For all of the excitement an expanded College Football Playoff has created, there is at least one unintended consequence that seems to be revealing itself during Ohio State’s incredible postseason tear.Rivalries no longer matter.For all the dancing, prancing, flaunting and flag-planting we witnessed during rivalry week this season, Ohio State is proving teams can lose multiple times now — including its last game to its fiercest opponent — and suffer no consequences.Of course, try telling Ryan Day in the moment that losing to Michigan doesn’t matter. He looked spooked by the ghost of Bo Schembechler walking off the field of…
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Shortly after Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, was arrested by the police in France last summer and charged with failing to prevent illicit activity on the app, a French law professor specializing in cybersecurity got online messages from a man named Isaac Steidl.“I would like to talk with you,” said an email signed by Mr. Steidl, who introduced himself as the founder of the online chat site Coco. “My case is very similar to Telegram’s, and so are the charges.”Michel Séjean, the professor, who shared copies of the messages with The New York Times, said he didn’t know Mr.…
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Crypto stocks – Stocks tied to crypto prices jumped amid reports that President-elect Donald Trump could release an executive order making crypto a national priority as soon as the first day of his new term. Shares of crypto exchange operators Coinbase and Robinhood advanced 4.5% and 6%, respectively. Trading activity in small cap cryptocurrencies benefits trading platforms. Bitcoin proxies MicroStrategy and Mara Holdings gained 6% and 10%, respectively. Novo Nordisk — Shares slipped 5% after the company’s semaglutide, which is the active ingredient in the its diabetes drugs Ozempic and Rybelsus…
Gold, up 27% last year versus a 23% gain for the S & P 500, again is outperforming the stock market here in the early goings of 2025. The SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) is up 3% this year, compared to a 2% gain for the market. And based on the current “set-up” in the charts, the thinking is the SPDR Gold ETF is headed to new 52-week highs and all-time highs in the days/weeks ahead. Having peaked on October 30th at $257.71, GLD sold off some 8.5% in the Nov-Dec period and now has found its footing and is judged…
SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship launches for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025.Eric Gay | APThe Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday that SpaceX’s Starship rocket is grounded until the company and regulator complete an investigation into the midflight failure of the most recent test flight, which forced airlines to divert flights.The regulator noted in a statement that, while there have been “no reports of public injury,” it has received “reports of public property damage on Turks and Caicos” islands in the Caribbean.SpaceX must complete the investigation and put in place any required corrective…
U.S. Representative Cori Bush along with other U.S. lawmakers and advocates hold a press conference outside the Capitol Hill building to urge U.S. President Joe Biden to certify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) before his term ends in January in Washington DC, United States on December 10, 2024. Celal Gunes | Anadolu | Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden called the Equal Rights Amendment “the law of the land,” on Friday, backing an effort to enshrine the change into the U.S. Constitution more than a century after the guarantee of gender equality was first proposed.It was unclear what practical impact Biden’s comments might…
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a fireside chat organized by Softbank Ventures Asia in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 9, 2023. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesU.S. Senators on Friday expressed concern to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that he’s attempting to “cozy up to the incoming Trump administration” with the aim of avoiding regulation and limiting scrutiny, according to a letter he posted on X.The letter, signed by Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Michael Bennet of Colorado, says that in the two months since the election, large tech companies have made “million-dollar gifts to…
Ever since Jessie Diggins started collecting Olympic medals and crystal globes and staking her claim as the world’s top cross-country skier, she has made it clear that she wants her legacy to be something more than wins and appearances on podiums.She wants to spawn a new generation of top American skiers, even among the men, who have yet to achieve the success that American women have.Diggins could be on the cusp of doing that — with a major assist from Ben Ogden and Gus Schumacher, a couple of 24-year-olds who just might be on the verge of taking American cross-country…
A Russian court on Friday sentenced three lawyers for the late opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny to as much as five and a half years in prison for passing on correspondence from him to his allies, a clear reminder of how the Kremlin is still pursuing his associates even after his death.The three lawyers — Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Aleksei Liptser — were arrested in October 2023 while Mr. Navalny was in a high-security prison colony in Siberia, in a stark warning that the Kremlin was intent on severing Mr. Navalny’s links to the outside world. The city court…
Several companies reporting their latest quarterly earnings next week could blow analysts’ expectations out of the water. Earnings season ramps up next week, with roughly 7% of the S & P 500 — or 34 companies in the benchmark — slated to release their results. Results are expected from Netflix , as well as several financial and airline companies. Currently, the blended growth rate, which considers estimates for companies that haven’t yet reported as well as those that already have, suggests fourth-quarter earnings are on path to grow 12.3% from the year-ago period, per FactSet. With this in mind, CNBC…
