“The Daily Show” host Ronny Chieng is starting to suspect the United States may be on the wrong side of history when it comes to the tariff war between the U.S. and China. Wednesday night’s opening monologue was entirely devoted to the issue, starting with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s response to American Vice President JD Vance repeatedly calling Chinese citizens “peasants.” “Let those American peasants wail before the 5,000-year-old civilization of the Chinese nation,” Xi said. “F–k, that went so hard,” Chieng said on Wednesday night. “Oh no, are we the Drake in this beef? Are we the certified peasants?” The late night host then countered that Xi’s 5,000-year-old flex isn’t as intimidating as Xi may think it is. “Half the people here don’t even think the Earth is that old,” Chineg said. “Also, let’s just be real. There’s no way that Americans are the peasants here. Do peasants have medical debt? Didn’t think so. Checkmate, China.” As the segment continued, “The Daily Show” played a news clip discussing Ch
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Netflix’s “Ransom Canyon” was never going to be revolutionary. The new drama, set in rural Texas and based on a series of books by Jodi Thomas, will naturally remind you of “Yellowstone” with its land-loving cowboys dedicated to keeping their ranches out of the hands of corporations and their water out of corporate pipelines. Its love triangles and small town soap plots give a bit of “Virgin River” and a million other small town soaps, and it’s not just the presence of Minka Kelly that will make you think of “Friday Night Lights,” because the local teens are embroiled in their own cheerleading-adjacent drama. Everybody’s hot, everybody’s got secrets, and everybody’s in love with somebody whether that somebody loves them back or not. Sometimes there’s not much more you could ask for from a TV show. “Ransom Canyon” shares its name with the small town it’s set in, a community fueled by ranches that have been run by the same families for generations. But times are tough for ranchers, and some, like Davis (Eoin Ma
Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind the president’s Truth Social app, is calling on the SEC on Thursday to immediately investigate a British hedge fund for taking a $105 million short position against it. The company, in a memo sent to the SEC, said the bet on Trump Media’s shares dropping is “suspicious” and a “potential manipulation” of its stock price. Trump Media is questioning why the hedge fund, Qube Research & Technologies, recently disclosed its roughly six million-share short position in Trump Media only in Germany; Trump Media trades on the Nasdaq exchange in the U.S. under the symbol DJT. “Neither Nasdaq, NYSE Texas, nor any other source has been able to confirm when the trades disclosed by Qube were conducted or if they were conducted at all,” the memo said. Trump Media added: “The above factors, especially when combined with the history of suspicious trading surrounding DJT stock — including DJT appearing on Nasdaq’s Regulation SHO Threshold Security List continuously for more than
Apple CEO Tim Cook has once again managed to shield the company’s flagship products from steep U.S. tariffs, thanks to his ongoing relationship with President Donald Trump. After Trump announced a 145% tariff on goods imported from China, Cook began working behind the scenes to secure exemptions for Apple devices assembled overseas. The strategy worked.…
Apple appears to be preparing a follow-up to its Vision Pro headset, and new images suggest a key hardware change: a refined battery cable. The latest leak shows a redesigned connector that could be part of a new, lighter model—possibly named “Vision Air.”
Note: This story contains spoilers from “The Wheel of Time” Season 3, Episode 8. “The Wheel of Time” capped a successful, momentum-gathering third season with Rand (Josha Stradowski) proclaiming himself to the Aiel, Mat (Dónal Finn) confronting the series’ “horror elves” for the first time and a second book-deviating death in as many weeks – all to showrunner Rafe Judkins’ plan. For many viewers, Season 3 of “The Wheel of Time” was a major leap forward in the series compared to the first two entries. With the show earning the strongest reviews of the show’s run by the end of the season, Judkins told TheWrap it was a part of his initial pitch that the series would really hit its stride in the third year — which is proving true. “This is the point in the books where they became an explosive worldwide success,” he said. “It’s the part of the books where some of the most uniquely ‘Wheel of Time’ things happen because you’ve done all this groundwork to set up this world so that you can do an episode where you’re f
American Express released Q1 earnings Thursday. The credit card company beat earnings estimates and maintained its guidance for 2025.
WASHINGTON — Internet giant Google was slapped with a loss in federal court Thursday when a judge ruled the company unfairly dominated digital marketing. The ruling gives federal prosecutors the authorization they would need to break up the company’s advertising products. The lawsuit filed by the Justice Department and 17 states accuses Google of antitrust violations through its digital ad marketing strategies. It says Google “rigged the rules of auctions” for online ads by leaving web publishers, advertisers and general consumers few other options. The department says Google packaged its technology for placing digital ads with other services to force advertisers to use more of its products. Competitors did not have the same degree of control over the online ad technology, the Justice Department argued. Google reported annual revenue of $348 billion in 2024. Roughly 80% of it came from advertising sales on its sites and affiliated network. Much of the rest comes from apps and other products it sells. The stat
Cutting corners: A new report has reignited the debate over how much tax the world’s largest technology companies pay, revealing that the so-called “Silicon Six” – Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Netflix – have paid nearly $278 billion less in corporate income tax over the past decade than would be expected if their profits…
The chipmaker beat earnings and revenue estimates in the first quarter. Also, its outlook for Q2 was better than expected.