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- 12Go
Singapore-incorporated, Bangkok-based ground-transport booking platform founded by Alexey Abolmasov in 2012. It grew from a Thai bus-journey search site into a 4,000-operator network across 26 Asian countries, joined the Bookaway Group in 2021 and partnered with AirAsia in 2024.
Organizations · Thailand - 1789 Capital
Palm Beach venture fund where Donald Trump Jr. became a partner in November 2024; its "patriotic capitalism" strategy made billions — and in September 2026 a congressional document fight over whether politics fed the returns.
Organizations · United States - 1900 Summer Olympics
The Games of the II Olympiad, held in Paris from 14 May to 28 October 1900 as part of the Exposition Universelle — the second modern Olympics, the first to include women, and famously disorganised.
Events & Documents · France - 1955 Blackwell, Oklahoma tornado
A violent F5 tornado that struck Blackwell, Oklahoma on the night of May 25, 1955, killing about 20 people, injuring roughly 200-280, and destroying about 190 structures, including two of the town's largest factories.
Events & Documents · United States - 1955 Udall, Kansas tornado
A violent F5 tornado that struck Udall, Kansas on the night of May 25, 1955, killing 77 people in the town (80-82 including deaths just outside it), injuring about 250-270, and leaving only one building habitable.
Events & Documents · United States - 2013 Polo World Cup
The inaugural Arena Polo World Cup, held 6–8 September 2013 at Baku's Elite Equestrian Centre under the slogan "Bringing Polo Home", won by the European team Baltika.
Events & Documents · Azerbaijan - 2016 Barrow upon Soar bridge collapse
On 1 August 2016 the Grove Lane road bridge at Barrow upon Soar partly collapsed onto the Midland Main Line after coring work ruptured a water main; no one was hurt and no train was struck.
Events & Documents · United Kingdom - 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: a 125–110 finish decided by a near-tied popular vote
The 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, held 28 October–7 November 2020 across 243 seats, gave the NDA 125 seats against the Mahagathbandhan's 110 despite a near-tied popular vote, and returned Nitish Kumar as chief minister.
Events & Documents · India - 2020 Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha election
Harivansh Narayan Singh (JD-U) was re-elected Deputy Chairman of India's Rajya Sabha on 14 September 2020, defeating RJD's Manoj Jha by voice vote in a contest widely read as a Bihar election proxy fight.
Events & Documents · India - 2026 Satya Niketan building collapse
A five-storey building housing a boys' hostel collapsed during unauthorised basement renovation in Satya Niketan, Delhi, in September 2026, killing seven people; the Delhi High Court held that the municipal corporation and Delhi University shared responsibility.
Events & Documents · India - 60 Minutes
CBS's primetime newsmagazine since 1968; its November 2025 Trump interview became a press-freedom flashpoint when conflict-of-interest questions about the Binance pardon were cut from both the broadcast and the extended video.
Organizations · United States - 60 Minutes (CBS News)
The CBS newsmagazine profiled through its October 2025 interview with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner — the first detailed account of direct U.S.–Hamas talks, the condolence exchange over lost sons, and the "betrayed" reaction to the Doha strike.
Organizations · United States - 90th Academy Awards
The Oscar ceremony honoring 2017's films, held March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre: The Shape of Water's Best Picture night, an envelope-redemption show, and a record-low 26.5 million television viewers.
Events & Documents · United States - A Serbian Film (2010)
Srđan Spasojević's 2010 horror debut, sold worldwide by Jinga Films: prosecuted in Spain (charges dropped), banned in Norway, Australia and New Zealand, and cut by 49 BBFC edits for a UK 18.
Creative Works · Serbia - A7A5
A7A5 is a ruble-backed digital token issued by Kyrgyzstan-registered Old Vector LLC for the Russia-tied A7 Network. U.S. Treasury treats it as blocked property tied to sanctions evasion; an Accountable.US report alleged a World Liberty Financial token buyer had also used it.
Organizations · Russia - Aam Aadmi Party (AAP): from anti-corruption movement to national party, Delhi defeat, and Punjab
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), founded 26 November 2012 out of the 2011 anti-corruption movement, governed Delhi from 2015 to 2025, won Punjab in 2022, gained national-party status in April 2023, and lost Delhi in February 2025 — leaving Punjab, under Bhagwant Mann, as its only state government.
Organizations · India - Aaron Bell
Co-founder and first CEO of AdRoll, the San Francisco retargeting company he founded in 2007 with Adam Berke, later moving to chief product officer in 2017.
People · United States - AARP
The senior lobby that operates one of America's largest brand-licensing businesses: AARP took a $9 billion advance from UnitedHealth Group — about 31 times its annual member dues — while its members faced a 57% Part D premium surge over 2022-2025.
Organizations · United States - AARP Bulletin
AARP's newspaper-format member publication — "The Newspaper of 50-Plus America" — whose fraud reporting the U.S. Senate has cited as national news coverage; it reaches about 31 million readers and has earned APEX Awards for writing and design.
Creative Works · United States - AARP Financial Services
The for-profit AARP affiliate that holds the organization's real estate: a wholly owned subsidiary that began in 1984 as AARP's general partner in the Scudder mutual-fund venture behind 15 AARP funds.
Organizations · United States - AARP Foundation
AARP's 501(c)(3) charity: the nation's largest free tax-prep program has helped more than 68 million filers, and its legal work joined a $60 million predatory-lending settlement for older borrowers.
Organizations · United States - AARP Insurance Plan
The grantor trust behind AARP-branded insurance: the AARP Insurance Plan holds the master group policies, processed $13.1 billion in member premiums in 2024, and remits premiums to UnitedHealthcare net of royalties paid to AARP. It is not an insurer.
Organizations · United States - AARP Services
AARP's for-profit licensing arm: the Delaware taxable subsidiary that negotiates brand-licensing deals like the UnitedHealth relationship, with royalties of $1.2 billion in 2024 — about four times member dues.
Organizations · United States - ABC News
ABC News is the news division of Disney's ABC television network — home of Good Morning America and This Week. In 2026 it is suing the Trump administration's FCC, accusing it of unconstitutional retaliation against the network's broadcast licenses.
Organizations · United States - Abdulrahman Al Awar
UAE Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation since 2021 and Acting Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research since 2024, a former oil-and-gas geoscientist and federal HR official who has overseen the country's mandatory private-sector Emiratisation targets.
People · United Arab Emirates - ABET
The nonprofit that accredits individual engineering, computing, engineering technology, and applied-science degree programs — not universities — across 4,863 programs in 42 countries and areas; founded 1932 as the Engineers' Council for Professional Development.
Organizations · United States - Abhijeet Dipke
An Indian political-communications strategist who founded the satirical "Cockroach Janta Party" in May 2026 after India's Chief Justice referred to unemployed youth as cockroaches, drawing tens of thousands of sign-ups and international press coverage.
People · India - Abigail Spanberger
Virginia's 75th governor and the first woman to hold the office; a former CIA case officer and federal agent who carried a gun daily and became a gun-violence-prevention champion.
People · United States - Abraham Lincoln
The 16th U.S. president who preserved the Union and issued the Emancipation Proclamation; in 2026 his legacy became living news, from a new museum under his memorial to his blood-stained gloves' California tour.
People · United States - Academy Awards
The nonprofit film-industry body behind the Oscars: ~11,300 members across 18 branches, Best Picture inclusion standards since 2024, a new casting category in 2026, a stunt-design Oscar coming in 2028, and a Los Angeles film museum.
Organizations · United States - Acadia University
The public, primarily undergraduate university in Wolfville, Nova Scotia — founded by Baptists in 1838, famous for the 1996 Acadia Advantage laptop program, a Maclean's top-3 undergraduate school now facing a 2026 financial crisis and restructuring.
Universities & Colleges · Canada - Accel
American venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz, known for a $12.7 million 2005 investment in Facebook that became one of venture capital's most lucrative bets.
Organizations · United States - Acceptance Insurance
Nashville non-standard auto insurer born from a 2004 Liberté Investors/USAuto merger — not the bankrupt Iowa insurer of the same name; AM Best cut its financial-strength rating to C++ (Marginal) and withdrew its ratings at the company's request in July 2025.
Organizations · United States - Acceptance Insurance Companies Inc.
A Council Bluffs, Iowa insurance holding company whose crop-insurance subsidiary American Growers collapsed in 2002. AICI filed Chapter 11 in January 2005; its Eighth Circuit fight with Granite Re ended with AICI owing the $15M premium, and its U.S. takings suit failed at the Supreme Court.
