Brands have a proposition for influencers: What if you didn’t make those pesky #ad disclosures? The Utah-based wellness influencer Sharon Johnson, who describes herself in her Instagram bio as a “Reformed Tradwife,” said a supplement company recently asked her not to include an #ad disclosure in posts showing her receiving and opening the company’s product.
Country music superstar Dolly Parton had a very early start to her career when she began singing at her local church at age 6. By age 13, she had recorded her first single, “Puppy Love,” which she co-wrote at age 11 with her uncle—and had even appeared on the Grand Ole Opry stage by that
South Korea’s annual joint military drills with the US will be cut short by six days at the request of Washington, its defence ministry has announced. Seoul said that the “period and scale” of the 2026 Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise had been adjusted due to a “proposal of the US side”. The drill will now
The latest multi-billion dollar AI startup isn’t for writing code or generating images. It’s for answering your landlord. New York-based property and housing management company EliseAI is in talks to raise a new round of funding at a $3.7 billion valuation, including $300 million in financing. Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners are in talks
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday declined a request to appear voluntarily before a second Senate panel after majority Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee voted along partisan lines last week to hold the longtime infectious disease expert in contempt. In a pointed letter to Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, a lawyer for the former
A judge has granted Donald Trump’s request to delay handing over financial records to the BBC as part of his $10bn (£7.4bn) lawsuit against the broadcaster. The US president is suing the BBC over an episode of Panorama that edited together two different sections of a speech he gave before the 2021 Capitol riots. The