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Like the plot of “Succession,” Ilia Malinin’s winning program for the men’s singles competition at the World Figure Skating Championships on Saturday had a lot of twists: six quadruple jumps that included a quadruple axel, a feat involving four and a half rotations in the air.That those elements were set to the HBO series’ theme song only heightened the drama of Mr. Malinin’s performance.The moody string music that opens the song had been playing for about 30 seconds when Mr. Malinin, a 19-year-old student at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., executed a quad axel in a costume that resembled…

There’s a new high-flying stock on Wall Street that some investors are eagerly piling into. Its largest shareholder is former President Donald J. Trump.His social media company, Trump Media & Technology Group, began trading on the Nasdaq on Tuesday, under the ticker DJT, and immediately surged in value, gaining 40 percent in early trading.Trump Media — the parent of Truth Social, the online platform that is Mr. Trump’s main megaphone for reaching supporters and going after critics — closed its merger with a cash-rich public shell company on Monday.The shell company’s stock had jumped higher ahead of the deal, in…

For years, the U.S. investors who backed ByteDance, the Chinese internet company that owns TikTok, have wrestled with the complexities of owning a piece of a geopolitically fraught social media app.Now it’s gotten even more complicated.A bill to force ByteDance to sell TikTok is winding its way through the Senate after sailing through the House this month. Questions about whether TikTok’s Chinese ties make it a national security threat are mounting. And U.S. investors including General Atlantic, Susquehanna International Group and Sequoia Capital — which collectively poured billions into ByteDance — are facing increased pressure from state and federal lawmakers…

The new horror-thriller “Late Night With the Devil” stars David Dastmalchian as the host of “Night Owls With Jack Delroy” where, on Halloween night 1977, an occult-themed episode takes a dark turn during the live broadcast. Shot in a found-footage way that unearths the “lost” episode, the movie (now in theaters, streaming on Shudder on April 22) is a satirical throwback to the era’s supernatural and religious fanaticism, with a notable nod to “The Exorcist.” And it is one of the most recent in a string of late-night moments that make their way to the big and small screens.Late-night hosts…

Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, was scheduled to hold a second day of meetings on Tuesday with top Biden administration officials in Washington, as friction ratcheted up between the two allies over the U.S. decision to allow the passage of a U.N. resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.Mr. Gallant is expected to meet with his U.S. counterpart, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin, and the C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, who was in Doha, Qatar, last week to partake in the negotiations between Israel and Hamas.Before his trip, Mr. Gallant said that the meetings would be centered on preserving…

The High Court in London ruled on Tuesday that Julian Assange, the embattled WikiLeaks founder, cannot be immediately extradited to the United States, saying American authorities must offer assurances about his treatment first, including over his First Amendment rights and protection from the death penalty.The decision had been highly anticipated as the moment the court would decide if Mr. Assange had exhausted his challenges within British courts. Instead, in a nuanced ruling, two judges determined that clarity on his fate would again be on hold.The two High Court judges said that the court “will grant leave to appeal” on narrow…

Follow live coverage of England vs Belgium in today’s international friendlyThe United States men’s national team won its third consecutive CONCACAF Nations League final, defeating Mexico 2-0 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.Tyler Adams opened the scoring for the U.S. with a long-range thunderbolt just before halftime, making his first start for the U.S. in about a year and a half, while Gio Reyna scored in the semifinals He provided two assists against Jamaica and scored the second goal for the US team.The game was halted twice later as discriminatory chants were heard.Here are our key takeaways…How to follow the…

“I love how, collectively, the internet — especially TikTok — will just make insane situations funny somehow,” Ms. Iascofano said. “Like, it kind of does comfort me that we’re all almost dealing with, like, this traumatic news.”Zarinah Williams, the writer of a weekly newsletter about pop culture, politics, beauty and travel, has also shared her thoughts on the Boeing fiasco on TikTok, where she joked that “the B in Boeing stands for ‘borrowed time.’”“There’s a lot of dark humor,” Ms. Williams, 38, said.Though she doesn’t watch any of the videos herself, Helen Lee Bouygues, president of the Reboot Foundation, a…

BlackRock’s chief wants to rethink a fiscal time bombAs the chairman and C.E.O. of the asset management giant BlackRock, Larry Fink commands attention from companies and governments, helping spearhead movements like socially driven business and the need for companies to fight climate change.In his latest letter to investors, published on Tuesday, Fink weighs in on a new topic: a looming global retirement crisis, and what can be done to address it.The way retirement is handled around the world needs to change, Fink writes. Many countries will hit an aging tipping point within the next 20 years, according to his letter,…

The Food and Drug Administration has greenlit a new medicine to protect some of the people most at risk from Covid.The agency granted emergency use authorization for Pemgarda, a monoclonal antibody infusion, in immunocompromised people ages 12 and older. The drug is intended to protect against Covid for people who are not likely to mount an adequate immune response after vaccination. This includes those who have received stem cell or organ transplants and cancer patients taking medications that suppress the immune system.“It’s going to be for a very small section of Americans,” said Dr. Michael Mina, a former Harvard epidemiologist…