British pop star Ed Sheeran was stopped from busking in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru on Sunday, with police saying he didn’t have the necessary permissions. A video showing a local police officer unplugging Sheeran’s microphone on Bengaluru’s Church Street – a crowded shopping and entertainment area – has since gone viral. Officials told…
The tech billionaire Elon Musk has swiftly gained enormous power over the federal government as he works with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency to slash the federal bureaucracy — and upend the nation’s politics. We’re taking a close look at this effort in the On Politics newsletter, and we want to know: What are…
We are down to the final week before the 2025 NFL Playoffs! Right now, every win counts and tie-breakers are on the line. Check out the NFL Playoff Picture if the playoffs were to start today: NFL Playoff Bracket Fourteen teams will make the NFL playoffs — seven from both the NFC and AFC. The…
Michigan State men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo broke Bob Knight’s Big Ten record for wins, leading the 11th-ranked Spartans to a 79-65 victory over the Illinois Fighting Illini on Saturday night. Tom Izzo on becoming the winningest BIG 10 coach “I’d turn it in for a banner”: Perhaps fittingly, Izzo’s first Big Ten win came…
Employees move semiconductor testers on the assembly line of the Advantest Corp. plant in Ora, Japan on Aug. 10, 2012. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Asian tech and chip-related stocks fell Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump made it clear that tariffs on Mexico and Canada would go into effect as planned. Trump said the…
A jumping castle at the centre of a primary school tragedy that killed six children was lifted, spun around in circles and tossed 75 metres by a “mini-tornado”, a Tasmanian court has been told. Rosemary Gamble, operator of Taz-Zorb, which set up inflatable equipment at Hillcrest primary school on 16 December 2021, is facing a…
The Bank of England policymaker Catherine Mann has said she backed a half-point cut in UK interest rates last week because she believes the downturn in the jobs market will make the inflation “hump” this year short-lived. Mann surprised financial markets last week by switching from voting against the Bank’s last cut, in November, to…
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent speaks at the White House in Washington on Feb. 3, 2025. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs are unlikely to raise inflation, in part because China will “eat any tariffs that go on.” Bessent’s comments come just two…
Super Bowl LIX Hollywood’s Ready For Some Football Published February 7, 2025 2:52 PM PST | Updated February 7, 2025 4:15 PM PST Hollywood is taking over New Orleans for Super Bowl LIX … and the list of celebrities planning on attending the big game Sunday is pretty impressive … there’s actors, comedians, rappers, singers,…
“As easy as using a real condom,” this is what the tagline of a first-of-its-kind digital condom says, which is designed to prevent non-consensual recording during sex. The introduction of this new product has sparked chatter on social media, with people posting various reactions. The image shows a screen of how the digital condom looks…
