Beau Vallis started his music career young.The 32-year-old got an internship at legendary music engineer Jimmy Douglass’ studio in Miami when he was just 18. It was there he met former Destiny’s Child member Kelly Rowland, for whom he became the go-to music engineer, and ultimately worked with such modern icons as Sia and Sean Paul. He also worked on Pharrell Williams’ album “Girl,” which got nominated for the Album of the Year Grammy in 2015.Despite this major success so early on in his career, Vallis had a hard time making a living. “The label kind of chooses what they…
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Forget crowded airports and hours-long flights. If traveling the world is on your bucket list, Adventures By Train is set to offer a new and unique experience to do just that — all in 100 days.The tour operator recently announced its round-the-world trip by train and the first departure is scheduled for March 17, 2026.More and more people are looking for a sustainable way to travel and a trip by railway fits the bill.”People are becoming increasingly concerned about their carbon footprint and the impact that flying, in particular, has on the planet,” Jim Louth, director of Adventures by Train,…
SUZUKA, Japan — “That. Is. Insane. That is insane!”Max Verstappen’s engineer, Gianpiero Lambiase, rarely sounds as impressed as he did on the radio when his driver’s pole position for the Japanese Grand Prix was confirmed.He had been through this routine 40 times before, congratulating Verstappen after a job well done.But this pole, the 41st of Verstappen’s career, felt particularly special. After Red Bull’s struggles to make Verstappen fully comfortable with the RB21 car, prompting an array of setup experiments to try to get some answers at Suzuka, plus the domination of McLaren in the early part of this season, to…
Stocks have fallen sharply in the aftermath of President Donald Trump ‘s tariffs, but there are some names that may ultimately benefit as companies return operations to the United States, according to two financial firms. Trump vowed to bring factories and jobs back to the country when he signed a sweeping tariff policy on Wednesday. It includes reciprocal tariffs that begin at 10%, and rise higher for certain countries. On Friday, China retaliated by slapping 34% levies on all goods imported from the U.S. Reshoring, or the return of companies’ overseas operations to the U.S., isn’t that simple due to…
Andrew Fox | The Image Bank | Getty Images”Dead” investors often beat the living — at least, when it comes to investment returns.A “dead” investor refers to an inactive trader who adopts a “buy and hold” investment strategy. This often leads to better returns than active trading, which generally incurs higher costs and taxes and stems from impulsive, emotional decision-making, experts said.Doing nothing, it turns out, generally yields better results for the average investor than taking a more active role in one’s portfolio, according to investment experts.The “biggest threat” to investor returns is human behavior, not government policy or company…
Arseniy45 | Istock | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump may hope his tariffs jump-start a renaissance in manufacturing in the United States, but the reality is not so simple, according to experts.The president announced sweeping tariffs Wednesday, including a baseline 10% levy across the board on all imports. He also targeted specific countries with steep tariffs, such as 34% on China, 20% on the European Union and 46% on Taiwan.Trump said “jobs and factories will come roaring back.””We will supercharge our domestic industrial base, we will pry open foreign markets and break down foreign trade barriers and ultimately more production at…
Negative impacts from President Donald Trump’s intensifying global trade war could include stagflation and an even more drastic drawdown in the stock market, according to Torsten Slok, Apollo Global Management’s chief economist. The widely-followed economist sees a dire situation emerging in the tariff chaos, leading him to conjure up a host of downside risks to the economy and markets. “When we write down a list of bullet points of thinking about what are the upside risks to the economy and what are the downside risks to the economy, the list only consists of downside risks at the moment,” Slok said…
Trump claims China has been “hit much harder” in tariff warU.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 2, 2025.Leah Millis | ReutersPresident Donald Trump on Saturday claimed that China has been “hit much harder than the USA, not even close,” in the escalating trade war.”They, and many other nations, have treated us unsustainably badly,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “We have been the dumb and helpless ‘whipping post,’ but not any longer.”He touted his sweeping new tariffs, saying, “We are bringing back jobs and businesses…
Elon Musk has been promising investors for about a decade that Tesla’s cars are on the verge of turning into robotaxis, capable of driving themselves cross-country, after one big software update.That hasn’t happened yet.What Tesla offers is a sophisticated, but only partially automated, driving system that’s marketed in the U.S. as its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) option, though many Tesla fans refer to it as FSD. In China, Tesla recently changed the system’s name to “intelligent assisted driving.”Full Self-Driving, as it was previously called, relies on cameras and software to enable features like automatic navigation on highways and city streets, or…
“Always I have to be careful for the respect for the players that have played incredible roles, but there’s no doubt he’s one of the greatest for sure,” said Pep Guardiola of Kevin De Bruyne’s impending exit from Manchester City.De Bruyne’s impact at City since joining from Wolfsburg in 2015 has been huge, with the Belgian scoring 106 goals in 413 appearances, contributing to 187 Premier League goals (scoring or assisting), equalling the assist record for a single season and winning 19 trophies.While Guardiola was careful about discussing where he stands in the greatest player debate, the City coach praised…
