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Over a decade ago, the Australian pop-punk boy band 5 Seconds of Summer emerged as charming genre-revivalists. Their 2014 career-making single “She Looks So Perfect” was all palm-muted power chords and gang vocals, a familiar sound for fans of the Warped Tour scene. In the years since, the quartet evolved into a full-on arena pop-rock act, taking turns at releasing solo material. Next up is lead guitarist Michael Clifford, the edgiest of the bunch, with a spirited solo debut album that feels truer to the band’s earliest material than their most recent. But he doesn’t just rehash the past. Rather,…
Key PointsPrivate investment firms of the ultra wealthy made 375 direct investments in the first half of 2025, a 32% annual drop, according to Fintrix.Family offices are still showing interest in hard assets needed by AI, such as data centers, and are also looking abroad.Family office experts told CNBC that firms have capital they need to deploy but are waiting for clarity around tariffs and geopolitics.A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. Investment…
MILAN (AP) — Art restorers have removed a deteriorating piece of graffiti by the street artist Banksy titled “The Migrant Child” from the side of a building overlooking a Venetian canal to preserve the work for future public display, officials said Thursday.The removal from the wall of Palazzo San Pantalon was carried out in consultation with people close to the secretive British street artist, according to the Venice-based bank Banca Ifis’ art program that promotes art and culture.The artwork depicting a shipwrecked child holding a pink smoke bomb and wearing a lifejacket appeared along Rio di San Pantalon in Venice…
American Airlines shares slumped Thursday after the carrier’s third-quarter profit forecast fell short of Wall Street’s expectations and it reinstated its 2025 financial forecast well below its outlook at the start of the year.CEO Robert Isom told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that the results are driven by consumer weakness, flat corporate travel demand that continued into the start of the summer and operational problems from a series of storms.”July’s been a tough month … because of the domestic consumer weakness,” Isom said.Demand appears better in the coming months, he said, and American is scaling back its capacity growth.Delta Air Lines and…
Travel advisors who believe Oceania Cruises straddles the line between the premium and luxury categories, would be well-served to reconsider that view – as did I following after sailing on 68,000-ton, 1,200 passenger Oceania Allura’s four-night shakedown cruise from Genoa to Trieste earlier this month. Suffice it to say Ocean Allura, and its sister, Oceania Vista, fall squarely in the luxury category.A New Take on LuxuryThe line’s executives contend that what distinguishes Oceania from its competition is the concept of “luxury with choice,” which enables guests to choose between fully all-inclusive options and those with fewer amenities. “Oceania was founded…
Privacy-focused productivity tools maker Proton on Wednesday released its AI assistant, called Lumo, which it says prioritizes protecting user data. The company says the chatbot keeps no logs of your conversations, has end-to-end encryption for storing chats, and offers a ghost mode for conversations that disappear as soon as you close the window. Available via a web client, as well as Android and iOS apps, Lumo doesn’t require you to have an account to use the chatbot and ask questions. You can upload files to have the chatbot answer questions about them, and if you have a Proton Drive account,…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Boston AP — A flight attendant accused of taping his cell phone to the lid of an airplane toilet to secretly film young girls was sentenced to just under 20 years in prison Wednesday. Former American Airlines flight attendant Estes Carter Thompson III received a sentence of 18.5 years, followed by five years of supervised release. Boston US District Court Judge Julia Kobick called his behavior “appalling” and said child victims’ “innocence has been lost” because of his actions. Thompson was arrested and charged in January 2024 in Lynchburg, Virginia, after authorities said a 14-year-old girl…
NEW YORK (AP) — After five years of working long nights as a truck driver, Julius Mosley wanted a change. He found driving unfulfilling, and his teenage son needed him to spend more time at home.So Mosley took a job as a customer service representative at a telecommunications company near his home. The employee benefits included being able to take job-related classes for free. He decided he wanted to study leadership so he could learn about managing teams and helping people become the best versions of themselves. His company, Spectrum, paid for a 10-week front-line manager certificate program that Mosley…
Six years ago, Uber launched a feature in Saudi Arabia that let women drivers on its ride-hailing app ask to be connected to female riders. Since then, the “women preferences” feature has rolled out to 40 countries, from Argentina and Brazil to Canada, India, and Mexico. In a few weeks, this feature will finally make its way to the United States, the company said on Wednesday. Uber plans to pilot the feature in Detroit, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Women will be able to set a preference for a woman driver in the Uber app, increasing their chances of a…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Almost 50 people including children are feared dead after a Soviet-era passenger plane crashed in Russia’s far eastern Amur region, state media reported on Thursday, citing local officials. The plane, an Antonov An-24, was flying on a regional route from Khabarovsk to Blagoveshchensk and Tynda when it disappeared from the radar, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said in a statement posted on Telegram. The Amur Center for Civil Defence and Fire Safety said on Telegram that a search and rescue helicopter spotted the wreck of the plane on a mountain slope 10 miles (16 kilometers)…