Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen threw his support behind Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with the launch of a new meme contest on Monday. On the day of President Donald Trump’s inauguration and the establishment of DOGE, Cohen posted on X that he would be launching the “DOGE vs. Blob” website as a way of backing the department.”Pentagon bureaucrats torch $2 million of taxpayer money every minute. In honor of @DOGE, I’m launching @dogevsblob, a meme contest highlighting the biggest gov’t spender + waster. We’re giving away 1,000 @dogecoin a day. If anyone can slash…

YouTube and TikTok star MrBeast is looking to buy TikTok as part of a group of investors, as a 75-day time limit ticks down for the social media company to find a non-Chinese owner or risk being permanently banned. “Okay fine, I’ll buy Tik Tok so it doesn’t get banned,” MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, posted on X on January 13th. But while his tone was joking, Donaldson – the single most popular YouTuber and the third-most popular TikToker – was serious, his lawyer told Tuesday. The bid from Donaldson and a group of investors is just the…

Barron Trump, the youngest son of President Donald Trump, is reportedly following in his father’s footsteps and starting his own luxury real estate venture.  The New York Post reported that the younger Trump plans to launch Trump, Fulcher & Roxburgh Capital Inc. with two business partners. The company was briefly incorporated in July in Wyoming, but dissolved four months later after Trump’s presidential election win. It will primarily focus on high-end real estate projects, including golf courses and properties in Utah, Arizona and Idaho. The venture, which listed Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, as its principal address, according to business records,…

President Donald Trump unveiled a massive artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure project from the private sector on the first full day of his second term in office on Tuesday. During a speech at the White House, Trump announced that Softbank, OpenAI and Oracle have joined forces for a project called Stargate, to build data centers in the U.S. for powering AI.  The CEOs of all three tech firms – OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, and Softbank’s Masayoshi Son – joined Trump from the Roosevelt Room at the White House for the announcement.The initial investment for the project will be $100…

Chatting about the new tactic to keep you from canceling your streaming subscriptions Chatting about the new tactic to keep you from canceling your streaming subscriptions 03:21 Netflix said it’s boosting the prices for its subscription plans for U.S. subscribers starting today, a move that comes as the streaming service is making an expansion into live programming. The streaming service said it added almost 19 million subscribers during the holiday season quarter, signaling that the new strategy is paying off. The boost in subscription prices comes after the service last increased prices in 2023, while also beginning a crackdown on password sharing…

Rehearsals began today for NEW YORK CITY CENTER Encores! Urinetown (February 5 through 16). In this side-splitting satire directed by Teddy Bergman, a young hero leads his community in a fight against oppression. See a rehearsal photo here! Set in a dystopian world where water is scarce and “Hope” is even scarcer, all citizens must now pay a fee for “The Privilege to Pee” at one of the public facilities controlled by a selfish tycoon. But the citizens can only hold it in so much longer and soon the poorest, filthiest of these facilities, becomes a “number one” site for major…

Taylor Swift, Jason Kelce, Beau Allen. Getty Images(2); Judy Eddy/Cover Images Jason Kelce had a message for pal Beau Allen before they watched Travis Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs game with Taylor Swift. “Kels called me up, and the tone was like … when your dad calls you when you get in trouble for something and he doesn’t know how to get into it,” Allen, 33, quipped on the Monday, January 20, episode of the “Green Light with Chris Long” podcast. “He’s like, ‘You’re coming to this game. Don’t make me regret this.’” Allen noted his reaction was to give a…

The New York City Medical Examiner’s Office is working to determine a woman’s cause of death after her body was found on a subway train, police said.Around 2 p.m. Saturday, officers responded to a 911 call at the Jamaica-179 Street Station, where they found an “unconscious, unresponsive and unidentified adult female” on a northbound F train, the New York Police Department said in a statement.Emergency Medical Services assisted and declared the woman dead on scene. She is possibly homeless, and between 50 and 60 years old, the New York Post reports.She was found while a conductor was doing a walk-through…

