Three MIT students — Yutao Gong, Brandon Man, and Andrii Zahorodnii — have been awarded 2025 Schwarzman Scholarships and will join the program’s 10th cohort to pursue a master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. The MIT students were selected from a pool of over 5,000 applicants. This year’s class of…
People who were severely harmed by Covid vaccines faced an “inadequate and inefficient” process for obtaining a government payout, with many rejected and others waiting years for a decision, the Covid inquiry has heard. The vaccine damage payment scheme offers a one-off sum of £120,000 to people who have such serious adverse reactions to the…
Aerial view of brine ponds and processing areas of the lithium mine of the Chilean company SQM (Sociedad Quimica Minera) in the Atacama Desert, Calama, Chile, on Sept. 12, 2022. Martin Bernetti | Afp | Getty Images RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – The energy minister of Saudi Arabia – the Gulf kingdom whose wealth and power…
Another legal issue has just cropped up for Conor McGregor … TMZ Sports has confirmed the UFC superstar has been sued over allegations he sexually assaulted a woman during an NBA game back in 2023. The suit was filed in a federal court in Florida on Tuesday … by a woman ID’ed only as “Jane…
As the Dallas Cowboys seek a new head coach in the wake of parting ways with Mike McCarthy, arguably their best player is crushed. “I’m obviously very sad because of the relationships we had with Coach McCarthy and everything he’s done for our program,” star linebacker Micah Parsons said on his podcast “The Edge with…
Prices that consumers pay for a variety of goods and services rose again in December but closed out 2024 with some mildly better news on inflation, particularly on housing. The consumer price index increased a seasonally adjusted 0.4% on the month, putting the 12-month inflation rate at 2.9%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday….
Francis Mallmann, the world-famous Argentinian chef known for live-fire cooking, is opening a restaurant in New York this spring. It’s in the forthcoming Faena New York — an offshoot of the Miami Beach luxury hotel debuting near the High Line in Manhattan at 500 West 18th Street, near 11th Avenue, in a building designed by…
Play video content Let’s Talk About That! With Larry Saperstein and Jacob Bellotti Betty White may’ve been known as “America’s Sweetheart,” but the Hollywood legend allegedly had a mean streak … this according to fellow actress Sally Struthers. The “All in the Family” star came out swinging against the “Golden Girls” alum during an appearance…
Frank Auerbach is to be the subject of what has been billed as a homecoming show in Berlin, at which some of his final paintings will be displayed in the city he fled as a child. Auerbach, who died in November last year, never had a show in the city of his birth, which he…
Play video content TMZ.com Sophia Ross, the Hooters waitress who’s gone viral for flirting with a cop during a DUI arrest, says she wants to be a prime example — of what not to do — for anyone following her journey. Sophia — who found internet fame when police body cam footage showed her calling…
