The Bank of Montreal announced Tuesday it will mobilize up to C$70 billion — roughly US$50 billion — in capital over the next decade for sectors critical to Canada’s economic security, marking one of the largest private-sector commitments of its kind in the country’s history. The financing will target aerospace, advanced manufacturing, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, … Read more
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya and Artemis program manager Jeremy Parsons will brief reporters at Kennedy Space Center at 2 p.m. EDT on Friday on plans to accelerate the agency’s lunar program, putting the future of the Artemis campaign in the spotlight. The stakes for the briefing are high. Artemis III is … Read more
Oscar winner Julie Andrews has made a rare public appearance. Photos obtained by Page Six show the 91-year-old legend being helped out of a vehicle in the Hamptons on October 16 — her first public sighting in months. In the photographs, Andrews wore a lilac jacket and a white baseball cap as she stepped out … Read more
The United States announced Thursday that it will award $389 million in research and development funding for power semiconductors and critical materials, the latest move to strengthen domestic chip supply chains. The largest single award will send up to $73 million to Vertical Semiconductor, a company spun out of MIT, to advance gallium nitride power … Read more
Evangeline Lilly, best known as Kate Austen on Lost and Hope van Dyne in Marvel’s Ant-Man films, has revealed that she actually retired from acting in 2020 — four years before she announced it publicly. In a Christian Broadcasting Network interview published this week and widely picked up on October 22, the 47-year-old actress described … Read more
The Powerball jackpot is climbing toward Saturday night after no ticket matched all six numbers in the Wednesday, October 21 draw. The winning numbers were 1, 21, 44, 50 and 57, with a Powerball of 5. The prize now stands at an estimated $674 million with a cash value of $283.9 million, making it the … Read more
Amazon MGM Studios has released the second trailer for I Play Rocky, the upcoming drama about Sylvester Stallone’s desperate fight to star in his own screenplay. The trailer, unveiled on October 22, stars Anthony Ippolito as a young Stallone — an unknown actor flat broke but convinced that the boxing script he has written will … Read more
American drivers are living through the priciest October on record at the pump, with AAA saying Thursday that the national average of roughly $4.27 to $4.29 per gallon is poised to make October the most expensive October ever for gasoline. The milestone follows record-setting months in August and September, and it means motorists are paying … Read more
Assane Diop is back, and this time the master thief is the one behind bars. Netflix released Lupin Part 4 on October 23, dropping all eight episodes at once for the streamer’s global audience. Omar Sy returns in the lead role, with his gentleman thief now in prison and forced to unmask a copycat thief … Read more
The Department of Justice on Thursday announced charges against 15 people in what officials described as a $1.8 billion health care fraud takedown centered in the Los Angeles area, one of the largest enforcement actions of its kind this year. At the center of the operation is an alleged $1.6 billion sham substance-abuse treatment scheme … Read more