Female founders in the U.S. VC ecosystem: the good and the bad

Trump threatens to impose 25% tariffs on EU goods

US president warns levies will target auto sector and be applied ‘generally’

Financial Times - Feb. 26

The Top N.B.A. Draft Prospect Is Unfathomably Good

We’ve never seen a player as young as Duke’s Cooper Flagg dominate college basketball, a columnist for The Athletic writes.

The New York Times - Feb. 27

A new cookbook ties healthy eating to good sleep

Eating greasy food can keep you awake at night

ABC News - 5d

Gear News of the Week: Skype Will Close for Good in May

Plus: The FDA clears Google’s Loss of Pulse feature on the Pixel Watch 3, Oura launches a pregnancy study, and Photoshop gets its first proper app.

Wired - 5d

Syrian businesses left with unwanted goods as economy stalls

A deluge of cheap imports has undercut stocks accumulated under the protectionist Assad regime

Financial Times - 4d

Brighton renaissance down to 'good genes' - Welbeck

Brighton striker Danny Welbeck's extra-time winner over Newcastle continues his fine late-career form in Sussex.

BBC News - 3d

Kerr: Call more travels 'for the good of the game'

Steve Kerr, who got a tech in the Warriors' win Monday after becoming irate over a no-call, wants officials to call more traveling violations.

ESPN - 2d

Will PSG bounce back? How good is Nwaneri?

What did we learn from the first legs, and how will it impact next week? Gab Marcotti, Mark Ogden and Julien Laurens reflect on some of the UCL's burning questions.

ESPN - 4h

Trump announces pause on tariffs for some Mexican goods

The move expanded a carve-out issued for automakers a day earlier.

ABC News - 8m

Microsoft Hosted Explicit Videos of This Startup Founder for Years. Here's How She Got Them Taken Down

Breeze Liu has been a prominent advocate for victims. But even she struggled to scrub nonconsensual intimate images and videos of herself from the web.

Wired - Feb. 20

How a national-security review made AppLovin America’s hottest stock — and its founders billionaires

Who says government can’t create wealth? CFIUS, an obscure panel playing an increasing market role, blocked the sale of AppLovin years before a stock-market bonanza.

MarketWatch - Feb. 21

Federal court denies Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes appeal to overturn fraud conviction

On Monday, a California federal appeals court denied Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' plea to have her 2022 fraud conviction overturned. Holmes and her former partner are serving prison time over ...

CBS News - Feb. 25

Don’t Call it Crypto: How This Founder Used Stablecoin to Build a New Cross-Border Payment Network

Sinclair Toffa left Palantir to bring innovation to international payments.

Inc. - Feb. 25

Reddit co-founder says Meta’s end to third-party fact-checking is ‘very pragmatic’

"It is impossible to do fact-checking at scale, let alone in real time, as Facebook was trying to do," Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian told CNBC.

CNBC - Feb. 27

Why Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founders Want to Buy Their Company Back From Unilever

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are reportedly looking to reacquire the beloved ice cream brand, claiming its corporate owner has muzzled the company’s social activism.

Inc. - 5d

Join Inc. Founders House at SXSW to Learn from the Best Brand Builders Around

Over three days, attendees will connect with one another, hear from star entrepreneurs, and get seriously inspired.

Inc. - 1d

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak blasts Musk's DOGE over 'sledgehammer' approach to government layoffs

Apple co-founder slammed the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, over mass job cuts at various government agencies.

CNBC - 1d

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Criticizes DOGE and Elon Musk’s Management Style

“It’s not good for a business to run that way,” Wozniak said of recent DOGE mass firings.

Inc. - 21h

What’s a Pecha Kucha? And How Can It Help Founders Stay On Brand While Scaling?

Yelitsa Jean-Charles, founder of Healthy Roots Dolls, shares her favorite strategy for sharing creative control.

Inc. - 19h

George Clooney revisits a journalistic hero in Broadway version of 'Good Night, and Good Luck'

George Clooney, the proud son of a journalist, likes journalism and telling truth to power

ABC News - 2d

Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez, Gayle King: all-female crew to helm next space flight on Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket

Activist Amanda Nguyen, movie producer Kerianne Flynn and former Nasa scientist Aisha Bowe will also be on flight. Jeff Bezos announced on Thursday that an all-female crew would helm the next ...

