In a court filing Monday night arguing for a stay to halt a federal judge’s order that required the removal of Trump’s name, the Kennedy Center claimed it will suffer “financial harms” that will “never be recovered,” threatening the center’s eventual plans for construction. The filing says the bylaws of the Trump Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Foundation require donations be returned if Trump’s name is removed, and it claims some donors were only willing to donate because the center incl...

Spotify shares are down more than 10% as of 9 a.m. EST in premarket trading, though the stock price fell as much as 12% after the Swedish streaming company reported its first quarter earnings.The company projected operating income of €630 million ($736 million) for the second quarter of 2026, below analysts’ expectations, which Reuters reported stood at €684 million (nearly $800 million).The streaming service projects it will total 299 million paid subscribers as of Q2 2026, which Reuters report...

“Pokémon Pokopia,” released for Nintendo Switch 2 devices last week, sold 2.2 million copies worldwide in just four days, Nintendo said Thursday morning, with nearly half of those sales coming from Japan. Nintendo shares have rallied almost 20% this week amid the game’s success, though shares are still down about 30% from November, when the stock price began a months-long decline. Joost van Dreunen, CEO of gaming consulting firm Aldora and professor at New York University’s Stern School of Busin...

Combs was convicted on two criminal counts of transportation to engage in prostitution and acquitted on two counts of sex trafficking and one count of racketeering conspiracy, but the music mogul still faces sentencing in his criminal case, as well as dozens of civil lawsuits.Mark Zauderer, a veteran trial and appellate lawyer, told Forbes the verdict is “only going to help plaintiffs in civil cases,” stating the criminal trial could provide civil suit plaintiffs a “roadmap to witnesses with hel...

Justin Baldoni, star and director of “It Ends With Us,” sued his co-star Blake Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and Lively’s publicist Leslie Sloane in New York federal court Thursday, accusing them of defamation and extortion—weeks after Lively filed her own lawsuit against Baldoni in a sprawling legal battle between the film’s stars. Lively’s legal team slammed it as “another chapter in the abuser playbook” in a statement shared with Forbes, adding: “This is an age-old story: A woman speaks u...

The adrenochrome conspiracy, a bizarre theory with antisemitic roots, posits that Satan-worshipping global and Hollywood elites run a massive child trafficking ring to drain their blood and harvest the chemical adrenochrome to stay young, and has been embraced by subscribers of the QAnon and Pizzagate conspiracy movements, including key people affiliated with the recent hit movie The Sound of Freedom. The baseless adrenochrome theory has been debunked numerous times by media outlets and scienti

Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran helped The Comfy sell millions of its snuggly, wearable blankets. Then things started to unravel, and Corcoran sold out. Now its co-founder is trying to pay off debts and reenergize the brand. rothers Michael and Brian Speciale charmed Shark Tank’s judges and audiences when they appeared on the show’s 2017 Christmas episode, singing an original jingle to the tune of “Deck the Halls” and pitching their blanket-hoodie hybrid, known as The Comfy. The judges all gleef

Top University officials allegedly manipulated a Perelman School of Medicine investigation into years of workplace abuse allegations within the Gene Therapy Program in order to protect its financial interests and director Jim Wilson, according to internal reports obtained by The Daily Pennsylvanian. Following our previous reporting on GTP’s toxic workplace environment, based upon testimonies of 11 current and former GTP employees, the DP obtained a selection of documents alleging that Penn admi

Author Adam Silvera four years ago released the young adult science fiction novel "They Both Die at the End," which found success and landed a few weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. But years later in August 2020, Silvera said his publisher noticed a significant sales bump, the start of a trend that would send the book to the top of the New York Times’ young adult paperback monthly bestseller list in April, where it still reigns. Silvera had no idea where the sales spike was coming fr

Two months ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was confident — probably a little too much — in Israel’s management of the coronavirus crisis. The numbers of new Covid-19 cases had plummeted to the low double digits per day in May — a far cry from late March, when hundreds of new cases were being reported every day. In the midst of Israel’s success, Netanyahu announced on May 26 that Israel would finally begin to reopen. “We want to make your lives easier, to allow you to go out and