Cards on the table: I’ve never played a Diablo game before. Yes, I know, I’m a bit late to the party, which is strange considering this hellish franchise is sprinkled with all the right ingredients from ghoulish monsters, perilous dungeons, loot drops, and lots of blood — elements that would normally have me giddy with excitement. It’s a household name that still holds some well-deserved clout, despite last year’s Diablo Immortal tarnishing it with pay-to-win mechanics, which for obvious reasons didn’t sit well with the fans. Blizzard has big plans for Diablo IV, starting with an expressive open world that…
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Charles Koch, head of Koch Industries.Bo Rader | Wichita Eagle | Tribune News Service | Getty ImagesThe political network financed largely by billionaire Charles Koch is launching a wave of digital ads targeting former President Donald Trump.The ads argue that if Trump becomes the Republican nominee next year, it will lead to President Joe Biden winning reelection.Americans for Prosperity Action, a super PAC that received millions of dollars during the 2022 election cycle from the Charles Koch-chaired Koch Industries and the Koch-backed Stand Together Chamber of Commerce, gave CNBC a first look at some of the new digital ads.Koch, who’s…
50 Cent and Rémy Martin are no longer beefing … the famous alcohol brand settled its lawsuit over the rapper’s cognac bottle design. According to new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, 50 Cent’s company and Rémy Martin reached a settlement June 1 but asked the court to keep terms of the settlement under seal. The beef dates back to August 2021, when Rémy Martin sued 50 Cent’s Spire Spirits in Manhattan federal court … claiming the rapper’s Branson cognac brand ripped off their distinctive bottle design. In the suit, Rémy Martin claimed 50 Cent’s cognac copied their famous jewel-shaped glass…
Writer E. Jean Carroll leaves a Manhattan court house after a jury found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990’s, New York City, May 9, 2023.Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesA federal judge Tuesday granted writer E. Jean Carroll’s request to amend her original defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump to include comments he made about her in a CNN town hall last month.The order from Judge Lewis Kaplan in U.S. District Court in Manhattan is a blow to Trump, who had asked the court to deny Carroll’s effort to…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world.This summer, it seems, everyone wants to be rich. We’re idolizing the “stealth wealth” of the characters on Succession, following the fashion statements from Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski trial, aspiring to emulate so-called “old money” style (a designation so malleable, it’s recently been used to describe the fashion sense of both Sofia Richie and Kylie Jenner), and craving the “coastal grandmother” look, which seems to come with both beachfront property and a hefty retirement fund. Tennis, golf, and ski style are at their sartorial peaks, respectively, as though…
Are you ready for this, Mayans M.C. Fanatics? FX has released a trailer and photos for Mayans M.C. Season 5 Episode 5, and if you were hoping for some peace and happiness for your favorite members of the Santo Padre Charter, this is not the content for you. “As the war with the SONS escalates, the two clubs square off in a fight to the death,” the cabler warns of the episode that promises to change everything. Truthfully, everything that happens in the trailer is what I had on my bingo card for the series finale, so if we’re getting…
London brand Percival knows a thing or two about sharp dressing. Experts in minimalist apparel with a fashionable twist, Percival cranks out exclusive collections made with international fabrics, the finest craftsmanship, and a true understanding of menswear.As the ultimate specialist in giving the people what they want, Percival’s recent High Summer Collection leans into the qualities we love about the dog days, namely, spending time outside. Born out of admiration for the bygone forager, the High Summer Collection is distinguished by intricate embroidery, muted neutral colors, and upscale clothing that will be any man’s saving grace during the hottest months…
Kenan Orhan’s debut, I Am My Country, feels like much more than just a book of imaginative short stories set in and around the author’s ancestral homeland of Turkey. The powerful collection could be said to comprise a series of real “small rebellions” — enacted by its characters, prose, and the political implications of writing the book itself — which each add up and culminate into one large, literary revolution. Orhan’s characters — ranging from a woman, who uses her magical attic to house Istanbul’s discarded and forbidden musicians, to a teenager in Soma who dreams of escaping his predetermined…
In this articleSBUXFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTMarchers with Starbucks pass through the landmark intersection of Hollywood and Highland during the annual Pride Parade on June 12, 2022 in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California.David Mcnew | Getty ImagesStarbucks Workers United said Tuesday that dozens of the coffee chain’s U.S. stores aren’t allowing employees to decorate for Pride month.Starbucks said in a statement to CNBC that the company unwaveringly supports the LGBTQ+ community and hasn’t changed its policies for store decorations.”There has been no change to any policy on this matter and we continue to encourage our store leaders…
