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Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss The Conservative leadership contest has another six weeks to run before the UK has its next prime minister, but Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have already earmarked key…

Metaverse startup MELON announced the $5 million seed round today. MELON’s seed funding comes from backers including Crush Ventures, Gaingels, Comcast Spectacor, and an SPV led by Matt Finick, formerly CFO at Roblox and Marvel…

A new US-based web3 startup called Highlight has raised $11 million in seed funding from a heavyweight list of music industry investors.Highlight aims to let anyone mint non-fungible tokens (NFTs) with prior technical expertise.Amongst…

By CLAIRE GALOFARO - AP National Writer TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — It was lunch hour at the abortion clinic, so the nurse in the recovery room got her Bible out of her bag in the closet and began to…

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Abortion rights proponents scored a surprising victory in Nebraska by derailing a bill that would have automatically outlawed abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court ever overturns its Roe v. Wade ruling…

Mina The Hollower, the next game from the studio behind Shovel Knight, has surpassed 16,000 backers on Kickstarter. Developed by Yacht Club Games, Mina The Follower is a “bone-chilling love letter to handheld gaming” featuring a classic…

Plans are being drawn up for a £1bn renovation of the British Museum, with chair George Osborne looking to raise the funds for an extensive modernisation of one of the UK’s most popular cultural institutions over the next decade.The…

That spring, only a few months later, Mr. Kushner successfully pushed for his father-in-law to make his first international trip to a summit in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, where the president was photographed participating in a traditional…

Bagging a nomination at the International Emmys is a “big deal” for Vir Das, as he admits he doesn’t get nominated for many (awards) back home (in India).“For a show about India to be nominated abroad is kind of ironic. Just the nomination…

In this Nov. 14, 2018, photo shows Rivian R1T at Rivian headquarters in Plymouth, Mich. Rivian, an Electric vehicle startup backed by Amazon, Ford, and other…