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El delantero del Manchester City no jugó ante Francia, y perdieron, aunque eso no fue motivo para agradecer a toda la afición que asistió a Foxborough.

The US president says “Numerous European countries” have been discussing bringing in such a levy.

House Oversight Chair James Comer issued two subpoenas to Leon Black on Friday after Comer said the billionaire refused to answer some questions about Jeffrey Epstein.

In 2023, Kendra Anderson did something that should have been simple, but changed everything: she searched Google for caviar.

She was sitting on her couch in Chicago during COVID, craving something she’d once accessed fairly easily through wholesale suppliers. But this time, her results showed that there was not a single nationally distributed Black-owned caviar brand she could order from.

That absence became a question that she wouldn’t let go of. Why, in an industry built on prestige and exclusivity, had no Black American entrepreneur claimed a foothold? It was a hole that needed to be filled. 

After six months of researching the caviar industry, running pop-ups, and talking to dozens of people, Anderson realized the problem ran deeper than representation and started Caviar Dream. The entire industry had gotten caviar wrong. But her path to this realization wasn’t sudden.

“I’ve been a fan of caviar for nearly two decades, having sampled it first as a culinary school student, and then falling in love with it over the years that I worked in the wine business,” Anderson explains. Those experiences shaped her vision entirely. By the time she opened her first cocktail and wine bar in 2016, caviar was central to what she wanted to create. She curated something called “Bumps + Bubbles,” a 2g bump of caviar paired with a 2oz pour of Ruinart Champagne.

“I wanted an affordable offering that would encourage our guests to try two things I knew they may have felt either priced out of or simply been too intimidated to try,” she says.

When she opened a second restaurant in 2020, caviar was there too, incorporated into an appetizer she modeled after the bloomin’ onion dish made famous by Outback Steakhouse. But then the pandemic changed everything. After losing both restaurants, Anderson moved to Chicago, where that Google search moment would spark something bigger. Her chance to bring caviar to the people, in a bigger way, had presented itself.

The real breakthrough came when she started analyzing why the caviar industry felt so untouchable. “It was less my culinary background and more my experience as a bar and restaurant owner-operator whose guests came from every walk of life that gave me the realization that caviar is too often seen as elite and unfamiliar, particularly among communities of color,” she reflects. As she dug deeper into the industry, a clear pattern emerged: “Almost all of the brands focused on the product narrative instead of the customer journey.”

After those months of exploration, Anderson had gained something invaluable: clarity. She’d identified a gap that went far beyond a simple market opportunity. The caviar industry was operating on an outdated playbook, one that positioned the product as inherently exclusive rather than accessible. Armed with nearly two decades of personal experience and years of hands-on restaurant operations, she felt equipped to challenge that narrative entirely.

When Caviar Dream launched, Anderson prioritized approachability alongside quality. Rather than chasing the rarest, most expensive cavities, she made a strategic decision to offer lesser-known varieties that had been tested with real people in her community. “We make caviar more affordable (and thereby accessible) by offering sampler kits of smaller-sized tins, allowing our customers to try multiple varieties without breaking the bank.” This approach reflected her core philosophy: luxury doesn’t have to mean scarcity.

The brand’s three pillars, modern branding, culturally relevant pairings, and curated premium caviar, worked together to create what Anderson calls “everyday luxury.” She wasn’t simply lowering prices; she was reframing who got to decide what counted as aspirational.

Looking forward, Anderson’s ambition extends beyond product. “Success for us is to normalize the occurrence and the sight of Black people enjoying caviar…in any setting, while enjoying any food or drink, on any occasion.” That vision of normalization drives her expansion plans. Over the next several years, she plans to build out accessories, accompaniments, and experiential offerings, including destination travel, essentially creating an entire ecosystem around caviar education and enjoyment. The goal isn’t just to sell caviar. It’s to fundamentally shift how Black Americans see themselves as consumers of luxury.

Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Eric Schmitt issued a letter Friday to Pentagon leadership calling for the military healthcare program to cover autism therapy as a basic benefit.

Donald Trump had the crowd laughing Friday while taking aim at Democrats … joking he’d become the “greatest communist in history” because, according to him, it’s just that easy! Speaking at Washington’s Faith & Freedom Coalition Policy…

During Supreme Court opinions Thursday, Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the majority opinion in an asylum case, appeared to rebut Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who wrote the dissent. The move was highly unusual — and on Friday there was a coda.

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Hundreds are still feared trapped under the rubble, as international rescue teams start to arrive.

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Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says he was kept apart from his two young children for 24 hours after someone made a false complaint about him to child protective services in Michigan.

In a Friday post to substack, Buttigieg said an anonymous caller who claimed to have met him several years ago at a conference in Alabama had reported him to CPS for committing “unspeakable violent crimes” and the caller believed his four-year-old twins were still at risk.

Buttigieg said the twins were placed with their grandparents’ and underwent a forensic interview as authorities investigated the allegations.

“For twenty-four

A new lawsuit seeks to shake loose information about a protester database possibly being used by the Trump administration to log and monitor critics of the government.

Legal advocacy group Democracy Forward is supporting digital outlet The Intercept in a lawsuit that asks a federal judge to compel the administration to release documents related to any such database.

The lawsuit comes as Donald Trump’s administration — while it contends with the president’s historic unpopularity — has sought to quash dissent, in a crackdown that has seen federal agents use lethal force against protesters.

The lawsuit cites several instances in which agents either openly talked about a database for tracking protesters or alluded to such a database existing. The evidence includes comments like those in the video below, in which a protester was photographed by an agent and then told that she would be going into a “nice little database” and was now “considered a domestic terrorist.”

The suit, which was filed Wednesday, says the federal government hasn’t complied with The Intercept’s Freedom of Information Act requests regarding the Trump administration’s collection of information on protesters, as required by law.

HOLY SMOKES: ICE agents in Maine just photographed a civilian’s face and name and said they’re putting it in a database.

When the woman asked why, the agent’s response was basically: “Now you’re considered a domestic terrorist.”

This is intimidation. Not law enforcement. pic.twitter.com/68dEiVd2wa

— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) January 23, 2026

“It’s not illegal to monitor the activity of immigration agents inside your community,” Ben Muessig, editor-in-chief of The Intercept, said in a news release. “What is illegal is the U.S. government’s secret list of activists — and its refusal to turn over information about that database to the American public.”

In a more recent example of the government’s efforts to intimidate critics, two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents reportedly pulled up on an election worker this week in Syracuse, New York, and threatened her with prosecution over a social media post calling for the indictment of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who fatally shot protester Renée Good in Minneapolis.

The Trump administration has made abundantly clear its intent to brand liberals as terrorists in order to weaponize the federal government against them. A prime example of this is its perverse “counterterrorism” directive, known as NSPM-7, that can be used to target people who express “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism” and “anti-Christianity.” The administration also has signed contracts with tech companies that have developed technology that repressive governments have used to spy on critics and quash dissent.

And all of these machinations — effectively cosigned by the country’s extremely vengeful president — fuel concerns about what sort of database the federal government might be keeping to track its critics, and what it intends to do with information it collects.

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