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Saturday Night Live fan favorite Bowen Yang announced on Instagram that he will be leaving the show after tonight’s episode, hosted by his Wicked co-star Ariana Grande.”I loved working at SNL, and most of all I loved the people,” he wrote. Yang went on to express his gratitude to the program and everyone involved. Bowen Yang at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on October 18th. Fraser Harrison/WireImage via Getty Images“I’m grateful for all the time I spent there,” he said.”Thank you Ali for sending me off in the most dreamy way I can imagine,” he later…

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If you look only at the price charts, 2025 was a year of heart-stopping volatility. It was a year in which Bitcoin shattered expectations to reach an all-time high of over US$126,000 in the middle of the year, only to succumb to a brutal decline in the fourth quarter, falling below US$88,000 within a few weeks. The resulting crash wiped out more than US$1 trillion in global crypto market capitalization and left retail investors reeling. But surface-level analysis misses the real story of 2025. While prices have fluctuated wildly, the structural integrity of the cryptocurrency ecosystem has strengthened. This year…

The man suspected of killing two students and injuring nine others in a mass shooting at Brown University days later shot and killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, who was found dead in a storage facility in New Hampshire on Thursday, officials said.Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez told reporters Thursday that the suspect, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, died by suicide.Ted Docks, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston field office, said Valente, who is also suspected of killing an MIT professor days after the Rhode Island campus shooting, was found in a storage facility in Salem, New…

Consumer price data for November was released on Thursday, which was much lighter than expected, breaking away from the recent sticky inflation trend.Stock prices soared. Yield decreased. The probability that the US Federal Reserve (Fed) will decide on policy interest rates has increased.And many economists scratched their heads.The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported annual consumer price index inflation at 2.7% last month, but core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, was even lower at 2.6%. The Dow Jones survey had the annual headline rate at 3.1% and the rate relative to core CPI at 3%, both of…

The Trump administration announced Thursday it would begin measures aimed at eliminating transition-related care, or what the Department of Health and Human Services calls “gender refusal procedures,” for minors across the country. “These actions ensure that the federal government will never directly fund gender reassignment procedures for minors, nor will it fund the facilities that perform these procedures,” department officials said in a call with reporters Thursday. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other department officials are expected to announce details about the move later Thursday.HHS officials said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will…

People shop for groceries at a store in Port Washington, New York, USA on November 19, 2025. Shannon Stapleton ReuterConsumer prices rose less than expected in November, giving investors hope that inflationary pressures may be cooling enough to ease U.S. monetary policy than Wall Street expected. The consumer price index rose at an annual rate of 2.7% last month, according to a delayed report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Economists polled by Dow Jones had expected the CPI to rise 3.1%. Core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, was also lower than expected, rising 2.6% in 12…

Monday, December 15, 2025, Bank of England (BOE), City of London, United Kingdom. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe Bank of England narrowly decided to cut interest rates on Thursday in its final monetary policy decision of 2025.The central bank’s nine-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted 5-4 on Thursday to cut the benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 3.75%, marking the fourth rate cut this year. Economists widely expected a rate cut, which comes amid lackluster economic data, a weakening labor market and a recent decline in inflation that has been faster than expected.Nevertheless, the vote was close,…

A new report has warned that MSCI could be forced into billions of dollars in cryptocurrency-related sales if it decides to exclude digital asset treasury companies. This could put further pressure on a market already facing an economic downturn. Should investors prepare for a sale during the MSCI review? According to the latest report published by BitcoinForCorporations, the cumulative value of potentially affected companies could range from $10 billion to $15 billion. These numbers are calculated using the float-adjusted market capitalization of the companies being evaluated, which totals more than $110 billion. Learn more about the potential impact of MSCI’s…