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Bill Ackman, known for his prescient market bets, has raised his takeover bid for Howard Hughes Holdings in a bold push to transform the company into a “modern-day” Berkshire Hathaway, drawing inspiration from Warren Buffett’s legendary investment empire. In a series of posts on microblogging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, the founder of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management announced a revised proposal to acquire 10 million newly issued shares of Howard Hughes at $90 per share. If the deal proceeds, Pershing Square will own 48% of the Texas-based real estate developer.

Kansas City Chiefs are trying for a historic Super Bowl three-peat, while the Philadelphia Eagles are the only remaining team that can stop them. Super Bowl 2025 is a rematch of two years ago, when the Chiefs edged the Eagles 38-35 in Glendale, Arizona. Last year, Kansas City beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in overtime in Las Vegas. No team has ever won three straight Super Bowls.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Waymo will test its self-driving taxis with trained human autonomous specialists behind the wheel. Waymo is preparing to test its self-driving taxis in more than 10 new cities across the U.S.

President Trump, an avid Diet Coke drinker, had the beverage served up at his inauguration luncheon.

Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, the Super Bowl isn’t just about touchdowns—it’s about treating his loved ones to a VIP experience of epic proportions. With the Chiefs set to face the Philadelphia Eagles in the February 9 matchup at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Kelce might be dropping another jaw-dropping $3 million on a luxury suite for girlfriend Taylor Swift and his entourage.

Lady Gaga has officially announced that her seventh Interscope album, MAYHEM, will be releasing on March 7. Fans were left stunned as billboards appeared overnight in New York and Las Vegas, revealing the big news. While her collaboration with Bruno Mars, ‘Die With a Smile,’ continues to top the charts, this announcement has sparked celebrations among ‘Little Monsters.’ Her highly anticipated album features the lead single, ‘Disease,’ which peaked at No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100, and includes 14 tracks in total.

Donald Trump took a victory lap in Las Vegas on Saturday, basking both in his presidential victory in Nevada last year and the rapid-pace action of his first week in office. Twenty-five minutes into his speech, Trump arrived at its ostensible subject: the promise of eliminating taxes on tipped wages. He didn’t offer much new detail, but he did say he would begin working with lawmakers over the coming weeks to write new tax laws, including renewing the tax cuts he signed into law in 2017.

US President Donald Trump, addressing a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday, reiterated his commitment to exclude workers' tips from federal taxes.

Nishant Dev made a smashing professional debut as he demolished USA's Alton Wiggins in the super-welterweight category at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. In a dominating debut, Dev won the contest with a few seconds left in the first of the six-round bout via technical knockout on Saturday.

Donald Trump said on Saturday he may consider rejoining the World Health Organization, days after ordering a U.S. exit from the global health agency over what he described as a mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

Natalie DiDonato, a former reality TV personality known for her role on VH1's Mob Wives, has been reported as missing. The 44-year-old, who joined the show in season five, was widely recognised as the cousin of infamous mobster Frank “Frankie Flowers” D'Alfonso.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas saw one beat stand out—robotics. Home robots were showcased mowing lawns, cleaning floors, organizing pools and even adjusting home lighting.

CES in Las Vegas provides an annual preview of high-tech attractions headed for the car world

Elon Musk said a third person has received an implant from his brain-computer interface company Neuralink, one of many groups working to connect the nervous system to machines.

Automakers are joining forces to boost their scale and competitiveness to contend with industry newcomers like iPhone maker Foxconn

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A messy tech breakup between the US and China is forcing a rethink about what the industry might look like for consumers in a decoupled world. Last week, the Pentagon blacklisted internet and gaming giant Tencent Holdings Ltd for alleged links to China’s People’s Liberation Army.

Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has not historically paid much attention to energy companies. But there were signs of a shift at this year's Las Vegas event, as the tech sector begins to confront its substantial energy needs, which are certain to grow as cloud computing and artificial intelligence advance. «If you'd asked me to do CES five years ago, I wouldn't necessarily have seen the point,» said Sebastien Fiedorow, chief executive of the French start-up Aerleum, which manufactures synthetic fuel from carbon dioxide (C02).

Neuralink Corp., the brain-computer interface company founded by Elon Musk, has successfully implanted its device in a third human patient and plans 20 to 30 more procedures in 2025, Musk announced this week. “We’ve got now three humans with Neuralinks implanted and they’re all working well,” Musk said during an event in Las Vegas, streamed on X, his social media platform, according to Bloomberg. In the U.S., Neuralink has implanted its device in two patients so far. The first recipient has been able to play video games, browse the internet, post on social media, and move a laptop cursor using his mind.

Sustainability is a key theme this year at the annual CES tech trade show in Las Vegas

Afeela 1, at CES 2025 held in Las Vegas while marking an extremely significant step in their joint venture named Sony Honda Mobility (SHM), reported The US Sun.

exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI including ChatGPT to help plan the attack, Las Vegas police said Tuesday.A laptop, cellphone and watch are still under review nearly a week after 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger fatally shot himself just before the truck blew up.A review of Livelsberger’s searches through ChatGPT indicate he was looking for information on explosive targets, the speed at which certain rounds of ammunition would travel and whether fireworks were legal in Arizona.Livelsberger, an Army Green Beret who deployed twice to Afghanistan and lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado, left notes saying the explosion was a stunt meant to be a “ wake up call ” for the nation’s troubles, officials said last week.He left cellphone notes saying he needed to “cleanse” his mind “of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.”The explosion caused minor injuries to seven people but virtually no damage to the Trump International Hotel. Authorities said that Livelsberger acted alone.Livelsberger’s letters touched on political grievances, societal problems and domestic and international issues, including the war in Ukraine.