Oslo, Norway — Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado will not appear in person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize at Wednesday’s ceremony in Oslo, the Norwegian Nobel Institute confirmed, with her current location unknown. Machado, 58, was scheduled to accept the award at Oslo City Hall in front of King Harald, Queen Sonja, and … Read more
Meesho, the Indian e-commerce platform, made a striking stock debut on the National Stock Exchange on Wednesday, with shares rising about 58 percent above their issue price. The surge valued the company at 789.3 billion rupees, or roughly $8.78 billion, highlighting strong demand in India’s mass market fashion and lifestyle segment. The stock listed at … Read more
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $7.1 billion to nonprofits in 2025, a dramatic increase from her previous annual totals and one that experts said is redefining norms around large scale, unrestricted giving. Scott disclosed the figure in an essay posted Tuesday to her website, calling the total “a vanishingly tiny fraction of the personal expressions of … Read more
Eileen Higgins becomes Miami’s first Democratic mayor in 30 years after winning a decisive runoff Tuesday night, ending a long stretch of Republican control in one of Florida’s most politically watched cities. Higgins, a former Miami Dade County commissioner, defeated Republican Emilio González by a wide margin in a race that drew intense national attention … Read more
Raul Malo, the acclaimed tenor and frontman of the Grammy winning band The Mavericks, has died at age sixty after a widely shared battle with cancer. His wife, Betty Malo, announced the Raul Malo death late Monday on his official Facebook page, saying he had been undergoing treatment for colon cancer and later leptomeningeal disease. … Read more
A Florida ticket holder is starting the week with a major windfall after state lottery officials confirmed that a $1 million prize was won in Monday night’s drawing, even as the Powerball jackpot surged to an estimated $930 million for Wednesday. No ticket matched all six numbers, allowing the growing pot to edge closer to … Read more
Google is facing a new EU antitrust investigation into how it uses online content to train and deploy its artificial intelligence systems, the European Commission said Tuesday, escalating the bloc’s efforts to regulate US technology giants. Regulators are examining whether Google relied on material from web publishers and YouTube creators without offering fair terms, compensation … Read more
A Virginia startup has asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to cancel trademarks for Twitter, arguing that billionaire Elon Musk’s X Corp has abandoned them. Operation Bluebird, a fledgling social media company, seeks to acquire the rights to “Twitter” and “tweet” for a new platform called “twitter.new.” The petition, filed December 2, contends that … Read more
A fierce Hollywood power tussle erupted this week as Paramount Skydance launched a hostile bid valued at $108.4 billion for Warner Bros Discovery, challenging a competing proposal from Netflix and raising new questions about the future direction of one of Hollywood’s oldest studios. The competing offers mark the company’s fourth major restructuring since 2000 and … Read more
WASHINGTON — As enhanced Obamacare subsidies approach their year end expiration, two senior Senate Republicans unveiled legislation Monday that would replace the existing assistance with government funded health savings accounts, sharpening the divide between Democratic and Republican approaches to health coverage. The proposal, led by Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Sen. Mike Crapo of … Read more
