All posts tagged: signed

Administration blocked as it tries to cut CDC funds that Trump just signed into law : NPR

Administration blocked as it tries to cut CDC funds that Trump just signed into law : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

OMB Director Russell Vought (center, behind President Trump) is the lead defendant in a lawsuit brought by four state attorneys general over more than $600 million in cuts to CDC grants announced this week. Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem and Interior Sec. Doug Burgum are also pictured in the Oval Office in June 2025. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images It was deja vu from 2025: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week announced more than $600 million in cuts to public health grants in California, Illinois, Colorado and Minnesota — four Democratic-led states. Right away, attorneys general in the affected states filed their lawsuit late Wednesday in a federal district court in Illinois asking for the temporary restraining order. And the next day, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s action with a temporary restraining order released late Thursday. In an opinion accompanying the order, U.S. District Judge Manish S. Shah wrote that even though the stated reason for the cancellations was that the grants did not align …

Apple Check Signed by Steve Jobs Sells for 4,800× Its Original Value

Apple Check Signed by Steve Jobs Sells for 4,800× Its Original Value

Published by skeptic

RR Auction has announced that an Apple check signed by the company’s co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak fetched a whopping $2.4 million at auction this week. The check was for $500, meaning that it sold for 4,800× its original value. According to RR Auction, the $500 check was issued to printed circuit board designer Howard Cantin, shortly after Jobs and Wozniak opened Apple’s first bank account. Cantin was responsible for translating Wozniak’s Apple-1 schematic into a manufacturable printed circuit board, leading to Apple’s first commercial product. Dated March 16, 1976, the Wells Fargo check is marked “No. 1.” It was issued a few weeks before Apple Computer was officially founded on April 1, 1976. “This is the most important financial document in Apple history,” said Bobby Livingston, executive vice president at RR Auction. “It captures Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak’s first true business transaction, and the final result shows that collectors recognized its significance above any other Apple material ever brought to market.” Popular Stories Apple Unveils First New Products of 2026 Apple today …

The Fantasy Author Who Just Signed an Unprecedented Adaptation Deal

The Fantasy Author Who Just Signed an Unprecedented Adaptation Deal

Published by José Betancourt

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Don’t Bet Against Brandon Sanderson Brandon Sanderson has inked a doozy of a deal with Apple TV for the rights to his fantasy universe Cosmere. The tech and streaming giant will adapt Sanderson’s Mistborn series for film and has already announced producers attached for a TV series based on The Stormlight Archive. The deal, being described as “unprecedented,” comes after Sanderson met with the heads of many Hollywood studios gives him “rarefied control” over the process and final product. Per The Hollywood Reporter, “Sanderson will be the architect of the universe, will write, produce and consult, and have approvals…a level of involvement that not even J.K. Rowling or George R.R. Martin enjoy.” Financial details have not yet been disclosed. Brace Your TBR for February The 2026 publishing year is about to shift into high gear. The February new …

Graham Norton teases Taylor Swift’s wedding secrets: ‘I’ve signed so many NDAs’

Graham Norton teases Taylor Swift’s wedding secrets: ‘I’ve signed so many NDAs’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Taylor Swift’s upcoming wedding to her American footballer will no doubt set the internet alight this summer. But, according to Graham Norton, preparations for the big day are well underway. The beloved Irish chat show host, 62, revealed that he has already had to sign “so many” NDAs while chatting on the latest episode of his podcast Wanging On, which he co-hosts with Maria McErlane. In response to being asked about the big day, Graham said, “Ah, lovely Taylor Swift. I can say nothing. I’ve signed so many NDAs.” © BBC/So Television/PA Media/Matt CrossickGraham said he has already signed ‘so many’ NDAs Maria excitedly followed up: “That is very, very exciting, and I’m very much looking forward to coming with you.” However, Graham – who is married to Scottish filmmaker Jonathan  McLeod – didn’t let her get her hopes up, and replied: ‘Right, over my husband’s dead body.” How did Graham bag an invite? Graham’s invitation to the wedding of the decade was implied when Taylor appeared on The Graham Norton Show last year. Asking if her …

Donald Trump’s Board of Peace signed at Davos – key points I took away from my visit to the ski resort

Donald Trump’s Board of Peace signed at Davos – key points I took away from my visit to the ski resort

