What airlines are saying to people who don’t have a Real ID yet
You must have a Real ID or other acceptable form of identification to fly starting May 7. Are you one of the many Americans still without a Real ID? You can likely still fly, but you should probably plan for security delays, and don’t count on your airline for much help. B-17 has reached out…
‘SNL’ roasts Trump for posting an AI image of himself as the pope
Trump shared the AI-generated image the week after attending Pope Francis’ funeral. “Saturday Night Live” wasted no time skewering an AI-generated image of Donald Trump dressed as the pope that was shared by the White House and the president. In the segment “weekend updates,” SNL star Colin Jost mocked the image, which depicted the president…
Disney recovers after ‘Snow White’ with a $76 million opening weekend for ‘Thunderbolts*’
The cast of “Thunderbolts*” in April 2025. Disney’s “Thunderbolts*” earned $76 million in domestic ticket sales during its opening weekend, a notable recovery after “Snow White” slumbered at the box office. The film, produced by Marvel Studios, gained an additional $86.1 million in international ticket sales, totaling $162 million worldwide. “Thunderbolts*” is the newest film…
Meet the new legal startup that Alex Spiro and Goodwin’s top deals partner are betting on
Marveri cofounders Connor Acle and Emily Mu. Due diligence by young attorneys underpins every well-run merger or acquisition. It’s also the bane of their profession. A squad of associates might comb through thousands of corporate documents in a data room for weeks, hunting for the single detail that could screw up the deal after the…
Meet the 25-year-old legal tech startup founder who’s daring to challenge Harvey
Max Junestrand, Legora’s founder and CEO. On a drizzly spring morning stroll through New York’s Central Park, Max Junestrand, the 25-year-old Swedish founder behind the legal tech startup Legora, opened up about a chip on his shoulder. He started his company over a year after the founding of Harvey, the OpenAI-backed legal tech startup that…
Judges to Diddy accusers: Reveal yourselves or your lawsuits will be tossed
Sean “Diddy” Combs is forcing his sexual assault accusers into a dilemma: they can either reveal themselves in their lawsuit against him, or judges will toss their case. With less than a month before the hip-hop mogul’s Manhattan criminal sex-trafficking trial, Combs and his team of attorneys have already racked up several wins in the…
5 years of student-debt relief for millions of borrowers is suddenly over
President Donald Trump is resuming collections on defaulted student loans. The five-year relief period is over, and defaulted student-loan borrowers are left with two options: pay up or face the consequences. On May 5, President Donald Trump’s administration officially restarted the process to collect defaulted borrowers’ student loans. It marks the end of a yearslong…
Meet Richard Lawson, the sole Justice Department lawyer taking on Big Law in court
In President Donald Trump’s war against Big Law, a veteran attorney is his chief frontline fighter. The four major law firms that have decided to hit back at Trump’s executive orders with lawsuits have assembled a murderer’s row of skilled litigators, all trying to get judges to permanently block the orders that target the firms.…
AI courses are becoming increasingly popular — even among nurses and teachers
The director of Carnegie Mellon’s undergraduate degree in AI said the program stays flexible. The undergraduate major in Artificial Intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University looks very different now than it did when it started over half a decade ago. “These large language models, you know, generative AI — have basically taken over, sucked all the…
