LONDON — For sale: The world’s most valuable toilet, a lavatory literally worth its weight in gold. Sotheby’s announced Friday that it will auction off the solid gold cistern, a sculpture by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan entitled “America.” The auction house calls it an “incisive commentary on the collision of artistic production and commodity value.” It’s also a fully functional …
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Newsom Trounces Republicans With $120 Million Prop 50 Campaign Haul
(Bloomberg) — California Governor Gavin Newsom is betting his political future on a controversial ballot measure that would redraw the state’s congressional maps to favor Democrats. A coalition of super wealthy and working people is giving him a big financial advantage. Over the past 11 weeks, Newsom and his allies brought in more than $120 million for Proposition 50, about …
Read More »MTV Pays ‘Ridiculousness’ Star Rob Dyrdek at Least $32 Million a Year – Bloomberg.com
MTV Pays ‘Ridiculousness’ Star Rob Dyrdek at Least $32 Million a Year Bloomberg.com ‘Ridiculousness’ Canceled at MTV After 46 Seasons Variety ‘Ridiculousness’ canceled after 14 years on MTV: Reports FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth ‘Ridiculousness’ Canceled By MTV After 14 Years Deadline ‘Ridiculousness,’ Often the Only Show on MTV, Is Ending The Hollywood Reporter Source link
Read More »A $95 million bet gone wrong: Inside Brian Kelly’s last days at LSU
Reported by Bruce Feldman, Ralph Russo and Christopher Kamrani The LSU football operations center, its front doors guarded by a 12-foot-long bronze tiger statue, has been home to both spectacular success and infamous flameouts over the past two decades. Still, the facility in the shadow of Tiger Stadium had never experienced a scene like the one that played out last …
Read More »Half a million bottles of blood pressure drug recalled for carcinogen levels
More than half a million bottles of blood pressure medication have been recalled for containing higher levels of a carcinogenic substance than allowed. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA of New Jersey originally issued the recall earlier this month for capsules of prazosin hydrochloride that it distributed. Now, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has classified the recall as a Class II risk …
Read More »Inside Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's Incredible $53 Million Property Portfolio – Realtor.com
Inside Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s Incredible $53 Million Property Portfolio Realtor.com Nvidia is officially the world’s first $5 trillion company. CEO Jensen Huang says it’s on track for ‘half a trillion dollars’ in revenue Fortune The world’s most valuable company just blew through an unprecedented milestone CNN Nvidia Is First Company to Top $5 Trillion in Market Value Amid AI Boom The New York …
Read More »Welcome to Derry Frightens 5.7 Million Viewers in 3 Days
“It: Welcome to Derry” frightened an impressive audience with its series premiere on Sunday night, which landed the “It” prequel series within the top three show debuts on HBO Max to date. The premiere episode garnered 5.7 million viewers within three days of viewing the U.S., according to multiplatform viewing data across HBO and HBO Max. This gave “It: Welcome …
Read More »Why Louisiana Gov. has ‘got it out for’ LSU AD after $54 million Brian Kelly mess
The wild feud between Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and LSU athletic director Scott Woodward was a long time coming. After Woodward fired LSU football coach Brian Kelly last week, Landry blasted Woodward in a press conference and declared that he wouldn’t be involved in hiring the next coach. Landry and Woodward have long been at odds, according to Yahoo Sports, …
Read More »Governor Hochul Declares State of Emergency and Initiates New Actions in Response to Trump Administration Cutting Off Food Assistance to Nearly 3 Million New Yorkers Starting November 1
New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance Commissioner Barbara C. Guinn said, “SNAP recipients, most of whom are children, older adults or individuals with a disability, count on SNAP every month to feed their families. The federal government’s callous decision to cut off federal funding for SNAP recipients for the first time in the program’s history underscores this …
Read More »Bessent Says China to Buy 12 Million Tons of Soybeans This Year – Bloomberg.com
Bessent Says China to Buy 12 Million Tons of Soybeans This Year Bloomberg.com Trump Live Updates: Latest News on Xi Meeting, China Trade Talks and Dr. Casey Means The New York Times Treasury secretary hails US-China soybeans truce — but analysts share warning about this year’s crop New York Post Trump secures China agreement to buy millions of tons of US soybeans, Bessent …
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