The YouTube star is among one of several investment groups reportedly looking to buy the popular app.
For the many people considered enemies by President Donald Trump, his return to the White House has sparked anxiety about how much power he has to upend their lives. The White House has ways to reward friends or punish foes, putting aside the long expectation that federal agencies are supposed to act apolitically. Any lawsuits challenging attempts to wield government power would likely take years to resolve and offer little immediate comfort to those targeted.
“Tariffs are gonna make us rich as hell,” Trump claimed on Monday. But experts tend to disagree.
Donald Trump took office eight years ago, pledging to “drain the swamp” and end the domination of Washington influence peddlers. Trump issued a Day 1 executive order that rescinded one on ethics that former President Joe Biden signed when he took office in January 2021. The new president also has been benefitting personally in the runup to his inauguration by launching a new cryptocurrency token that is soaring in value while his wife, first lady Melania Trump, has inked a deal to make a documentary with Amazon.
Snow totals in Louisiana have broken records. Parts of Florida, Texas and Georgia have also accumulated several inches of snow.
Elon Musk said Tuesday he was exploring a presidential pardon for "Bitcoin Jesus," who was arrested last year on fraud and tax evasion charges, after applauding Donald Trump for exonerating the founder of a dark web drug marketplace.The Bitcoin investor and promoter was arrested in Spain last April based on US criminal charges including fraud and evading capital gains taxes.
Steve Bannon’s trial on charges that he duped donors who gave money to build a wall along the U.S. southern border will start a week later than scheduled, a judge said Wednesday, after the conservative rabble-rouser hired new lawyers to pursue an aggressive defense strategy. Bannon, a political strategist and longtime ally of President Donald Trump, had been scheduled to stand trial Feb. 25 in the “We Build the Wall” case in state court in New York. It will now start March 4, Judge April Newbauer said.
In an interview with TIME, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde discussed her sermon, which has drawn death threats and prompted Trump to demand an apology
The Colorado high court ruled in favor of Cheyenne Mountain Zoo after an animal rights group alleged the park's elephants were 'unlawfully confined.'
A bid to get five elephants released from a US zoo has failed after judges ruled the animals are not people so laws on unlawful imprisonment do not apply."Colorado's habeas statute only applies to persons, and not to nonhuman animals, no matter how cognitively, psychologically, or socially sophisticated they may be," a panel of judges ruled.
When the sun rose over the Sunshine State on Wednesday, palm trees were dusted with snow, waves crashed on icy beaches, and overjoyed Floridians grabbed whatever would slide and headed for the closest hill. At a park a few blocks from the state capitol in Tallahassee, the young and the young at heart raced down the snow-covered slopes on improvised sleds. "Being from Florida, we have a boogie board and then we also have a skim board," Michael Holmes, 35, said of his kids' makeshift sledding gear.
Meta is countering claims that it boosted President Donald Trump and his administration on Facebook and Instagram as it came into office Monday.
Harvard University will provide additional protections for Jewish students under a settlement announced on Tuesday.
Stellantis warns that a poorly fitted part in some Jeep Cherokees could cause the vehicles to lose power, increasing the risk of crash.
Elon Musk is clashing with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over the Stargate artificial intelligence infrastructure project touted by President Donald Trump, the latest in a feud between the two tech billionaires that started on OpenAI's board and is now testing Musk's influence with the new president. Trump on Tuesday had talked up a joint venture investing up to $500 billion through a new partnership formed by OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, alongside Oracle and SoftBank.
Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff takes his latest shot at AI rival Microsoft.
State police in Michigan will be required to destroy guns collected during community buybacks, under legislation signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. State police in 2024 acknowledged that a previous disposal method destroyed only the frame or receiver of the firearm. State police last March announced that they would destroy entire guns.
Research shows that people who take these weight-loss medications may have a lower risk of dementia and numerous other health conditions.
Two Native Hawaiian brothers who were convicted in the 1991 killing of a woman visiting Hawaii allege in a federal lawsuit that local police framed them “under immense pressure to solve the high-profile murder” then botched an investigation last year that would have revealed the real killer using advancements in DNA technology. Albert “Ian” Schweitzer, who had been incarcerated for more than two decades for the killing of Dana Ireland, was released in 2023 based on new evidence. Ireland, 23, a tourist from Virginia, was visiting a remote part of the Big Island when she was found along a fishing trail, raped and beaten and barely alive.
The Trump administration has moved with lightning speed to roll out the president’s immigration agenda, effectively closing off the US southern border to asylum seekers, severely limiting who’s eligible to enter the United States and laying the groundwork to swiftly deport migrants already in the country.
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