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US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says authorities investigating whether family knew of planned ‘heinous attack’.Federal officials in the United States have taken into custody the family of a man suspected of attacking a pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado, over the weekend. In a video on Tuesday, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that the family of Egyptian national Mohamed Sabry Soliman had been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “This terrorist will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Noem said in the video. “We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this…

Billionaire Elon Musk has renewed his criticisms of United States President Donald Trump’s signature budget bill, calling it a “disgusting abomination” in a series of social media posts. On Tuesday, just days after leaving his post in the Trump administration, Musk offered yet another broadside against the legislation, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill. “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,” Musk wrote. “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.” His subsequent posts laid out the reasoning for his…

A New Jersey mayor has filed a lawsuit against a federal prosecutor and close ally of United States President Donald Trump after he was arrested at a protest outside an immigration detention centre. In a civil complaint filed on Tuesday, Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark, New Jersey, accused acting US Attorney Alina Habba of “subjecting him to false arrest and malicious prosecution”. The complaint also names Ricky Patel, a special agent with the Department of Homeland Security’s investigations unit, as a co-defendant. “As a result of this false arrest”, the lawsuit argues that Mayor Baraka “suffered severe reputational harm, emotional…

Before she became co-CEO of promising biotech firm Summit Therapeutics, Maky Zanganeh was a dentist, worked in robotic surgery, launched a blockbuster cancer drug and survived breast cancer. Maky Zanganeh was born in Tehran in 1970, nine years before the Islamic Revolution convulsed Iran. She remembers one night in particular, when the military police tear-gassed a house at the end of the cul-de-sac next to where her family lived and sprayed it with machine gun fire. She and her two older sisters were home alone. “In the morning, we woke up at 7 o’clock and had to go to school…

These 8 entrepreneurs and entertainers, including Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift, are setting records and forging new paths—early in their careers. Whether with sold-out stadium tours, unicorn tech startups or viral makeup lines, the youngest members of Forbes’ 2025 list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women have achieved outsized success early in their careers–building fortunes worth hundreds of millions–or even a billion– before their 40th birthday. To make this ranking as a young person isn’t easy. Of the 100 list members, only eight are under 40 this year. That’s down from 11 last year, as a result of two members turning…

An inside look at the launching point for these women entrepreneurs, executives and entertainers. Not all fortunes are created from the same starting point. This year, a small number of the 100 members of Forbes’ 2025 list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women were born into wealthy families. An even smaller number grew up in poverty and battled adversity. Just over half come from middle-class backgrounds. As part of our reporting on how these inspiring entrepreneurs, executives and entertainers built their careers, we delved into list members’ histories, taking into account their family’s socioeconomic status and any setbacks or advantages that…

After years of booming entrepreneurship, the market is softening for celebrity-backed companies. But eye-watering earnings continue to roll in for the biggest female movie, TV and pop stars in the country. In business, timing is everything—even for the rich and famous. The boom time for celebrity entrepreneurship took off like a rocket around the end of 2020, and the pop stars, actors and talk show hosts who best took advantage minted fortunes in the hundreds of millions, even billions in a few cases, by putting their name on everything from cosmetics brands to TV and movie production companies. But now…

The 10th anniversary of Forbes’ list marked another record year for these queens of capitalism, with a 20% jump in billionaires and the highest ever minimum net worth. Bigger fortunes. More billionaires. Increasing impact. We mark the 10th anniversary of our annual list of America’s most successful self-made women by celebrating how far these 100 entrepreneurs, executives and entertainers have come. Together these ceiling-breakers are worth a combined $155 billion, more than ever before. There are 38 billionaires this year, with fortunes originating in everything from cars to cosmetics to Chardonnay. That’s more than double the 18 billionaires we found…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Longtime academic Santa Ono was rejected Tuesday for the University of Florida presidency by the state university system board amid sharp criticism from political conservatives about his past support for diversity, equity and inclusion programs and other initiatives they view as unacceptable liberal ideology.The Florida Board of Governors, which oversees the state’s universities, voted 10-6 against Ono, who was most recently president of the University of Michigan. The University of Florida Board of Trustees had voted unanimously in May to approve Ono as the school’s 14th president, and it is unprecedented for the governors to…

A school system in Connecticut that’s at the center of an ongoing legal fight over allowing transgender student athletes to participate in competitive girls’ sports is being investigated by the Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Education confirmed Tuesday, adding a new flashpoint in the national debate over trans girls’ participation in youth sports.James Demetriades, the mayor of Cromwell, said the town’s school system could lose nearly $1 million in federal special education funding if the department determines it’s in violation of Title IX, the federal civil rights law that forbids discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities…