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The Department of Energy has instituted a long list of banned words at the direction of a Trump appointee, including some that many would consider politically neutral. The “words to avoid” were sent in an email to the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) on Friday, according to Politico, which saw the memo. “Please ensure that every member of your team is aware that this is the latest list of words to avoid,” EERE special advisor Rachael Overbey wrote. The terms staffers are forbidden from using include: climate change, green, decarbonization, energy transition, sustainability, sustainable, subsidies, tax breaks,…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The selection of Bad Bunny to headline the Super Bowl halftime show is about more than music.The move signals a cultural spotlight for Latin identity at America’s most-watched television event. It also raises fresh questions about how much space there will be for his trademark symbolism and social commentary — including his past criticism of President Donald Trump — given the NFL’s history of keeping performances tightly managed.Here are some things to know about the selection.How the show comes togetherThe halftime show is a collaboration between the NFL, Roc Nation and Apple Music. Roc Nation, Jay-Z’s…

The Hollywood sign in Los Angeles on Jan. 22, 2024Mario Tama | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThere was a time when Hollywood simply referred to a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles.These days, “Hollywood” has come to represent the entire domestic entertainment business — and it’s at a crossroads.Its namesake area is no longer the bustling production hub it once was, as studios have chased tax benefits and lower labor costs overseas. It’s more expensive than ever to make a movie or television series, especially after the pandemic and the writers and actors strikes which reshaped how…

by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 10:50 AM ET, Mon September 29, 2025 Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. has launched a new NCLH Loyalty Status Honoring Program, which honors guests’ top loyalty status for one of its cruise lines across Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises. Those sailing on any of the above cruise lines departing October 15 or later will enjoy having their loyalty tier honored at the closest level across all three brands on a per-cruise basis.  For example, a Gold Latitudes Rewards member with NCL will be considered a Gold Oceania Club member or a…

Browser maker and Google Search alternative Brave announced on Monday that it’s adding a new feature to its AI-powered search suite, Ask Brave, to provide detailed answers on a topic based on the query. The search company said that this new feature will co-exist next to its AI Answers feature, which was introduced last year to give summarized responses to search queries. The company said that people are getting more than 15 million answers every day. You don’t need to switch to a special mode to use Ask Brave. The search engine will automatically recognize what kind of query you…

PARIS (AP) — At Saint Laurent, Anthony Vaccarello dialed up the drama Monday night at Paris Fashion Week with a set of gigantic white flowers that loomed like a cinematic backdrop. If the blooms hinted at delicacy, the clothes told another story: big, bold, and unafraid of excess.Floor-sweeping gowns rippled with frills, evoking 1970s archival pieces and petals unfurling at twilight. They weren’t garments so much as visual arguments — “beauty as plural,” the house notes declared — gowns that embodied Vaccarello’s belief that esthetics are a language.The designer’s penchant for oversize, a through-line of his tenure, reached new heights.…

Carnival Corporation & plc reported stellar third-quarter 2025 financial results on Monday, revealing an all-time high net income of $1.9 billion and adjusted net income of $2.0 billion.The cruise giant—which owns renowned brands such as Carnival Cruise Line, AIDA Cruises, Cunard Line and Holland America Line, among others—also raised full-year 2025 adjusted net income guidance for the third quarter in a row and now expects it to be up nearly 55 percent year over year. Other Q3 highlights include record revenues of $8.2 billion, which is a record for the tenth consecutive quarter.”This was a phenomenal quarter delivering all-time high…

On Monday, Anthropic launched a new frontier model called Claude Sonnet 4.5, which it claims to offer state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks. The company says Claude Sonnet 4.5 is capable of building “production-ready” applications, rather than just prototypes, representing a leap in reliability from previous AI models. Claude Sonnet 4.5 will be available via the Claude API and in the Claude chatbot. The pricing for developers is the same as Claude Sonnet 4: $3 per million input tokens (roughly 750,000 words, or more than the entire Lord of The Rings series) and $15 per million output tokens. In the last…

MILAN (AP) — Silvia Venturini Fendi, who took full creative control of her family’s heritage fashion house after the departure of Kim Jones, is stepping down from that role and into a new one: honorary president.“What a wonderful journey it has been, not only creatively but also from a human perspective: first through my bond with Karl Lagerfeld, then with Kim Jones and last but not least with my fantastic team, which over the years has become part of my family,” Venturini Fendi said in a statement released by the company Monday.Jones left Fendi in October 2024. Venturini Fendi, 64,…

US businesswoman Charlie Javice (L), founder of Frank, arrives for her sentencing hearing at federal court in Manhattan on Sept. 29, 2025, in New York City.Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty ImagesCharlie Javice, founder of a startup acquired by JPMorgan Chase in 2021 for $175 million, is facing sentencing Monday for defrauding the bank by overstating how many customers the fintech firm had.In March, a 12-person jury found Javice and her chief growth officer Olivier Amar guilty on three counts of fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit fraud.Javice, 33, cried as she delivered an emotional statement to the court. Standing to…