Author: Destiny Philips

Nike has laid off up to 90% of the staff responsible for the SNKRS app, according to a report from House of Heat. The cuts reached across product development, engineering, program management, and launch operations, effectively dismantling the team that built and maintained one of the most culturally significant platforms in sneaker retail. The remaining staff is reportedly small, and people familiar with the situation suggest that investment in the platform’s future is limited. Some insiders have raised the possibility that SNKRS could shut down entirely within the next 12 to 18 months. Nike has not addressed that scenario publicly.…

The Trade Desk reported a first-quarter revenue beat, issued confident guidance for the second quarter and then watched its stock fall nearly 14% in after-hours trading. That sequence reflects the uncomfortable position the company is in right now. Growth is happening, but the market is not in a forgiving mood for anything that falls short of the full picture. The Q1 numbers that beat on revenue For the quarter ended March 31, The Trade Desk reported revenue of $689 million, up 12% from the same period a year earlier and ahead of analyst estimates of roughly $678 million. Customer retention…

The Chicago Bears released cornerback Zah Frazier on Thursday, ending a tenure with the organization that lasted just over a year and never produced a single regular season appearance. Frazier was selected 169th overall in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL Draft out of the University of Texas at San Antonio, brought in to add depth and competition to Chicago’s secondary. Neither role was ever filled. A Bears season that never started for Frazier When training camp opened last summer, Frazier was absent from the practice field. The Bears placed him on the non-football injury list in late August,…

When China’s foreign minister sat down with his Iranian counterpart in Beijing on Wednesday, the meeting was not a routine diplomatic exchange. It carried the weight of a war still unresolved, a global shipping corridor barely functioning, and a nuclear standoff with no clear exit in sight. Foreign Minister Wang Yi made Beijing’s position explicit during the talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. China recognizes Iran’s right to develop civilian nuclear energy and takes seriously Tehran’s stated commitment to forgo weapons development. The timing of that affirmation, arriving months into an active conflict involving Iran, the United States and…

Shannon Wallace has not been in a rush. The Long Island native spent years accumulating credits across acting, directing, producing and photography, with work appearing on Netflix, Amazon and BET. In 2026, that accumulation is finally visible all at once. With Season 2 of Diarra from Detroit arriving on Paramount+ and his debut feature film Channels headed to the festival circuit this summer, Wallace is not scrambling for what comes next. He is focused on what is already finished. Back in Detroit for Season 2 Diarra from Detroit gave Wallace one of his most textured roles to date, and the…

When Monroe Cannon posted to her Instagram Stories in November 2025, she had no way of knowing the internet would turn a brief, personal clarification into a days-long national conversation about her father’s family. She was 15, she had a specific audience in mind, and the message she thought she was sending had almost nothing to do with the one people received. Nick Cannon addressed the situation directly during a recent appearance on the Club Shay Shay podcast with Shannon Sharpe, explaining what his daughter actually meant and what the experience ended up teaching her. What Monroe was really saying…

BET has announced the return of the Black + Iconic Soirée, scheduled for Saturday, May 23, 2026, at MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland. The event, now an established fixture on BET’s cultural calendar, continues its focus on honoring the intersection of Black and LGBTQ+ identities, bringing together advocates, artists and community leaders for an evening built around recognition and storytelling. Laverne Cox leads the night Emmy-nominated actress, producer and advocate Laverne Cox will serve as host for this year’s soirée. Cox brings a history of visibility and cultural advocacy to the role, and her presence as host aligns…

Qualcomm had a trading session on Thursday that most chip companies rarely see. Shares jumped as much as 15% before settling into a gain of around 8% to 9% by midday. Volume hit 17.9 million shares, double the stock’s 20-day average for that hour, as investors moved quickly to reprice a company that suddenly looks like it is building something bigger than its smartphone roots suggest. Three things moved the stock The first and most immediate catalyst was a timeline shift on a custom AI chip deal. On April 30, Qualcomm confirmed an agreement to develop custom AI silicon for…

IREN Ltd. shares moved higher Thursday morning as investors prepared for the company’s fiscal third-quarter earnings report, due after the close of markets. The numbers will be the first real look at whether its costly, fast-moving shift from bitcoin mining to AI infrastructure is paying off. A transformation built on speed The company has spent the better part of the past year stacking deals and making announcements at a pace that has left analysts scrambling to keep up. IREN now describes itself as an integrated AI cloud platform, combining large-scale data center capacity, owned energy infrastructure and, following its latest…

Lentils have been cultivated for more than 10,000 years, placing them among the earliest crops ever domesticated by humans. They appear in ancient texts, fed populations across the Middle East and South Asia for millennia, and remain central to traditional cooking in those regions today. That kind of longevity is not accidental. Lentils survived because they work, as a food source, as a protein, and increasingly, as a subject of serious nutritional research. In Western countries, lentils spent decades living in the shadow of animal proteins. That is changing. As more people shift toward plant-based eating, lentils are showing up…