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Lyle, left, and Erik Menendez leave the courtroom in Santa Monica, Calif., in August 1990. They were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 1996 — and resentenced this week. Nick Ut/AP hide caption toggle caption Nick Ut/AP Lyle and Erik Menendez, who have spent more than three decades in prison for fatally shooting their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion, were resentenced on Tuesday, moving one step closer to potential freedom. After a day-long hearing, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic reduced their sentences from life in prison without parole to 50 years to…

Kim Kardashian waves as she arrives Tuesday to testify regarding a robbery of millions of dollars in jewels from her Paris hotel room in 2016. Aurelien Morissard/AP hide caption toggle caption Aurelien Morissard/AP Defiant in diamonds, Kim Kardashian appeared in a Paris courtroom Tuesday to testify in the trial over the 2016 armed robbery that upended her life. The reality star and business mogul gave emotional, at times harrowing, testimony about the night masked men tied her up at gunpoint and stole more than $6 million in jewelry. Here’s what she revealed — and what’s still to come. A night…

President Donald Trump’s signature economic package took a major step toward becoming law when the House Ways and Means Committee approved trillions in new tax cuts for corporations, households and small businesses on a party-line vote. The bill, once it clears procedural steps, will head to the House floor for passage. But crucial issues — including an unresolved battle over the state and local tax deduction — threaten to delay or imperil Republicans’ legislative agenda. Lawmakers are continuing to meet behind closed doors to negotiate the SALT write-off and spending cuts in the bill as they aim to pass the legislation…

Jason and Travis Kelce with Dunkin Donuts on the New Heights podcast.Courtesy: WonderyAmazon’s second-ever Upfronts pitch to advertisers this week featured an appearance by NFL champion brothers Jason and Travis Kelce. They weren’t there to hype live football rights.While Amazon’s Prime owns the media rights to the NFL’s Thursday Night Football games — and the streamer showcased much of its sports portfolio, including the upcoming NBA season, during the annual media presentations — the Kelce brothers were invited onstage because of the success of their video podcast, “New Heights,” made by Amazon’s Wondery.Live sports in general have emerged in recent…

There’s a chance your next interview could be conducted by an AI bot.That’s what happened to a woman named Ken, whose AI assistant started glitching and repeating the words “vertical bar pilates” over and over.In a recent TikTok, Ken shared a recording of this part of her interview. In comments, she explained she was interviewing for a job at a studio called StretchLab in Columbus, Ohio. In the 25-second video, Ken recorded the AI assistant, named “Alex,” malfunctioning.”It was genuinely so creepy and weird,” Ken wrote in the caption. “Please stop trying to be lazy and have AI try to…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with August Odenbaugh, a professional cat-sitter from Portland, Oregon. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I originally wanted to be a veterinarian, and I worked in the field for most of my adult life, but I had to come to terms with the realization that being a veterinarian just wasn’t the right life path for me.I was going to vet school, and while I knew it would be challenging academically, I just wasn’t able to wrap my mind around doing euthanasia and always being around animals that were sick and dying all of…

Ebonye Zeno spent four hours a day commuting in Los Angeles traffic to get her daughter to private school.Then the pandemic hit, and their worlds went remote. Like so many other Americans, they realized: “We could live somewhere else,” Zeno, 51, said.After three decades in LA, Zeno said it felt like the city’s seasons — rather than being spring, fall, or winter — instead were marked by extreme weather: flooding, mudslides, wildfires, and earthquakes. She was also tired of expensive housing, traffic, and polluted skies. “We have so much smog in LA that you hardly ever see a blue sky,”…

When Keith Brittain was starting out, buying secondhand shares in private funds was considered a niche investment strategy.”I started at Hamilton Lane in 2010 and came from 10 years of investment banking, and until I started talking to the team here about the role, frankly, back then I didn’t know much about the secondary market at all,” Brittain, cohead of Hamilton Lane’s secondary business, told Business Insider.Today, the practice of buying stakes in private funds from investors who want to sell early is on the lips of the biggest names in private equity as “secondaries” fundraising reaches record levels. According…

Bad news for those looking to buy a home: it’s looking like high mortgage rates are here to stay in the months ahead.Mortgage rates have hovered in the 6 to 7% range this year, with the 30-year rate at 6.76% as of last week, according to Freddie Mac. And they’ll stay in that range in the near future thanks to monetary policy that’s caught in the doldrums, according to Chen Zhao, the head of economic research at Redfin.The direction of mortgage rates depends heavily on whether the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates, and the central bank is not expected to…

Relatives of Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. who were flown to a prison in El Salvador by the U.S. government, which alleged they were members of the Tren de Aragua gang, protest outside the United Nations building in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. Cristian Hernandez/AP hide caption toggle caption Cristian Hernandez/AP A federal judge says President Donald Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan citizens who are shown to be members of the Tren de Aragua gang. The ruling Tuesday from U.S. District Judge Stephanie Haines in Pennsylvania appears to be the first time a federal…