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Punchlines on president’s thwarted bid to have building named after him come thick and fast at Washington DC galaOutside the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a giant tarpaulin remained in place to conceal Donald Trump’s humiliation.Guests entering the national arts complex on Sunday night could not see the section of its marble facade where Trump’s name was recently erased to comply with a court order. Continue reading...

• Major equity indexes rebounded on Thursday, recovering from sharp losses experienced during the previous trading session. • The recovery was driven largely by gains in tech stocks and investor indifference toward President Donald Trump's warning that the U.S. "will be hitting Iran" tonight. • This bounce back suggests that market participants are currently downplaying geopolitical tensions and specific corporate concerns, such as Oracle's data-center spending.

• The hyperscale data center market is experiencing an accelerated growth phase fueled by the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and public cloud services. • This surge is primarily driven by an increase in global data traffic and the massive computational requirements needed to train and deploy AI models. • The trend is significant as it forces a shift in infrastructure design to accommodate higher power densities and specialized hardware like GPUs.

• The Kennedy Center confirmed comedian Bill Maher as the 2026 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor recipient on March 26, 2026, days after White House denial labeled reports fake news. • Maher becomes the 27th honoree following Conan O'Brien and Kevin Hart; he quipped, 'It's like an Emmy, except I win,' in a Kennedy Center release. • White House communications director Steven Cheung called prior Atlantic reporting 'Literally FAKE NEWS,' and press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated Maher would not receive the award.

Comedian who called Trump ‘gracious and measured’ will win humor award the White House dubbed ‘FAKE NEWS’Bill Maher will win the prestigious Mark Twain prize for American humor, the Kennedy Center said Thursday, less than a week after the White House forcefully denied that the comedian, who has had a hot-and-cold relationship with Donald Trump, would win it.“For nearly three decades, the Mark Twain prize has celebrated some of the greatest minds in comedy,” Roma Daravi, the Kennedy Center’s vice-president of public relations, said in a statement. “For even longer, Bill has been influencing American discourse — one politically incorrect joke at a time.” Continue reading...