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Will the Real Megyn Kelly Please Stand Up?
If there were any lingering doubts about the widening fractures between President Trump and the MAGA media ecosystem that helped return him to power, Megyn Kelly all but erased them in March.
The former Trump critic turned second-term ally used her platform to accuse the administration of misleading the public about the death toll from the U.S.-Israeli military operation in Iran — a striking rupture for a figure who, in recent years, has largely moved in lockstep with the president.
“I don’t think those service members died for the United States,” the ex-Fox News anchor said of the 13 Americans killed so far, many in an Iranian strike on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. “I think they died for Iran or Israel.”
Kelly has been openly critical of the Iran operation, but the bluntness of her remarks marked a clear escalation — fusing moral outrage with biting derision — as she mocked Trump’s framing of the conflict as a “fun little excursion into Iran” while invoking the “lost limbs” and “severe head wounds” of more than 300 injured.
She went further still, venturing into suggestions of a potential cover-up — rhetoric that would until recently have been almost unthinkable from a former network news anchor, but now feels entirely at home in the conspiratorial grammar of the online MAGA sphere.
“We don’t believe we know the full extent of the deaths either,” Kelly said on her daily web show, the centerpiece of her expanding media operation. “And we don’t believe we know the full extent of exactly how all these planes have come down — that we’re getting the full story.”
In many ways, Kelly’s trajectory is less an outlier than a case study: What happens when a traditional television career collides with the influencer economy, falters, then reconstitutes itself around a very different set of incentives.
Kelly, 55, is no stranger to reinvention. “I don’t think she has fixed political principles,” says one longtime colleague. “But she has an uncanny ability to adjust herself to the prevailing political winds.” She first gained national prominence as a Fox News anchor who, during the network’s first Republican primary debate in 2015, pressed Trump on his treatment of women — a confrontation that triggered a very public feud and helped precipitate her exit from Fox in 2017. That departure was bound up in something larger: Alongside Gretchen Carlson and others, she accused then-Fox News CEO Roger Ailes of sexual harassment — a reckoning later dramatized in the 2019 film Bombshell, which cast her as a complicated but ultimately sympathetic figure of institutional defiance.
Megyn Kelly on the set of her hit Fox News program The Kelly File in December 2013. She left Fox in 2017 amid a public feud with President Trump.
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But not long after achieving mainstream respectability, Kelly’s career unraveled abruptly. Her much-hyped NBC morning show, Megyn Kelly Today, was canceled after less than a year following widely condemned remarks defending blackface Halloween costumes — a public rupture that not only sidelined her from traditional media, but also appears to have reshaped her relationship to it.
Her makeover has been swift and, by most metrics, successful. In 2020, she launched The Megyn Kelly Show as an independent podcast. By March 2025, she had expanded into MK Media, a growing podcast network under her Devil May Care Media banner, with ambitions to rival established conservative outlets. Her YouTube channel now exceeds 4 million subscribers and drew 138 million views in February.
But scale, in this ecosystem, is not neutral — it exerts pressure. And increasingly, that pressure runs toward provocation. As she works to expand her empire, Kelly has found herself navigating a shifting political and media landscape. Her proximity to political commentator and conspiracy peddler Candace Owens, and her reluctance to distance herself from Owens’ escalating claims, has become a defining — and increasingly uncomfortable — feature of her brand.
In the arms race for attention that defines political podcasting, few figures have expanded their reach as rapidly as Owens. Since January 2025, she has added an estimated 10.9 million followers across all platforms while generating roughly 805 million YouTube views and more than 81 million TikTok likes, according to Media Matters.
As her audience has grown, so too have the controversies that fuel it. Over the past year, Owens has promoted a series of extreme and often unsubstantiated claims — including repeated assertions that French first lady Brigitte Macron was “born a man,” at one point declaring on Piers Morgan Uncensored that it was “beyond obvious” Macron “has a penis.” The remarks prompted a defamation lawsuit from the Macrons in July.
Owens also has advanced a series of increasingly baroque narratives surrounding the September killing of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, alleging — without evidence — the involvement of multiple governments and intelligence agencies and suggesting the killing was tied to a broader “deep state” agenda. Among her claims: that Kirk was a literal time traveler and that he had been monitored by CIA-linked operatives since childhood.
