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Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Rocket Lab — Stock in the aerospace manufacturer gained 3% after the U.S. Space Force listed the company as one of the firms entered in its pool of launch providers. Braze — Stock in the cloud software company added 6% after beating analysts’ estimates in the fourth quarter on the top and bottom lines. Braze reported adjusted earnings of 12 cents per share, while analysts surveyed by FactSet were looking for 5 cents. Revenue of $160.4 million also beat the $155.7 million forecast from analysts. Lululemon — Shares of the athleticwear…

Dear readers,Do you know the difference between an astronaut and a cosmonaut? The distinction rests on where the -naut was trained: Cosmonauts hail from Russia and astronauts from the United States, Canada, or Europe. Not China, though: The Chinese version is a taikonaut. If there exists another job with three different names of equally silky mouth-feel, I cannot think of it.The -naut distinction is one of several vocabulary upgrades you might receive from Samantha Harvey’s “Orbital,” which has taken the books desk by storm. Nobody pays us to get obsessed with specific books all at once; it just happens. (If…

In the music video for “Ankles,” the first single from Lucy Dacus’s fourth studio album, the singer plays a pleasure-seeking Victorian-era damsel that has escaped from a painting to gallivant around Paris. Her foil is a stern museum guard trying to corral her back into her frame.Dacus came up with the idea as a way to reflect the push and pull between curiosity and restraint in the song. Also, she said, “The song is pretty horny, so it’s not like I was going to recreate what happens.”For Dacus, frames have become a recurring motif. She used one in a video…

The private equity giant Blackstone is weighing taking a small stake in TikTok ahead of an April 5 deadline set by President Trump for the Chinese-owned app to change its ownership or face a U.S. ban under federal law, two people familiar with the situation said.Investing in TikTok would give Blackstone the chance to take a bite of one of the most popular social media applications in the world, which has over 170 million American users. It is unclear if any investment — which would likely be a fraction of the size of Blackstone’s typical deals — will move forward,…

Staff members at the U.S. Institute of Peace were informed they were terminated effective immediately on Friday, four sources familiar with the situation told CBS News. It was not immediately clear if the terminations affect the entire organization but sources said the terminations impact the vast majority of the nonprofit, including multiple departments at the congressionally funded organization.The Trump administration has attempted to freeze the institute’s funding and gut and replace its board. President Trump signed an executive order in February aimed at dismantling the USIP. USIP has about 300 employees and a budget of roughly $55 million. The institute’s mission is…

Elon Musk, the billionaire leading a government efficiency initiative, has for weeks made broad and unsupported claims of rampant fraud in federal spending.In a series of interviews on conservative podcasts and television interviews, Mr. Musk has defended attempts by the Department of Government Efficiency to target popular entitlement programs like Social Security and access sensitive payment systems with a series of inaccurate claims. A representative for DOGE did not respond when asked for evidence of Mr. Musk’s claims.Here’s a fact-check.WHAT WAS SAIDThis lacks evidence. Unauthorized immigrants are not eligible for most federal safety net benefits, and there is no evidence…

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has hit back at US Vice President JD Vance’s criticism of Copenhagen’s treatment of Greenland, saying “this is not how you speak to close allies”.During a visit to the Arctic territory on Friday, Vance alleged that Denmark was doing too little for the island’s security, given the threat from Russia and China in the region.”Denmark has not kept pace and devoted the resources necessary to keep this base, to keep our troops, and in my view, to keep the people of Greenland safe from a lot of very aggressive incursions from Russia, from China…

Mandalay, Bangkok – Rescue workers in Myanmar are struggling to save people trapped beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings in the country’s second-largest city, Mandalay, following the powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake that toppled buildings, brought down bridges, destroyed roads and sent shockwaves felt across the region. Every street in the city has collapsed buildings as a result of Friday’s quake. Distraught residents are waiting outside their damaged and flattened homes and businesses for rescue crews and any assistance from the government, which has yet to arrive. Mandalay resident Sandar Win, 45, told Al Jazeera how her six-year-old son was trapped under falling…

The Tennessee Titans fired off the latest salvo in the battle over blue.On Thursday morning, the Titans announced “Titans Blue” as their primary home jersey color starting in 2025. The move came nearly a year after the Houston Texans unveiled an alternate uniform combination that features a color the franchise coyly calls “H-Town Blue.” The blues are nearly indistinguishable, and the battle over which NFL team owns the hue rages on.There’s a lot of contempt in that color. Conflict remains over terms never formally settled in Houston three decades ago, when a city consumed by scorn banished the owner of…

Last year, on the night before the election, Megyn Kelly did something she’d never done before. “Hi, everybody.” She got up on stage at Donald Trump’s final campaign rally, and she endorsed him. “Vote Trump and get 10 friends to vote Trump, too.” [cheering] Megyn Kelly built her career in the mainstream media. She spent nearly 15 years at Fox News — “Welcome to the very first broadcast of ‘The Kelly Files.’” — where she earned a reputation as one of the channel’s sharpest interviewers — “What do you say to those who say you were so wrong about so…