Spotify Premium users will soon see an increase in their monthly bill, the music streaming company announced Monday. "Over the next month, subscribers in the U.S. will receive an email explaining what this update means for their subscription," said in a blog post released by Spotify. The company said the hike is part of occasional price updates that allow the brand to "continue to invest in and innovate on our product features and bring users the best experience." Music streaming:It’s been 25...

On a Friday evening in October 2018, Hunter Biden rolled up in a black Cadillac to StarQuest Shooters & Survival Supply in the Delaware city where he had been born and raised.  A salesman standing in the window didn’t initially recognize him as the son of the state’s longtime Democratic senator, now-President Joe Biden, and would later recall declining a tip from the younger Biden as he purchased a .38-caliber Colt Cobra revolver.  

With former President Donald Trump convicted in his Manhattan hush money case, the 2024 political-legal spotlight will shift to Delaware, where jury selection begins Monday in the federal weapons trial of first son Hunter Biden. Hunter, 54, faces three counts accusing him of illegally possessing a firearm while addicted to crack cocaine after lying on a federal gun-purchase form to obtain the weapon in the first place. Although President Biden isn’t implicated in the case, the...

In December 2020, in the relative lull between Donald Trump’s defeat and Jan. 6, 2021, a right-leaning biotech entrepreneur named Vivek Ramaswamy joined a call with two billionaire titans of the right’s battles over speech and technology: Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. The subject was a plan to roll up a new tech giant that would be wide open to the speech, from extreme partisanship to vaccine skepticism, that had been pushed off platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The company would build a new...

Sally Buzzbee has stepped down as Executive Editor of The Washington Post, the newspaper announced Sunday night. Buzzbee, who has led the Post since 2021, will be immediately replaced by Matt Murray, the former Editor in Chief of The Wall Street Journal, until the 2024 election.

House Speaker Mike Johnson slammed President Joe Biden's upcoming executive action on immigration, calling it "too little, too late." The criticism comes despite Johnson's previous advocacy for executive measures to address immigration issues, according to Politico. During an appearance on "Fox News Sunday," the Louisiana Republican told host Shannon Bream: "He's [Biden] trying to desperately show the American people somehow that he wants to address the issue that he himself created...

Two cops were shot by a 19-year-old Venezuelan migrant early Monday when they tried to stop him as he was riding a motorized scooter — with one of the injured officers rendering aid to his partner since he was “more concerned” about him, according to police and sources. The officers had tried to pull over the teen, identified as Bernardo Castro Mata, after spotting him driving the wrong way down a street at 89th Street and 23rd Avenue in Elmhurst at about 1:40 a.m.,...

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC+) on Sunday agreed to extend output cuts through next year, likely keeping prices high through the November presidential election.  The alliance said after a meeting Sunday that the move was aimed at boosting slack prices that have lulled despite the ongoing war in Gaza and attacks on shipping vessels in the Red Sea.