Brandon Drenon BBC News, Washington DC Bloomberg via Getty Images On Tuesday, Harvard University students held a protest in support of international students US President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered embassies to stop scheduling appointments for student visas as it prepares to expand social media vetting of such applicants. In a copy of a memo…
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures at the Bitcoin 2024 event in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., July 27, 2024. Kevin Wurm | Reuters LAS VEGAS — Trump Media on Tuesday announced a $2.5 billion raise from institutional investors to bankroll one of the largest bitcoin treasury allocations by a public company. Shares…
North Korea has detained three shipyard officials over an accident during the launch of a new warship on Wednesday, state media has reported. Parts of the 5,000-ton destroyer’s bottom were crushed during the launch ceremony, tipping the vessel off balance. An investigation into the incident, which North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un described as a…
Access to the social media platform X has been restricted in Tanzania after some official accounts of government and private institutions were targeted by hackers. On Tuesday, the official police account was compromised, with sexually explicit material and false information that the president had died being posted. The police dissociated itself from the information and…
Time to twin! Influencer Haley Kalil sat down with ET at the BeautyStat Power Pout Lab Pop-Up in New York City on May 13 to share how Angelia Jolie inspires her makeup routine and more beauty tips. The social media star, 32, is often compared to the actress, 49, by her followers due to their…
The James Beard Foundation announced the nominees for its 2025 Media Awards on Wednesday, and Eater received four nominations and Punch received two. Eater correspondent Jaya Saxena was nominated for the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, for “The Food That Makes You Gay,” an exploration of the power — both positive and negative — of…
The scheduled dates and location of Fyre Festival 2 have been thrown into doubt, according to US media reports. The reboot of the 2017 Fyre Festival – which made international headlines, sparked a hit Netflix documentary and resulted in organiser Billy McFarland going to jail for fraud – was due to take place in Mexico…
US President Donald Trump has named conservative media critic and pro-Israel commentator Leo Brent Bozell III as ambassador to South Africa, amid worsening diplomatic ties between the two countries. Mr Bozell ‘s nomination follows Washington’s expulsion of South Africa’s ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, for remarks deemed critical of Trump. The Trump administration has condemned South Africa’s…
Anna Barclay | Getty Images Shares of Trump Media dropped more than 10% in intraday trading Monday, accelerating the company’s downward slide since President Donald Trump took office. The company behind Trump’s preferred social media app Truth Social was trading below $20 per share around 3:00 p.m. ET — down about 50% from its closing price on Jan. 20,…
Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Getty Images More than 80% of Australian children aged eight to 12 use social media or messaging services that are only meant to be for over-13s, according to new research. It comes as Australia plans to implement a total social media ban for under-16s that is expected by the end of…