Photo by Lucas Calloch / UnsplashJapanese GardenI curve like a wooden bridgeover a lake lit up by red carpsI am hard and dry and barely adornedlike a sand garden(though there are stones that blossomlike flowers)silent like rice paperon whichnothinghas yet been written What Do I Know? I know few things I know that readingis a choreographythat to be concentrated is to be distractedI know that first one loves a name I knowthat what one loves in love is the name of the loveI know few things I forget quickly the thingsthat I know I know that forgetting is musicalI know…
A JD.com truck receiving incoming goods and preparing shipments at the Northeast China-based Gu’an warehouse and distribution facility in Gu’an, Сhina.XiXinXing | iStock Editorial | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making headlines in midday trading.Biogen — Shares of the biotech stock dipped 3% after Biogen revamped its board of directors. Three current board members will not run for reelection, while the company’s former head of corporate strategy Susan Langer was nominated to the board, Biogen said Monday.Oracle — Shares rose 2.7% to an all-time high on the back of a strong earnings report for the fiscal fourth quarter. Oracle reported…
WASHINGTON — House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) on June 12 released his proposed bill for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, known as the chairman’s mark. The full committee will consider Rogers’ mark on June 21. Rogers in the bill adds another twist in the contentious battle over the proposed relocation of U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama. The move has been on hold pending DoD and Air Force reviews. The bill would prohibit U.S. Space Command from spending money on new or improved facilities at its current headquarters at Peterson Space…
WhatsApp is reportedly working to introduce a new feature with the rolling out of version 2.23.12.20. The new feature is currently available to users subscribed to the Google Play Beta Program, and could reach the messaging app’s global users in the coming weeks. This new feature is reportedly called the ‘Channel Notifier’. This feature, which is currently under development, will allow the WhatsApp users to get a notification whenever the app will roll out Channels feature to their region.Last week, WhatsApp, owned by Meta, rolled out new ‘Channels’ feature where users can select organisations from which they want to receive…
European officials are looking at ways to use Russian assets to repay for the reconstruction of Ukraine.Global Images Ukraine | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe European Union is getting closer to brokering a detailed plan on how to use frozen Russian assets to pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine, a senior official told CNBC.The EU has confirmed that there are more than 200 billion euros ($215.5 billion) and a separate 20 billion euros ($21.5 billion) in assets across the bloc that belong to the Russian central bank and to Russian private individuals, respectively. These assets were frozen by European…
NewsArlo Parks Announces Debut Book The Magic BorderThe musician’s poetry collection also includes the lyrics to every song from her new album, My Soft MachineBy Evan MinskerJune 13, 2023FacebookTwitterArlo Parks, photo by Daniyel LowdenFacebookTwitterArlo Parks has announced a new poetry collection. The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments From My Soft Machine is out September 12 via HarperCollins and its imprints 4th Estate and Dey Street Books. The book features 20 new poems, plus lyrics from Parks’ recent album My Soft Machine.In a statement, Parks discussed her new collection:Writing poetry, to me, is about profound interiority. It is about wading into…
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, speaks about China Competitiveness Legislation alongside Democratic Senate committee chairs at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, May 3, 2023.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is set to host the first of three educational sessions about artificial intelligence on Tuesday as Congress considers how best to regulate the technology.Schumer announced Monday on the floor of the Senate that Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Antonio Torralba, a machine learning expert, would lead the first of the senators-only sessions. Tuesday’s talk is set to offer a…
When PinkPantheress appears onstage at Governors Ball, there is a purse, as always, on her shoulder. This one’s a striped Kate Spade shoulder bag that pairs nicely with the rest of her decidedly Y2K look: dark wash jeans from home, a strapless minidress that she thrifted from Barcelona, a Tank Air tube top, and a pair of heavy boots. “The wig is from some dispensary. I’m not too sure,” she tells me later after yesterday’s set, pointing to her silky-straight brunette locks and bangs. It’s a very Gen Z aesthetic for a Gen Z superstar, who has seen a meteoric…
Are you ready to head down under for the next chapter in the NCIS franchise? The beloved CBS franchise is headed to Sydney with the appropriately titled NCIS: Sydney. While the series was confirmed quite a while ago, we’re only now learning who will be on the cast. The series is in the works for Paramount+ and Network 10 and includes familiar faces for U.S. audiences. Olivia Swann (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) is set to lead the series as NCIS Special Agent Michelle Mackey, alongside Todd Lasance (Home and Away, The Vampire Diaries) as Sergeant Jim “JD” Dempsey. The cast…