In what might be the most decisive critique yet of President Trumpβs remake of the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Operaβs board approved a resolution on Friday to leave the venue it has occupied since 1971. βToday, the Washington National Opera announced its decision to seek an amicable early termination of its affiliation agreement with…
London β U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Thursday that he wants “all options to be on the table,” including a potential ban on Elon Musk’s X platform in Britain, over the use of its artificial intelligence tool Grok to generate sexualized images of people without their consent.Β Starmer’s remarks come as Musk’s platform faces…
ST. LOUISΒ βΒ Amber Glenn covered her head with both arms, heaving on her knees with her forehead bowed to the ice at Enterprise Center. She soaked in the standing ovation and let stuffed animals rain down around her. Glenn won her third consecutive U.S. figure skating championship Friday, paving the way for the 26-year-oldβs first Olympic…
Next has teamed up with a stock clearance specialist as it pursues a takeover of the family-owned shoe retailer Russell & Bromley. Sky News has learnt that the FTSE-100 retailer is working with Retail Realisation, which badges itself as a specialist retail advisory firm, on its interest in the 145-year-old chain. Industry sources said the…
Stephen A. Smith is arguably the most-well known sports commentator in the country. But the outspoken ESPN commentatorβs perspective outside the sports arena has landed him in a firestorm. The furor is due to his pointed comments defending an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot a Minneapolis woman driving away from him. Just…
Evictions of migrants living in asylum hotels are set to start in the spring, Sky News understands. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is also expected to end the government’s legal duty to automatically support destitute asylum seekers. A Home Office source told The i Paper it would allow the minister to remove accommodation and weekly allowances…
Elon Muskβs Grok chatbot on Thursday started restricting the ability for non-paying users to create deepfake, sexualized images after global pushback from users and governments. Late last month, some users began tagging Grok on Muskβs social media platform X with prompts such as βput her in a bikiniβ to generate nonconsensual images of real people…
Meta has cut a trio of deals to power its artificial intelligence data centers, securing enough energy to light up the equivalent of about 5 million homes. The parent company of Facebook on Friday announced agreements with TerraPower, Oklo and Vistra for nuclear power for its Prometheus AI data center that is being built in…
JuJu Watkins is returning to Sierra Canyon High on Friday, the place where she was a high school basketball All-American. The school will hold a ceremony retiring her jersey at halftime of the boysβ basketball game between Sierra Canyon and Sherman Oaks Notre Dame. She will be presented with a framed jersey. Watkins is sitting…
The owners of the RAC will next week launch a process expected to culminate in a Β£5bn sale or stock market listing of the breakdown recovery service later in 2026. Sky News has learnt that the RAC’s shareholders have arranged a beauty parade of investment banks to take place in the coming days as they…