Nigerian journalist and content creator Charity Ekezie believes the best way to challenge negative stereotypes about Africa is to laugh at them. She has built an online audience around the world by using humour to push back against the assumptions people make about life on the continent. In her social media videos, she often replies…
The top Pentagon technology official said Wednesday the Trump administration shouldn’t seek to nationalize or take partial government stakes in artificial intelligence companies. “I hope not,” Emil Michael, Department of Defense chief technology officer, told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” when asked about that prospect of partial government ownership, which has emerged amid growing concerns…
Delhi woman covers up with shirt after ‘uncles’ allegedly stare at her in Connaught Place A routine outing in Delhi’s Connaught Place turned into an uncomfortable experience for a woman, with a moment between two friends later becoming a talking point on social media. A video shared from the outing shows the woman making a…
House lawmakers will leave Washington on Wednesday night for the last time before the November midterm elections, after GOP leaders said they were canceling votes set for Thursday. The change in schedule means that the House won’t vote on Republican Rep. Thomas Massie’s resolution to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth until after Election Day. GOP…
Charlie Kirk’s family has accused the Utah Valley University and state officials of “stunning failures and reckless decisions” that they say led to the conservative activist’s 2025 assassination during a campus event. In a legal notice, lawyers for the family say Kirk’s Turning Point USA event at the university campus was not properly secured or…
The upper exterior corporate logo of a Costco Wholesale warehouse is mounted on the building facade above a corrugated metal storefront wall in Saratoga Springs, Utah, United States, on September 8, 2026. Charles-McClintock Wilson | Nurphoto | Getty Images Uber and Costco expanded their U.S. Uber Eats partnership to 47 states from availability in 17…
Losing a job can be difficult for anyone, but telling family members about it can sometimes feel even harder. For one man in Gurugram, the fear of worrying his parents appears to have made the situation more complicated. After being laid off from an MNC where he had worked for seven years, he decided not…
The Trump administration spent an estimated $9.5 billion last year on paid administrative leave for federal workers as it pushed to cut costs by shrinking the government, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Tuesday. Agencies’ use of paid administrative leave jumped by 435% from 2023 to 2025, the report found, and salary costs…
The leaders of eight German states have backed the nation’s chancellor amid growing speculation about his political future. The premiers – all of whom are part of Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) – wrote that restoring trust in their party lay in “listening and taking political action, not in debates over personnel”. Merz, who…
An Amazon Web Services AI data center in New Carlisle, Indiana, on Oct. 2, 2025. Noah Berger | Getty Images The most important new job in artificial intelligence may come with an office badge, a company laptop, and access to some of the most closely guarded systems in technology: the large language models of AI…
