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As Ariana Grande winds down her Eternal Sunshine Tour, she’s the latest pop icon to call out Trump for using her music. On Thursday, the Grammy winner commented on a TikTok video posted by the Trump campaign, which used Grande’s 2024 single “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait For Your Love)” to promote anti-trans views. Deadline can confirm Grande’s label is working to get the song taken out of the clip. “Never use my music again,” wrote Grande in the comments. “Also, your truth is false.” Related Stories The clip showed Trump walking on stage at a rally, with captions that…

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has formally welcomed former ward leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and African Democratic Congress (ADC) from Ijebu North, Ijebu East, Ijebu North-East and Odogbolu Local Government Areas of Ogun East Senatorial District into the All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaking at a meeting with the defectors in Abeokuta on Wednesday evening, Governor Abiodun said he couldn’t comprehend why some people are still members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. “Those of you who are still with the Peoples Democratic Party, I find it difficult to understand why you are still…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday arraigned two men before the Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly supplying access credentials to First City Monument Bank’s (FCMB) database. According to a statement by EFCC spokesperson Dele Oyewale on Thursday, Gideon Aghogho and Oscar Ebere Chukwuebuka, were arraigned alongside a third suspect, identified as Scott, who is said to be at large. The defendants face eight charges brought under Sections 27 and 28(1)(b) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, Etc.) Act. According to the EFCC, the defendants allegedly conspired between 24 and 26 July in Lagos to supply Mr…

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been taken to a hospital in the capital, Islamabad, following complaints about his poor health.Khan was taken from Adiala jail and sent to Shifa International Hospital under heavy security, according to his party. There is yet to be official confirmation he has been transferred.The move complied with a ruling by a three-judge panel of the Supreme Court which had ordered that the cricketer-turned-politician be taken to the hospital within 48 hours to be examined by physicians.This is the most significant relief Khan has received from the courts since he was imprisoned in 2023…

Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra did plenty to quiet the bears. That’s our conclusion from Jim Cramer’s extended interview with Mehrotra, which aired Thursday night on “Mad Money.” Mehrotra’s pioneering career in the volatility-prone memory industry spans more than four decades, beginning at Intel in the early days of the personal computing era, before going on to co-found SanDisk in the late 1980s. Now, Mehrotra and Micron are at the center of a pivotal time for the industry, thanks to a dramatic supply-and-demand imbalance brought on by the AI boom. “Memory has become a key enabler of AI,” Mehrotra told Jim…

Riot Games is already winding down work on 2XKO, the free-to-play League of Legends fighting game, less than a year after its initial launch. Riot says “active development” will conclude at the end of 2026 because the company hasn’t “seen enough players stick with the game to get to a path toward sustainability.” Servers will stay online “beyond 2026,” and Riot is unlocking all playable characters and refunding money spent on the game.2XKO launched in an early access beta on PC in October 2025 and hit PS5 and Xbox Series X / S in January. But shortly after, Riot announced…

Three of the country’s worst illegal dumps are due to be cleaned up using taxpayers’ money, the government has announced.Sites in Kent, Surrey and West Yorkshire will be assessed for clearance, with Prime Minister Andy Burnham saying the “toxic dumps have blighted communities for too long”.Fines for waste offences will also rise from £300 to £5,000 to deter, catch, and punish those who dump illegally, and the Environment Agency will have more powers to seize assets bought with the proceeds of crime by those involved.But opposition parties said illegal dumps were a small part of a much bigger issue with…

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved projects worth about N540 billion to upgrade the National Hospital, Abuja, to a quaternary healthcare institution and to build a new cancer treatment centre. Quaternary healthcare refers to highly specialised medical care involving advanced treatment, research and management of complex conditions. The approvals were disclosed by the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, after the weekly FEC meeting on Wednesday. The Personal Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Special Duties, Kamorudeen Yusuf, shared details of the approvals in a post on X. The approved projects include the construction of new facilities…

The AI tool was trained on scientific publication-patent pairs.Credit: IB Photography/AlamyInvestors and technology-transfer offices expend enormous effort trying to spot commercially promising research before it reaches the point of patenting. Now, a machine-learning tool is aiming to speed up this process by scoring how ‘patent-like’ a scientific paper is — months or years before any deal, patent filing or spin-off company reveals its commercial potential. And it’s one of many proffering the same capability. The tool, called the Translation Readiness Index (TRI), performs a linguistic analysis of a paper’s title and abstract. It then measures how similar a paper’s vocabulary…

Teams looking to get into the win column meet when the Las Vegas Raiders take on the Houston Texans in Week 2 of the preseason on Thursday night. Las Vegas opened up the preseason with a 27-14 loss to the Arizona Cardinals last Thursday, while Houston dropped a 27-7 decision to the Los Angeles Chargers that same night. The Raiders, who finished last in the AFC West at 3-14 last season, were 1-7 on the road. The Texans, who placed second in the AFC South at 12-5, were 7-2 on their home field in 2025. Visit our DraftKings promo code review to see…