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Avi Singh and Rishi Rajpal left their stable jobs to open a New York City cocktail bar in 2019.They hired David Muhs as their head bartender.Now, all three own a second cocktail bar called Monkey Thief.This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Avi Singh, 30, and Rishi Rajpal, 34, the co-owners of Sama Street, and David Muhs, 40, the head bartender at Sama Street. All three also own and operate another New York City cocktail bar, Monkey Thief.This conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity.Avi: Rishi and I go way back. We grew up together in…

Donald Trump attends Ultimate Fighting Championship event with top cabinet picksDonald Trump received a warm welcome as he celebrated his election victory at the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in New York alongside Elon Musk and some of his cabinet picks.Trump entered the arena to loud music and cheers from the UFC 309 crowd at Maddison Square Garden.He spent most of the night sat between UFC President Dana White and Tesla CEO Musk.Two of Trump’s key cabinet picks, Robert F Kennedy Jr and Tulsi Gabbard, plus Vivek Ramaswamy, who will lead Trump’s cost-cutting “Department of Government Efficiency” with Musk, were also…

Shaquille O’Neal’s son Sharif, Serena Williams’ daughter, Olympia, and more kids are proving to be just as athletic as their parents. The retired professional basketball player’s son transferred to Louisiana State University from the University of California Los Angeles in 2020. He chose the university because people there “didn’t really talk about” his dad, he told 225 Magazine in January 2021. In July 2018, Shaquille exclusively told Us Weekly that Shareef and his siblings — Taahirah, Myles, Amirah, Shaqir and Me’arah — “always” called Kobe Bryant and LeBron James their favorite NBA players of all time. As for Williams and…

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesCompany: Meta Platforms (META)Business: Meta Platforms builds technologies that help people find communities and grow businesses. The company’s products enable people to connect and share with friends and family through mobile devices, personal computers, virtual reality headsets, wearables and in-home devices. The company operates through two segments: Family of Apps (FoA) and Reality Labs (RL). FoA includes Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and other services. RL includes augmented and virtual reality-related consumer hardware, software and content. Facebook enables people to connect, share, discover and communicate with each other on mobile devices and personal computers. Instagram…

More than seven million people eligible to vote in the snap election, with jobs and rising prices on their minds.Polls have opened in Senegal’s parliamentary elections as President Bassirou Diomaye Faye aims for a resounding majority to see through the promises of ambitious reforms that swept him to power eight months ago. More than seven million of the country’s 17 million people are eligible to vote on Sunday to pick members of the 165-seat National Assembly for a five-year term. Polls opened at 8am (08:00 GMT) and will close at 6pm (18:00 GMT). Faye secured victory in March pledging economic…

Play video content TMZSports.com While we don’t know if Lil Wayne will be making an appearance at the Super Bowl in his hometown of New Orleans, we do know another big-time rapper will be in attendance — Big Sean — who tells TMZ Sports he already has tickets to the big game! That’s how confident Sean feels! We caught up with the Detroit rapper out in Los Angeles … and he didn’t waver at all — he’s emphatic in his declaration that Jared Goff and the Lions are a lock to make the big game. “Bet all your money on…

The tariffs Donald Trump proposed while campaigning could help create US semiconductor jobs.Tariffs could also help US chipmakers compete with companies abroad that sell chips at lower prices.To be sure, the impacts of a tariff policy on chips could be mixed.If president-elect Donald Trump follows through on his campaign promise to impose tariffs, the domestic semiconductor industry could see job gains.Industry experts told Business Insider that tariffs on foreign-made chips could help level the playing field for US chipmakers, which are facing fierce competition from their counterparts abroad. The tariffs could also encourage US businesses to source more chips domestically…

A “massive” Russian missile and drone attack has targeted power infrastructure across Ukraine, the country’s energy minister German Galushchenko has said.It is the largest such assault since early September, with reports of several explosions across Ukraine, according to authorities and local media.Poland, Ukraine’s neighbour to the west, scrambled fighter jets to patrol its own airspace as a security precaution, Poland’s Operational Command said. In a statement on social media, Mr Galushchenko said that “a massive attack on our energy system is ongoing” and that Russian forces were “attacking electricity generation and transmission facilities”.In Ukraine’s south, the city of Mykolaiv was…

(Photo by Jean Catuffe/Getty Images) Carmelo Anthony’s son Kiyan Anthony has committed to his dad’s alma mater of Syracuse University. Kiyan, 17, confirmed his decision to commit to Syracuse on the Friday, November 15, episode of his dad’s “7PM in Brooklyn” podcast. “It was hard narrowing down,” the young athlete said. Kiyan, a top-40 men’s basketball recruit, shared that he had narrowed his top school choices down to Syracuse, Auburn and USC, before deciding on his dad’s alma mater. Carmelo, 40, played basketball for Syracuse from 2002 to 2003, and helped to secure the New York college’s only NCAA Championship…

In 2023, Anna-Marie Ortiz worked remotely for a fintech startup, where she earned $60,000 a year.She liked the job well enough, but wasn’t sure what her future at the company would look like. “I realized I can’t wait around for other people’s dreams, and that’s when I decided to go all in on mine,” she tells CNBC Make It.That July, Ortiz used the last of her $2,000 in savings to start a cleaning company on the side. By November, she took the business, Cool Aunt Cleaners, full-time.Although she’s only able to pay herself around $29,000 this year — a significant…