Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has officially crossed the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office, adding another major milestone to what has become one of the filmmaker’s most successful theatrical runs. The Universal Pictures epic passed the billion-dollar threshold on Friday, becoming Nolan’s third film to achieve the feat...
The United States government imposed sanctions on a Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange for actively facilitating financial networks tied to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The enforcement action follows a recent investigation detailing illicit digital asset flows. The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control executed the blacklisting to...
The NBA investigation into Los Angeles Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard and alleged salary cap circumvention has expanded dramatically. Investigative journalist Pablo Torre revealed on his podcast that Leonard had a second secret, multi-million dollar sponsorship agreement with Daktronics, a scoreboard manufacturing company that built the famous “halo board” inside the...
The leaders of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan have officially signed a historic mutual defense pact in Mecca. The agreement explicitly states that any armed attack against any one of the three participating states will be legally and militarily regarded as an attack against all of them. The signing...
Model and actor Ireland Baldwin has spoken out publicly following the hospitalization of celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton. Hilton was hospitalized following a widely reported mental health crisis that played out publicly. Taking to Instagram Stories, Ireland Baldwin addressed the situation by reflecting on Hilton's past coverage of her family....
President Donald Trump has launched a renewed effort to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa D. Cook from her position, opening a new front in a battle that began nearly a year ago. The White House sent Cook a letter on Wednesday, signed by Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, informing her...
Martha Stewart, 85, has made a surprising claim about a recent dinner she attended with Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex. Stewart detailed the encounter in an interview with People magazine, stating that Markle was discussing her recent visit to the royal family with other guests at the dinner party...
A federal appeals court has upheld an order halting construction on President Donald Trump's planned $400 million ballroom at the White House, ruling that such a massive overhaul requires explicit congressional authorization. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in a 2-1 decision, agreed with a lower court that...
A five-alarm fire erupted at a commercial building on Foundry Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, on Friday afternoon, sending thick black smoke across the area and drawing a large emergency response. The blaze broke out in the Foundry Street area and was elevated to a 5th-alarm fire. Wakefield police reported that the...
A New Mexico state court judge ordered social media giant Meta to pay $567 million into a specialized youth abatement fund. The massive financial penalty follows a previous jury determination that the corporate parent of Facebook and Instagram willfully violated the state’s Unfair Practices Act. Judge Bryan Biedscheid labeled the...
