• Elon Musk earns performance-based Tesla payout worth $775M

    Elon Musk earns performance-based Tesla payout worth $775M

    Elon Musk is officially in the money. The Tesla CEO on Thursday became eligible to cash in on a controversial payday which could see him pocket more than $700 million. The electric automaker said in a filing that its board had certified the operational milestone needed to unlock the first award in Musk’s eye-popping $50 …
  • Meghan King Edmonds wants divorce battle made private after prenup payout leaked

    Meghan King Edmonds wants divorce battle made private after prenup payout leaked

    Meghan King Edmonds and Jim Edmonds can finally agree on one thing in their divorce battle — they want it to stay private. The former “Real Housewives of Orange County” star, 35, and the former MLB star, 49, are currently at odds over the validity of their prenuptial agreement, an insider told Page Six on …
  • Uber rolls out ride-by-hour option in some US cities

    Uber rolls out ride-by-hour option in some US cities

    Uber on Friday said it would offer rides by the hour in some US cities, a feature aimed at helping Americans with essential trips during the coronavirus pandemic. The option, which is already available in a handful of cities in Australia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, will cost $50 per hour. Fares for regular …
  • Consumer spending plunges as Americans hoard cash amid coronavirus

    Consumer spending plunges as Americans hoard cash amid coronavirus

    US consumer spending took a record nosedive last month as Americans hoarded cash during the coronavirus pandemic, new data show. Personal consumption spending tumbled 13.6 percent in April, marking the largest drop since the feds started tracking the figure in 1959, the US Department of Commerce said Friday. The US savings rate, however, soared to …
  • Baseball needs an adult to step up and stop this madness: Sherman

    Baseball needs an adult to step up and stop this madness: Sherman

    Dear Adults: You are in the room, right? This isn’t all just going to be “take my ball and go home” day, is it? Name calling? Intractability? There is going to be a moment in which a leader or three rises above the familiar roles, the rhetoric, the threats, isn’t there? It should start with …
  • Bebe Rexha’s parents are recovering from coronavirus

    Bebe Rexha’s parents are recovering from coronavirus

    Bebe Rexha’s parents are recovering after they both contracted COVID-19. “They got sick with the coronavirus and were very ill for three weeks, and I got very nervous,” the 30-year-old singer told Extra. Rexha, who lives in Los Angeles, desperately wanted to drive across the country to be with her New York City-based parents but …
  • Jermaine Dupri, Too Short still bringing FreakNik Fest back to Atlanta

    Jermaine Dupri, Too Short still bringing FreakNik Fest back to Atlanta

    FreakNik Fest will go on as planned despite the coronavirus pandemic. The second annual music festival is set to take place at Morris Brown College in Atlanta from Sept. 18-20 with a lineup that includes Jermaine Dupri, Too Short, Juvenile, 2 Live Crew, Paul Wall and Da Brat. FreakNik Fest will be Atlanta’s first major …
  • Tyson Foods to close Iowa pork plant amid coronavirus outbreak

    Tyson Foods to close Iowa pork plant amid coronavirus outbreak

    Tyson Foods plans to temporarily close an Iowa pork plant where nearly a quarter of the workers have caught the novel coronavirus. The meat-processing giant announced the move Thursday after Iowa officials said 555 of the Storm Lake facility’s 2,517 employees had tested positive for the potentially deadly virus. That’s about 22 percent of the …
  • Grimes plans to legally sell her soul — to the tune of $10 million

    Grimes plans to legally sell her soul — to the tune of $10 million

    What’s the price of a soul? About $10 million, according to Grimes. Ahead of her upcoming online art exhibition — titled “Selling Out” — opening in Los Angeles on May 28, the avant-garde artist has announced that the title piece in the collection will be a legal document that entitles the purchaser to a percentage …
  • ‘Selling Sunset’ star Christine Quinn is vying for a ‘RHOBH’ diamond

    ‘Selling Sunset’ star Christine Quinn is vying for a ‘RHOBH’ diamond

    Just imagine her tagline. “Selling Sunset” star Christine Quinn would love to join the cast of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.” “This quarantine, I’m telling you really turned a ho into a housewife because I find myself going on Williams Sonoma. I got a bread maker, I got a pasta maker,” she told Page …