Organizations · United States - Accountable.US
Progressive-leaning watchdog whose September 2025 "American Sell-Out" report accused World Liberty Financial of selling tokens to sanctioned-linked buyers — its star North Korea claim debunked as a memecoin false positive — and which filed a 2024 IRS complaint against The Epoch Times' nonprofits.
Organizations · United States - Acme Foundry of Blackwell, Oklahoma
The Acme Foundry and Machine Company of Blackwell, Oklahoma, was one of the town's major employers before the May 25, 1955 F5 tornado destroyed it. Unlike the neighboring Hazel-Atlas plant, it was later rebuilt.
Organizations · United States - Adam Berke
Co-founder and president of AdRoll, where he led the pivot to retargeting after the 2008 crash, then co-founded WorkPatterns after a decade at the company.
People · United States - Adam Fogelson
Chair of Lionsgate's Motion Picture Group and former Universal Pictures chairman; on the August 2026 earnings call he laid out the Michael sequel plan.
People · United States - Adam Kinzinger
Former Illinois Republican congressman (2011–2023), one of two Republicans on the Jan 6 committee; now leads Country First's "Reveille and Rally" campaign against military personnel at polling places and serves as a CNN senior political commentator.
People · United States - Adam Rehmeier: the indie filmmaker behind The Bunny Game and Dinner in America
American writer-director Adam Rehmeier went from documentary camera operator to Sundance's U.S. Dramatic Competition with Dinner in America (2020) after the banned horror debut The Bunny Game (2011); his 2024 film Snack Shack drew on his Nebraska childhood.
People · United States - Adam Smith
U.S. congressman (D-WA-9) since 1997 and the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee since 2010; in 2026 he built the oversight case against Trump's military moves, from the Iran war-powers fight to a bill blocking the Qatari-gifted 747 from leaving the Air Force.
People · United States - Adam Stafford
A Scottish musician and filmmaker, born in Sunderland and based in Falkirk, who fronted the band Y'all Is Fantasy Island, has released more than a dozen solo albums including a 2020 comeback, and has directed an award-winning music video and the seven-award-winning short film "The Shutdown."
People · United Kingdom - AdExchanger
Trade publication founded in 2008 covering programmatic advertising and data-driven marketing technology, acquired by Access Intelligence in 2017 and merged with AdMonsters in 2025-2026.
Organizations · United States - Adikavi Nannaya University
A state university in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, India, established in 2006, serving the combined Godavari districts and the affiliating university of Government College, Rajahmundry.
Universities & Colleges · India - Adobe
The design-software giant born at Xerox PARC in 1982 — PostScript, Photoshop, PDF — that agreed to buy Figma for $20 billion in 2022 and ended up paying a $1 billion termination fee for a deal regulators never let close.
Organizations · United States - Adobe Acrobat
Adobe's 1993 software family for creating and reading fixed-layout electronic documents: a slow, expensive launch rescued by giving the Reader away free, until the format it carried became an ISO standard Adobe no longer controlled.
Creative Works · United States - Adobe XD
Adobe XD was Adobe's 2016 answer to browser-based interface design — but by the Figma antitrust case it was the exhibit for Adobe's own defence: a $25 million standalone loss, left in maintenance mode with no plans for further investment.
Creative Works · United States - Adolf Hitler
Austrian-born dictator of Germany (1933–45) who started World War II by invading Poland and bears primary responsibility for the Holocaust — the state-sponsored murder of six million Jews.
People · Germany - Adrienne Elrod
Democratic strategist who held senior communications roles on all three campaigns that ran against Donald Trump (2016, 2020, 2024), ran talent for the Biden inauguration, and in March 2025 co-founded the Elrod Gifford Group with Rufus Gifford.
People · United States - AdRoll
San Francisco adtech company founded in 2007 by Aaron Bell and Adam Berke as a display ad network, pivoted to retargeting, renamed its parent to NextRoll in 2019, then reunified everything under the AdRoll brand in 2025 with RollWorks folded in as AdRoll ABM.
Organizations · United States - Advocate (charity)
A UK barristers' pro bono charity founded in 1996 as the Bar Pro Bono Unit, co-founder of the National Pro Bono Centre in 2010 and rebranded as Advocate in 2018.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Adyen
Second-time Dutch founders who refused to sell built a payments company on one in-house platform instead of a patchwork of legacy systems — then won a European banking licence and a blockbuster 2018 IPO.
Organizations · Netherlands - Affinity Partners
Jared Kushner's private equity firm, founded in 2021 and overwhelmingly financed by Gulf sovereign wealth funds; in 2026 it closed the $55 billion Electronic Arts buyout while Kushner raised fresh billions from the same governments he negotiated with as a U.S. envoy.
Organizations · United States - Affirm
The buy-now-pay-later lender founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin — a $1.2B IPO that nearly doubled on debut, an Amazon partnership, and a two-act regulatory arc as the CFPB moved to supervise BNPL like credit cards.
Organizations · United States - Afterpay
The Australian BNPL pioneer Block bought for $29B in 2022 — now a feature of Cash App rather than a standalone company, with its brand living on inside Block's commerce machine.
Organizations · Australia - Agate (game company)
Indonesia's largest homegrown video game developer, founded in Bandung in 2009 by a group of college friends and grown from a $500 first game into a roughly 200-employee studio behind titles including Valthirian Arc and Code Atma.
Organizations · Indonesia - Ain’t It Cool News: the bedroom site that invented geek scoops
Harry Knowles' 1996 Austin film-news site pioneered spoiler-era scoop journalism — the Batman & Robin leaks, the "spy" network — before studio coziness, decline, and the 2017 allegations that pushed Knowles out.
Organizations · United States - AirAsia
Malaysia's low-cost airline group, bought for RM1 in 2001 and relaunched as a budget carrier in 2002. In January 2026 AirAsia X completed the Capital A aviation consolidation, uniting seven branded airlines; the group's super app sells flights alongside 12Go ground transport.
Organizations · Malaysia - Airtable
The no-code database darling valued at $11B in 2021 — sold to Italy's Bending Spoons for $1.28B in 2026 despite $480M in growing ARR, a valuation unwind that became the SaaS era's cautionary tale.
Organizations · United States - Al Green
Houston's 22-year Democratic congressman who made impeachment his signature fight — censured in 2025, ejected from the 2026 State of the Union, and forcing an eighth impeachment vote months after losing his seat to redistricting.
People · United States - Al Jazeera
The Doha-based Arabic and English news network founded in 1996; in 2026 it faces a UN-podium attack from Netanyahu, a U.S. lawsuit over alleged Hamas ties, and the Gaza war's toll of 270+ journalists killed, at least 12 its own.
Organizations · Qatar - Alabama
The 22nd U.S. state, choosing its next governor in a 2026 Tuberville–Jones rematch; one of eight states still taxing groceries and the only state to carry out executions by nitrogen gas.
Places · United States - Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York medical college with an independence arc: founded by Yeshiva University in 1955, transferred to Montefiore in 2015, granted an absolute charter in 2019 — then made tuition free by Ruth Gottesman's $1B gift in 2024.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Albin Kurti
Kosovo politician and leader of the Vetëvendosje movement; Prime Minister in 2020 and since 2021, re-elected on 13 September 2026. A former political prisoner (1999-2001), his career runs from student activism through a 2020 no-confidence toppling to the 2025-2026 deadlock.
People · Kosovo - Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico's largest city, founded in 1706 on the Rio Grande, is a Pueblo and Native-affairs hub, a military and high-technology centre, and home of the October Balloon Fiesta.
Places · United States - Alex Breingan
New Zealand television producer facing 33 fraud and forgery charges from the Serious Fraud Office over the collapse of his Stripe Media/Stripe Studios production companies, which owed creditors more than $20 million.
People · New Zealand - Alex Morgan
American former soccer striker who won World Cups in 2015 and 2019, scored 123 goals in 224 USWNT appearances, and later backed Alt's $75 million Series B and bought a minority stake in San Diego Wave FC.
People · United States - Alexis Ohanian
Reddit co-founder who left the company's board in 2020, built the venture firm Initialized Capital, then founded Seven Seven Six, led Alt's Series A, and became a leading investor in women's sports.
People · United States - Alison Hastings: the press editor turned BBFC vice-president
British media figure: BBFC vice-president from 2008; former Newcastle Chronicle editor (1996–2002) and founding BBC Trust trustee; sat on the Presidential Team that refused The Bunny Game a certificate in 2011.
People · United Kingdom - All Pueblo Council of Governors
New Mexico-based advocacy body representing 20 Pueblo Nations, leading a 2025-2026 campaign to permanently protect the Greater Chaco region from oil and gas leasing.
Organizations · United States - All-In podcast
Business-and-tech podcast hosted by four venture capitalists — "The Besties" — that grew from a COVID-era poker-table chat into a White House talent pipeline, with an annual $7,500-a-ticket summit and administration officials as regular announcement guests.
