Our top 10 things to watch Friday, Sept. 25 — Club editors Matthew J. Belvedere and Kevin Stankiewicz wrote today’s newsletter. 1. Stocks are heading for a higher open, with the S & P 500 and Nasdaq poised to post winning weeks. Oil prices are down this morning, but bond yields are still up. The…
Taylor Swift is offering up an apology in her new track “Pink Clouding.” The song is one of four new songs on the pop icon’s recently announced “The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore,” out now. “Pink Clouding” is seemingly about the song’s narrator taking ownership of the ways she let someone else down. She…
Voters show their identity cards while waiting in a queue before casting their votes for the second and final phase of Rajasthan’s urban local body elections in Jaipur, India, on September 11, 2026. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Cockroach Janta Party, the viral pseudo-political movement behind the Gen Z protests that rattled Prime Minister…
Ten blocks away from the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. diplomats quietly kickstarted the expansion of the Abraham Accords from the 43rd floor of a midtown Manhattan office tower. On Thursday morning, State Department officials participated in the first official meeting of the Abraham Accords countries — the United States, Israel, the United Arab Emirates,…
Chandler Simpson of the Tampa Bay Rays is the ultimate throwback. He’s ridiculously fast, produces a ton of singles and is the only everyday player in MLB who hasn’t hit a homer.
The former CEO of U.S.-based credit union Family First is no longer with the company, days after she posted an allegedly AI-edited family photo of her family with “Lake America” sweatshirts. On Wednesday, a statement posted to the company’s website revealed that Jane Smith was no longer with Family First “effective immediately,” with chief operations…
Warning: Spoilers from “The Traitors: New Blood” Episodes 3 and 4 below. The all-civilian cast of “The Traitors: New Blood” are not afraid to play a ruthless game. Following the murder and banishment in the supersized premiere, the Traitors were eager to get more blood on their hands and make big moves. But Episodes 3…
Chinese leader Xi Jinping promised two giant pandas to Zoo Atlanta, reviving Beijing’s decades-old charm offensive on the opening day of his first state visit to the U.S. in more than a decade. Two giant pandas, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, from a research base in Chengdu will arrive at the Georgia zoo “in the…
Judges have reached conflicting decisions on whether the platform is evading state laws, setting up a potential Supreme Court showdown.
President Trump honored Chinese President Xi Jinping with a state dinner on Thursday. Xi announced a new gift of giant pandas, on their way to a zoo in Atlanta, part of what Xi called an “envoy of friendship” between the two nations.