As the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off in Mexico this Thursday, we take a look at the tournamentโs expected economic impactย โ both globally and on host countries. But the real winner, it seems, is FIFA, with record revenues forecast at $11 billion. Also in this edition, markets react to a fresh flare-up in violence…
A popular YouTube streamer posted on social media that he โalmost [died] todayโ after Los Angeles County Sheriffโs Department deputies drew their weapons on him and briefly detained him Sunday afternoon in what he said appears to be a swatting incident. Rapper DDG posted on a YouTube video that he was at a paintball tournament…
Clavicular, the social media influencer leading the โlooksmaxxingโ movement, is out on bond after being arrested in Florida on suspicion of misdemeanor battery. The manosphere internet celebrity, born Braden Eric Peters, was taken into custody Thursday on a warrant issued by the Osceola County Sheriffโs Office, according to a Fort Lauderdale Police Department spokesperson. The…
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were shot and killed this month in Minnesota. Silverio Villegas Gonzรกlez was shot and killed in September in a Chicago suburb. Keith Porter Jr. was gunned down on New Yearโs Eve in front of the Northridge apartment building where he lived. All of them were slain by ICE agents. In…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks with CNBC on June 24, 2026. CNBC Senate Democrats are seeking information on how artificial intelligence and data center spending by Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft has been subsidized by tax breaks authorized in the 2025 tax cutting and spending package passed by Republicans at the behest of President Donald…
After switching up his look years ago in honor of his and Beyoncรฉโs oldest child, 14-year-old Blue Ivy Carter, Jay-Z recently made another dramatic hair transformation. On May 30, the rap superstar surprised fans when he headlined the Roots Picnic in Philadelphia. Following years of sporting lengthy dreadlocks, Jay-Z appeared on stage rocking a full…
VILLAHERMOSA, Mexicoย โย It was 2 a.m. when a bus carrying dozens of U.S. deportees heaved into this sweltering city in southern Mexico. The Mexican immigration agents who had guarded the group on their three-day trip from the border said their charges, still dressed in the prison garb of detainees, were now free to go. Alberto Rodrรญguez,…
WASHINGTONย โย Six American airmen deployed to operations against Iran were killed after their refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq, U.S. Central Command said Friday, bringing the U.S. death toll in the war to 13, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a deployment of Marines to the region ahead of the heaviest day of strikes yet. The…
Minnesota Lynx guard Olivia Miles is in the mix to join Candace Parker as the leagueโs second dual Rookie of the Year-MVP.
EDWARDS, Calif.ย โย If NASAโs colossal new moon rocket, slated to launch with astronauts for the first time as soon as tomorrow, explodes on the pad or breaks up as it accelerates through the atmosphere, the space agency has a plan: Fire a powerful motor affixed to the top of the crew capsule that is literally designed…