2026-04-16 20:00:08
Justin Bieber has divided the internet after traipsing around a mostly barren stage in front of one of the largest crowds in Coachella history on Saturday. Donning a simple red hoodie, cutout boots and shorts, the singer at one point plopped down in front of his laptop and pulled up YouTube videos of his younger self.
2026-04-16 19:34:15
Few industries do patriotism quite like autos. Clint Eastwood’s somber but stirring “halftime in America” Super Bowl commercial for Chrysler that aired in 2012, more national address than advertisement, is a touchstone of the genre. Today, patriotism isn’t just a feeling or a marketing tactic in Detroit. It is table stakes with an “America First” administration that isn’t so much wrapping the auto industry in the flag as smothering with it.
2026-04-16 19:30:08
During and immediately after the financial crisis of 2008, there was much talk and academic research about the rapid growth of the US financial sector over the preceding decades and whether that was good or bad. Since then, finance’s growth relative to the rest of the economy has slowed to a crawl, although its share of gross domestic product remains quite high by historical and international standards, and if this week’s earnings reports are any indication, it is on track to inch a little highe
2026-04-16 19:00:11
The Artemis II mission around the moon provided a conflicted nation with a much-needed wave of shared enthusiasm derived from achieving a lofty goal. The mission — a more comfortable and less complicated repeat of the Apollo 8 flight in 1968 — was the first step toward the dream of returning to the moon and never leaving.
2026-04-16 18:30:13
Sam Altman, the chief executive officer of OpenAI, said at a finance conference in October 2023 that he and his “CEO friends” were running a betting pool on when the first one-person billion-dollar company would be created thanks to artificial intelligence.
2026-04-16 17:30:08
As Americans increasingly worry about total government surveillance in the age of AI and ICE, Congress has a rare opportunity to protect them from warrantless government searches — if it acts now.