Organizations · United States - Allan Evans
CEO and director of Unusual Machines (NYSE American: UMAC), the Florida drone components company that appointed Donald Trump Jr. to its advisory board in November 2024; a Michigan PhD who co-founded the Avegant AR headset company and previously ran Fat Shark and Red Cat's operations.
People · United States - Alliance Defending Freedom
Conservative Christian legal advocacy group, founded in 1993 and based in Scottsdale, Arizona; 20 direct Supreme Court victories since 2011, capped by its 2026 women's-sports and counseling wins, plus an international arm that litigates forced-marriage cases in Pakistan.
Organizations · United States - Allianz Australia
The Australian arm of Germany's Allianz Group — a century-old insurer that began in 1914 as Manufacturers' Mutual, now Australia's third-largest non-life insurer and the quiet underwriter behind bank insurance brands.
Organizations · Australia - Allianz Group
Germany's Munich-headquartered insurance and asset-management giant, founded in Berlin in 1890 as a transport and accident insurer, now serving more than 126 million customers in over 70 countries through brands including PIMCO and Euler Hermes, and the parent of Allianz Australia.
Organizations · Germany - Allies of World War II
The coalition that defeated the Axis in World War II — the "Big Four" of the United Kingdom, Soviet Union, United States, and China plus the signatories of the 1942 Declaration by United Nations — which became the basis of the United Nations.
Organizations · International - Alloy
The full arc of the KYC unicorn most coverage treats as a funding headline: how a three-founder New York startup turned identity verification into a lifecycle platform, hit a $1.55B valuation, and expanded into 40 countries.
Organizations · United States - Ally Bank
The branchless online bank behind Ally Financial: born from GMAC in the financial crisis, now holding about $157 billion in deposits as its parent refocuses on auto, corporate finance, and consumer banking.
Organizations · United States - Alphabet
Google's $4-trillion parent since 2015 — a holding company built to separate search from the "Other Bets" that twice beat U.S. Justice Department breakup bids in 2025–26 and absorbed a €2.95 billion EU ad-tech fine in between.
Organizations · United States - Alt
Alternative-asset platform founded by Leore Avidar where collectors research, trade and vault graded trading cards — then borrow against them through its ALT Advance lending arm.
Organizations · United States - Altair Engineering
A Troy, Michigan simulation-software maker that bootstrapped for 32 years, soared 41% on its 2017 IPO, then sold to Siemens for $10.6 billion — completing in March 2025 and ending its run as an independent company.
Organizations · United States - Alvin Bragg
Manhattan DA since 2022, the first Black prosecutor to hold the office, convicted a former president on 34 felonies, and in September 2026 ran the largest known seizure of AI-deepfake porn sites.
People · United States - AM Best
The credit rating agency that rates nothing but insurers — founded 1899, headquartered in Oldwick, New Jersey, and one of 10 SEC-registered NRSROs. Its financial-strength ratings run from A++ to S, split at the secure/vulnerable line between B+ and B.
Organizations · United States - AMAC
The conservative seniors group Dan Weber founded in 2007 as an AARP alternative claims over 2 million members — a self-reported figure that has barely moved since 2020 — and funds its 501(c)(4) lobbying arm partly through compensation from affiliated insurance carriers.
Organizations · United States - Aman Sanger
Co-founder and chief operating officer of Anysphere, the company behind the Cursor AI code editor, who built its distribution and community operation after a computer-science start at MIT.
People · United States - Amazon
The everything-store turned cloud and AI empire; in 2026 it deepened its Anthropic bet to $13B+ plus a $100B AWS compute commitment, then CEO Andy Jassy's warning to Treasury triggered the federal shutdown of Anthropic's flagship models — while the FTC and 22 states sued over rigged ad auctions.
Organizations · United States - Amazon Web Services
Amazon's cloud-computing division — the world's leading cloud platform, launched in spring 2006 after a 2003 memo by Chris Pinkham, with its Elastic Compute Cloud developed by a small team in Cape Town, South Africa. It posted $128.7 billion in 2025 net sales under CEO Matt Garman.
Organizations · United States - Amerant Bank
A Coral Gables community bank chartered in 1979: spun off from Venezuela's Mercantil group, rebranded Amerant in 2018, and refocused on Florida after selling its Houston branches in 2024.
Organizations · United States - American Agrisurance, Inc.
A defunct insurance-services subsidiary of Acceptance Insurance Companies Inc. ("AmAg") — the marketing and service affiliate of American Growers' federally reinsured crop insurance business. Filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in Nebraska on January 7, 2005, alongside its parent's Chapter 11.
Organizations · United States - American Civil Liberties Union
Nonprofit civil-liberties organization founded in New York in 1920; litigates First Amendment, due-process and equality cases through a national office and affiliates in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.
Organizations · United States - American Civil War
The American Civil War (1861–1865) pitted the Union against the secessionist Confederacy over slavery; mid-war emancipation transformed the conflict, and census-based research puts the death toll near 750,000 — well above the century-old 620,000 estimate.
Events & Documents · United States - American Commitment
A conservative 501(c)(4) advocacy nonprofit founded in 2012 by Phil Kerpen whose "Commitment to Seniors" reports claim AARP paid $135.8 million more in employee pay than it collected in dues — an analysis no independent outlet has separately audited.
Organizations · United States - American Constitution Society
The nation's leading progressive legal organization, founded after Bush v. Gore as the left's answer to the Federalist Society; in 2026 it handed the presidency to 38-year-old former Biden judicial-nominations chief Phil Brest for a rebuild amid its lowest funding since 2018.
Organizations · United States - American Institute of Chemical Engineers
The chemical engineers' professional home since 1908 — 60,000+ members worldwide and creator of the Center for Chemical Process Safety after Bhopal.
Organizations · United States - American Institute of Electrical Engineers
The electrical engineers' institute founded 1884 in New York — the wire-and- power establishment that merged with its radio rival to form IEEE in 1963.
Organizations · United States - American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
Founded 1871 in Pennsylvania's coal country — the engineering society a future U.S. president once led, now a federation of four societies.
Organizations · United States - American Red Cross
The American National Red Cross, founded by Clara Barton in 1881, is the U.S. humanitarian organization chartered by Congress to provide disaster relief, blood services, and aid to military families — a National Society of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, distinct from the ICRC and IFRC.
Organizations · United States - American Society for Engineering Education
The engineering educators' society, born 1893 at the Chicago World's Fair — the teaching profession's seat at the table when ABET was created.
Organizations · United States - American Society of Civil Engineers
America's oldest engineering society, founded 1852 in New York City — publisher of the quadrennial Report Card for America's Infrastructure.
Organizations · United States - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Founded 1880 in New York after deadly boiler explosions — author of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, adopted into law across North America.
Organizations · United States - American Thymele Theatre
A New York nonprofit founded in 1993 to stage free Greek and classical drama. After a decade as a touring repertory company, it ran the New York Euripides Summer Festival (2009-2023), staging Euripides' extant plays in chronological order.
Organizations · United States - American University
Private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., chartered by Congress in 1893; reached R1 research status in February 2025, then spent the year fighting federal grant cancellations — and handed the presidency in July 2026 to "the AI dean," David Marchick.
Universities & Colleges · United States - American Ventures
The Trump-family investment vehicle backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump — Dominari Securities-run special-purpose vehicles holding stakes in drone companies like Powerus and Xtend, valued near $750 million in 2026 reporting, plus bets from AI to a Kazakhstan tungsten venture.
Organizations · United States - Amir Ali
U.S. district judge for the District of Columbia and former MacArthur Justice Center appellate litigator; in 2025 he ordered payment of nearly $2 billion in frozen foreign-aid funds, and in September 2026 he blocked the administration from tying counterterrorism grants to election changes.
People · United States - Amy Adams
Six-time Oscar-nominated actress known for Junebug, Enchanted, American Hustle and Arrival; in 2026 she returned to television with Apple TV's Cape Fear and revealed on a podcast that she once helped save a stabbing victim's life in Santa Monica.
People · United States - Ana Luz Porzecanski
Uruguayan-born conservation biologist who directs the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History and co-curated the museum's 2016 exhibition on Cuban biodiversity.
People · United States - Anand Sharma: commerce minister, Rajya Sabha deputy leader, and Congress dissenter
Anand Sharma, a four-time Rajya Sabha MP from Himachal Pradesh, was Union commerce minister under Manmohan Singh, deputy leader of the Congress in the Rajya Sabha until 2022, and a G-23 dissenter who later broke with the party over a caste census.
People · India - Anchorage Digital
The first crypto company to receive a U.S. federal banking charter (Jan 2021), whose charter then subjected it to an OCC consent order over BSA/AML failures — terminated in August 2025.
Organizations · United States - Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh is a state on India's south-eastern coast whose capital question was settled by Parliament in 2026: the AP Reorganisation (Amendment) Act gives Amaravati statutory recognition as the state's sole capital, ending a six-year three-capitals battle.
Places · India - Andreessen Horowitz
American venture capital firm founded in July 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, known for its talent-agency operating model and for growing from a $300 million debut fund to more than $90 billion in assets under management.
Organizations · United States - Andrew Cuomo
Former three-term governor of New York (2011–2021) who resigned amid a sexual-harassment investigation, then lost twice to Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 NYC mayoral race — despite real-estate millions and a late Trump nudge.
People · United States - Andrew Witkoff
The son of real-estate developer Steve Witkoff who died of an OxyContin overdose in 2011 at age 22. His father named the Las Vegas Drew resort for him; it was shelved during the pandemic and reopened as the Fontainebleau.
People · United States - Anduril
Defense-technology company founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey and co-founders, building autonomous systems on its Lattice AI platform. Its March 2026 $20B Army enterprise contract and September 2026 Armory storefront show a company selling warfighting like software.
Organizations · United States - Andy Jassy
Amazon CEO since July 2021 and the co-creator of AWS; in 2026 he raised Amazon's AI-infrastructure bet to $220 billion while his own researchers' jailbreak finding shut down Anthropic's flagship model worldwide.
People · United States - Angel Trains
One of three rolling-stock leasing companies created in the 1994 privatisation of British Rail, owning about a third of Britain's trains and leasing them to operators.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)
An independent secondary school in Singapore, and the first national school authorised to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, tracing its founding to a Methodist mission school opened in 1886.
Schools · Singapore - Ankit Baiyanpuria
Indian wrestler-turned-fitness-influencer from Haryana whose 2023 documentation of the 75 Hard Challenge made him a desi-workout star; won Best Health and Fitness Creator at the 2024 National Creators Award and made a 2026 grappling debut against UFC contender Arman Tsarukyan.
People · India - Anna Paulina Luna
Republican congresswoman from Florida's 13th district since 2023; the Air Force veteran whose response to Nicki Minaj's swatting turned the rapper into an open Trump supporter.
People · United States - Anne White
Wife of UFC president Dana White since 1996; married after knowing him since age 12, she has kept an exceptionally private life — until documented public appearances at the Bellagio in 2024 and the White House in June 2026.
People · United States - Ansys
Engineering simulation software company founded in 1970 as Swanson Analysis Systems, which grew by acquiring simulation tools like Fluent and LS-DYNA, then was itself acquired by Synopsys for $35 billion in July 2025.
Organizations · United States - Anthony Eisen
Australian fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Afterpay with Nick Molnar in 2014, ran it as co-CEO through its $29 billion sale to Block, and now sits on Block's board while leading refunds startup Reshop.
People · Australia - Anthropic
American AI safety-focused research and product company founded in January 2021 by Dario and Daniela Amodei and five other former OpenAI employees, known for its Claude model family and a valuation reported at $965 billion by mid-2026.
Organizations · United States - Antoine Fuqua
Director of Training Day and the Equalizer trilogy whose 2026 Michael Jackson biopic Michael became the first biopic to cross $1 billion worldwide.
People · United States - Anurag Thakur
Five-term BJP MP from Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh; Union Minister of Information & Broadcasting and Youth Affairs & Sports from July 2021 to June 2024, who launched the "Krish, Trish and Baltiboy: Bharat Hain Hum" trailer in October 2023.
People · India - Anwyl of Parc and Llugwy Hall
summary: A Welsh gentry family, seated at Parc in Llanfrothen and later at Llugwy Hall in Pennal, Merionethshire, documented from the 16th to the early 20th century in two Cadw-listed houses and the Dictionary of Welsh Biography.
Places · United Kingdom - Anysphere
The San Francisco company behind the Cursor AI code editor — founded by four MIT graduates in 2022, worth $29.3B by late 2025, and the target of SpaceX's $60B all-stock acquisition in 2026.
Organizations · United States - AOL
The dial-up giant that introduced millions to the internet as America Online — from a $106 billion Time Warner merger to a $4.4 billion Verizon sale, and a 2026 sale to Bending Spoons as a surviving email and portal brand.
Organizations · United States - Apollo Projects
Venture fund of Sam Altman and his brothers Max and Jack that backs moonshot companies with fast seed rounds, evidenced by its backing of Alt's Series B and KoBold Metals' Series B — not Apollo Global Management or Apollo GraphQL.
Organizations · United States - Appen
The Australian AI-training-data company founded by a linguist in 1996 that rode the AI boom to a $5B market cap — then crashed 37% in a day when Google cancelled the contract behind a third of its revenue.
Organizations · Australia - Appian
Appian (Nasdaq: APPN) is a low-code automation platform founded in Virginia in 1999. It stayed private for 18 years on just $10 million of venture capital, went public in 2017 as the first low-code IPO, and reached GAAP profitability in 2025 on AI-driven process automation.
Organizations · United States - Apple
The American technology company founded in a Los Altos garage in 1976 that made the personal computer, the Macintosh, the iPod and the iPhone — and whose LaserWriter, powered by Adobe's PostScript, launched desktop publishing.
Organizations · United States - Apple LaserWriter
Apple's first laser printer (1985): a $6,995 machine with PostScript built in and AppleTalk sharing that, with the Macintosh and PageMaker, turned desktop publishing from a trade secret into something a small office could do.
Creative Works · United States - Ardavan Safaee
President of French film studio and distributor Pathé Films since 2019, who testified to a French National Assembly committee on how the company changed its on-set conduct policies after handling a 2020 misconduct complaint against a director.
People · France - Aretha Franklin
The "Queen of Soul" whose 73 Billboard Hot 100 entries stood as the female record for nearly 40 years until Nicki Minaj passed it in 2017 — 18 Grammys, first woman in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and a 2019 posthumous Pulitzer citation.
People · United States - Ariana Grande
Pop singer and three-time Grammy winner whose career runs from Nickelodeon to Wicked's Glinda; in 2023 she bought her r.e.m. beauty brand's assets out of bankruptcy court for about $15 million, and in 2026 Wicked: For Good was shut out of the Oscars after the first film earned 10 nominations.
People · United States - Arief Widhiyasa
Indonesian entrepreneur who co-founded and led the Bandung video game developer Agate as chief executive from 2009 to 2022, then became its Chairman and co-founded the web3 gaming company Mythic Protocol.
People · Indonesia - Arizona
Arizona, the Grand Canyon State, is the 48th US state: a desert-and-plateau state of 7.6 million people, the country's leading copper producer, and home in Scottsdale to a national legal-advocacy organization.
Places · United States - Arizona State University
America's largest public university experiment — 180,000+ students, a decade atop U.S. News' innovation ranking, and a "New American University" model that critics call a credentialing factory.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Arkansas Tech University
The Russellville public university that rose from a 1909 agricultural high school to a 12,054-student enrollment peak in 2015, then rebuilt around access — 43% first-generation students — and a record-setting Ozark campus.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Arthur Gaeth
An American who led the first Latter-day Saint mission in a Slavic country as a 24-year-old in 1929, then reported live from Nuremberg in 1946 on the execution of convicted Nazi war criminals, a broadcast held by Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
People · United States - Article 25
A UK humanitarian architecture charity that designs schools, hospitals and housing in the Global South, which won a 2024 RIBA International Award for a school in Niger and nearly collapsed in 2015 after a former office manager was convicted of stealing over £260,000 from its accounts.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Arvid Lunnemark
Swedish mathematician and programmer who co-founded Anysphere, the company behind the Cursor AI code editor, and left in October 2025 to found the AI-safety venture Integrous Research.
People · Sweden - AS Valentigney
A French amateur football club founded by Peugeot factory workers in 1920 whose run to the 1926 Coupe de France final directly inspired the Peugeot family to found FC Sochaux — now a Ligue 1 club — two years later.
Organizations · France - Ashton Kutcher
Actor who became Silicon Valley's most credible celebrity investor; in July 2026 he walked away from Sound Ventures after 11 years to launch a new AI-infrastructure fund with Morgan Beller — and in 2023 he resigned as chairman of his own Thorn anti-abuse charity after backing Danny Masterson.
People · United States - Asim Munir
Pakistan's army chief since 2022, promoted to field marshal in May 2025 and made the country's first statutory Chief of Defence Forces in 2026; received a Trump-sons-backed Powerus drone delegation at GHQ Rawalpindi on September 16, 2026.
