Negotiations between the White House and Republican congressional negotiators regarding raising the federal government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling have stalled. The second meeting on Friday ended with no progress cited by either side, and no additional meetings have been scheduled. The talks were broken off for several hours on Friday, with less than two weeks
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Viktor Hovland, who shared the 54-hole lead at St. Andrews last summer, shot a 67 to remain close to the lead. Hovland has now finished in the top 10 in his last 10 consecutive rounds in majors. Meanwhile, Conners shot a 68 but had to rely on his short game to account for some errant
A number of veteran writers joined the picket line outside the Fox lot in Century City recently to support the WGA strike. David E. Kelley, who has won 11 Emmys and received 30 nominations, is a veteran of multiple WGA strikes going back to 1988. Kelley, who has worked on popular shows such as Big
Elon Musk and his parent company of social media platform Twitter, X Corp, are facing an investigation over building code violations at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters on Market Street. This information was recently revealed through online public records with the county’s Department of Building Inspection. The investigation follows a lawsuit filed by six former Twitter
Quentin Tarantino has announced that the story of Rick Dalton, the character portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, has come to a close. Tarantino revealed this news on The Video Archives podcast, which he hosts with Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary. The death of the character was announced through a series
Stocks fell on Friday as GOP negotiators halted ongoing debt ceiling negotiations, which raised doubts about a deal being reached soon. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 109.28 points, or 0.33%, to 33,426.63. The S&P 500 slipped 0.14% to 4,191.98, and the Nasdaq Composite slid 0.24% to 12,657.90. However, despite Friday’s losses, all three major
A former employee of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Sheron Spann, has pleaded guilty to one count of taking actions affecting a personal financial interest in Washington, D.C. federal court. She has been accused of steering over $10 million worth of OPM contracts to companies associated with her husband or herself over the
NASA’s chief has announced that a team led by Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has won a contract worth approximately $3.4 billion to build a spacecraft that will transport astronauts to and from the moon’s surface. This decision follows a high-stakes contest and will provide NASA with a second ride to the moon under
At a hearing on AI oversight earlier this week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was welcomed with a warm tone by lawmakers, who even asked him if he would be qualified to administer rules regulating the industry. However, this welcome has raised concerns among some AI experts who were not in attendance, who caution that lawmakers’
BT has announced plans to cut costs and boost profitability by significantly reducing the number of people working for the telecoms group. The company projects its “total labour resource” to be reduced from 130,000 to between 75,000 and 90,000 by the end of the decade under a “rolling plan”. This reduction affects both BT employees