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by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 9:40 AM ET, Mon December 15, 2025 The Louvre Museum workers’ union started a strike today, Monday, December 15, leaving the museum bereft of workers, and therefore unable to open, disappointing travelers. Travelers won’t be able to visit the museum for the foreseeable future. The Louvre’s website posted a notice for today, saying, “Due to public strikes, the Musée du Louvre is closed today. All reservations for today’s date will be refunded. We apologise for the inconvenience.” According to ABC News, striking workers surrounded the Louvre Museum’s iconic glass pyramid entrance to demonstrate for increased staffing…
After a surge of VC investments from the 2021 bubble failed to yield strong returns from many venture firms, limited partners, such as endowments, pension plans, and sovereign wealth funds, began to funnel a greater share of their capital into a select group of established firms with proven track records. The latest huge capital haul has come to Lightspeed Venture Partners. The 25-year-old venture firm announced Monday that it raised a total of $9 billion in fresh funds, the largest fundraise in firm’s history. At a time when very few companies have managed to IPO, Lightspeed was an early investor…
An aspiring neurosurgeon and a student leader of Brown University’s campus Republicans were in a study group preparing for an economics final, with the end of the semester in sight. But the lives of MukhammadAziz Umurzokov and Ella Cook were cut short Saturday when a gunman opened fire inside a classroom in the engineering building. Nine others were wounded before the gunman fled. Investigators were still searching for him Monday.As questions swirled about the gunman’s motives and how he managed to walk away after the attack, relatives and friends of Umurzokov, an 18-year-old freshman from Brandermill, Virginia, and Cook, a…
DETROIT — Ford Motor expects to record about $19.5 billion in special items related to a restructuring of its business priorities and a pullback in its all-electric vehicle investments, the company announced Monday.The Detroit automaker said most of those charges will occur during the fourth quarter. That will be followed by $5.5 billion in cash to be charged through 2027, and the the majority of that chunk will be paid next year, Ford said.The charges will impact the automaker’s net results but not its adjusted earnings. The automaker said Monday it was increasing its guidance of adjusted earnings before interest…
by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 10:00 AM ET, Mon December 15, 2025 The U.S. Travel Association is responding to the Trump Administration’s proposed changes to the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) application, which would require international visitors wanting to visit the United States, including those from Visa Waiver Program countries, to provide five years of their social media history.The statement reads, “We are deeply concerned by the recent announcement by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that it may seek social media history from Visa Waiver Program travelers to the United States. And without more detail from CBP, there…
After announcing earlier this year a framework for an open AI ecosystem, the nonprofit Creative Commons has come out in favor of “pay-to-crawl” technology — a system to automate compensation of website content when accessed by machines, like AI webcrawlers. Creative Commons (CC) is best known for spearheading the licensing movement that allows creators to share their works while retaining copyright. In July, the organization announced a plan to provide a legal and technical framework for dataset sharing between companies that control the data and the AI providers that want to train on it. Now, the nonprofit is tentatively backing pay-to-crawl…
NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Freston could easily fill a book with stories from the formative days of MTV and his celebrity encounters — Bono would merit a few chapters on his own. Ultimately, though, Freston feels that his life has a more valuable lesson to offer.His memoir, “Unplugged,” shows by example that trying to follow a straight line to success is not the only path.Freston, 80, was at MTV from the start and became its leader, along with sister networks Comedy Central, VH1 and Nickelodeon, at their greatest periods of success. He rose to become CEO of parent corporation…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Police renewed their search Monday for the gunman who killed two Brown University students and wounded nine others, a day after they released a person of interest in the case.Here’s a look at what to know about the shootings and the manhunt:Search renewed after person of interest releasedAuthorities announced the detained man’s release during a news conference late Sunday. That marked a setback in the investigation of Saturday’s attack on the Ivy League school’s campus and added to questions about the shooting and investigation, including an apparent lack of video evidence and whether the focus on…
RETETI ELEPHANT SANCTUARY, Kenya (AP) — We stood at the edge of a dusty corral baked by the equatorial sun and ringed by chest-high posts as thick as telephone poles. On some posts, workers had perched plastic jugs of goat’s milk, each holding a couple of liters and equipped with red nipples the size of a man’s finger.Across the corral, a young elephant ambled into view, head bobbing, trunk curling, ears flapping, trundling along as fast as its tree-trunk legs could carry it. Another followed, then a steady stream, bumping and jostling, kicking up orange dust — a joyful stampede…
by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 1:00 PM ET, Sat December 13, 2025 This past week, U.S. Coast Guard personnel safely medevacked a 65-year-old man from the Celebrity Apex off the coast of Puerto Rico. The incident happened on Thursday morning, when the new ship was about 24 nautical miles off the coast from Arecibo, Puerto Rico, en route from St. Kitts to Port Canaveral, Florida. Medical personnel onboard the ship determined that the man’s multiple medical conditions required a higher level of care than could be provided onboard. The Coast Guard MH-60T Jayhawk crew flew from Air Station Borinquen and operated…