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Joe Rogan signed a new multiyear partnership deal for his podcast, the Joe Rogan Experience, which is reportedly worth up to $250 million, the Wall Street Journal reports. Under the agreement, his controversial show — which was exclusive to Spotify for the past three years — will now be available …

One construction worker was killed in a building collapse in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn on Friday afternoon, local news outlets reported. But the tragic accident led misinformation accounts and conspiracy theorists on X (formerly Twitter) to falsely claim the incident had taken place in Crown Heights, concocting a …

WWE founder Vince McMahon is under federal criminal investigation amid a sexual assault and trafficking lawsuit filed by a former employee of the wrestling company. The Wall Street Journal reports that the now-former TKO Group chairman has been the subject of a federal probe since 2022 following a wave of …

Tesla has been sued by 25 counties across California accusing the electric car company of mishandling hazardous waste at its facilities. The lawsuit was filed in San Joaquin County Superior Court on Tuesday. Alameda, San Joaquin, San Francisco, and other counties are seeking civil penalties and an injunction that would …

A Delaware judge voided Elon Musk‘s $56 billion pay package at Tesla on Tuesday, after a shareholder sued Musk claiming the approval process for the package was improper. The 2018 compensation package entitled the billionaire to stock options as Tesla hitperformance benchmarks — the loss of them would drop Musk’s …

Elon Musk, co-founder of Neuralink, said the the first human has received an implant from the brain-chip startup. The billionaire and X/Twitter owner made the announcement on his social media platform Monday evening. “The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well,” he tweeted, adding, “Initial …

Chita Rivera, the triple-threat Broadway legend who originated roles in classic musicals like West Side Story and Chicago, died on Jan. 30 of an unspecified illness, according to a statement by her daughter, Lisa Mordente. She was 91 years old. Born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero to a Puerto Rican …

Teenage Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was banned from the sport for four years over a positive doping test taken just before the 2022 Winter Olympics, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled on Monday. The ban backdates to before the most recent Winter Games in Beijing, stripping Russia of …

E. Jean Carroll talked about her $83 million victory over Donald Trump and facing the former president in court in a new interview days after the jury awarded her in the defamation lawsuit. Speaking to the New York Times, Carroll said of the $83 million — $7.3 million in compensatory …

WWE founder Vince McMahon resigned from parent company, TKO Group, a day after a former employee accused him ofsexual assaultand trafficking in arecent lawsuit. In 2022, McMahon announced he wasstepping downfrom the WWE after an internal probe that found allegations of a hush-money payment to a former employee, with McMahon …