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Former U.S. President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom at a hearing in his criminal case on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star in New York City, U.S., March 25, 2024. Brendan Mcdermid | ReutersJury selection in the criminal hush money trial of Donald Trump will begin on April 15, a New York judge ruled in a court hearing Monday.Judge Juan Merchan delivered the ruling after strongly rejecting arguments from Trump’s lawyers who tried to delay the trial. Trump is charged in that case with falsifying business records in a scheme to silence women who say they…

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun speaks to reporters as he departs from a meeting at the office of Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) on Capitol Hill January 24, 2024 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesBoeing CEO Dave Calhoun will step down at the end of 2024 in part of a broad management shakeup for the embattled aerospace giant.Chairman of the board Larry Kellner is also resigning and will leave the board at Boeing’s annual meeting in May. He has been replaced as chair by Steve Mollenkopf, who has been a Boeing director since 2020.And Stan Deal, president and CEO of Boeing…

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from Waxahatchee, Adrianne Lenker, Tyla, Rosali, Future & Metro Boomin, 1010Benja, Julia Holter, Alena Spanger, Anysia Kym, Tatyana, and Mizu. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate…

NCT Dream have released their brand-new mini-album ‘Dream( )scape’, which dropped alongside a music video for title track ‘Smoothie’. In the trippy music video for ‘Smoothie’, members of the boyband wield swords while slicing up giant fruits. Other scenes in the clip also feature various fruit-inspired visuals, alongside thrilling action scenes and more. “Smoothie Smoothie Smoothie, shake it all out and grind it / Smoothie Smoothie Smoothie, Smoothie Smoothie Smoothie / Dirty taste, take it,” the band rap on the new song’s chorus. ‘Dream( )scape’ marks NCT Dream’s seventh mini-album and features six new tracks: ‘icantfeelanything’, ‘Smoothie’, ‘Box’, ‘Carat Cake’, ‘Unknown’…

Many home Wi-Fi setups suck for countless reasons, which makes it frustrating when everyone in your household needs a reliable connection for the most important things. Be it a work video call, an online class or simply balancing the family budget online, we all need a good home Wi-Fi connection to get things done. If yours isn’t up to pair, maybe it’s because the hardware your ISP gave you isn’t great, or your walls aren’t friendly to wireless signals. Or perhaps the signals from your all-in-one wireless modem and router just can’t reach everywhere from its spot in a far…

Apple Vision Pro will hit the mainland China market this year, Apple chief executive Tim Cook said on Sunday, according to state media.Cook revealed the headset’s China launch plan in response to a media question on the sidelines of the China Development Forum in Beijing, CCTV Finance said on its Weibo social account.Apple will continue to ramp up research and development investment in China, he was quoted as saying.Recently, a report suggested that Apple Vision Pro could soon be launched in multiple countries. The Cupertino-based tech giant unveiled its first mixed reality (supporting both augmented reality and virtual reality) headset at…

Kat chooses a lot of people, but time and again, she doesn’t choose Elliot. No matter what she remembers from the staircase, Kat didn’t choose Elliot when they were going to run away. She chose London and education. On The Way Home Season 2 Episode 9, she chooses Brady and their family, Alice and Thomas, always leaving Elliot struggling in her wake. The penultimate episode answered many questions and seemed to put a cap on the Jacob storyline. But can Jacob’s story ever be over without Del understanding what happened to him, which would mean…

House Freedom Caucus member U.S. Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) speaks during a press conference regarding federal government spending on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 12, 2023.Elizabeth Frantz | ReutersAfter six months of budget deadlocks, stopgap funding measures and near-miss government shutdowns, Congress finalized the remaining parts of a permanent spending package for the rest of the fiscal year this weekend.Before House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., can exhale, he will have to face the House Republican hardliners of the Freedom Caucus.And they have made it clear that they intend to turn up the heat on the Speaker’s next uphill funding battle:…

In the ever-evolving world of fashion, trends come and go, but the resurgence of men’s 5 inch shorts is a testament to the timeless appeal of certain styles. It’s no secret that history repeats itself. But it’s kind of surprising how fast it happens in the fashion world, especially at the height of fast fashion. Gone are the days when men gravitated towards baggy shorts that draped past the knees. Today, inspired by style icons like Milo Ventimiglia and Paul Mescal, men’s 5 inch inseam shorts are making a triumphant return, reminiscent of the sartorial choices of the 70s and…