Her rhetoric around Jews and Israel has grown even more incendiary. Owens has promoted Der Talmudjude, a 19th century antisemitic tract, and suggested it exposes what Jewish public figures “really think.” She has also repeated long-debunked claims about Jewish involvement in the slave trade and cast Holocaust education as a form of “indoctrination.”
Since January 2025, Candace Owens has added about 10.9 million followers across platforms while generating roughly 805 million YouTube views.
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Critics, including her fellow conspiracist Alex Jones, have raised alarms about her rhetoric. But the backlash has done little to slow her rise.
What matters here is not just what Owens says, but how many people are listening — roughly 24 million across platforms — and what that scale demands of everyone else in the right wing conversation. Her ascent is not pulling conservative media in a single direction so much as forcing a sorting mechanism. On one side is a personality-driven ecosystem — Owens, Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon and, increasingly, Kelly — where provocation, institutional distrust and conspiracy-adjacent rhetoric are not bugs but features. On the other is a more traditional faction — Ben Shapiro, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and the Turning Point USA orbit — that, while firmly right wing, has drawn clearer lines around overt conspiracy and antisemitism.
The divide is less about ideology than structure: a collision between legacy conservatism and an influencer economy in which attention — not credibility — is the primary currency.
That tension has left Kelly in a narrowing lane. To break with Owens is to risk audience erosion; to embrace her is to risk becoming indistinguishable from her. For now, Kelly appears to be choosing a third path: saying just enough to signal independence while stopping short of a full rupture — a balancing act that grows harder to sustain as the incentives of the system keep pulling to the extremes.
This story appeared in the April 8 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe.
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David Zaslav’s $886 Million Warner Sale Pay Day Under Fire From Proxy Advisor Suggesting Shareholders Vote “No”
The influential shareholder proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services recommended that Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders reject the golden parachute pay packages for CEO David Zaslav and other top executives at the company, noting the “extraordinary” nature of the agreements.
But ISS also urged shareholders to approve WBD’s sale to Paramount Skydance, writing that “the proposed transaction is the result of a competitive sales process and public bidding war between NFLX and PSKY, which provides shareholders comfort that the proposed deal is the best available.”
With regard to the golden parachutes, shareholders have an advisory vote, meaning that even if they reject it, the payments may still go through. That said, companies are often responsive to shareholder concerns around pay.
ISS notes that the cash severance for top executives other than Zaslav are “reasonable,” in both their size and in the fact that they are “double trigger,” meaning that two things have to happen in order for them to receive the payments: A sale triggering a change in control, and the executive leaving for “good reason” or terminated without cause.
Instead, ISS focuses on Zaslav’s potential $886 million payout, a big chunk of which is comprised of what ISS calls a “problematic” excise tax gross-up approved by the board last month.
“Excise tax gross-ups represent an extraordinary cost that are inconsistent with common market practice, and most companies have eliminated such entitlements as a matter of good governance,” ISS writes in its recommendation. “The value disclosed in the golden parachute table for CEO Zaslav at over $886 million represents one of the highest golden parachute estimates ever observed,” though the proxy notes that this value may decline depending on merger timing.
The advisor firm also notes that the vast majority of Zaslav’s equity is also single trigger, meaning that he will be paid as soon as a change in control occurs.
“The auto-acceleration of unvested equity is not a best practice, and the full vesting acceleration of very recently-granted equity intended to cover multiple years represents a windfall,” it adds.
ISS is among the most influential proxy advisory firms, with many institutional shareholders following its recommendations, though in high-profile deals like the Paramount deal, those investors may often make their own calls on the things being voted on.
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Starting 5: OKC clinches No. 1 seed, Denver wins 10th straight, Cade returns
For the third straight season, the Western Conference Playoffs run through OKC.
With their seventh straight win, the Thunder secured the West’s No. 1 seed – again.
5 STORIES IN TODAY’S EDITION 🏀
April 9, 2026
West Streaks: A first for Denver in the Jokić era, a third straight No. 1 seed for the defending champs
More Heat: Cade’s return sparks Pistons, Spida lifts Cavs over Hawks, Spurs win shorthanded
Roundup: Magic make it four straight, Book boosts Suns to secure No. 7 seed
Tonight On Prime: Tatum makes MSG return as C’s visit Knicks, LeBron & Steph square off
League Pass Spotlight: The offensive evolution fueling Houston’s 7-game heater
BUT FIRST … ⏰
A Prime Thursday…
Six games tip off tonight, headlined by a monster doubleheader on Prime as the Knicks host the Celtics (7:30 ET | Tap to Watch), before the Lakers visit the Warriors (10 ET | Tap to Watch).
