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Topline President Donald Trump took credit Thursday for calming protests in Los Angeles, alleging his deployment of federal troops there stopped demonstrations from growing, while California Gov. Gavin Newsom has said the military presence actually inflamed protests—as the two long-time political nemeses have contradicting narratives of their roles in managing the demonstrations. Key Facts TrumpRead

Topline President Donald Trump on Wednesday night announced the $5 million Gold Card visa is now open for signups, allowing wealthy foreign nationals to register their interest in the program, which intends to offer them a fast track to U.S. citizenship—something the president has suggested may replace the existing investor visa program. Key Facts InRead

Topline Sabrina Carpenter, one of pop music’s biggest new stars, unveiled the cover art for her upcoming album “Man’s Best Friend” on Wednesday, quickly setting social media ablaze with both fierce criticism of what some feel is a “degrading” cover, while others defend it as a clear work of satire. Key Facts Carpenter announced “Man’sRead

I’ll be honest, I had never heard about Dangerous Animals until about an hour ago, but now that it’s on my radar, I must see it. It’s a shark attack film that happens to be the highest-scoring entry in the genre since the original Jaws, and that’s no exaggeration. Here’s the synopsis: “When Zephyr, aRead

Topline Federal appeals court judges suggested Wednesday they may be willing to move President Donald Trump’s appeal of his 34-count criminal conviction from state to federal court, a move that could make it easier to throw out the only felony conviction against Trump—and all but erase the president’s felony charges. Key Facts The 2nd CircuitRead

Republican lawmakers in the Senate on Tuesday unveiled their version of the higher education component of the “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill that was passed by their House counterparts last month. And it’s not great news for borrowers pursuing certain student loan forgiveness programs or hoping for more affordable payments based on their income. While GOPRead

Shares of Chinese camera maker Insta360 almost quadrupled in their public debut on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, valuing the company at about 71 billion yuan ($9.9 billion) and making its 33-year-old founder, Liu Jingkang, a billionaire. Trading as Arashi Vision, the Shenzhen-headquartered camera maker raised 1.94 billion yuan ($270 million) in its debut on theRead

Topline Kim Kardashian, the billionaire entrepreneur and reality television star, condemned “hardworking people being ripped from their families in inhumane ways” amid U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, which have sparked protests in Los Angeles and across the country, joining a chorus of celebrity critics. Key Facts Kardashian posted a statement to her Instagram storyRead

Walmart heiress Christy Walton, one of the richest women in America, has joined a small group of billionaires speaking out against President Donald Trump. The 76-year-old Walton, who is worth an estimated $19.3 billion according to Forbes, paid to take out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times on Sunday calling on readers toRead

Several more parties have announced their support for Harvard University’s lawsuit against the Trump administration’s freezing of more than $2 billion in federal grant money. Last week, 18 of the nation’s leading research universities requested that a federal judge allow them to file a legal brief supporting Harvard’s lawsuit to recover the funding being withheldRead

The income-driven repayment application system for federal student loans remains a mess, as borrowers struggle to navigate programs that have been plagued by legal challenges and processing pauses. Now, one major student loan servicer has thrown an additional wrench into the system by announcing that some borrowers who have already submitted an income-driven repayment applicationRead

As predicted Apple is here. Quickly released to correct a bizarre autocorrect bug which caused the letter “i” autocorrect to an “A” with a symbol (how was that missed in testing?), the big question is will iOS 11.1.1 improve upon Apple’s patchy record of rushed updates (1,2,3) or will it cause more problems than itRead

Around the time that Donald Trump took office, he Trump Organization made moves to sell a stake in one of the president’s crypto companies. That revelation was buried in a letter that an independent monitor overseeing the president’s business submitted to a New York judge last month. The letter noted that the Trump Organization hadRead

There was a new Xbox showcase this past week with a lot of solid offerings, but what was supposed to be one of the biggest games of this entire era was nowhere to be found. That would be Bethesda’s Starfield, the new IP from the developer that Microsoft previously bragged was the studio’s biggest launchRead

The expression “Girls will be girls!” can mean anything, because girls can be anything. Girls can be powerful, sensitive, kind, loving, brave, fearful, logical, crazy, and many other things. For the K-pop powerhouse ITZY, “Girls will be Girls” to them means strength, unity, and their bond as a team. It’s why it’s the title ofRead

The entire oeuvre of Stephen King, which runs across five decades and is arguably the most eclectic body of work ever written by a single author: several dozen novels, published in less than half that time, have testified to his undisputed crown as a format king of horror fiction. That is one core aspect ofRead

One memory that British guitarist Steve Hackett has of making Genesis’ 1974 masterpiece, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, occurred when the band was working at Headley Grange, an 18th-century workhouse in Hampshire, England. At the time, Genesis – whose lineup consisted of Hackett, singer Peter Gabriel, drummer Phil Collins, keyboardist Tony Banks and bassistRead

Look closely and you’ll notice it. The subtle pull of gravity after a long sprint towards the edge, the tiny tremor in our economic step as it fails to find solid ground underneath, the mounting silence where there used to be the noise of new life. We are on what animators call Coyote Time: theRead