The Amgen logo is displayed outside Amgen headquarters on May 17, 2023 in Thousand Oaks, California.Mario Tama | Getty ImagesAmgen is taking a new approach as it tries to stand out in a crowded field of drugmakers racing to develop the next blockbuster weight loss drug.The biotech company is testing an injectable treatment that helps people lose weight differently from the existing injections from Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, and other obesity medicines in development. Amgen’s treatment, called MariTide, also appears to help patients keep weight off after they stop taking it.  The drugmaker is also testing its drug to be…

Being known among friends and coworkers as the guy who’s always late isn’t exactly the reputation one should strive for. It makes you look, at best, absent-minded and, at worst, just plain rude. Running late is an irritating kind of stress for everyone involved. It forces you (the late one) to panic and demands grace from those people waiting on you—no one is buying those lies about being “almost there” when you’re still 15 minutes away. Or worse, haven’t even actually left your place yet. Let’s be honest: It’s a bad look. Being “the late one” can trash your rep…

[Warning: The below contains spoilers for American Idol.] The final golden tickets were up for grabs Sunday night for Season 22 of American Idol. It has been quite the journey for judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan, who have seen a variety of hopefuls while spending some quality time sharing their respective hometowns of Santa Barbara, Tuskegee, and Leesburg. Auditions were also hosted in Los Angeles and Nashville. This last crop of singers included talented teens, sisters, a returning face from last year, and the daughter of a former Bachelor star. Plus, one contestant closed the round with…

An editorial picture of the Japan flag set against an economic trend graph and images associated with the stock market, finance and digital technology.Manassanant Pamai | Istock | Getty ImagesThe total value of private equity deals in Asia Pacific last year fell to its lowest since 2014 as fundraising dropped to a 10-year low amid slowing growth, high interest rates and volatile public markets, according to management consultancy Bain & Company.Japan though, was an outlier, with deal value jumping 183% in 2023 from a year earlier, making it the largest private equity market in Asia Pacific for the first time,…

The video game industry cannot quit microtransactions.In fact, two of the largest video game companies in the United States — Electronic Arts and Take-Two Interactive — now make the overwhelming majority of their money from live-service games, subscriptions and in-game purchases, according to their recent earnings reports.Microtransactions are purchases that users make inside a game using real money. They show up as subscriptions, virtual currencies, and character customization options, among other examples.Popular live-service titles such as Fortnite, Call of Duty: Warzone, and Clash Royale were built around this revenue model. Game publishers must provide updates throughout certain game life cycles to retain player…

Neil Young recently put his music back on Spotify, ending a boycott that he began in 2022 to protest the digital streaming platform’s then-exclusive deal with Joe Rogan. Joni Mitchell had also pulled her music from Spotify, in solidarity with Young, and she has now joined Young in his return, as The Guardian notes. Pitchfork has reached out to Mitchell and Spotify’s respective representatives for comment and more information.Young got his music removed from Spotify after accusing the platform of spreading COVID-19 misinformation by hosting the popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast.When she also departed Spotify in 2022, Mitchell wrote, “I’ve…

Del Amitri singer Justin Currie has revealed that he has Parkinson’s disease, which he accepts will eventually stop him from performing. The 59-year-old confirmed the news in an interview with the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, when he said that he is now in a position where he can no longer “play the way I would expect to”. He said that the diagnosis has demonstrated that “you think you’re invulnerable until something proves you’re not.” “I know it will get worse. At what rate, nobody knows. So I know I’m going to have to stop. The idea is quite grim.”…

GKIDS and Fathom Events have announced the lineup for Studio Ghibli Fest 2024, and it’s absolutely stacked with gems. This year’s run includes 14 films and isn’t limited only to the works of Hayao Miyazaki, also featuring movies directed by Isao Takahata, Yoshifumi Kondo, Hiroyuki Morita and Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Studio Ghibli Fest 2024 will start with Spirited Away on April 27 and continue through December, when it ends with My Neighbor Totoro. The movies are playing in select AMC and Regal theaters across the US, with a few dates for each title in both Japanese and English dubbed.The full list…