People · Pakistan - Asociación Española de Familias de Personas con Sordoceguera (APASCIDE)
A Spanish nonprofit supporting people with deafblindness and their families, recognized as an association of public utility and operating specialized social, educational and residential services.
Organizations · Spain - Associated Press
The not-for-profit news cooperative founded in 1846, owned by U.S. newspapers and broadcasters; in 2025–2026 it sued the Trump White House over press access and filed briefs defending rival outlets' access too.
Organizations · United States - Astronomer
Astronomer Inc., founded in Cincinnati in 2015, is the commercial company behind Apache Airflow, selling the managed platform Astro. Valued near $740 million after its May 2025 Series D, it became a household name that July when its CEO resigned over the viral Coldplay kiss-cam video.
Organizations · United States - Asure Software
Asure Software (Nasdaq: ASUR) provides cloud payroll and HR software for small and mid-sized businesses from Austin. Founded in 1985 as Forgent Networks, it once extracted $110M+ from the tech industry by enforcing a JPEG patent before reinventing itself.
Organizations · United States - AT&T
Dallas-based telecom giant descended from the original Bell System, broken up in 1984 and rebuilt through Baby Bell acquisitions. AT&T detoured into media with DirecTV and Time Warner, exited both by 2025, and refocused on wireless and fiber.
Organizations · United States - Atalaya Capital Management
New York alternative-credit manager founded in 2006 by Ivan Zinn that financed asset-based lending, including Alt's $200 million debt round for ALT Advance, before Blue Owl acquired its business for $450 million in 2024.
Organizations · United States - Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The August 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima (6 August) and Nagasaki (9 August) — the only wartime use of nuclear weapons — which, with the Soviet entry into the war, ended World War II and opened the nuclear age.
Events & Documents · Japan - Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan's 7 December 1941 surprise air attack on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor — 2,404 killed, the battleship line shattered — which brought the United States into World War II.
Events & Documents · United States - Aureus Greenway Holdings
A Nasdaq-listed Florida golf-course operator already trading as 'PUSA' while awaiting a reverse merger with the Trump-sons-backed drone maker Powerus — a golf company co-announcing foreign military orders before the deal has closed.
Organizations · United States - Austin Community College District
A public community college district in Austin, Texas, governed by an elected board and funded substantially by local property taxes; its 2024 Free Tuition Pilot Program produced a 59% enrollment jump among eligible students.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Australia
The Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy formed in 1901 from six British colonies, spanning the Australian continent and Tasmania, and home of the Afterpay fintech story.
Places · Australia - Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
Australia's prudential regulator, created on 1 July 1998 from the Wallis Inquiry reforms: it licenses and supervises banks, insurers and most superannuation funds, sets capital and governance standards, and administers the Financial Claims Scheme, while conduct regulation sits with ASIC.
Organizations · Australia - Autonomy Pictures: the US label that released The Bunny Game uncut
Autonomy Pictures — the 2012 US horror distribution label launched by Derek Curl, David Gregory (Severin Films) and Lewis Tice (Danger After Dark) — whose first release was The Bunny Game, out uncut on DVD and Blu-ray in July 2012.
Organizations · United States - Avant
Chicago consumer fintech (founded 2012 as AvantCredit) that lends to middle-income borrowers through bank-origination partnerships, was sued by the FTC in 2019 over loan servicing, and funds itself via securitizations.
Organizations · United States - Avni Zogiani
Kosovo anti-corruption activist and founder of the civil-society movement Çohu (2005), later a deputy minister of infrastructure and environment (2020) and of finance, labor and transfers (2023-2025); Front Line Defenders documented threats against him and his family over his work.
People · Kosovo - Awareness 360
Youth-led non-profit founded in Bangladesh in October 2014 by Shomy Hasan Chowdhury and Rijve Arefin, running SDG-aligned community-service projects in more than 20 countries with over 1,500 young volunteers.
Organizations · Bangladesh - Axiom Space
The Houston company building the world's first commercial space station became a centerpiece of a July 2026 CNN investigation showing its federal awards more than doubled after Donald Trump Jr.'s 1789 Capital invested in it.
Organizations · United States - Axios
The brevity-obsessed news company founded in 2016 is betting its local-news future on OpenAI — taking funding and AI tools from the AI giant it covers, without disclosing the money in its job listings.
Organizations · United States - Axis Powers
The military coalition of Germany, Italy, and Japan — with five European satellites — that fought the Allies in World War II, united against the United States and the Soviet Union but never building a joint command.
Organizations · International - Axoni
New York blockchain firm whose Veris network — used by BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and Citi for equity-swap reconciliation — was bought by the London Stock Exchange Group in 2024.
Organizations · United States - Ayla: The Daughter of War
Ayla: The Daughter of War (2017), directed by Can Ulkay, dramatizes the true story of Turkish sergeant Süleyman Dilbirliği and the Korean War orphan he named Ayla. Turkey's second most-watched film of 2017 (5M+ tickets) and its Oscar submission, it was later cited as a film-diplomacy case study.
Creative Works · Turkey - Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan is an energy-rich, predominantly Shi'i Muslim country of eastern Transcaucasia on the Caspian Sea, bordered by Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Iran and Turkey, with Baku as its capital.
Places · Azerbaijan - AzerNews
AzerNews is Azerbaijan's first English-language newspaper, published in Baku since 1997. It is a WAN-IFRA member and an ECO media partner.
Organizations · Azerbaijan - B. K. Hariprasad: Congress organisation man, four-time Rajya Sabha MP, and KPCC president
B. K. Hariprasad is a Congress organisation leader from Bengaluru: a four-time Rajya Sabha MP, the opposition's 2018 Deputy Chairman candidate, and president of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee since June 2026.
People · India - Bad (Michael Jackson album)
Michael Jackson's 1987 studio album: the first album with five Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 singles, 11x Platinum in the US, winner of two Grammy Awards.
Creative Works · United States - Baidu
Chinese internet and AI company founded in 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu; its 2026 arc runs from a first-ever AI-revenue crossover to a Q2 miss and a securities class action, alongside a global robotaxi push and a chip-unit listing.
Organizations · China - Bakkt
The ICE-backed crypto venture that went from physically-settled bitcoin futures to a 2021 SPAC listing, then reinvented itself as a B2B2C stablecoin-infrastructure play — including acquiring a firm founded by its own CEO.
Organizations · United States - Baltimore
Maryland's largest city — the 1729 tobacco port behind the Star-Spangled Banner, and ABET's headquarters city since 1996.
Places · United States - Banned Books Museum
A small non-profit museum in Tallinn, Estonia, opened in December 2020, displaying censored and banned books from around the world and covered by independent press in the UK, continental Europe and India.
Organizations · Estonia - Barron Trump
Only child of Donald and Melania Trump; NYU Stern School of Business student (class of 2028) who served as a behind-the-scenes podcast adviser to his father's 2024 presidential campaign.
People · United States - Barrow upon Soar
Barrow upon Soar is a large Leicestershire village on the River Soar between Leicester and Loughborough, known for its limestone quarries, the 1851 plesiosaur nicknamed the Barrow Kipper, and the 2008 rail crash.
Places · United Kingdom - Barrow upon Soar rail crash
A 2008 Leicestershire accident in which a tipper lorry's raised body struck and demolished a railway footbridge, derailing a passing passenger train at 65 mph; a government investigation blamed driver distraction and a weak Network Rail safety process, and in 2011 Network Rail pleaded guilty to
Events & Documents · United Kingdom - Barrow upon Soar railway station
Barrow-upon-Soar is an unstaffed two-platform station on the Midland Main Line, opened in 1840, demolished after its 1968 closure, rebuilt in 1994, and marked by two bridge disasters in 2008 and 2016.
Places · United Kingdom - Bashar Warda
Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Erbil, Iraq since 2010; entered the seminary at age twelve, pastored Baghdad's largest parish, coordinated wartime relief for nearly 20,000 displaced Christian families, and founded the Catholic University of Erbil in 2015.
People · Iraq - BasicNeeds
UK-founded mental-health NGO (1999/2000) whose community-based treatment-plus-livelihoods model was field-tested from Karnataka, India to 15 countries; it merged into CBM UK in 2017, and its country programmes continue as the independent BasicNeeds Network formed in 2022.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Battle of Midway
The 4–7 June 1942 carrier battle in which the US Navy, warned by broken Japanese codes, sank four Japanese carriers — the Pacific War's turning point.
Events & Documents · International - Battle of Stalingrad
The 1942–43 battle on the Volga in which the Soviet Union encircled and destroyed Germany's Sixth Army — the bloodiest battle of World War II and its Eastern Front turning point.
