The founder of NewsClick website, Prabir Purkayastha, and another staff member were arrested after raids because they were accused of getting money from outside the country to spread pro-China lies. India’s police have caught a well-known writer and founder of a news website for allegedly getting money from abroad to spread pro-China propaganda. This was…
Eleven months ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was a crypto hero living in the Bahamas. He was in charge of a startup backed by celebrities, and his fans and friends thought he was the real deal. A math genius at MIT A thinker who went his own way instead of following Wall Street A generous person was…
Birkenstock, a German premium footwear brand sponsored by the private-equity firm L Catterton, announced on Monday that it will seek a valuation of up to $9.2 billion in its highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) in New York. According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company and its selling stockholders…
A pair of scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing the technology that lead to the mRNA Covid vaccines. The incentive will be divided between Professors Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman. Before the pandemic, the technology was experimental, but it has now been distributed to millions of people around…
On Monday, Donald Trump and his family business are scheduled to stand trial in New York in a civil fraud case that could deliver a significant setback to the former president’s real estate empire. Letitia James, the Democratic attorney general of New York, accuses Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, of…
The murder of Tupac Shakur has been one of the music industry’s longest-lasting unsolved offenses for nearly three decades. The murder of the hip-hop legend near the Las Vegas strip in 1996 prompted innumerable articles, books, and documentaries attempting to determine who was responsible for his death. However, on Friday, authorities in Nevada announced that…
Blue Apron announced on Friday that it has agreed to sell itself for $103 million to food and restaurant company Wonder Group, founded by entrepreneur Marc Loron. At $13 per share, the transaction represents a substantial premium over Blue Apron’s Thursday closing price of $5.49 per share. The sale concludes years of ups and downs…
Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was released from a US prison on Wednesday after serving nearly two years for drug trafficking and money laundering. In November 2021, Coronel was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to her husband’s drug empire. In…
The death toll in Libya has risen to 5,300 after a storm forced dams in a coastal city to fail, injuring thousands more. According to Muhammad Abu Moshe of the Libyan News Agency, the death toll for the whole region is at least 5,300 after Storm Daniel made landfall in the northern African country on…