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Get your own personalized summer school diploma here. Today on our final episode of Summer School 2025, we will test your knowledge. We will salute the unsung heroes of government service. And we will pick our valedictorian from among you of the class of 2025. Editorial Note:Pres ... Show More

In the past couple years, demand has gone wild for drugs like Ozempic – and its cousins, Zepbound, Wegovy, and Mounjaro. For people who had never been able to lose weight before, suddenly the numbers on the scale were plummeting. And everybody wanted to get their hands on them. N ... Show More

Tariffs are the favorite tool of our current president, but there are lots of other ways that governments insert themselves into the free exchange of goods and services. Some of these trade barriers are so insidious and have been going on for so long that it may surprise you that ... Show More

Whether you’re a TikTok fanatic, or the app’s K-hole-inducing stream of content has forced you to delete it from your phone, its influence on music is undeniable. In 2020 the platform bragged that over 70 artists on the platform signed with major labels. TikTok’s success was link ... Show More

This week we interview Tai Verdes to talk about how he rose to fame on TikTok and build an fan base for his music. We caught up with Tai a week before he headlined Lollapalooza Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

On TikTok, pop stars — Halsey, FKA Twigs, and Florence Welch among them — have been complaining a lot lately about their labels forcing them to make TikToks. As people spent the early part of the pandemic staring at their phones instead of flocking to concerts, the short-form-vid ... Show More

Jennie of BLACKPINK, Doja Cat, and Rihanna were just some of the few artists that stepped out for fashion’s biggest night out at the 2023 Met Gala. Seventeen charts five songs on Hot Trending Songs and are taking over the top spot. The guys of ENHYPEN chatted with Billboard News’ ... Show More

TikTok became successful by being the app for watching viral dance videos. But with global downloads of the app recently topping three billion, it’s also increasingly a place where users are also going to find news - though not any old news.While traditional media organisations a ... Show More

Apple is reporting earnings today, but it’s about to lose its spot as the #1 most valuable company in the world — Because Microsoft caught 3 critical tailwinds.DINK (“Double-Income No Kids”) isn’t just a lifestyle, it’s an economic force — Federal Reserve data shows that DINKs ha ... Show More

Machine Gun Kelly started his music career as a rapper, but it was his latest #1 punk album Tickets to My Downfall that launched the hard-edged musician to superstardom. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the artist to talk about that move to punk af ... Show More

Last year, TikTok Shop officially launched in the US. It’s the latest commercial venture from ByteDance Ltd., the parent company that owns the social media app. By creating its own marketplace — where users can find and buy products without leaving the app — TikTok hopes to compe ... Show More

Mikayla Jane Nogueira is a beauty badass and a TikTok superstar. She discovered TikTok one year ago and now has 5 million followers and 227.7 million views. I talk to her today about her newfound fame and what it takes to constantly stay on top of her game. She tells us about her ... Show More