Published by Sam Flores

Donald Trump’s newly launched “Board of Peace” presents itself as a bold attempt to break with what its founders describe as decades of failed international diplomacy. Its charter opens with a declaration that few would openly dispute: “Durable peace requires pragmatic judgment, common-sense solutions, and the courage to depart from approaches and institutions that have too often failed.” It is true that the world urgently needs to overcome decades of inertia to reform its international organisations. It is true that new institutions are needed to solve global problems rather than merely managing never-ending crises. This is perhaps why Donald Trump decided to hold the signing ceremony for his new board on the margins of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Here, more than any other place, is where results-oriented global business leaders supposedly gather. At the signing of the charter, a jubilant Trump was among 20 heads of state and prime ministers (of the 60 who had been invited). The “most prestigious board ever formed” so far includes the presidents of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and …

Another US state just signed a harsh new law requiring licenses, insurance for e-bikes

Another US state just signed a harsh new law requiring licenses, insurance for e-bikes

Published by skeptic

New Jersey has just taken one of the most aggressive – and controversial – steps yet in regulating electric bikes, and it’s a move that’s already drawing sharp criticism from cycling advocates. Gov. Phil Murphy signed a new e-bike law this week that effectively lumps everything with a motor and two wheels into a single category, scrapping the widely accepted three-class system for regulating street-legal electric bicycles. That means pedal-assist e-bikes, throttle bikes, and high-powered e-moto-style machines are now treated the same under state law. New Jersey has been pursuing stricter e-bike laws for several years, and it now appears to have finally succeeded. A one-year countdown has now begun until the law takes effect, where e-bike owners in New Jersey will need to register their bikes, carry insurance, and hold a driver’s license. Riders 14 and under are banned from using motorized bicycles and scooters altogether, while adults with a standard driver’s license won’t need an additional endorsement. Violators face a $50 fine. Those 15 to 17 years of age without a driver’s license …

Divorced artist loses fight to keep £1.5m north London home she claimed her ex-husband signed over in WhatsApp message

Divorced artist loses fight to keep £1.5m north London home she claimed her ex-husband signed over in WhatsApp message

Published by Sam Flores

But for the trustees, barrister Steven Fennel argued that the messages had not been signed and so were not legally binding and if found to be so, “the result will be that a WhatsApp message in and of itself, without a ‘signature’ in the text, will in all cases count as signed for the purposes of all statutory requirements for signature. Source link

Bryson DeChambeau has signed a partnership with Kalshi

Bryson DeChambeau has signed a partnership with Kalshi

Published by skeptic

LIV Golf star Bryson DeChambeau has signed a deal to partner with Kalshi and thus becomes the first athlete to do so. Throughout the 2026 LIV Golf season, DeChambeau will feature in television adverts, social media campaigns and other promotional activities during his partnership with the prediction market. We've signed 2x Major Champion Bryson DeChambeau as our first athlete and ambassador Bryson's content will integrate Kalshi markets to his audience of millions in an industry first partnership pic.twitter.com/pOMiOSqNvK — Kalshi (@Kalshi) January 14, 2026 Despite LIV Golf posting losses of nearly $500 million last season, announcing a partnership with DeChambeau could turn out to be a strategic move for Kalshi. The American is a two-time major winner (2020 and 2024 US Open titles) and has been with LIV since the inaugural season in 2022. With over four million followers on Instagram, the golfer is certainly the most attractive prospect on the Saudi-funded golf league. Bryson DeChambeau announces his partnership with Kalshi, becoming the first athlete to work with the prediction market during the 2026 LIV …

EU-Mercosur deal set to be signed, with or without France’s support

EU-Mercosur deal set to be signed, with or without France’s support

Published by Sam Flores

The agriculture ministers of the European Union, in Brussels, on January 7, 2026. NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP If all goes according to plan, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, should fly to Paraguay to sign, on Monday, January 12, the trade agreement between the European Union and four Mercosur countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay). Even France, which fought hard against the free trade agreement, does not see anything that could derail the process. On Friday, the member states are expected to authorize von der Leyen to sign the deal that the Commission, which negotiates on behalf of the 27 member states in trade matters, and Mercosur reached in December 2024, after 25 years of negotiations. At the Elysée presidential palace, Emmanuel Macron had not yet decided on his position. In any case, the matter seemed already settled. Italy seemed ready to join the pro-Mercosur camp, alongside Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the Scandinavian countries, effectively ending Paris’s last hopes of forming, together with Poland, Hungary and Austria, a blocking minority. Rome long …