Events & Documents · Soviet Union - Beau Bayh
A seventh-generation Hoosier, Marine Corps veteran and attorney who in 2025 became the fourth generation of his family to seek statewide office, winning the 2026 Democratic nomination for Indiana Secretary of State and now facing Republican Max Engling in the November general election.
People · United States - Beckett Grading Services
Trading-card grading arm of Beckett, launched in 1999 from the price-guide publisher founded in 1984, known for four printed subgrades and the Black Label Pristine 10 — and, since December 2025, part of Collectors, the parent company of rival grader PSA.
Organizations · United States - Behavox
AI employee-surveillance platform founded in 2014 by ex-Goldman Sachs analyst and Man GLG partner Erkin Adylov; SoftBank invested $100M in 2020 only after becoming a customer itself, and in 2026 BlackRock's HPS put in $175M as the firm expanded from comms to trade surveillance.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Ben Ray Luján
Democratic U.S. Senator from New Mexico since 2021; former House Assistant Speaker and DCCC chair who now leads the Senate push to permanently protect the Greater Chaco region.
People · United States - Bending Spoons
The Milan-based serial acquirer that buys faded software brands, rebuilds them with a small central team, and holds them forever — from Evernote to Airtable, via a $29-a-share Nasdaq IPO in July 2026.
Organizations · Italy - Beryl Howell
Senior U.S. district judge in Washington, D.C.; the Obama appointee who struck down Trump's executive order against Perkins Coie in a 102-page ruling — then upheld his $100,000 H-1B visa fee as lawful.
People · United States - Bessemer Venture Partners
A venture firm rooted in the Phipps family's steel-era fortune, known for early bets on Shopify and Pinterest, its public Anti-Portfolio of missed deals, and a $3.85 billion early-stage fund closed in 2022.
Organizations · United States - Better Business Bureau
The private nonprofit that grades American businesses A+ to F — founded 1912 as an advertising-industry vigilance committee, funded by the businesses it rates, and twice burned by documented pay-to-play scandals.
Organizations · United States - Bettina Anderson
Palm Beach philanthropist and model — co-founder of The Paradise Fund (2005), face of Hamilton Jewelers, Columbia art-history graduate — who married Donald Trump Jr. in May 2026 after an engagement announced in December 2025.
People · USA - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP): from two seats in 1984 to India's ruling party
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP): founded in 1980 from the Jana Sangh, India's ruling party since 2014 under Narendra Modi — it won 240 Lok Sabha seats in 2024 and governs through the National Democratic Alliance coalition.
Organizations · India - Bihar: from ancient Magadha to India's most densely populated state
Bihar is a state in eastern India, capital Patna, counted at 104,099,452 people in the 2011 census. The Ganges bisects it; its soil holds Magadha, Bodh Gaya, Nalanda and the Champaran satyagraha — and an economy growing faster than India's while its per-capita income stays the lowest.
Places · India - Bikers for Trump
Pro-Trump biker network led by Chris Cox from 2015; its organizers say it split into three rival groups and renamed two of them — Bikers for America and Bikers for 47 — in October 2024.
Organizations · United States - Bill Doogue
Australian criminal defence lawyer and founding director of Doogue + George, a Melbourne firm, who has represented clients in a number of high-profile Victorian criminal cases.
People · Australia - Bill Prady
Bill Prady is the television writer and producer who co-created The Big Bang Theory, ran for California governor in the 2003 recall, and received a NASA medal.
People · United States - Bill Shine
Fox News producer-turned-co-president (1996-2017) who ran Trump's White House communications from July 2018 to March 2019, then quietly became a NewsNation consultant - a role hidden from staff until 2021, when its exposure triggered a staff exodus.
People · United States - Billboard
The 1894-born music trade magazine behind the Hot 100, Billboard 200 and Global 200 charts - from a bill-poster trade paper to the chart institution that launched its first global ranking and joined Variety's orbit in September 2020.
Organizations · United States - Billboard Music Awards
An annual music-awards event whose honorees are selected through performance on Billboard charts, using measures including sales, radio, streaming, touring and social engagement.
Events & Documents · United States - Bilt Rewards
The rent-rewards fintech valued at $10.75 billion in July 2025 — built on a Wells Fargo card partnership the bank exited as a money-loser, forcing a high-stakes migration to a new Cardless-issued card lineup.
Organizations · United States - Bina Equestrian Center
Bina Equestrian Center in Baku, Azerbaijan, hosts chovqan's World Championship, the President's Chovqan Cup final, the Chovqan Super Cup final, and the founding assembly of the International Chovgan Federation.
Places · Azerbaijan - Binance
The world's largest crypto exchange, founded 2017; survived a $4.3B U.S. guilty plea, became entangled with the Trump crypto empire, and is pivoting to U.S. stock trading in 2026.
Organizations · United Arab Emirates - Birsa Munda
Tribal freedom fighter (1875–1900) who led the Ulgulan rebellion against British rule in Chotanagpur. He died in Ranchi jail on 9 June 1900 at about 25. Commemorated nationally on Janjatiya Gaurav Divas and featured in Krish, Trish and Baltiboy Season 2.
People · India - Bitcoin.com
Bitcoin.com is a cryptocurrency services company founded by early bitcoin investor Roger Ver, best known for its self-custodial wallet, its crypto newsroom, and the VERSE token. Its history runs through a 2015 domain fight with OKCoin, a 2016 mining pool, and its founder's U.S. tax case.
Organizations · Saint Kitts and Nevis - BitTorrent / Rainberry Inc.
The company behind the pioneering BitTorrent protocol and µTorrent; renamed Rainberry in 2017, bought by Justin Sun's TRON in 2018, and fined $10M by the SEC in 2026.
Organizations · United States - Blackwell Journal-Tribune
Weekly newspaper serving Blackwell and Kay County, Oklahoma, now in the Reaves & Williams Publishing Group; known for its 1955 tornado damage survey used by the National Weather Service.
Organizations · United States - Blackwell, Oklahoma
Kay County city from the 1893 Cherokee Outlet land run — oil, gas, and zinc-smelting boomtown, rebuilt after a 1955 F5 tornado, still living with the smelter's legacy.
Places · United States - Blend
San Francisco fintech that digitizes mortgage and banking origination for lenders — listed on the NYSE in 2021, then battered by the 2022 rate shock after its $422M Title365 bet.
Organizations · United States - BlinkRx
Digital pharmacy and patient-access platform run by Blink Health, Inc. — best known for its $140M Series D led by Donald Trump Jr.'s 1789 Capital and the October 2025 congressional oversight letter that followed its "Operation Access Now" launch.
Organizations · United States - Block
Square renamed: the payments company behind Cash App and the $29B Afterpay deal, now Block, Inc. — no single headquarters, NYSE ticker XYZ.
Organizations · United States - Bloody Disgusting: from horror blog to streaming-era horror division
Founded in 2001 by Brad Miska and Tom Owen, Bloody Disgusting grew from a horror-news site into a producer (V/H/S), distributor, podcast network, and — since Cinedigm's 2021 buyout — Cineverse's horror division.
Organizations · United States - Bloody Flicks: the UK horror blog behind the Bloody Flicks Awards
Bloody Flicks is a UK horror blog run by Paul Downey, championing independent horror and cult cinema. It stages the audience-voted Bloody Flicks Awards in Stoke-on-Trent and covered Jinga Films' 2025 North American Blu-ray/DVD release of The Bunny Game.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Bloomberg
Privately held financial data, software, and media company founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1981 — built on the Bloomberg Terminal subscription engine, and now the subject of active succession planning as its founder enters his mid-80s.
Organizations · United States - Bloomberg Law
A subscription legal-research platform whose own pro-bono awards once honored people and firms that later stood at the center of the 2025 legal fight with the White House.
Organizations · United States - Blue J
The Toronto legal-tech company founded in 2015 by a University of Toronto tax professor that torched its predictive-AI business model for generative AI — and became a $300-million-plus tax-research platform.
Organizations · Canada - Blue Origin
Jeff Bezos's private space company, whose strangest chapter is a $28 million auction seat that sat empty for four years before its crypto-billionaire buyer finally flew.
Organizations · United States - BlueVine
The SMB fintech that started in invoice factoring, grew into a digital small-business banking platform with $2.1B in deposits, and agreed in September 2026 to be acquired by Valley National for $340M — roughly half its 2019 private valuation.
Organizations · United States - Board of Peace
The U.S.-led international body created under UN Security Council Resolution 2803 to oversee Gaza's transitional administration — chaired permanently by Donald Trump, backed by $17 billion in pledges, and chartered with a mission deliberately broader than Gaza.
