Melinda French Gates endorsed President Joe Biden on Thursday and Elon Musk isn’t happy about it. “Might be the downfall of Western civilization,” the mercurial billionaire said in response. Back in March, Musk criticized another billionaire’s ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, for her charity work. Melinda French Gates has given her first-ever presidential endorsement, and Elon Musk […]
The peak of summer has arrived, meaning it’s all downhill from here. June 20 marks the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. This phenomenon occurs when the Earth’s pole is most tilted directly towards the sun, bathing us in the peak of summer sunlight. From this point onward, daylight hours will gradually shorten, […]
Judge Aileen Cannon may have slapped down a request to gag Donald Trump, but her indefinite delays on the trial could very likely put a deadline on her own involvement in the case entirely. On Tuesday, Cannon rejected special counsel Jack Smith’s gag order request in Trump’s classified documents trial on the basis that the […]
A recent announcement that nearly 100 Red Lobster locations are scheduled to close as part of bankruptcy proceedings is likely to hit Black communities differently — and not just because we consume more fish than any other group in the U.S. Bill Darden opened the first Red Lobster restaurant south of Orlando, Florida, in 1968 […]
Bitcoin faces a “sell-side liquidity crisis” by September if institutional inflows continue, an industry analyst says. In a thread on X on March 12, Ki Young Ju, founder and CEO of on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant, predicted a BTC supply watershed “within six months.” Image Ki: Bitcoin bears “can’t win” while ETF flows continue Bitcoin as […]
If in 2019 a Democratic strategist peered five years into the future and learned Joe Biden was president and his health was failing, news of Biden’s veep pick would come as sweet relief. Glamour Magazine’s 2018 “Woman of the Year,” a former California attorney general and US senator, Kamala Harris looked like the bright future […]
Pfizer (PFE) stock inched a fraction higher Tuesday morning after the pharma giant unexpectedly reported a fourth-quarter profit despite missing sales expectations. X During the December quarter, Pfizer earned 10 cents per share, beating forecasts for an 18-cent loss per share. Earnings tumbled 91% year over year. Sales also plunged 41% to $14.25 billion and […]
After an hour of driving down winding dirt roads without cell reception, I caught up with the plume of dust billowing behind Jesse Fisher’s pickup. We were headed for the same destination, the only one for miles in any direction: Riverbed Ranch, a burgeoning off-grid community in the high desert of western Utah. Riverbed isn’t […]
After an hour of driving down winding dirt roads without cell reception, I caught up with the plume of dust billowing behind Jesse Fisher’s pickup. We were headed for the same destination, the only one for miles in any direction: Riverbed Ranch, a burgeoning off-grid community in the high desert of western Utah. Riverbed isn’t […]