Original title: VMAs Set Preshow Details and Presenters Including Jessica Simpson, ‘Hunting Wives’ and ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Stars, Paris Hilton The 2025 MTV VMAs have unveiled the first group of presenters for the awards ceremony set to take place this coming Sunday. This year’s presenters include Jessica Simpson and sister Ashlee Simpson Ross; Hunting Wives stars Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman; KPop Demon Hunters‘ Huntrix (Audrey Nuna, EJAE and Rei Ami); Paris Hilton; Megan Stalter; Nikki Glaser; Drew Barrymore; Ice Spice; Ciara; Latto and Livvy Dunne. The VMAs will also air a one-hour preshow ahead of the main ceremony on MTV as well as on BET, BET Her, Comedy Central, CMT, Logo, MTV 2, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, Pop, TV Land and VH1. The preshow will be hosted by Nessa and Kevan Kenney, with KATSEYE performing “Gnarly” and “Gabriela” from their new Beautiful Chaos EP. The K-pop girl group is a first-time VMA nominee, up for best group and MTV Push performance of the year. MTV also announced Tuesday that the VMAs Extended Play Stage, presented by Doritos, will be part of the show for the first time, highlighting the fo ...

Original title: ‘South Park’ Returns This Week With Butters in Hot Water South Park returns this week, airing a fresh new Season 27 episode on Wednesday night that looks to bring back fan favorite Butters, Satan and yes, the new season’s long-awaited addition, President Trump, as it wades into the latter’s tariffs and how they impact the residents in the small Colorado mountain town. In a brief promotional spot that Comedy Central dropped on Tuesday morning, viewers find Butters in hot water at the principal’s office. It seems that he’s been trying to get his hands on a Labudu doll as a gift for his girlfriend’s birthday. But then he runs afoul of … Trump’s tariffs. The following shot from the forthcoming episode has another unhappy couple — sweethearts Satan and Trump, who descend the staircase of Air Force One. While the spot gives only a little to chew on or anticipate as Wednesday’s episode approaches, it still looks to be another unimpeachable blend of up-to-the-moment satire, the daily struggles of the kids and parents of South Park with biting, take- ...

Original title: ‘SNL’: Please Don’t Destroy Sketches Ending as John Higgins Leaves Show The Please Don’t Destroy era at Saturday Night Live is coming to an end. Ben Marshall, John Higgins and Martin Herlihy have starred in a series of Please Don’t Destroy filmed sketches since they joined the SNL writing staff in 2021. NBC announced Tuesday that Marshall is joining the show’s cast as a featured player for the coming 51st season; with that came news that Higgins is leaving the show to pursue other opportunities, while Herlihy will remain a writer. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that with the trio no longer all employed at SNL, no more Please Don’t Destroy sketches are planned. Marshall, Higgins and Herlihy plan to continue working on other projects together outside of SNL, including have deals to co-write a pair of features at two different studios, sources tell THR. They previously wrote and starred in the 2023 film The Treasure of Foggy Mountain, which premiered on Peacock. The trio formed Please Don’t Destroy in 2017 as students at New York University. They joined ...

Original title: Esa-Pekka Salonen Back With the Los Angeles Philharmonic Superstar Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen is returning to the Los Angeles Philharmonic to take the new position of creative director beginning with the 2026-27 season, it was announced Tuesday. As part of a five-year appointment, Salonen will conduct and curate about six weeks of concerts with the LA Phil and focus on multi-disciplinary projects, festivals and the innovative programming for which the orchestra is renowned. Salonen, 67, served as the LA Phil’s music director from 1992-2009, when he commissioned and premiered a record-breaking number of works and was architect Frank Gehry’s partner in the construction of the Walt Disney Concert Hall downtown. “Esa-Pekka Salonen is a transformational artist whose vision helped shape the LA Phil into what it has become today,” LA Phil president & CEO Kim Noltemy said in a statement. “We are thrilled to have Esa-Pekka join the LA Phil in this historic new role, and we look forward to seeing how his innovative spirit will build on his hi ...