   Tyra Banks is among the thousands of people in Los Angeles who have been impacted by the still-active wildfires that have swept through the area, but she’s thankful that most of her cherished mementoes weren’t lost in the fire. Banks, who now lives in Sydney, Australia with her partner, businessman Louis Bélanger-Martin, spoke for the first time about how she lost her LA home in the fires during an appearance on Australian morning news program “Sunrise on 7” on Sunday. “Yes, I lost my house,” Banks said. “I haven’t really talked about it.” The supermodel and former “America’s Next…

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Johnson & Johnson’s ketamine-derived nasal spray to help millions of U.S. patients suffering from severe depression.  Spravato, approved as a standalone treatment, is “the first and only monotherapy for adults living with major depressive disorder who have had an inadequate response to at least two oral antidepressants,” the pharmaceutical giant said Tuesday. An estimated 21 million adults in the U.S. are living with major depressive disorder, one of the most common psychiatric disorders, but one-third of them will not respond to oral antidepressants alone, hindering their quality of life, according to Johnson & Johnson. …

RIVERSIDE, Calif. () — Immigrant advocacy organizations are calling out President Donald Trump, saying the executive orders he signed on immigration and the border target the immigrant community.The Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice held what they called an “inauguration demonstration” Tuesday morning in Riverside, condemning Trump’s orders.Among executive orders signed by Trump is one ending birthright citizenship. The order directed federal agencies — starting next month — to stop issuing citizenship documents to U.S.-born children of undocumented mothers or mothers in the country on temporary visas, if the father is not a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.”I think this gives…

   JetBlue now accepts Venmo payments for flights, in what it called a first for airlines on Tuesday. Venmo payment options are available on the airline’s website and will roll out on their mobile app “in the coming months,” the carrier announced. Venmo payment options are the latest announcement in a broader effort from JetBlue to enhance its services and boost profits. The struggling low-cost carrier has searched for new revenue streams as larger airlines introduce their own budget options, increasing competition for those flyers. In September, JetBlue introduced new features on its mobile app, including more easily accessible gate…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 1/19/2025 in BroadwayWorld’s grosses section.Also, you will find information on each show’s historical grosses, cumulative grosses and other statistics on how each show stacked up this week and in the past.Click Here to Visit the Broadway Grosses…Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: A WONDERFUL WORLD: THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG MUSICAL (10.2%), CULT OF LOVE (6.4%), SUNSET BLVD. (6.3%), MJ THE MUSICAL (3.9%), OUR TOWN (3.4%), ENGLISH (3.1%), CHICAGO (2.8%), THE GREAT GATSBY (2.3%), & JULIET (2.2%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (0.3%),Down…

Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Post Malone Getty Images (3) The brightest stars in music will be on hand for the 67th Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 2. Nominations for the awards show were announced in November 2024, and women dominated categories across the board. Beyoncé led the pack with 11 nods for her eighth studio album, Cowboy Carter, while Charli XCX and Billie Eilish racked up eight and seven nominations, respectively. Sabrina Carpenter, Taylor Swift and Chappell Roan all scored six each. Months later, as wildfires raged across Los Angeles in January, some Hollywood events were postponed, but the Recording Academy…

Nearly a thousand people are under a mandatory evacuation order after a brush fire broke out Tuesday afternoon near Fashion Valley Mall in Mission Valley.The Friars Fire broke out just after 12:30 p.m. local time, according to Cal Fire. It is 0% contained.Zone 1894-A, which covers 124 acres, is under mandatory evacuation, according to city data.  LOS ANGELES WATER CHIEF GIVEN POLICE SECURITY DETAIL FOLLOWING ‘THREATS’ AGAINST HER, EMPLOYEES In the evacuation order, officials noted there was an “immediate threat to life.”All residents are asked to leave immediately. The cause of the fire remains under investigation, according to Cal Fire. The San…