Lindsay Lohan is spending some quality time with her little one. On Wednesday, April 23, the actress, 38, shared a carousel of photos on her Instagram as she rounded up her time from the past few weeks. In one of the photos, Lohan's son, Luai, 21 months, could be seen crawling on the ground towards the star's husband, Bader Shammas, who held out a pink bubble machine. Another photo showed Luai climbing through a jungle gym, wearing brown pants and a gray T-shirt. "Lately ️," Lohan simply captioned the series....

Cliff Asness , Wall Street’s standard bearer of traditional quant finance, was once skeptical that machine learning would ever make a big splash at AQR Capital Management.

Yet seven years after the AQR co-founder issued his words of caution on the technology’s potential, it’s a very different story. The firm is raising external capital for two machine-learning strategies, and this subset of artificial intelligence now powers about a fifth of the trading signals in its flagship multi-strategy fund.

A farmer who starved his Highland cows during a drought has been fined. David Cameron left the animals in a field at Broadleys Farm near Stirling without checking on them during an extended period of dry weather in the spring and summer of 2023. Animal health inspectors found two of the cattle in an "emaciated" state following a tip off from an anonymous caller, while another had failed to develop udders after birthing its first calf due to "chronic malnutrition". Cameron, 72, was fined £1,040 after admitting a single charge...

Critics of President Donald Trump's steep new tariffs have been warning that a variety of bad things could occur if he doesn't reconsider, from inflation to a deep recession to a weakening of the U.S. dollar to burning bridges with longtime U.S. allies all over the world. But on Monday, April 21, another troubling possibility was raised: "empty shelves" at major retail chains. According to Axios reporters Marc Caputo and Ben Berkowitz, the CEOs of three major retail chains — Target, Walmart and Home Depot — "privately warned" Trump "that...

For Nikki Porcher, the past few months have been mentally exhausting. Before the election, she did her research, reading Project 2025 front to back. Still, she has been surprised by Trump’s first 100 days. “A lot of stuff that is happening, I knew was coming down the pipeline. However, I did not know it would happen so quickly, so swiftly and so immediately,” Porcher said. Porcher founded the Atlanta-based nonprofit Buy From A Black Woman to support Black women-owned businesses through events, funding, educational programs and its online business directory....

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday that China’s decision to block the exports of rare earth magnets in response to President Trump’s tariffs will slow the rate of production for the company’s Optimus robots, which are set to perform human daily functions. Musk said the rare earth magnets are needed for the arm of the robots in order to allow the machine powered by artificial intelligence (AI), to fit in small spaces. China has approximately 44 million metric tons of rare earth metals, making it the largest reserve on Earth...

Democrats are pressing the acting inspector general for Social Security for answers about how changes to the agency’s operations under the Trump administration are impacting services, while raising concerns about potential disruptions in benefits.

Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Life certainly hasn't always been straightforward for Genoa Brookins, who got married in her mid-thirties and had her second child in her forties. It took a while to figure out the right path, but now she has an important message for younger generations who worry about not having their life sorted out quite yet. When she thinks back to her twenties, Brookins, now 45, remembers the constant pressure she felt. Whether it...