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Meta Platforms Inc META.O announced on Wednesday that it will lay off 13% of its workforce, or more than 11,000 workers, in one of the year’s largest layoffs, as the Facebook parent company confronts rising costs and a sluggish advertising market. The large layoffs, the first in Meta’s 18-year history, come after hundreds of layoffs at other prominent digital companies, …

Enola Holmes 2 presented some of the most iconic characters from the Sherlock Holmes novels, including John Watson (played by Himesh Patel) – but why did Enola send him to Sherlock? The characters and storylines from Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes books have been converted to a variety of mediums for decades, and in many instances, the artists have made …

Jay-Z maintained his position as the wealthiest hip-hop artist, while Kanye West reportedly lost his billionaire title as a result of brands refusing to collaborate with him. Former Forbes editor Zack O’Malley Greenburg included a “remix” of the Hip-Wealthiest Hop’s Artists article he produced for the publication, in which P. Diddy or Diddy became a billionaire. Due to investments in …

Fil-Am TikTok star Bella Poarch has reportedly filed for divorce from her husband of nearly four years, Tyler Poarch. The US entertainment website TMZ reported on Sunday, November 6 that they got legal paperwork showing that Bella, whose true name is Denarie Poarch, filed for divorce citing “irreconcilable differences.” According to TMZ, the records revealed that the couple, who wed …

Carlos Yulo, despite his greatness, still struggles with self-doubt. After concluding his performance at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Liverpool, England, the Filipino acknowledged the need to be mentally tougher. Yulo won silver in vault and bronze in parallel bars, but he accepted defeat as he finished eighth in floor exercise, the sport in which he won his first …

Botir Zaripov, the governor of the Bukhara Province, stated that promoting peaceful coexistence is the most important of the UAE and Uzbekistan’s shared values and principles in order to sustain these highest human ideals in the consolidation of security, stability, and peace throughout the world. Zaripov told the Emirates News Agency (WAM) that the United Arab Emirates serves as a …

Nike Inc. severed its association with Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving on Friday, November 4, and canceled its next Irving-branded shoe release in response to his endorsement of an anti-Semitic film. The Nets had already suspended Irving for at least five games after he twice stopped short of completely rejecting the documentary. Later on Thursday night, Irving offered a more …

Selenators stormed social media on Friday to praise Selena Gomez for being so open about her mental health struggle after the release of “My Mind & Me.” Friday’s premiere on Apple TV+ depicts Gomez’s struggles with lupus, mental illness, and popularity. On Friday, the title of the documentary began trending on Twitter as individuals shared their emotional reactions. “Words are …

Kanye West, who in 2016 was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, now asserts that he was “mentally misdiagnosed.” Thursday night, following his return to Twitter after previously being banned for anti-Semitic remarks, the rapper resumed his nightly ritual of calling out close friends and releasing personal text messages. This time against his former personal trainer, the Jewish Harley Pasternak. The rapper …

A senior US administration official stated on Thursday that the United States believes China and Russia have influence they may use to persuade North Korea not to conduct nuclear bomb tests. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to Reuters, said that while the United States had been claiming since May that North Korea was ready to resume …