Postseason Countdown: With five days until the SoFi Play-In Tournament, see the current Playoff Picture.
Chasing History Returns: “Chasing History,” the all-access series documenting the NBA Playoffs presented by Google and NBA Finals, is back for another season on the NBA App.
1. WEST STREAKS: NUGGETS MAKE IT 10, THUNDER CLINCH TOP SEED
Denver’s longest win streak of the Nikola Jokić era has come at the perfect time.
Twenty-two days ago, the Nuggets were 6th in the West. Ten straight wins later, they’ve emerged with a 1.5-game lead for 3rd.
Nuggets 136, Grizzlies 119: Down four at the half, Jokić (14 pts, 16 reb, 10 ast) and Jamal Murray (26 pts, 7 reb, 5 ast) ignited a 39-22 3rd quarter for Denver, which took a double-digit lead and never looked back for its 10th straight win. | Recap
- Golden Stretch: It’s the Nuggets’ longest win streak since 2013. During the run, Jokić (25.2 pts, 12.7 ast) and Murray (27.6 pts, 7.1 ast) have combined for 52.8 pts and 19.8 ast per game
- Constant Creator: That includes seven triple-doubles from Jokić amid the streak, orchestrating the offense to the tune of 130.6 ppg
- Offensive Barrage: That’s the highest-scoring 10-game stretch of any team this season and Denver’s highest-scoring 10-game stretch since 1990
- “Doing everything in our power to catch this wave,” said Murray postgame. “Catch this rhythm, and be ready for Playoffs.”
- Final Stretch: With two games left on their schedule, the Nuggets (52-28) now hold a 1.5-game lead for 3rd over the Lakers and Rockets (both 50-29)
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Three straight seasons. Three straight No. 1 seeds – and another win streak to go with it.
Thunder 128, Clippers 110: Chet Holmgren was a monster on both ends (30 pts, 14 reb, 5 ast, 2 stl, 4 blk), while Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (20 pts, 11 ast) extended his record 20-point streak to 140 consecutive games as the Thunder never trailed after the opening minute for a seventh straight dub. | Recap
- 🔒Top Dogs: With the win, the Thunder secure the West’s top seed and the league’s best record, a feat they’ve now pulled off in back-to-back seasons
- “It’s extremely important,” said Holmgren on securing the No. 1 seed. “Just knowing that in the event of a Game 7, it’s always gonna be at home. You can’t underestimate how valuable that is … now, we got more to do.”
- Seeking 65: At 64-16, OKC is one win shy of the franchise’s first-ever back-to-back 65+ win seasons
- Clips Stay Put: Kawhi Leonard (20 pts, 8 reb) led LA, which remains one game up on Portland for 8th
2. MORE HEAT: CADE RETURNS, CAVS EXTEND STREAK, SPURS STAY ROLLING
The East’s No. 1 seed got its All-Star guard back Wednesday, and its offense felt the boost.
Pistons 137, Bucks 111: In his first action in 11 games, Cade Cunningham (13 pts, 5 reb) dished 10 assists to help get six other Pistons into double figures, while Jalen Duren (21 pts, 9 reb) and Duncan Robinson (20 pts) pushed Detroit to its 4th-highest scoring game of the season. | Recap
- On The Gas: Detroit dropped a 75-point 1st half and won the 2nd and 3rd quarters 78-52, building to a 31-point 4th quarter lead
- “I think I learned a lot, watching the team grow the way they did,” Cunningham said of his recovery time. “But I’m glad I’m back.”
- Bucks’ Best: Jericho Sims (11 pts, 11 reb, 10 ast) logged a triple-double for Milwaukee, while Ryan Rollins (23 pts, 6 ast) led all scorers
- Twenty Years Later: The Pistons can reach 60 wins for the first time since 2005-06 if they win out against the Hornets (Friday) and Pacers (Sunday)
In a top-5 East duel, the league’s top 2nd-half scorer did what he does best.