Original title: Disney Sued For Pay Discrimination By One of Its Former Top Lawyers Disney has been sued for pay discrimination by one of its former top lawyers, expanding a legal battle over claims from female employees who say they’re paid less than their male counterparts for similar work. The lawsuit points to systemic pay inequality at Disney, which last year settled a class action from roughly 9,000 workers in California across the company’s production and distribution arms, broadcast stations and theme parks, among various other corporate divisions. Under the deal, Disney agreed to pay $43.25 million and retain experts to address salary disparities between men and women employees. In that case, unsealed court filings indicated that Disney was aware of allegations of widespread pay inequality for years. Alisa Clairet, an ex-senior legal executive for Disney Channel who handled talent contracts, production agreements and licensing, was identified as a member of the class but chose to file her own lawsuit last month in California state court. Clairet alleges her t ...

Original title: Trump-Tied Crypto Token Opens for Trading 00:00 When he was pretty shocked earlier to read a story about this specific token in the trading that debuted yesterday and find out the Trump family’s net worth has been eclipsed. Their real estate holdings have been eclipsed by the value of their crypto holdings. How has this token played into that? Hi. So yes, like you mentioned, the Trump family is involved with world Liberty Financial. Both donald trump Jr. And eric trump are co-founders of this company. It has its own stablecoin as well as this cryptocurrency that, like you mentioned, started trading yesterday. And the family also gets a certain percent of revenue from world Liberty Financial. So they’ve seen a big growth from this. Like you mentioned, it rose yesterday, but today it is now down a little. But still with that, this is a token that now has a market cap of near $6 billion. So this is going to be a big boost for the Trump family. Is there a use case for this token money? So this token is used within the World Libert ...

Original title: Oil Gains by Most Since July as Algos Buy Amid Supply Strength Oil edged up by the most since late July as technical buying supported a rally driven by signs of enduring physical market tightness. West Texas Intermediate rose 2.5% to settle near $66 a barrel. Ukraine struck two oil refineries in Russia in a continued assault on energy infrastructure that has begun to hurt flows, pushing Moscow’s crude-processing runs to the lowest since May 2022 Bloomberg Terminal last month. The conflict has contributed to unforeseen tightness in a market that was expected to be overwhelmed by OPEC crude at this time of year. ...

Original title: Crypto Firm Gemini Seeks $317M in IPO 00:00 I got to ask you, since we’re talking about the Trump administration, there’s been a rush of crypto listings as this White House embraces the industry overall. And Gemini Space Station is the latest one. It’s the cryptocurrency exchange led by the Winklevoss twins. What can you tell us about the upcoming IPO? So the Winklevoss twins launch their IPO for Gemini today. They’re seeking to raise about $317 million through this IPO, listing about 16.7 million shares at a price of 17 to $19 per share. This is a crypto company that kind of does a bit of everything. They have a crypto exchange. They offer staking, they offer a stablecoin, a credit card with crypto rewards. And they’re like you mentioned kind of just one of the latest of the crypto companies to do these types of offerings. We’ve seen circle in bullish over the past couple of months, both in the crypto space having large IPOs that really jumped once they started trading. So I’m sure that Gemini is hoping for something simi ...

Original title: Brazil Selling $1.75 Billion in Bonds in Busiest Year Since 2014 Brazil is tapping international debt investors for a third time this year — its busiest for sovereign bond sales in more than a decade — as borrowers return to global credit markets. Latin America’s largest economy is selling $1.75 billion in dollar bonds, reopening $750 million of 2030 notes and issuing $1 billion in fresh debt due in 2056, according Bloomberg Terminal to a person familiar with the matter. The deal launched at yields of 5.2% and 7.5%, respectively, tightening from initial price discussions, the person said, asking not to be named discussing private details. ...

Original title: Tesla’s new ‘Master Plan’ sounds like AI slop is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Tesla’s latest “Master Plan” makes a few things clear right out of the gate: the company that was once known for accelerating the push toward a brighter future by popularizing electric vehicles and renewable energy is no longer interested in that quotidian stuff. Now, it’s all about artificial intelligence, humanoid robots, self-driving cars, and the new buzzy catchphrase that is currently lighting up the tech world: “sustainable abundance.” At a breezy 983 words, Master Plan 4 is the shortest entry in the company’s ongoing series of mission statements. It’s the first one to be posted on X, Elon Musk’s social media platform, rather than on Tesla’s website. And it reads like it was written by the platform’s chatbot, Grok, with re ...