Lifestyle
U.S. Tariff Impact Weighs on January Swiss Watch Exports
PARIS – Swiss watch exports fell 3.6 percent in January, weighed down by the impact of tariffs on business in the United States. The monthly exports totaled 1.9 billion...
EBay to Acquire Depop for $1.2 Billion
EBay Inc. has agreed to acquire Depop — a consumer-to-consumer fashion marketplace with re-commerce roots and a Gen Z and Millennial customer base — for approximately $1.2 billion in...
Puig Q4 Sales Rise 6.2 Percent, Bolstered by Makeup
PARIS – Puig’s fourth-quarter 2025 sales grew 6.2 percent in reported terms and 9.8 percent on a like-for-like basis, spurred by its makeup businesses. The owner of the Rabanne,...
Louis Vuitton Unveils 2026 Formula 1 Season Trophy Trunk
Louis Vuitton is kicking off the second year of its official multiyear partnership with Formula 1 through its signature Victory Travels in Louis Vuitton, introducing bespoke trophy trunks for...
World
When Sexual Exploitation Is Fundamental to Police Corruption
None of this will be shocking to anyone who’s lived in an American city crippled by disinvestment and self-dealing—or even to anyone who’s watched a David Simon show on...
Peter Strausfeld, the Movie-Poster Master
Some deserving names, though, are still obscure, and that is why an exhibition at Poster House, on West Twenty-third Street, running until April 12th, is to be welcomed with...
Bistrot Ha Is the Right Kind of Restaurant Evolution
A little more than a year ago, after running a successful pop-up called Ha’s Đặc Biệt, the chefs Sadie Mae Burns and Anthony Ha opened Ha’s Snack Bar, an...
“Love Story” Is a Forgettable Elegy for Gen X
Schlossberg was not by any means alone in shading the Murphy show while it was in production. C.B.K., as she is called, is the love object of a posthumous...
Business
Suspected carbon-monoxide leak kills at least 30 miners in Nigeria, witnesses say
At least 33 miners have died in a suspected carbon-monoxide leak at a lead and zinc mine in central Nigeria's Plateau state, witnesses have told the BBC.The tragedy is...
Moo Deng’s Zoo Responds to Concerns Over Pygmy Hippo’s “Sad” Habitat
Originally appeared on E! OnlineMoo Deng's caretakers are addressing concerns over her welfare.Nearly two years after the pygmy hippo went viral, the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand—where the...
Indian university kicked out of AI summit for claiming Chinese robot dog is its own invention
An Indian university has been forced to vacate its stall at this week’s flagship AI summit after falsely claiming to have developed a robot dog – which turned out...
Palestinians in Gaza face food shortages, restrictions as Ramadan begins
Palestinians in Gaza have gathered for the pre-dawn meal on the first day of fasting as several Arab and Islamic countries began Ramadan, while others are set to start...
News
Minneapolis Mayor’s Emotional Message to Trump: You Failed to Break Us
In today’s episode, we talk to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey about the latest developments in his city. Donald Trump and border czar Tom Homan have said they’re winding down...
What Today’s Democrats Can Learn From Jesse Jackson
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Jesse Jackson died this week at age 84....
Rhode Island Hockey Game Shooter Had Nazi Tattoos
The far right is using the murder of a mother and one of her sons to attack transgender people, completely ignoring the fact that the shooter had massive Nazi...
Two-Month-Old Baby in ICE Detention Taken to Hospital
A 2-month-old baby at an ICE detention center in Texas had to be hospitalized late Monday night because a doctor wasn’t available at the facility.Juan Nicolás, held at the...
Beauty
RITES targets African markets with in-service diesel loco export push
“It is a win-win situation. Many of these diesel locomotives have 15 years or more of codal life left, and there is a lot of interest in...
In-Solutions Global secures RBI’s nod across online, physical & Cross-Border Payment Aggregation
In-Solutions Global Ltd (ISG) on Monday announced that it has received regulatory authorisation from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) across all three Payment Aggregator categories - online,...
Regulatory sandboxes necessary to foster AI innovations: IFSCA official
Regulatory sandboxes are necessary to ensure that startups and other players can build things in a controlled environment within the guardrails without stifling innovation, a senior official at...