Cavaliers 122, Hawks 116: After not taking a shot for the first eight minutes, Donovan Mitchell took over, turning in 31 points, 7 boards and 4 dimes, while Evan Mobley dominated inside (22 pts, 19 reb, 3 blk), rallying the Cavs past Nickeil Alexander-Walker (25 pts) and the Hawks. | Recap
- Spida Swing: With Cleveland down seven at the half, Mitchell scored 13 in the 3rd as the Cavs went on a 44-20 run to seize control
- Clutch Close: Cleveland never trailed again, with Mitchell scoring the game’s final four points to stave off a late Atlanta push – securing the Cavs’ fourth straight win
- “It’s very tough to beat a team like this,” said Mitchell of Atlanta, which had won 18 of its last 21 games entering Wednesday. “This was a Playoff-like atmosphere in a Playoff-like game.”
- East Race: Cleveland moves just a half-game back of 3rd-place New York, while Atlanta – which has now dropped two straight – sits a half-game up on Toronto for 5th
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San Antonio’s pursuit of the West’s No. 1 seed may have ended, but its scorching play continued, even without Victor Wembanyama (rib) and Stephon Castle (knee).
Spurs 112, Blazers 101: De’Aaron Fox (25 pts, 5 reb, 7 ast) scored 10 points in the opening 5:13, and just over 4 minutes later, San Antonio took the lead for good, getting past Portland despite Deni Avdija’s game-high 29 points. | Recap
- Separate Strengths: Keldon Johnson’s 20 points off the bench helped the Spurs win the reserves battle 48-10, as the Blazers got 91 of 101 points from five starters in double figures
- Silver Spurs: Now 29-3 since Feb. 1, San Antonio is locked into the No. 2 seed in the West in its first Playoff appearance since 2019
- 8th On The Line: The Blazers (9th) remain one game back of the 8th-place Clippers, who they meet on Friday in Portland (10 ET, League Pass)
3. ROUNDUP: MAGIC MAKING THEIR MOVE, SUNS LOCK IN 7-SEED
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In a four-team race for the East’s final Playoff spot, Orlando is clicking at the right time.
Magic 132, Wolves 120: After seven 1st-half lead changes, Orlando took control from half to horn, with Paolo Banchero (20 pts, 8 reb, 6 ast) leading seven Magic players in double figures in a fourth straight win. | Recap
- Terrence Tunes Up: Terrence Shannon Jr. (5 reb, 5 3s, 1 poster) led all scorers with a career-high 33 points for a shorthanded Wolves team that falls 3.5 games behind the 5th-place Rockets
- It’s Go Time: Orlando has climbed to 7th during its four-game win streak, now a half-game behind Toronto for the final guaranteed Playoff spot
Suns 112, Mavericks 107: Devin Booker was on one, dropping 37 points and 9 dimes while Dillon Brooks scored 28, as Phoenix staved off Cooper Flagg (11 pts, 11 reb, 6 ast) and Dallas to lock in the West’s No. 7 seed. | Recap
- Book Balling: It’s Booker’s third straight 30-piece and his fifth in his last six games
4. TONIGHT ON PRIME: TATUM, C’S RETURN TO MSG, STEPH & LEBRON DUEL
Madison Square Garden is a storied arena, rich with basketball history.
For Jayson Tatum, it carries another meaning.
“I knew at some point I would have to get over that hurdle and play there again,” Tatum said. “So, it’s going to have to be this Thursday.”
Tonight (7:30 ET, Prime), he returns to MSG for the first time since his season-ending Achilles injury, as the Celtics visit the Knicks. With a win, Boston can secure the East’s No. 2 seed.
- All-Star Form: The Celtics are 13-2 this season with Tatum in the lineup, and recently, he’s leveled up, averaging 25.3 pts, 10.7 reb and 7.3 ast over his last six games – all of which have resulted in wins
- All Together: As Tatum prepares to take another step – back onto the MSG floor – his longest-tenured teammate, Jaylen Brown, will be right there with him
- “That’s what teammates are there for,” said Brown on Tatum’s return to MSG. “We got his back, so we go out there and do what we got to do.”
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The Test: Like Tatum and the C’s, the Knicks are heating up, too. They’ve won three in a row to maintain a one-game edge on the Cavaliers for the No. 3 seed.
