Year: 2025

The world’s richest man and the world’s most powerful man are butting heads in one of the most embarrassing and possibly most damaging squabbles of all time; it was inevitable.For months, observers of the bromance between President Donald Trump and Tesla founder Elon Musk have wondered when, not if, it […]

Paul Glynn Culture reporter EPA Felton said joining the cast of the play will be “a full-circle moment for me” Tom Felton is to reprise his role as the villainous Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter stage show on Broadway. It marks the first time that a star of the […]

Older Americans are filing for Social Security benefits at a record rate this year, a surge that could reflect growing anxiety about the stability of the retirement system amid cutbacks under the Trump administration, experts say. The number of people claiming Social Security jumped 17% to 1.8 million this year […]

Washington/Hong Kong CNN — President Donald Trump emerged Thursday from a long-awaited 90-minute telephone call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping encouraged that ongoing trade tensions could soon be resolved. Calling the conversation “very good,” Trump said in a social media post after the call that follow-up talks would soon be […]

Ukraine’s surprise Sunday strike that used relatively inexpensive drones to knock out a significant portion of Russia’s long-range bomber capability was arguably the single largest blow to Moscow in its three-year war on its neighbor and a stunning display of asymmetric warfare. “The Pentagon should be very worried about this,” […]

U.S.President Donald Trump said Wednesday that it was “extremely hard” to make a deal with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping , at a time when the White House has been suggesting the two leaders could talk this week amid rising trade tensions.Scott Bessent, U.S.treasury secretary, said Thursday stateside that trade […]

President Donald Trump is posting on the internet with a velocity and ferocity far beyond that of his first term, surprising aides with predawn messages fired off at a blistering pace. The data portrays an influencer-in-chief whose reach has grown vastly larger than during his first term.The heightened volume is […]

A fresh search effort has been launched for Madeleine McCann, a British toddler who disappeared from her family’s vacation rental in Portugal more than 18 years ago. Police haven’t disclosed any evidence to explain why they decided to carry out a new search almost two decades later, but they were […]

Apple and Google clash with police and MPs over phone thefts Senior figures at Apple and Google have clashed with the police over its recommendations for how best to deal with phone theft in the UK. The Met’s James Conway told the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee – which […]

Elon Musk’s brain tech startup Neuralink has closed a $650 million funding round, the company announced Monday.ARK Invest, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and other firms participated in the round, according to a press release.Neuralink said the fresh capital will help the company bring its technology […]