When Sarah Reeve got engaged she gave fiance Lee an ultimatum: he had to pay off his debt before she would marry him. “I was paying my mortgage and bills whereas he was giving his mum some rent,” Sarah says of their situations when they met in their early 20s. “I told him I wouldn’t…
An independent investigation into the nation’s largest public pension, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, concluded that its 2.4 million members are imperiled by secrecy, chronic underperformance, understated investment costs and conflicts of interest. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The report was commissioned last year…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that U.S. President Donald Trump “asked me to come” to the China summit in Beijing, when asked by reporters about his trip. Huang was a later addition to the high-stakes trip on Tuesday, after his name was noticably absent from a list of executives making the trip, shared by a…
Dream rock band Fathom travelled roughly 700km across Australia to play nine shows, setting a new Guinness World Record for most concerts performed in 12 hours across multiple cities. In order to beat the record, venues needed to be at least 50km apart in cities populated by more than 15,000 people, with half of the…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is preparing to announce a package of measures Monday aimed at protecting children online, including possible restrictions on social media use for those under 16, according to a Downing Street spokesperson. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. “How we keep kids…
Apple just wrapped up its worst day on the stock market since April after reports surfaced about delays with Siri and as the company’s news app faced regulatory scrutiny. The stock dropped 5% on Thursday, wiping out its gain for the year and leaving it down almost 4% in 2026. The long-awaited artificial intelligence update…
The family of a 17-year-old Texas cheerleader has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a distributor of a popular energy drink, saying the teenager died from an enlarged heart caused by ingesting large amounts of caffeine. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Larissa Nicole Rodriguez, a…
France has issued red heatwave alerts for around half the country as temperatures soar to record levels. Source link
The United States and Iran will hold new talks Monday afternoon, President Donald Trump said, after announcing he called off intense new strikes to allow for a deal on the Strait of Hormuz and Tehran’s nuclear program. Trump said earlier that he agreed to call off the attacks amid what he said were the “perimeters…
Virginia voters on Tuesday will decide the fate of a constitutional amendment that would pave the way for a new congressional map designed to allow Democrats to pick up as many as four seats in this year’s midterm elections. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The…