- Captain Clutch, Again: Jalen Brunson, the reigning Kia Clutch Player of the Year, scored 17 of his 30 points in the 4th quarter to beat the Hawks on Monday, 108-105
- “Things aren’t going to be perfect all the time,” said Brunson after the win on his late-game heroics. “But you trust your work and find a way.”
- Another Key Duel: Now, Brunson and the Knicks – who sent Boston home last season – will aim to knock off another top-5 East squad, with the streaking Cavs on their heels
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A pair of modern legends are prepared to battle out West, as the Warriors host the Lakers (10 ET, Prime) for the fourth time in 2025-26.
Because for the first time this season, LeBron James and Steph Curry are set to go head-to-head.
- Legendary History: This will be the 28th regular-season meeting between the multi-time NBA champions. James holds a slight edge, 14-13, all-time
- King vs. Chef: James has averaged 30.2 pts, 9.1 reb and 7.3 ast in those matchups, while Curry’s posted 24.9 pts, 6.5 ast and 3.7 triples per game
- “What makes Steph one of the most dangerous players of all time is the fact that you’re going to get (scored on) in so many different ways,” James said
Golden State has locked up the No. 10 seed as it prepares for the Play-In, while Los Angeles sits in 4th, looking to get back in the win column after three losses.
5. LEAGUE PASS SPOTLIGHT: ROCKETS SEEK 8TH STRAIGHT WIN VS. SIXERS
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Tied with the Lakers at 50-29 are the red-hot Rockets, who look to extend their season-long win streak to eight games tonight as they host the Sixers on League Pass (8 ET).
Houston’s surge isn’t just coming at a critical time – with Playoff seeding and homecourt advantage on the line – it’s a sign of something deeper: a team finding its offensive identity.
Amid their 7-0 run, the Rockets posted six straight games of 30+ assists, their longest such streak since 1986. And while that run ended in Tuesday’s win over Phoenix (26 assists), the blueprint behind it remains, writes The Athletic’s William Guillory:
The Rockets have tweaked their offense and found a spark that has them playing their best basketball.
They’re playing fast. They’re playing with physicality. They’re playing with confidence. And, most importantly, they’re playing together. | Read More
League Pass features three more games, including the Raptors and Heat meeting for the second time in three days (7 ET) after Toronto’s Tuesday win pushed it to 6th in the East.
Meanwhile, the Bulls visit the Wizards (7 ET), while the Nets host the Pacers (7:30 ET).
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OpenAI Publishes Child Safety Blueprint to Address AI-Enabled Exploitation
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Bitcoin Pioneer Adam Back, Bernstein Say Quantum Threat to BTC Isn’t Existential
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WGA West Urged by State Senator to Reach Deal With Striking Staffers
The Writers Guild of America has reached a deal with the studios, but most of the staff of its West local remains on strike.
In a letter on Wednesday, California Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas urged the guild to bring an end to the 51-day work stoppage.
“Every day this strike continues is a day the Guild is not at full capacity to carry out its mission,” Smallwood-Cuevas wrote. “I therefore urge you to end this strike by taking the WGSU‘s invitation to make a fair deal.”
About 110 members of the Writers Guild Staff Union walked off the job on Feb. 17, after five months of on-again, off-again negotiations failed to result in a contract.
The staffers are demanding better pay and job security. A key sticking point is the WGSU’s demand for seniority protections in promotions and layoffs, which the staffers have said is necessary to combat favoritism.
The WGA West has said it is offering a fair deal, which includes $800,000 worth of salary increases. The two sides talked on March 17 and March 24 but have not been able to reach a breakthrough. The WGA West has told members that the strike will end when the WGSU accepts a deal or decides to return to work without one.
The striking staffers lost health care coverage on April 1, as more than a month had passed without qualifying employment.
Four members of the Los Angeles City Council signed a letter of support for the WGSU in March — Eunisses Hernandez, Katy Yaroslavsky, Hugo Soto-Martinez and Tim McOsker. Smallwood-Cuevas endorsed the WGSU’s demands in her letter to leadership.
“They deserve the standard union contract provisions that they’re fighting for, including an equitable wage step scale, layoff protections, and seniority in promotions,” she wrote. “A fair contract is not only a matter of basic dignity for these workers; it is essential to ensuring that guild staff can do the best possible job on behalf of WGAW members.”
