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Jennifer Lopez once again stole the show at the highly anticipated Kevin Hart Roast. True to her status as a glamour icon, the singer and actress appeared in a spectacular outfit that immediately electrified the red carpet. Combining Hollywood elegance with unapologetic boldness, J.Lo made a striking entrance, sparking a flood of reactions on social media.
Trump’s Golden Dome Risks Turning Into a $1.2 Trillion Boondoggle, as Trump’s $175 billion project price tag given by just exploded to $1.2 trillion following an analysis from the Congressional Budget Office. The independent congressional agency concluded that the missile defense initiative promoted by the Trump administration could cost nearly seven times more than initially projected over the next two decades. «It will cost approximately $175 billion when completed.» said Donald Trump while announcing the executive order for the project. The White House presented Golden Dome as a revolutionary missile shield designed to defend the United States against ballistic, cruise and hypersonic missile threats through a massive network combining advanced radar systems, interceptors and space-based defense infrastructure.
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that acquisition costs for the project alone would exceed $1 trillion, with roughly 70 percent of those expenses tied directly to the development and deployment of space-based interceptors and a constellation of approximately 7,800 satellites. The analysis also concluded that the scale of the required infrastructure would dramatically increase long-term operational expenses, with each ground-based site projected to cost nearly $4 billion to deploy and approximately $170 million annually to operate. The report warned that the technological complexity of the project remains extremely high, especially because many components linked to space-based interception systems are still experimental and have never been tested at the scale envisioned by the Trump administration.
«Israel has it, other places have it, and the United States should have it too.»
-U.S. President, Donald Trump
On May 20, 2025, President Donald Trump officially unveiled the deployment architecture for the Golden Dome missile defense shield during a high-profile Oval Office briefing. The initiative expanded upon Executive Order 14186, which Trump signed during his first week back in office to formally establish the program. The administration described the system as a sweeping, multi-layered defensive network intended to deploy next-generation land, sea and space-based sensors and interceptors capable of destroying advanced missile threats before impact. During the announcement, Trump confirmed that U.S. Space Force General Michael Guetlein would oversee the project while also revealing that an initial down payment estimated between $24 billion and $25 billion had already been secured through recent congressional reconciliation legislation.
Trump repeatedly defended the timeline and cost projections attached to the initiative despite growing skepticism among defense analysts and lawmakers. «So we’ll have it done in about three years.» Trump said while vouching for Golden Dome to become operational before the end of his current presidential term. However, the Congressional Budget Office analysis described the proposed by-2029 deployment schedule as unrealistic because of significant technical uncertainties tied to the development of the required systems. According to the report, several major components of the architecture would likely not become operational until 2028 or later even under accelerated procurement conditions. Defense experts have also warned that integrating thousands of satellites with real-time missile interception capabilities would require unprecedented coordination between military contractors, aerospace manufacturers and intelligence agencies.
Trump also directly compared the initiative to Israel’s Iron Dome while attempting to frame the project as an overdue national security investment for the United States. «Israel has it, other places have it, and the United States should have it too.» Trump said during the White House presentation. But while Israel’s heavily used Iron Dome system protects a relatively small territory of roughly 22,000 square kilometres against short-range rockets and artillery fire, Golden Dome would attempt to defend an entire continent against intercontinental ballistic missiles and hypersonic weapons traveling at extreme speeds. The proposed American system would therefore rely heavily on experimental space-based interception technologies and Arctic radar coverage to monitor threats potentially traveling over the polar region toward North America.
«It will cost approximately $175 billion when completed.»
-U.S. President, Donald Trump
The project has also generated tensions between Washington and Ottawa because of Canada’s strategic importance to the architecture of the proposed shield. Since the United States relies heavily on Canadian airspace and northern radar infrastructure to monitor potential missile threats crossing the Arctic, Trump publicly demanded that Canada contribute roughly $61 billion to participate in the system while joking that the fee could disappear if Canada accepted becoming the «51st state.» Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Prime Minister’s Office firmly rejected the comments while insisting that any future security discussions involving the project would only occur with Canada acting as an independent and sovereign country. Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, Bob Rae, later criticized the proposal by comparing the demand to a «protection racket.»