Organizations · United States - Bobby Jones
Bobby Jones (1902–1971): the only golfer to win a single-season Grand Slam (1930) — and a mechanical engineer who redesigned golf clubs, pioneered instructional films, and co-designed Augusta National and founded the Masters.
People · United States - Bohemian Rhapsody (2018 film)
The 2018 Queen/Freddie Mercury biopic — not the song: an eight-year production saga, four Oscars, and a $903M+ box-office record until 2026's Michael.
Creative Works · United Kingdom; United States - Booksy
Polish-founded beauty and wellness appointment-booking SaaS, launched in 2014 by iTaxi veterans Stefan Batory and Konrad Howard, that grew across six markets on a merchant-first subscription model — funding rounds from $800k to a $70M Series C and an M&A rollup including Lavito and Versum.
Organizations · United States - Boris Epshteyn
Donald Trump's senior personal counsel — a felony defendant in Arizona's fake-electors case until charges were dropped in June 2026 — who by 2026 had become the president's Oval Office "fixer" and the negotiator of a $1.776 billion anti-weaponization settlement.
People · United States - Boston University
Private nonprofit research university in Boston, founded in 1839 as a Methodist seminary in Vermont. In 2026 it launched the BU Promise - free tuition for families earning up to $200,000 - while cutting 5% of its budget and laying off 120 staff.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Bottomline Technologies
The 1989 paper-check-killer that IPO'd in 1999 and spent 23 years as a public fintech before Thoma Bravo's $2.6B take-private in May 2022 — a textbook PE deal with a 42% premium and a day-one CEO swap.
Organizations · United States - Bounty Films: Australian distributor in the 2011 BBFC battle
Australian home-media distributor that, with UK partner Eureka Entertainment, fought the BBFC's June 2011 refusal of The Human Centipede 2 to an 18 certificate — and still distributes Australian independent film worldwide.
Organizations · Australia - Bowdoin College
A private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine, chartered in 1794 and test-optional in admissions since 1969; the alma mater of Zohran Mamdani '14 and led since 2023 by Safa Zaki, its first woman president.
Schools · United States - BoxGroup
New York seed-stage venture firm led by David Tisch that spent its first decade investing only its partners' own capital before raising outside funds, growing from $165 million in 2019 to $425 million in 2023 on a "first yes" philosophy.
Organizations · United States - Brett Butler
Stand-up comedian who never wanted a sitcom and became one anyway: the star of ABC's Grace Under Fire (1993–1998), a top-five hit undone by her painkiller addiction, later a working character actress and psychic medium.
People · United States - Brett McGurk
Brett McGurk is an American diplomat who served as Biden's NSC coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, led the anti-ISIS coalition under Obama and Trump, and closed the January 2025 Gaza ceasefire alongside his own designated successor.
People · United States - Brex
A startup credit-card fintech that soared to a $12.3B valuation, ditched tens of thousands of SMBs, and ended in Capital One's hands in 2026 for $5.15B — less than half its peak.
Organizations · United States - Breyer Capital
Global venture investment firm founded in 2006 by Jim Breyer, the Accel investor behind the early Facebook bet, now run from Austin as a family office focused on artificial intelligence in healthcare and life sciences.
Organizations · United States - Bridges Partners LLC
Delaware-incorporated PR and political-consulting firm registered under FARA (no. 7652) for an Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs-funded influencer campaign, Project Esther, with a $900,000 budget and an itemized $97,054 disbursement ledger in its own filings.
Organizations · United States - Brihaspati Vidyasadan
summary: A private school in Naxal, Kathmandu, named a Full Award recipient in the British Council's 2019–20 International School Award, whose leased campus land is the subject of an unresolved fraud case over a decades-long, below-market lease from a state-linked children's charity.
Schools · Nepal - British Board of Film Classification: the UK film censor since 1912
The BBFC — Britain's film classification body since 1912, statutory video censor under the Video Recordings Act — which refused The Bunny Game a certificate in October 2011 and reversed its Human Centipede 2 ban the same year.
Organizations · United Kingdom - British Council
Founded in 1934, the British Council is the UK's flagship cultural-soft-power agency — now in financial crisis: a £197 million pandemic loan it cannot repay, auditors warning of going-concern risk, 11 country offices closing, and an offer to hand over its art collection that the government rejected.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Britney Spears
American pop singer who defined late-90s teen pop, won a Grammy for "Toxic," lived under a 13-year conservatorship her father controlled, and is now the subject of a Universal biopic and a 2026 rehabilitation arc.
People · United States - Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
The Cambridge genomics institute built on a father's $650M quest — the largest gift ever for psychiatric research, driven by his son's bipolar diagnosis — to crack the genetics of mental illness; it also won the CRISPR patent war against Berkeley.
Organizations · United States - Brom of Sheffield
Brom was an enslaved man in Col. John Ashley's Sheffield household and the named first plaintiff in the 1781 freedom suit Brom and Bett v. Ashley, which helped end slavery in Massachusetts. His life after winning his freedom is unrecorded.
People · United States - Bronx High School of Science
A public specialized high school in the Bronx, founded in 1938, whose alumni include nine Nobel laureates and Zohran Mamdani — a graduate who wants to abolish the admissions exam that admitted him.
Schools · United States - Brooklyn Law School
Private independent law school in Brooklyn Heights founded September 30, 1901, built on legal education for working people. Its alumni include NYC's first Black mayor and the sitting U.S. Attorney General, a night-school graduate.
Schools · United States - Bruce Blakeman
Nassau County Executive and 2026 Republican gubernatorial candidate whose August 2026 event with Attorney General Todd Blanche drew Hatch Act complaints.
People · United States - Bruce Chizen
Adobe CEO from 2000 to 2007 who bought Macromedia for Flash, expanded Adobe beyond design tools, and handed the company to Shantanu Narayen.
People · United States - Busan
South Korea's second-largest city and principal port — the 1950–53 wartime provisional capital, landing port of the Turkish brigade, and home to the world's only United Nations cemetery, now seeking UNESCO status.
Places · South Korea - Business Wire
The press-release distribution newswire founded in 1961 by Lorry I. Lokey and owned by Berkshire Hathaway since 2006 — a distributor of company-issued news, not a journalism outlet.
Organizations · United States - C-nario
Israeli digital-signage software company (founded 2002, acquired 2011) whose flagship product outlived it: after YCD Multimedia's acquisition, C-nario Messenger became the playback engine inside YCD's RAMP platform while the brand kept appearing on major airport deployments.
Organizations · Israel - Cade Carradine
American actor from the Carradine acting family — son of Keith Carradine — who played the younger "Boxer Ray" opposite his own father in Alan Rudolph's Ray Meets Helen (2017) and took a supporting role in Turkey's Oscar-nominated Ayla: The Daughter of War (2017).
People · United States - Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Wall Street's oldest law firm (1792-2026), a finance and structured-products powerhouse whose independence ended with the July 2026 merger into Hogan Lovells Cadwalader.
Organizations · United States - Cairo International Film Festival for Children
Egypt's Ministry of Culture–run international children's film festival, held in Cairo since 1990; described as Africa's oldest and largest children's film festival, its 22nd edition ran in March 2015 with 165+ works from 36 countries.
Events & Documents · Egypt - CalAmp
American telematics company based in Irvine, California, and a fleet-tracking industry player for decades. In June 2024 it filed a voluntary Chapter 11 to execute a lender-backed debt-for-equity restructuring, emerging within weeks as a private company owned by Lynrock Lake Master Fund LP.
Organizations · United States - California Institute of Technology
Private research university in Pasadena, California, founded 1891 as Throop University, which in 2026 began Ray Jayawardhana's presidency while NASA put the JPL management contract up for competitive bidding for the first time.
Universities & Colleges · United States - California State University, Los Angeles
Public university in Los Angeles founded in 1947, ranked first in the U.S. for upward student mobility with a 9.9% mobility rate — now cutting budgets 12.4% amid a $32.4 million deficit and sliding enrollment.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Cambodian adoption scandal
A 1997-2001 U.S.-Cambodia intercountry adoption fraud scheme run by facilitator Lauryn Galindo and her sister Lynn Devin, involving roughly 800 adoptions and falsified documents, which led to U.S. criminal convictions and a multi-year suspension of Cambodian adoptions.
Events & Documents · Cambodia - Cambridge Analytica
A British political consulting firm that shut down in 2018 after its harvest of millions of Facebook users' data detonated a global scandal — yet eight years later, in September 2026, a New Mexico jury found Meta liable for misleading users in the same case, proving the firm's story is not finished.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Cameron Diaz
Actress who co-starred with Nicki Minaj in the rapper's live-action debut The Other Woman, then retired in 2014, built the organic wine brand Avaline, and returned in Netflix's Back in Action (2025).