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Olivia Munn Says Male Co-Star Refused to Film Scene Being Saved by Woman and Stopped Production for ’45 Minutes’: ‘She Can’t Save Me. We’re Not Doing This’
Olivia Munn said during a recent appearance on “The Drew Barrymore Show” that one of her former male co-stars refused to be saved by her in a scene and stopped production for “45 minutes” to fight off the story beat.
“There have been a few times where I’ve been filming something, and my character was either like CIA, or a cop, or something, and there’s been scenes where my character has been the one to save the other character,” Munn said. The scene in question featured Munn and her male co-star fighting side by side in a bunker.
“If you read the script, it was that he was guarding his side, I was guarding my side, then we switch sides and then there’s a guy that was coming for him [who] was gonna shoot him in the back, so I shoot him,” she recalled. “And then we’re about to shoot and, somehow, I guess he didn’t read the script, and in that moment, he realized, ‘Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. She can’t save me. No, no. She can’t save me.’”
Munn said her co-star then halted production and became “comative with the director” over the moment. She added that he had “no insecurity about being obnoxious and everyone hearing this and being like, ‘She can’t save me! We’re not doing this.’”
“Finally, after like 45 minutes of just stopping down, I said, ‘OK, how about instead of my character saving you, it’s just that we switch because it’s time for us to switch and so this is my guy to get,’” she said. “And he was like, ‘OK.’”
This isn’t the first time Munn shared a bad on-set experience with a male co-worker. During an episode of Dax Shepherd’s “Armchair Expert” podcast, she said a director she worked with on HBO’s “The Newsroom” tried to “ruin her chances” of getting a film role by telling the studio she was “really combative” while filming.
“I was on the one-yard-line for the movie and my manager calls me and says, ‘Hey, you’re gonna get the role. But first, I guess there’s another director who they know and he says that on “The Newsroom” you were late all the time and really combative,’” Munn said. “I lived seven minutes from there. I was never late. I was like, ‘I know who this is.’ He just was trying to bash me. And I told my reps, ‘Please tell the directors this.’ And then I still got the role. But I will always remember that just because of our conflicts of how we approached a role, he wanted to ruin my chances of getting anything else.”
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You’ll have one more chance to buy Samsung’s pricey Galaxy Z TriFold this Friday
If you missed your chance to pay Samsung $2,900 for a phone earlier this year, we have great news for you. Android Police reported that what may be the final shipment of the Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold will be arriving in the US on April 10. The unique foldable was discontinued a mere three months after it first went on sale, and it seems like Samsung is clearing out whatever inventory it has left. So if you have a spare $3,000 that you’re just desperate to get rid of, bookmark the TriFold’s page where Samsung has a countdown ticking away.
All jokes aside, our hands-on time with the TriFold at CES 2026 revealed a pretty snazzy device that managed to strike a decent balance between size and heft. But perhaps unsurprisingly for a phone with such an intricate design and high price tag, the company didn’t appear to have any intention to make the TriFold widely available. Samsung may have sold out each batch of the smartphone that went to retail, but the device didn’t offer much in the way of profit, according to reports in South Korean newspaper Dong-A Ilbo.
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Dyson just announced its first-ever handheld fan, with a motor that spins up to 65,000 RPM
Dyson just announced its first-ever handheld fan, the HushJet Mini Cool. As the name suggests, it uses the company’s proprietary HushJet air projection system. This tech first showed up on an air purifier that we found to be exceptionally quiet.
Dyson promises the fan can deliver focused airflow of up to 25m/s, which works out to 55mph. The brushless motor spins up to 65,000 RPM. This thing looks like a legitimate cooling system, despite its size. It also weighs just 7.5 ounces.
It offers five speeds and a boost mode, which should be useful during that next heat wave. It charges via USB-C and ships with a charging stand. The fan can also stand on its own, making it a decent choice for a desk. The rechargeable battery can get up to six hours of use per charge.
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The HushJet Mini Cool costs $100, which is cheap for a Dyson product but expensive for a handheld fan. It’s available in a trio of colorways. The gray model is available tomorrow. The red version goes on sale this May and the blue one will be available for purchase in June.