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The video is just under two and a half minutes long. A slim man with close-cropped hair walks into a room, pulls a long black mamba — whose venom can kill within an hour — from a crate and allows it to bite his left arm. Immediately after, he lets a taipan from Papua New Guinea bite his right arm. “Thanks for watching,” he calmly tells the camera, his left arm bleeding, and then exits.Over nearly 18 years, the man, Tim Friede, 57, injected himself with more than 650 carefully calibrated, escalating doses of venom to build his immunity to…

“It was all fascinating,” he said. “I learned about Impressionism. I learned about Egypt. I grew up at the Boston museum. I owe it everything.” (He has, as a result, donated several works of art to that museum, as well as to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and to the Morgan Library, he said.)He met his wife, Milly, in high school and they’ve been together ever since, married for 65 years.Coming out of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Glimcher wanted to be Alfred H. Barr Jr., he said, the prominent director of the Museum of Modern Art. After…

Nilüfer Yanya, ‘Cold Heart’With her new single, “Cold Heart,” Nilüfer Yanya sets aside her trusty fuzz-toned guitar. Amid undulating keyboard chords and programmed beats, she sings about desire, separation, resentment and heartache: “I don’t wanna bear this burden ’cause it hurts like hell,” she sings. Many of her previous songs have built toward grungy catharsis, but in “Cold Heart,” the chords keep cycling around her; she’s still enmeshed.Bambii featuring Jessy Lanza and Yaeji, ‘Mirror’Bambii, a Jamaican-Canadian D.J. turned producer and songwriter who’s based in Toronto, keeps reconfiguring a sparse, syncopated bass riff and twitchy, flickering breakbeats in “Mirror.” Jessy Lanza…

Vermont made history last year when it enacted the country’s first climate superfund law. It’s designed to let the state recover money from fossil fuel companies to help pay the rising costs of climate change.If the law can survive intensifying legal challenges, that is.On Thursday, the Justice Department filed federal lawsuits against Vermont and New York, the only other state to have enacted a climate superfund law, arguing that the measures were “a brazen attempt to grab power from the federal government” and force others to pay for the states’ infrastructure spending.Hours later, West Virginia’s attorney general, John B. McCuskey,…

Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump administration, Capitol Hill and more Fox News politics content.Here’s what’s happening…- China open to talks with Trump admin on lowering tariffs, ministry says- Top Senate Armed Services Republican says Trump OMB’s budget ‘shreds to the bone’ military capabilities- Former Trump official slams UN reform efforts as ‘eight and a half years late’Brown University in House Republican’s Sights Amid Email ControversyA brewing controversy over a “DOGE-like” email at one of America’s top universities has gotten the attention of Capitol Hill.Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, wrote to Brown University…

As trade tensions flared between the world’s largest economies, communication between the United States and China has been so shaky that the two superpowers cannot even agree on whether they are talking at all.At a White House economic briefing this week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent demurred multiple times when pressed about President Trump’s recent claim that President Xi Jinping of China had called him. Although top economic officials might usually be aware of such high-level talks, Mr. Bessent insisted that he was not logging the president’s calls.“I have a lot of jobs around the White House; running the switchboard isn’t…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Foreign exchange myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Given everything going in the world — Mike Waltz leaving the chat; papal elections; GTA being delayed until 2026; etc — you’d be forgiven for not paying much attention to Asian FX.But here’s a humdinger of a chart showing the Taiwanese dollar’s exchange rate against the US dollar: We’ve reversed the Y axis to show how the Taiwanese dollar has soared against the US dollar in recent days. Bloomberg informs us that this is the biggest rise since 1988. Here’s what the…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Professional investors are slowly waking up to the realisation that, quite by accident, they have become enormously overexposed to the US, and they’re not sure of the way back.For as long as anyone who manages money for a living has been in this game, US stocks have been a natural destination for foreign investors, whereas loading up on the UK, Europe, Japan or emerging markets has always been perceived as a bolder call. “When you didn’t know where else to go, the US…

A package from Temu is seen in front of a screen with the Temu logo. (Photo by Nikos Pekiaridis/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesBargain Chinese retailer Temu changed its business model in the U.S. as the Trump administration’s new rules on low-value shipments took effect on Friday.In recent days, Temu has abruptly shifted its website and app to only display listings for products shipped from U.S.-based warehouses. Items shipped directly from China, which previously blanketed the site, are now labeled as out of stock.Temu made a name for itself in the U.S. as a destination for ultra-discounted…

A pickup truck and a passenger van carrying a tour group collided in Idaho near Yellowstone National Park on Thursday evening, killing seven people, the Idaho State Police said. Both of the vehicles caught fire after the crash.Six of those killed were in the van, a Mercedes, which was carrying 14 people, the State Police said. The driver of the pickup, a Dodge Ram, was also killed.The crash happened just before 7:15 p.m. on U.S. Highway 20 near Henry’s Lake, a popular spot for hiking, biking and fishing in eastern Idaho, about 15 miles from Yellowstone. The cause was under…