum, it is still reckoning with the costs. The lessons of that…
Masdar is aiming for a 100GW clean energy capacity by 2030.
Getty Images UFC is back on PPV this weekend with arguably its deepest card of 2025. The promotion heads to Miami with a vacant featherweight title fight anchoring a card that features some of the most prominent names in the sport today. Former featherweight king Alexander Volkanovski takes on Diego Lopes for the 145-pound title…
Fresh from her show-stopping performance and big WIN at the 2025 BRIT Awards earlier this month, pop powerhouse JADE continues to deliver in a MAJOR way with the unveiling of her latest single ‘FUFN (Fuck You For Now)’. Co-written by the ‘Midnight Cowboy’ singer herself, along with RAYE and Dave Hamelin (Beyoncé), the emotionally charged…