AI threat to Indian IT stocks? Motilal Oswal explains road head for sector
The sharp 15 per cent month-on-month decline in the Nifty IT Index has rekindled a familiar debate on Dalal Street: Is this downturn cyclical, or does artificial intelligence (AI)...
Celebrity
Tina Ambani may appear before ED on Tuesday in money laundering case
Tina Ambani, former actor and wife of Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani, is expected to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday for questioning in a money-laundering...
Iran meets UN nuclear watchdog in Geneva ahead of second round of US talks
Iran's top diplomat met with the head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency on Monday, ahead of a second round of negotiations with the United States over Tehran's...
AI integration in road, transport can help avoid accidents: MoRTH official
There is a lot of scope for AI integration in the road and transport industry to help avoid accidents and check issues of vehicular pollution, a government official...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX outpaces China’s 203K ‘paper satellite’ ambitions
By David Fickling
If orbital space is the 21st century’s high seas, China looks to be preparing an armada.
Government plans submitted late last year...
Culture
7 unpopular truths about startup growth nobody posts on LinkedIn
If you spend five minutes on LinkedIn, you would think startup growth is a clean, upward chart powered by mindset, morning routines, and one bold pivot. In reality, your...
Every time a startup stalls, these 5 blind spots are to blame
You know the feeling. Growth flattens. The energy dips. The metrics are not terrible, but they are not moving. You tell yourself it is just a slow month, a...
7 hard truths about the loneliness of early entrepreneurship
You expected the late nights. You expected the financial risk. You expected your friends to not fully understand what a pre seed round actually means. What you probably did...
7 reasons saying “yes” too early is the biggest founder trap
You tell yourself it is momentum. The customer wants a custom feature. An investor offers a small check with complicated terms. A potential partner promises “exposure.” In the early...
Style
Does “Wuthering Heights” Herald the Revival of the Film Romance?
“Wuthering Heights” extrapolates, too, of course. The many truncations and excisions have been detailed copiously, including by my colleague Justin Chang. What Fennell chiefly adds is something that could...
Why Some People Thrive on Four Hours of Sleep
Sleep is orchestrated by two systems. The first is the so-called biological clock, which runs the body on a roughly twenty-four-hour cycle of sleeping and wakefulness. We all have...
Why Frederick Wiseman Was the Greatest Documentary Filmmaker Ever
His work depended on access. He filmed in hospital rooms where patients and families faced incommensurable agonies with the aid of the medical staff (“Near Death”); he filmed in...
A Tour Through Central Park’s Cruising Grounds
Tress’s new book, “The Ramble, NYC 1969” (Stanley/Barker), and a related exhibition currently at the Clamp gallery, in Chelsea, makes me rethink all this. The work was made concurrently...
Fashion
Bernie Sanders kicks off billionaires tax campaign with choice words for the ‘oligarchs’
Populist Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday formally kicked off the campaign to place a billionaires tax on the November ballot, framing the proposal as something larger than a debate...
Billionaires Spielberg, Zuckerberg eyeing East Coast, stirring concerns about California’s wealth-tax proposal
California may be losing two of the state’s most famed residents and generous political donors. Filmmaker Steven Spielberg recently moved to New York and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is...
Netflix and Warner Bros join Disney and Paramount in calling out ByteDance’s latest AI platform
After the fake video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting went viral, a surge of AI-generated content from Seedance 2.0 flooded the internet.Some fans were using the new...
Mark Zuckerberg testifies in L.A. trial over claims social media makes kids addicted
Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg made an extended, pugnacious appearance in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, defending his company from the witness stand against a lawsuit that alleges...
OpenAI blocked from using Cameo name for its AI video features
OpenAI has been temporarily blocked from using the word “Cameo” in a product that allows people to generate videos based on prompts amid a trademark dispute.Last year, the celebrity...
Sanford School Teacher Arrested for Buying Students Alcohol, Weed, Vapes Until They Allowed Her to Use Them Sexually
A Seminole County teacher was arrested after being accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student, according to the Seminole County Sheriff's Office.As reported by WESH, 49-year-old Mackenzie...