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The Indonesian immigrant, former figure skater and early Facebook investor is America’s first and only billionaire female venture capitalist. Venture capitalist Theresia Gouw is “smart, opinionated and the only woman in the room,” says Heather Fernandez, cofounder and CEO of healthtech startup Solv and former executive at real estate tech firm Trulia, which Gouw backed in 2005. She’s also become a woman of many firsts. Born in Indonesia to parents of Chinese descent, Gouw immigrated to the U.S. when she was three. She later became the first person in her high school to attend Brown University, the first female partner…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Gray skies and drizzle gave way to sunshine, multicolored flags and celebrations as the nation’s capital held the World Pride parade Saturday. Tens of thousands of people participated in parades and other festivities, in defiance of what activists say is an unprecedented assault on the LGBTQ+ community that challenges the rights many have fought for over the years. A rainbow flag the length of three football fields flowed through the streets, carried by 500 members of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., to kick off the parade. Behind them, people waved Pride flags and flags representing…

For the first time in nearly 70 years, boxing is returning to Boston’s famed Fenway Park.The 11-fight card is the culmination of years of effort by twin brothers and longtime public schoolteachers who grew up in Watertown and want to revitalize boxing in the city that was home to some of the greatest athletes in the sport’s history.It’s also symbolic of a shift back to the roots of the oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball, to when it wasn’t just used for Red Sox games but for other sports and political events.“Most people’s experience there is solely related to baseball,”…

WASHINGTON (AP) — David Perry recalls being young and gay in 1980s Washington D.C. and having “an absolute blast.” He was fresh out of college, raised in Richmond, Virginia, and had long viewed the nation’s capital as “the big city” where he could finally embrace his true self. He came out of the closet here, got a job at the National Endowment for the Arts where his boss was a gay Republican, and “lost my virginity in D.C. on August 27, 1980,” he says, chuckling. The bars and clubs were packed with gay men and women — Republican and Democrat…

Donald Trump and Elon Musk arrive for a test launch of SpaceX’s Starship rocket on November 19, 2024, in Brownsville, Texas.Getty Images In the barrage of attacks that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk fired at each other Thursday, one stood out: Trump’s threat to cancel federal contracts with companies owned by the world’s richest man. The primary target: SpaceX, which has received at least $21 billion in government contracts, with about $13 billion still outstanding. Musk probably doesn’t have much to fear. Legally, the Trump administration would likely enmire itself in lengthy legal disputes if it appeared to cancel…

Advice for owners on filing and paying taxes, borrowing, managing workers and benefits and much more. New and threatened tariffs. Expiring tax breaks. Tighter lending rules at the Small Business Administration (SBA). Small business owners face lots of challenges and uncertainty these days. But then, starting and running a small business has always been tough. And yet, small businesses remain the mainstay of the U.S. economy, creating jobs, millionaires, and in some cases, big companies and billionaires. Diane Hendricks, #1 on Forbes’ new list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women, with a net worth of $22.5 billion, started a roofing supply…

Home decor’s got a split personality this year: Call it “city glow” and “cottage flow.”At the two international design fairs that I attended — Maison et Objet in France, Ambiente in Germany — acres of exhibition booths were full of Art Deco furnishings, island-vibe rattan seating and lighting, and lots of emphasis on sustainably produced materials.But a couple of aesthetics drawing crowds were especially interesting.Capturing the ‘city glow’ One was an exuberant urban vibe I’m nicknaming “city glow.” It’s full of highlighter-hued throw pillows, edgy surrealism, street art and hefty, Brutalist-style furniture — lots of sharp-cornered steel or concrete consoles…

NEW YORK (AP) — Inside a Walmart store in New Jersey, a worker puts the finishing touches on a cake with an edible ink Sponge Bob on top. A colleague creates a buttercream rosette border for a different cake, while another co-worker frosts a tier of what will be a triple-deck dessert.It’s graduation season, the busiest time of year for the 6,200 employees the nation’s largest retailer trained to hand-decorate cakes per customers’ orders. The cakes themselves come, pre-made, frozen and in a variety of shapes and sizes, from suppliers, not Walmart’s in-store bakeries. But there’s no sugar-coating the importance…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — There is an unmistakable air of Peckham these days in Bosnia’s capital, Sarajevo, as the legendary yellow three-wheeled van from the BBC’s long-running sitcom “Only Fools and Horses” cruises the city streets.The little Reliant Regal was the trademark of the stars of the series — the irresistible Trotter brothers from Peckham, a working-class neighborhood in London. In Bosnia, a replica belongs to the Fatic brothers, local businessmen who are crazy about the show.The Fatics are dealers in home appliances, running a successful company with dozens of employees and a huge shop on the outskirts of Sarajevo.…

Topline President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s months-long alliance imploded in spectacular fashion Thursday as the world’s richest man and its most powerful engaged in a nasty, public back-and-forth on their respective social media platforms—just months after the two formed a friendship so close Musk sometimes slept at the White House. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the … More White House in Washington, DC, on May 30, 2025. (Photo by ALLISON ROBBERT/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images Timeline June 5, 4:26 P.M. Musk, who previously disagreed with Trump’s…