Several synagogues and homes in the New York borough of Queens were vandalized overnight Monday with swastikas, according to the city council speaker. On Monday, Julie Menin, along with other city council members including Lynn Schulman and Phil Wong, visited Congregation Machane Chodosh, one of the sites targeted in Forest Hills. In a statement online,…
May the Fourth be with us all on this Star Wars Day. While things have been relatively quiet with the multimedia gold mine that is Star Wars, with just some murmurs about upcoming movies (The Mandalorian and Grogu excluded), a lone live-action show on the horizon, and a long way to the release of the…
Investors holding $1.8 billion of bonds to finance Brightline West, a high-speed rail line between Southern California and Las Vegas, are asserting more control of the project after giving the railroad three more months to inject capital.
Published On 4 May 20264 May 2026 GameStop made an unsolicited $56bn bid to acquire e-commerce giant eBay—a company with a market value nearly four times higher—as the video game retailer seeks to boost profitability. eBay confirmed the offer on Monday and said that there had been no prior discussion or outreach with GameStop before…
Last year, Spirit Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the second time in a 12-month period. They claimed they’d be doing “comprehensive restructuring” in an attempt to turn a profit. Spirit had a prior failed merger with JetBlue in 2024 that a Reagan-appointed judge blocked for violating antitrust laws. Sadly, Spirit Airlines has finally…
A dashcam inside a delivery lorry shows the moment a United Airlines flight clipped the vehicle as it approached Newark Liberty International Airport outside of New York City. The flight from Venice, Italy landed safely with no reported injuries among the 231 passengers and crew onboard. The lorry driver sustained minor injuries. The National Transportation…
Dark matter makes up more of our universe than ordinary matter ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by M. Schirmer (MPIA, Heidelberg) A centuries-old experiment could help accelerate the search for new and exotic particles, including those that make up dark matter. In 1773, British scientist Henry Cavendish set up a simple experiment aimed at uncovering the…
Bret Taylor’s AI startup Sierra is raising a $950 million funding round led by Tiger Global and GV, the company announced Monday, pushing its post-money valuation above $15 billion. The raise gives Sierra more than $1 billion to work with — capital the company says it will use to become the “global standard” for AI-powered…
The second round of the 2026 Stanley Cup playoffs is here, and I have a lot of questions. The first round had the best kind of chaos, with a small side of predictable. To honor the pandemonium in hopes that it continues (and we all remain highly entertained), I present to you my biggest question…
GRAMMY Award-winning artist Olivia Rodrigo has announced The Unraveled Tour – a 65-date run across North America, Europe, and the UK. Kicking off in Hartford, CT on September 25, the ‘bad idea, right’ singer will be touring across North America for the remainder of the year, spanning into 2027 with multiple dates in Los Angeles…
