ABC will pay $15 million to President-elect Trump's museum foundation and $1 million in legal fees to settle a suit over comments by anchor George Stephanopoulos.
Why it matters:The settlement is one of the biggest any media company has struck with the former (and pending) president, who has sued a number of publishers over the years.
Driving the news: Apple CEO Tim Cook dined at breezy Mar-a-Lago last night — a day after a pilgrimage to Trump's table on Thursday by Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google cofounder Sergey Brin. Mark Zuckerberg flew in on Thanksgiving Eve. Jeff Bezos will sit down with Trump next week.
Your company's holiday party is probably pretty chill this year — maybe it's at a dive bar or a restaurant or even virtual — if you're having one at all.
Why it matters: The traditional corporate holiday bash is falling out of fashion as younger workers opt for more meaningful and activity-filled, less alcohol-saturated festivities.
Dating in 2025 will be defined by sober, honest, real-life experiences.
What they're saying: "Singles are embracing intentionality in their dating lives — being upfront about what they want and refusing to settle," Tinder's chief marketing officer Melissa Hobley says.
Elon Musk has sued OpenAI over its planned for-profit restructuring, but Musk's own emails show he wanted OpenAI to have a for-profit component and wanted to own and run it himself, OpenAI argues in a new court filing Friday.
Why it matters: Musk helped found OpenAI in 2015 but has since become a bitter opponent and critic of the ChatGPT maker.
The maker of the backpack alleged CEO shooter Luigi Mangione wore says he and his employees are getting threats.
Why it matters: It's another sign of the heated public reaction to the shooting — against the victim, his industry, and those who helped catch Mangione.
These days Bounty paper towels feel like the not-so-quicker-picker-upper.
We recently opened a package, and they felt much ... thinner than before, which was noticeable since Procter & Gamble brags about how thick and absorbent the product is.
State of play: Could this be the latest example of shrinkflation?
And this person on Reddit noticed too but went a step further, weighing an old package and a new one — and showing that the new one was 20 grams lighter even though it contained the same number of sheets.
Elon Musk's ongoing feud with the Securities and Exchange Commission escalated Thursday when he publicly challenged the agency, claiming it gave him 48 hours to pay a penalty or face charges related to his Twitter acquisition.
The big picture: Musk's brawl with the regulator — a six-year on-again-off-again battle involving numerous unrelated issues — has reached an inflection point.
The Republican Party will aim to get rid of daylight saving time, President-elect Trump said in a post on Truth Social Friday.
Why it matters: Most U.S. adults dislike the semi-annual clock change — currently designed to maximized daylight during summer — and lawmakers have occasionally pitched scrapping it, without official success.
President-elect Trump's inner circle rushed to claim a report acknowledging that FBI informants (but not undercover agents) were present at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as proof of a baseless right wing belief that the bureau instigated the riot despite the report saying the opposite.
Why it matters: Vice President-elect Vance, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in their social media posts falsely conflated the FBI's acknowledgement that several informants were at the riot and even entered the Capitol with a long-running conspiracy theory that the FBI staged the attack to discredit then-President Trump. The report explicitly said that no FBI employees were present and that no FBI informants were authorized to participate.
Total energy demand is expected to increase by nearly 15% worldwide over coming decades. Driving that demand is the growing use of energy by billions of people living in developing nations.
Finding ways to sustain growth while lowering emissions is a growing imperative.
Consulting giant McKinsey & Co. will pay $650 million in a deal with federal prosecutors over its work helping Purdue Pharma increase opioid sales.
Why it matters: It's the latest massive penalty to stem from the ongoing fallout to the opioid crisis, which has already cost the company more than $1 billion.
Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) want more information on private equity ownership of methadone clinics, and how those investments may impact both clinical decisions and lobbying efforts to restrict broader methadone distribution.
Why it matters: Private equity could have an opioids problem, after years of gobbling up abuse treatment facilities.
The boardrooms of most major companies are no longer completely male-dominated — globally nearly all large public firms now have at least one woman director.
Why it matters: It's a reflection of a big push for diversity in the boardroom that's now stalled out.
President-elect Trump and Elon Musk are finding a wellspring of unexpected cooperation from Democrats in their plans to crack down on government waste and inefficiency.
Why it matters: Trump's "Department of Government Efficiency," or DOGE, has been a mostly Republican brainstorm so far, but centrist and progressive Democrats have begun offering ideas for it.
The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was not a client of the medical insurer, a spokesperson for parent company UnitedHealth Group confirmed to Axios on Thursday night.
The big picture: NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told NBC New York earlier Thursday there's "no indication" that Luigi Mangione "was ever a client of UnitedHealthcare," but evidence police allege the suspect wrote "does make mention that it is the fifth largest corporation in America, which would make it the largest healthcare organization in America."
Amazon gave $1 million to President-elect Trump's inaugural fund, the company confirmed Thursday — one day after Facebook and Instagram parent Meta announced a similar donation.
Why it matters: Trump noted to CNBC's Jim Cramer on Thursday that he's returning to the White House with warmer relations with Big Tech leaders and said Amazon founder Jeff Bezos planned to visit him next week, following a similar Mar-a-Lago meeting with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
President-elect Trump appeared to indicate his support for the dockworkers union in its contract dispute with the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) that led to a major strike at East Coast and Gulf ports earlier this year.
Why it matters: Though port workers are back on the docks after a three-day work stoppage in October, they haven't yet finalized a new contract with the shipping companies — the prospect of an economy-crushing strike still looms. The deadline is just five days before Trump's inauguration.
The spending stopgap bill being negotiated by Congress will fund the government until March 14, 2025, according to multiple sources familiar with the negotiations.
Why it matters: That timeline sets up Congress for a government funding battle toward the tail end of President-elect Trump's first 100 days in office.
