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London    Shares in Meta plunged in premarket trading Thursday as the Facebook owner’s plans to “invest aggressively” in artificial intelligence spooked investors. The stock was down around 13%, threatening to wipe almost $163 billion off its market value, as investors looked beyond bumper first-quarter earnings to focus on the huge costs to the company of building an AI future. The company is competing head-to-head with Microsoft and Google to unlock the enormous potential of…

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Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is April 25, 2024 and it’s time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: But first…This Week’s Call SheetThursday, April 25The Great Gatsby opens on BroadwayMother Play opens on BroadwayFriday, April 26The Chita Rivera Awards 2024 nominations announcedSunday April 28Kimberly Akimbo closes on BroadwayExclusive Video: Get A First Look at Signature Theatre’s HAIRby Alan HenryGet a first look at the…

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Let the unofficially official passing of the golf torch begin.Tiger Woods’ 15-year-old son, Charlie, will be teeing off in a U.S. Open qualifier on Thursday.The younger Woods is one of 84 players that will play 18 holes at The Legacy Golf & Tennis Club in Port St. Lucie, Florida, teeing off at 8:18 a.m. ET. If Woods finishes in the top-five, he will advance to the Final Qualifying.The father-son duo has played at the…

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The ongoing antisemitic protests at elite colleges and universities around the country amid the war between Israel and the terror group Hamas has roiled campuses as spring terms continue and graduation season nears. Unauthorized encampments and other demonstrations have sprung up at many campuses around the country, with Fox News research finding that such protests have occurred at over half of the top 50 colleges in the country since April 17.The campus unrest puts leaders of both public and private colleges in a challenging position, with some looking to address public safety needs and restore calm on campus to avoid…

Last updated: April 25, 2024 05:32 EDT | 1 min read The digital euro will likely not launch until 2028 or 2029, Germany’s central bank president, Dr. Joachim Nagel, said on Wednesday.“It may take another four or five years before it is actually implemented,” he said at the DZ Bank Capital Markets Conference 2024.The European Central Bank (ECB) initiated a two-year “preparation phase” for the project late last year. During this period, it plans to finalize rules, select private-sector partners, and conduct testing and experimentation.After these two years, the Governing Council will determine whether to proceed to the next stage…

President Biden vowed to let massive components of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act expire next year if he wins re-election, meaning that millions of Americans could soon face steeper tax bills. “Donald Trump was very proud of his $2 trillion tax cut that overwhelmingly benefited the wealthy and biggest corporations and exploded the federal debt,” Biden tweeted Tuesday. “That tax cut is going to expire. If I’m reelected, it’s going to stay expired.”Enacted by former President Donald Trump in 2017, the law drastically overhauled the nation’s tax code, including reducing the top individual income tax bracket to 37% from…

Editor’s Note: Sign up for ’s Meanwhile in China newsletter which explores what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. Hong Kong    A “life and death race” has begun to unfold in the world’s largest market for electric vehicles (EV). Chinese EV makers showing off their newest models at Auto China, which kicks off in Beijing on Thursday, have enjoyed generous support from the government for years, with some growing rapidly to become global players. BYD, for example, is now vying with Tesla for leadership of the battery electric vehicle market. But all of…

April 21-27 is National Infertility Awareness Week. All week, TODAY will be sharing stories to raise awareness of what it is like to experience infertility.In the last 13 years, 37-year-old Emily Westerfield has delivered 10 healthy babies. Three were her own biological children. She acted as a gestational carrier for families of the others. Twice, she carried twins.She is now 28 weeks pregnant with baby No. 11.“I’m probably the unicorn in this industry,” Westerfield tells TODAY.com.Her incredible success in navigating the surrogacy experience led her to give birth to Carrying Dreams, her own full-service agency designed to help egg donors, surrogates and intended…

Last updated: April 25, 2024 04:00 EDT | 1 min read Nearly four in ten Canada-based institutional investors had exposure to crypto assets in 2023, KPMG survey finds. This marks a significant recovery from the 2022 market slump.The KPMG in Canada and CAASA survey highlighted that 39% of (or nearly 4 in 10) Canadian institutional reported having direct or indirect exposure to crypto assets in 2023, which is up from 31% in 2021.“The last time we did this survey in 2021, it was a strong year for crypto assets,” says Kunal Bhasin, partner at KPMG in Canada’s Digital Assets practice.He…

