Getty ImagesThe couple were recently photographed at the premiere of MrBeast’s new series Beast GamesYouTuber MrBeast has announced his engagement to girlfriend Thea Booysen.The 26-year-old revealed that he’d proposed on Christmas Day, sharing photos of the moment he went down on one knee.Mr Beast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, is the world’s most popular YouTuber with 340m subscribers. Fiancée Thea, originally from South Africa, also has her own channel, TheaBeasty, with almost 40,000 subscribers. Now living in the US, the 27-year-old also streams games on Twitch and is a published author.Allow Instagram content?This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask…
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Over 6,481 retailers have closed their doors since the beginning of the new year, according to data from Coresight Research in November, but that figure is expected to reach 7,327, marking a 57.8% increase in closures since 2023. During the pandemic, closures exceeded openings by 180 stores in 2020, with the gap widening in 2021 to 6,000 retailers. There were 5,919 store openings in 2023, barely easing the burden. While online shopping has nulled the need for many brick and mortars, the types of retailers that experienced the steepest declines are telling. Nothing at the dollar store costs a dollar.…
Credit: Screenshot: LozzaFox Twitter The FBI has identified the driver of a truck that plowed into a crowd of people celebrating New Year’s on Bourbon Street early Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and injuring 35. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a U.S. citizen and U.S. Army veteran from Houston, rented the F-150 Lightning truck, the FBI said. Alethea Duncan, an assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s New Orleans field office, said the agency doesn’t believe he acted alone. The law enforcement agency said in a news release that he had improvised explosive devices that were found in both the truck and…
The 33-year-old reality TV star was in the process of divorcing her ex-husband Ryan Anderson in April when she became pregnant with her boyfriend Ken Urker’s first child in July. The two had previously been engaged while she was serving time for the 2015 murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard.Article continues below advertisementGypsy Rose Blanchard Is Officially A Mother!MEGAGypsy Rose made headlines due to her experience as a victim of Munchausen by proxy, which made her the subject of several documentaries. The experience led her to collaborate with her then-boyfriend to plot the murder of her mother Dee Dee…
Ten people were injured in a mass shooting in the New York City borough of Queens late on New Year’s Day, the New York Police Department (NYPD) said in a news briefing early on Thursday (Jan 2). The incident outside a private events club late on Wednesday evening left six women and four men injured, police said. All were expected to recover. The venue has been identified as the Amazura nightclub in the Jamaica neighbourhood of Queens. The incident occurred when three to four men opened fire toward a crowd outside the club, the NYPD said. About 30 shots were…
As he gears up to retake the presidency of the United States this month, Donald Trump has spontaneously begun threatening to retake the Panama Canal, as well. Per the incoming president’s recent tantrums on social media, Panama is “ripping off” the US with “ridiculous” fees to use the interoceanic waterway and principal conduit for global commerce. As Trump sees it, the Central American country’s behaviour is especially objectionable “knowing the extraordinary generosity that has been bestowed to Panama by the US”. Trump has also baselessly alleged that Chinese troops are currently operating the canal. In reality, of course, the Panama…
While speaking with reporters on Wednesday, Aaron Rodgers sounded like a quarterback who knows this Sunday’s home game against the 8-8 Miami Dolphins will be his last as a member of the New York Jets. Rodgers also hinted he could retire regardless of whether or not a new Jets regime asks him to stick around for another season.”I need a break mentally, and I don’t want to make a decision until I’ve been able to rest mentally and physically,” Rodgers explained, as shared by Zack Rosenblatt and Cale Clinton of The Athletic. “Because really since Sept. 11 [2023], it feels like I’ve been rehabbing and training…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Bloomberg recently reported the anticipated launch of OpenAI’s “Operator” agent, slated for January 2025. This development marks a significant milestone in the evolution of generative AI, a field that has rapidly advanced since OpenAI introduced ChatGPT in November 2022. Within just two years, the competitive landscape has expanded, with numerous players joining the race. As competition intensifies, the focus has shifted from basic chatbots to sophisticated AI agents capable of autonomously executing complex, multi-step tasks.Companies like Anthropic and Google have introduced their own AI agents, designed to handle diverse workflows with seamless…
Ncuti Gatwa returns for more adventures as the Fifteenth DoctorJames Pardon/Bad Wolf/BBC Studios If you live in a part of the world where January is a hardscrabble month of inclement weather, you might well be tempted to lock yourself away for the rest of the year, fearing the sun will never return. Should you succumb to this awful temptation, there would, at least, be a wealth of brilliant television to fill your days, as some hotly anticipated science fiction and science-focused TV series are arriving in 2025. We don’t have to wait too long for sci-fi gold: three years after it first…
A major natural gas pipeline supplying Russian energy to Europe ran dry Wednesday after Ukraine stopped Moscow’s six-decade supply in the hopes of hurting its invader financially.The planned move marks the end of an era in which many European countries kept warm using gas pumped by Russia — which was in turn accused of using this dependency to blackmail its Western neighbors after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, something it denies.Gazprom confirmed in a statement that the pipeline agreement had lapsed following “repeated and explicit refusal to extend these agreements” by Ukraine.Just as the pipeline agreement expired, Russia…