El famoso apartamento que aparece en la película «El lobo de Wall Street» salió a la venta en abril por unos 5 millones de dólares. Esta emblemática propiedad, de tres dormitorios, se encuentra en el edificio Milan, en la calle 55 Este de Nueva York. Este edificio también es conocido por haber servido de escenario a varias producciones populares, entre ellas las series «Gossip Girl», «The Good Wife» y «Blue Bloods».
Al parecer, el apartamento pertenece al empresario Bert E. Brodsky, quien lo habría comprado por unos 4,5 millones de dólares en 2015, cuando el edificio aún estaba en construcción. Residente en Long Island, utilizaría esta propiedad principalmente como pied-à-terre en lugar de como residencia principal.
Durante el rodaje de la película, habría puesto el lugar a disposición del equipo de producción entregándoles las llaves, antes de retirarse mientras se rodaban las escenas. Posteriormente, habría regresado al lugar y se habría cruzado brevemente con el equipo en pleno trabajo.
The famous apartment featured in the movie The Wolf of Wall Street went on the market in April for approximately $5 million. This iconic three-bedroom property is located in the Milan building on East 55th Street in New York City. The building is also known for having served as a setting for several popular productions, including the TV series Gossip Girl, The Good Wife, and Blue Bloods.
The apartment is reportedly owned by businessman Bert E. Brodsky, who is said to have purchased it for approximately $4.5 million in 2015, while the building was still under construction. A resident of Long Island, he reportedly uses the property primarily as a pied-à-terre rather than a primary residence.
During the filming of the movie, he reportedly made the premises available to the production crew by handing over the keys, before stepping away during the filming of scenes. He is said to have returned to the site later and briefly encountered the crew in the middle of their work.
The Cannes Film Festival is one of the most prestigious film events in the world. The 79th edition has just begun and will run through May 23, bringing together directors, actors, and influential figures from the film industry. To kick off the festivities, the famous red carpet once again drew all eyes, under the flashes of photographers and the spotlight of the global media.
Celebrities paraded in spectacular outfits, showcasing elegance, creativity, and glamour. Majestic gowns, refined suits, and daring styles followed one after another, offering a true visual spectacle for fashion and film enthusiasts. Each appearance helped make the red carpet an unmissable highlight of the festival.
We’ve selected the most impressive looks from this year’s event for your viewing pleasure and for all fashion enthusiasts.
Mark Carney became the first non-European representative to address the biannual EPC summit, which this year was held in Armenia. In his five-minute address to the conference, he maintained that Canada is ‘the most European of the non-European countries’, citing a strong European immigrant population and Canada’s bilingualism as reasons why. Canada is the first non-European country to be invited to the EPC summit, showcasing that Carney’s goal of strengthening ties with Europe has been a success up to now. Carney boasted how Canada has supported EU initiatives, and that Canada is the only EU country to invest in certain initiatives, like EU SAFE. Carney also stressed that Canada is an energy superpower as one of the global leaders in oil production. He did not mention Canada’s Uranium-rich deposits.
It’s a scary time to lose your phone. As cell phones have become extensions of us—containing everything from our personal bank accounts, to sensitive passwords, to our entire web of social connections—they’ve also become prized targets for theft.
As a result, scammers are becoming increasingly more clever about finagling people’s phones away from them. The story of one such scamming incident is making the rounds on TikTok.
In a two-part video series first posted on April 13 which has since collectively racked up well over 429,000 views, Thuy An Mckinley (@asianredneck318 on TikTok) shared a chilling story about a dangerous situation her son reportedly found himself in after being scammed during a night on the town. The whole fiasco went down on a well-known street in New Orleans.
“If you’re going to New Orleans, specifically to Bourbon Street, you need to beware,” Mckinley warns in her video. “My son was scammed this weekend.”
Mckinley says her son “and a buddy” were out at a bar when they were approached by a group of girls who claimed they were from Texas. The women bought the two men a round of shots for the two men. After partaking in the shots, Mckinley’s son and his friend started to sense something was wrong.