The Biden administration rolled out its plan Thursday to overhaul the United States’ aging patchwork of fossil-fueled electrical grids, finishing work on a suite of regulations designed to rein in rising utility bills and stem worsening blackouts while cutting planet-heating pollution from power plants.The regulatory package includes the nation’s first-ever limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, tighter restrictions on mercury gas and coal ash, and a new way to speed up construction of badly needed transmission lines. Paired with the billions of dollars in carrots for manufacturing, building and buying modern energy equipment that came with President Joe…

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   TikTok’s expected legal challenge to a law signed Wednesday by President Joe Biden forcing the popular app’s parent company to spin off its US operations could be a seminal moment in First Amendment law in what is shaping up to be a year of defining cases. The new law gives TikTok’s parent company ByteDance nine months to sell the short-form video app or face a ban in the US, where it claims some 170 million users and has raised national security concerns over its ability to potentially gather data on and influence Americans. But in an ironic twist, ByteDance, which is based in China where…

A couple who met on “Bachelor in Paradise” are excited — and a bit anxious — to welcome their second child this year. Ashley Iaconetti Haibon and Jared Haibon, each known for being contestants at various times within the “Bachelor” franchise, were wed in 2019 and welcomed son Dawson in 2022. Now, they’re preparing for their second baby boy to arrive in 2024 — and told Fox News Digital that they’re feeling a bit nervous about it. ‘BACHELOR’ COUPLE SHARES THE UNEXPECTED MOMENT AT THEIR EUROPEAN WEDDING THAT LEFT THE BRIDE ‘BAWLING’”We’re pretty nervous, [but] obviously we want this [and] we’re so ready for…

Tesla and CEO Elon Musk this week shared slightly more of their vision for the autonomous ride-hailing service that the electric vehicle (EV) maker seeks to build. That additional information came Tuesday as the company published its first-quarter earnings that included updates on its future models, robotaxi, artificial intelligence efforts and more.Tesla said it plans to “seamlessly layer ride-hailing into the Tesla App.”  The “preview” images that the company released Tuesday suggested the ride-hailing service’s app will resemble those of existing ride-share companies. It could potentially have a “summon” button, too. MUSK SAYS TESLA’S AFFORDABLE EVS COMING NEXT YEARThe “ride-hailing…

Emerson students warned Boston Police may intervene in pro-Palestinian protests Emerson students warned Boston Police may intervene in pro-Palestinian protests 02:25 BOSTON – On Wednesday, Emerson College notified pro-Palestinian protesters in Downtown Boston they were violating city law by occupying Boylston Place and turning it into a tent city. The college warned students that police have the right to respond. Despite that, students didn’t stand down and continued to plant Palestinian flags and signage, vowing they wouldn’t leave.Police moved in overnight and started making arrests. Numerous reports put the number in the dozens. The school newspaper, The Berkeley Beacon, said…

The new Broadway musical The Great Gatsby will release its Original Broadway Cast Recording this summer!The new musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, presented by award-winning Korean Producer Chunsoo Shin and starring Jeremy Jordan  and Eva Noblezada, features music and lyrics by Tony Award nominees Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen.The digital album is set for release on June 21, 2024 with the physical CD arriving August 2, and available now for preorder.The Broadway musical features a book by Jonathan Larson Grant winner Kait Kerrigan (The Mad Ones) and is staged by award-winning director Marc Bruni (Beautiful: The Carole King…

Last updated: April 25, 2024 02:45 EDT | 1 min read Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has approved three spot Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that will start trading on April 30.According to a recent social media post by Bloomberg Intelligence ETF analyst James Seyffart, the issuers of the ETFs have revealed their fees, including one as low as 0.3% after a six-month waiver. A potential fee war could break out in Hong Kong over these #Bitcoin & #Ethereum ETFs. Harvest coming in hot with a full fee waiver and the lowest fee at 0.3% after waiver.…

The estate of Tupac Shakur is threatening legal action against Canadian rapper Drake, who appeared to use artificial intelligence to simulate the late rapper’s voice on a diss track.Shared Friday on Drake’s Instagram account, the track, “Taylor Made Freestyle,” was aimed at rapper Kendrick Lamar, whom Drake has been entwined in public rap beef with lately. It also included what appeared to be an AI-generated voice from rapper Snoop Dogg, as well as verses from Drake himself. In the song, a fake Shakur can be heard taunting Lamar, rapping, “You asked for the smoke, now it seem you too busy…

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