By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Crypto traders, brace for potential volatility because the pivotal U.S. nonfarm payroll report for November is set to be released later today alongside October retail sales. The employment data will offer further insight into the extent of cooling in the U.S. labor market, shaping expectations for the Fed’s rate-cutting trajectory….
Chai Discovery, a biotech startup with backing from OpenAI, announced a $130 million Series B round at a $1.3 billion valuation on Monday. The round was led by General Catalyst and Oak HC/FT, the company said. Other participants include Menlo Ventures, OpenAI, Dimension, Thrive Capital, Neo, Yosemite venture fund, Lachy Groom, SV Angel, and new…
André SnellingsDec 15, 2025, 12:38 PM ET Close Dr. André Snellings is a senior writer for men’s and women’s fantasy basketball and sports betting at ESPN. André has a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Michigan. He joined ESPN in 2017 after a 16-year career as a neural engineer, during which time he was also a…
Today, the Cinema Eye Honors has shared a raft of exciting new announcements and its last batch of nominees for the 19th Annual Cinema Eye Awards Ceremony, recognizing artistic achievement in nonfiction and documentary films and series. First up: the creation of a brand new honorary award — billed the Cinema Eye-Con Award for Career…
Liz Truss, Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, began the first edition of her YouTube show with a vow to unmask “the evil-doers” attempting to bring down Britain, the US and Europe. She would, she explained, reveal how an “international network of leftists work to subvert democracy and the will of the people”. Despite her bleak monologue,…
Ripple, the payments-focused blockchain firm closely related to the XRP Ledger (XRP), is taking its U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin RLUSD$0.9998 to Ethereum layer-2 (L2) blockchains including Optimism, Coinbase’s Base, Kraken’s Ink and Uniswap’s Unichain in a push to embed the $1.3 billion token deeper into the multichain ecosystem. The company, announcing the move Monday, said it…
A woman is facing felony charges in Evansville, Indiana over a DoorDash delivery in which she allegedly sprayed the food with a substance that made the customers vomit. In a press release, the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office said that it was contacted on December 7 by a man who said that he and his wife…
Marcel Louis-JacquesDec 15, 2025, 06:00 AM ET Close Marcel Louis-Jacques joined ESPN in 2019 as a beat reporter covering the Buffalo Bills, before switching to the Miami Dolphins in 2021. The former Carolina Panthers beat writer for the Charlotte Observer won the APSE award for breaking news and the South Carolina Press Association award for…
Hello, and welcome to “The Lead Up,” IndieWire’s new newsletter giving you both an overview of the awards race at any given time, and an in-depth look at the specific conversations people on the trail are discussing. Bless you all for reading this, as I am not huge on doing a lot of promotion on…