The Guardian - Feb. 27

Sanders: Democrats' strategy to combat Trump policies 'not good enough'

Senator Bernie Sanders believes that Democrats need to face a broken political system and address the needs of the working class.

The Hill - Feb. 21

Pope Francis Is in a ‘Good Mood’ but ‘Not Out of Danger,’ His Doctors Say

As the pope enters his second week in a Rome hospital with a lung infection, his physicians said his condition was critical but not immediately life-threatening.

The New York Times - Feb. 21

Trump says he's had 'good talks' with Putin but not Ukraine

President Donald Trump said he's had "good talks" with Russia's Vladimir Putin but not with Ukraine, and that he's "sick" of how Volodymyr Zelenskyy has handled the war.

ABC News - Feb. 21

The stock market looks good from the outside — but inside is another story

The percentage of unprofitable publicly traded U.S. companies is rising

MarketWatch - Feb. 22

Mitch McConnell is retiring from US politics. Good riddance | Moira Donegan

Whenever you see a horror of anti-democratic rule, remember Mitch McConnell. You have him to thank. You would think that this is exactly what Mitch McConnell wanted. McConnell, the 83-year-old ...

The Guardian - Feb. 24

Has international hockey replaced the NHL All-Star Game for good?

The 4 Nations Face-Off was a game-changer. How will the NHL capitalize on it -- and what comes next for its midseason events?

ESPN - Feb. 24

Pope Francis 'in good spirit' but doctors give no update on his condition

Pope Francis was conscious, eating and in “good spirit,” a Vatican source said Monday, as worries persisted around the pontiff's kidney and lung problems.

NBC News - Feb. 24

Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Review: Mid-Tier Goodness

This is a very nice 1440p video card, if you can get it.

Wired - Feb. 24

No, the DOJ didn’t cut a ‘good’ quid pro quo with Eric Adams

Almost everyone wants Adams to have a jury trial — at least everyone except Trump’s Justice Department and Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School.

The Hill - Feb. 24

How pop-up auctions scam people with phony goods

One auction attendee spent $6,000 on what was supposed to be an "authenticated" Picasso. It was actually a reproduction worth about $70.

CBS News - Feb. 24

Can JJ Redick transform the Lakers’ defense? | Good Word with Goodwill

Just a couple of months ago, few considered the Lakers legitimate contenders. Has that changed?

Yahoo Sports - Feb. 25

'The Talent' author on the topsy-turvy Oscar season and (mostly) good vibes throughout

'If I'd written a novel about this year's best actress Oscars race it would have been rejected as beyond belief,' entertainment journalist Daniel D'Addario says of his debut novel, 'The Talent.'

Los Angeles Times - Feb. 25

Good Trouble launches AbleToPlay to help gamers with disabilities find accessible games

Good Trouble unveiled AbleToPlay an accessibility-first games discovery platform to help gamers with disabilities find accessible games.

VentureBeat - Feb. 25

Op-ed: Tesla's stock slump is a glimpse of the future of the multinational corporation, and it's not good

U.S. corporations are now viewed abroad as extensions of Trump's American foreign policy, exposing them to backlash. The market damage will get worse yet.

CNBC - Feb. 25

Xbox Boss Says Bringing Games To PS5 Is "Good For Gamers"

Microsoft is shaking things up of late by bringing more of its first-party games to rival platforms like PS5 and Nintendo Switch. This multiplatform release strategy is good for people who like ...

GameSpot - Feb. 25

Why Nvidia’s stock looks good to these analysts despite earnings jitters

Even if Nvidia doesn’t deliver a huge revenue beat, some analysts say the stock still looks cheap.

MarketWatch - Feb. 25

Archer gets England off to good start with two wickets in an over

England's Jofra Archer takes the wickets of Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Sediqullah Atal in their must-win tie against Afghanistan in the Champions Trophy.

BBC News - Feb. 26

Homeowner affected by landslide says buyout program is "not a good deal"

A FEMA-funded buyout program only provides 75% of the funding for the city to buy affected properties at fair market value, while the remaining share is absorbed by sellers.

CBS News - Feb. 26

Lise Klaveness: ‘If Fifa followed their own reforms, it would be very good. But they didn’t’

The first female president of Norway’s FA will soon have a seat on Uefa’s ExCo, but she has no intention of being any less disruptive to football’s governing bodies. Lise Klaveness cut a lonely ...

The Guardian - Feb. 27

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