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LONDON (AP) — David Beckham, the former England soccer captain who has been an ambassador for the U.N. children’s fund for two decades, is to receive a knighthood in next week’s honors list from King Charles III, according to U.K. media reports Friday.Without citing sources, the BBC said Beckham is set to receive further recognition both for his soccer career, and his contributions to British society.The knighthood will make Beckham “Sir David” while his wife since 1999, former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham, will become “Lady Beckham.” In 2003, Beckham was awarded the Order of the British Empire, or OBE, for…
2025-06-06T09:09:01Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Dropbox CEO Drew Houston says RTO is like trying to get people back into malls and movie theaters. “We can be a lot less dumb than forcing people back into a car three days a week,” he said on a Fortune podcast. “It’s just a different world now,” he said. Dropbox in…
Like many of his predecessors, President Donald Trump has affirmed the importance of historically Black colleges and universities, hailing them as a pathway to careers and a better life for students in the U.S.The schools have not faced cuts to federal grants of the kind that have rocked Ivy League schools Trump has blasted as hotbeds of “wokeness” and antisemitism, and the president has said HBCUs’ core federal funding is not at risk. But that is not to say it’s a comfortable time for HBCUs’ leaders. As the Trump administration cracks down elsewhere on programs to support underrepresented students, the…
Joie Armstrong knows that a home-cooked meal featuring whole foods is the best way to get her daily nutrients. She takes cues from her grandmother, who lived to be 104, because she never owned a car, walked everywhere and grew her own food, Armstrong says. Since starting a GLP-1 medication last year, Armstrong has been more focused than ever on getting the nutrition she needs. Priority No. 1? Protein, to keep her muscles fueled, her appetite satisfied and, as she puts it, to turn her body into a “constant fat burner.”But Armstrong is also a modern mother, which means she’s…
An internal Microsoft organization chart shows the top execs Jay Parikh has assembled to help him lead the new CoreAI group.In January, CEO Satya Nadella put Parikh in charge of this unit, central to Microsoft’s ambition to help developers build AI agents capable of working alongside human employees.The roster, recently viewed by Business Insider, includes executives who overlapped with Parikh at Meta, where he was previously head of engineering. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the org chart and said some of the Meta execs were hired prior to Parikh.Asha Sharma, corporate vice president, product, AI platform Asha Sharma, former chief operating…
Adam Foroughi tends to eschew the typical trappings of a billionaire.He has one car, and would rather it were self-driving. He rarely appears on TV or conference stages. In his downtime, you’re more likely to find him at home with his five children than schmoozing on the slopes of Davos. People who know him point to his mild manner and lack of ego.His advertising technology company, AppLovin, is similarly unflashy. With an ad network that reaches around a billion daily users and a market cap more than twice that of Snap, Pinterest, and Reddit combined, it was the technology behemoth…
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Trailing the Stanley Cup Final after losing the opener in overtime, the defending champion Florida Panthers look to even things up in Game 2 at the Edmonton Oilers on Friday night.Winning on the road has not been a problem for them so far, going 8-3 away from home, the third loss coming Wednesday on Leon Draisatl’s power-play goal following a puck-over-the-glass penalty on Tomas Nosek. The task of going into a packed, loud arena is just another challenge the Panthers are embracing.“It’s that ‘us against the world’ mindset, but you really feel it especially being down…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — You are Tyrese Haliburton.You went to the Eastern Conference finals last year and got swept. You went to the Olympics last summer and didn’t play much. You came into this season with high expectations and your Indiana Pacers got off to a 10-15 start. And on top of that, some of your NBA peers evidently think you are overrated.You got angry.“I think as a group, we take everything personal,” Haliburton said. “It’s not just me. It’s everybody. I feel like that’s the DNA of this group and that’s not just me.”The anger fueled focus, the focus…
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Aaron Rodgers and Mike Tomlin share a competitive stubbornness. An inherent arrogance, too.While that hardly makes them outliers in the alpha-driven NFL, their ability to keep the realities of the game they have helped define at bay for so long does.Coaches aren’t supposed to go nearly two decades without experiencing a losing season. Tomlin has. Quarterbacks aren’t supposed to recover from an Achilles injury in their 40s and return to throw for nearly 4,000 yards. Rodgers did.Maybe they have long sensed this shared “otherness.” Maybe that’s why they’ve made it a point during their occasional professional meetings…
Amid a dramatic falling out between Donald Trump and his “first buddy,” Elon Musk, some of the business world’s most influential voices are weighing in.The relationship between the president and his once-close ally imploded on Thursday as they clashed publicly over Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”Musk, who stepped down from his role at DOGE in May, took to X to criticize the bill, calling it the “Debt Slavery Bill” and the “Big Ugly Spending Bill.”In response, Trump fired back at Musk during a White House event. He also defended the bill on Truth Social, while threatening to cancel Musk’s government contracts.Musk saw his…