“At one point, my son looks at his buddy and points at a group of girls that’s dancing onstage and saying, ‘Hey, those girls are dancing super slow.’” Mckinley says. “And they both realized, too, that the sound was starting to get distorted. So they agreed that they needed to leave the club cause they didn’t feel right.”
The group of women ran interference and managed to separate the two men. Mckinley says her son ordered an Uber, but his phone died immediately after and “the Uber canceled the ride.”
But oddly enough, a car, with only a female driver inside, still pulled over to pick him up. After confirming that he was “looking for an Uber,” the driver offered to charge his phone and take him “wherever [he needs] to go.”
“At this point, I’m assuming he’s drugged,” Mckinley says. “He thinks that there’s no harm here and that this lady’s just being super helpful. Because he’s not in his right mind.”
This is where the scam began in earnest.
While Mckinely’s son charged his phone, the driver picked up a second passenger—a woman, who climbed into the backseat. After the driver asked Mckinley’s son to help navigate, the female passenger watched from the backseat as he unlocked his phone to access GPS.
Mckinley got her son’s password. Soon after, the driver asked her son to help pay for gas.
“In his mind, he didn’t have to pay for an Uber, and this lady is nice enough to do all these things for him, so sure, he’s gonna pay for her gas,” Mckinley says. “He gets to the gas station, he pumps her gas, and as soon as he hangs up the pump, she squeals, tires, and she leaves with his phone in her vehicle. She went into his passwords, found what his normal password is, disabled his location. They went into his banking account, transferred $2,500 from his savings to his checking.”
Thankfully, Mckinley’s bank didn’t allow more money to be transferred in one day. Her son was able to contact Mckinley and get back to the hotel he was sharing with his friend. In the morning, he found out his friend had been scammed in a similar way. It seems everyone from the drivers to the gas station owners may have been involved in the operation.
“That goes to show you don’t know who is in this ring,” Mckinley says. “Like, from the girls, to the Uber driver that may be canceled, to the lady that is driving them around, all the way to the owner of the store, and to the person that sells off the phone. Like, it is so big … So y’all need to be very careful if you’re going to Bourbon, because the [expletive]’s happening, and it’s real life.”
Mckinley’s son and friend clearly underwent a deeply harrowing experience. But how unique was it? Should average people get worried about complex scammers?
In short: Possibly. Uber and Uber-adjacent scams are unfortunately not new. A 2016 story by USA Today details a reporter’s experience being scammed 10 years ago; the writer of the article had been tricked into getting into a car that was, like the driver of Mckinley’s son, not an Uber—and was overcharged as a result.
Moreover, Redditors fill forums with complaints about scams. For example, one Redditor shared on r/Uber that an Uber driver had tricked them into sharing personal information, which is obviously a huge security risk. So clearly, scamming via rideshares is well-trodden territory.
However, there are definitely ways to protect yourself from such scams. Reader’s Digest published a handy-dandy guide on “10 Uber scams you need to watch out for,” ranging from never forking over cash to always making sure your driver has formally ended your trip in-app.
The No. 1 way any individual can protect themselves is double-checking key details. Scammers tend to capitalize off of the frantic nature of traveling to a new destination, and they target frazzled individuals. It’s important to make sure that the car matches the one on the rideshare app. Never give out personal information, even if it’s just a phone number, and never engage in financial transactions off-app.
Buzz News has reached out to Uber via email and Mckinley via TikTok comment. We’ll let you know if they respond.
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When you’re planning to transform a small room into a spacious living space, you usually think in terms of a major extension. And yet, a simple coat of paint can be enough to give your interior a whole new dimension. It’s undeniable that the colors you choose have an unsuspected power over your perception of space. By choosing the right hues, you can create the illusion of a larger, brighter room, without breaking a single wall. Discover 7 colors that visually expand your space and 7 that stifle it, saving you from making mistakes.
Everyone would like to take care of their body and their health. Well, I’d say almost everyone, because there are always those rare gems who couldn’t care less whether they’re obese or have cancer. As you can see, if you’re not one of these people, there are still a few habits you can adopt to stay healthy. In fact, we’ve selected 7 that we strongly recommend you follow. And to give you even more guidance, we’ve also put together a list of 7 common mistakes you should avoid.