People · United States - Can Ülkay
Turkish director of Ayla: The Daughter of War, Turkey's 2017 Oscar entry. A longtime commercial-film director — the Arda Turan Simit Sarayı campaign, spots for Lipton, Ülker and Türk Telekom — he later directed Netflix's Kağıttan Hayatlar (Paper Lives) and the 2025 spy thriller Uykucu.
People · Turkey - Canapi Ventures
A Wilmington fintech venture firm backed by a network of banks that double as its portfolio companies' distribution channel, with $1.4 billion raised across two funds and Alloy among its Fund I investments.
Organizations · United States - Candace Parker
American basketball player who won three WNBA championships with three different teams, two league MVP awards and two Olympic gold medals, then became president of adidas Women's Basketball and an investor in the alternative-asset platform Alt.
People · United States - Capital & Main
California-based nonprofit investigative news publication founded in 2012 to investigate economic inequality. It covers California and national stories, co-publishes investigations with larger outlets, and reported on Accountable.US's 2022 American Democracy Scorecard for Fast Company.
Organizations · United States - Capsule
New York digital pharmacy founded by Eric Kinariwala in 2015 that hit a $1B+ valuation in 2021, then faced a 2022 data breach affecting 27,000 customers — not the fashion trade show of the same name.
Organizations · United States - Carla Hayden
Librarian of Congress from 2016 to 2025, the first woman and first Black person in the role, fired by President Trump after a career built on keeping libraries open and defending readers' privacy.
People · United States - Caroline Ciccone
Caroline Ciccone is president of Accountable.US, a progressive watchdog nonprofit. A strategic communications veteran of Democratic politics and the Biden-Harris administration, she signed the 2024 IRS complaint against Epoch-affiliated nonprofits and filed against Trump-linked crypto ventures.
People · United States - Carta
San Francisco equity-management company founded as eShares in 2012, which replaced paper stock certificates with cap-table software, peaked at an $8.5 billion valuation, then exited secondary trading after a 2024 trust controversy.
Organizations · United States - Cash App
Block's mobile money app, launched in 2013 as Square Cash: an email-based way to send money that grew into a 59-million-user wallet, debit card, investing and buy-now-pay-later platform — now Block's vehicle for banking its users and connecting them to Square sellers.
Organizations · United States - Cathedral of Saint Joseph, Ankawa
A Chaldean Catholic cathedral in Ankawa, Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, whose gardens sheltered thousands of Christians fleeing the Islamic State's 2014 Nineveh Plain offensive; it later hosted Cardinal Pietro Parolin's Christmas 2018 Mass during a Vatican visit to Iraq.
Places · Iraq - CBM UK
UK disability-inclusion charity (est. 1996, Cambridge), the UK member of the CBM Global Disability Inclusion federation. Absorbed mental-health NGO BasicNeeds in 2017 (formalised 2022); funds eye-health, education and livelihood programmes with local partners across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Celeste Katz
American political journalist whose career spans the New York Daily News, Mic, Newsweek and Glamour; co-host of the 2016 "Special Relationship" podcast, a 2022 Mirror Award finalist for Nieman Reports, and editor-in-chief of The Concord Bridge since April 2025.
People · United States - Celestian Tales: Realms Beyond
A 2020 turn-based RPG sequel from Indonesian studios Ekuator Games and Agate, crowdfunded on Kickstarter in 2017 and published by Digital Tribe after a nearly three-year delay past its original 2017 target.
Creative Works · Indonesia - Central Bureau of Communication
India's bureau under the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, formed in December 2017 by merging the DAVP, Directorate of Field Publicity and Song & Drama Division, renamed in 2022. It runs 23 regional and 148 field offices, and co-produced Krish, Trish and Baltiboy: Bharat Hain Hum.
Organizations · India - Cerence
American automotive conversational-AI company spun off from Nuance Communications in October 2019. Its voice-assistant technology ships in about half of worldwide auto production, and it trades on Nasdaq under the ticker CRNC.
Organizations · United States - Çetin Tekindor
Turkish stage, television, and film actor who was first famous as a dubbing voice — the Turkish Robert Redford — then won Best Actor awards for Babam ve Oğlum (2005) and played the elderly Süleyman Dilbirliği in the Oscar-entry film Ayla (2017).
People · Turkey - Chaco Canyon
Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico is the heart of Chaco Culture National Historical Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987, and the centre of a 2025-2026 campaign to permanently protect the wider Greater Chaco landscape from oil and gas leasing.
Places · United States - Chad Clinton Freeman: the man behind PollyGrind
Founder and director of the Las Vegas underground genre-film festival PollyGrind (est. 2010); on record calling The Bunny Game "the epitome of what PollyGrind is about" after its 2011 jury sweep.
People · United States - Chapter One
Los Angeles early-stage venture firm founded by former Tinder product chief Jeff Morris Jr. that moved from AngelList syndicates to a $40 million web3 fund, backed Alt's early rounds, and ran a $1 million-check incubator for crypto startups.
Organizations · United States - Charles Geschke
Adobe co-founder who built PostScript at Xerox PARC with John Warnock, survived a 1992 kidnapping, and led Adobe as president and co-chairman until 2017.
People · United States - Charles Hearn
Co-founder and chief technology officer of Alloy, the New York identity-decisioning company, and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honouree in enterprise technology for building its fraud and risk platform.
People · United States - Charlie Sheen
Two and a Half Men star fired in March 2011 after publicly attacking creator Chuck Lorre; sober since December 2017, he reconciled with Lorre via Bookie (2023) and told his own story in The Book of Sheen (2025).
People · United States - Charter Communications
Charter Communications is the American telecom company behind the Spectrum brand, the largest US cable operator after its 2026 Cox merger. Founded in St. Louis in 1993, it grew through bankruptcy and the 2016 Time Warner Cable deal — and finished bottom ten on a 2022 Accountable.US scorecard.
Organizations · United States - ChatGPT
OpenAI's chatbot, launched November 30, 2022: built with technology trained on a 10,000-NVIDIA-GPU supercomputer, it hit 1 million users in five days, 100 million by January 2023 — and turned its chipmaker into the world's first $4 trillion company.
Organizations · United States - Children of Mike Johnson
The four children of House Speaker Mike Johnson — Hannah, Abigail, Jack and Will — and Michael, whom he and his wife Kelly took in as newlyweds without a formal adoption.
People · United States - Chile
Chile is a long, narrow South American republic on the Pacific coast, stretching from Peru to Cape Horn between the Andes and the Pacific, with Santiago as its capital and 18,480,432 people enumerated in the 2024 census.
Places · Chile - Chime
The neobank that insists it is not a bank — founded in 2012, rejected by 100 VCs, grown on interchange fees from Americans earning under $100K, and taken public in June 2025 at $18.4 billion after a 59% first-day pop.
Organizations · United States - Chogān
Iran's traditional horse-riding game accompanied by music and storytelling, with a history of over 2,000 years, inscribed by UNESCO in 2017 on the Representative List — a separate element from Azerbaijan's Chovqan.
Events & Documents · Iran - Chovqan
A traditional Karabakh horse-riding game regarded in Azerbaijan as the predecessor of modern polo, inscribed by UNESCO in December 2013 on its List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding; after a Soviet-era decline and a revival of national tournaments from 2006, it gained
Events & Documents · Azerbaijan - Chris Olah
Anthropic co-founder who leads its interpretability research; a researcher with no university degree whose blog taught thousands of people neural networks and whose work aims to reverse-engineer what AI models are really doing.
People · Canada - Chris Pappas
Four-term Democratic congressman from New Hampshire's 1st district and 2026 Senate nominee; the restaurant scion who beat future White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in 2022 and ranks among the House's most bipartisan members.
People · United States - Chris Whipple
Vanity Fair contributing writer whose on-the-record White House interviews produced the Susie Wiles bombshells and Tucker Carlson's claim that Trump ordered the Epstein files cover-up; former 60 Minutes producer and author of The Gatekeepers.
People · United States - Christiane Amanpour
CNN's chief international anchor and war correspondent since 1983; the 2026 AUB honorary doctorate recipient whose one un-landed interview — Vladimir Putin — drew a famous 2023 "he may be afraid of her" line.
People · United Kingdom - Chuck Liddell
"The Iceman" — former UFC light heavyweight champion (2005–2007) who helped carry MMA into the mainstream; his 2021 arrest ended with no charges and his divorce finalized in April 2025.
People · United States - Chuck Lorre
Chuck Lorre is the American television writer-producer known as the "King of Sitcoms," creator of Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon. In September 2026 he turned a charity award speech into a profanity-laced attack on Donald Trump.
People · United States - Chuck Lorre Family Foundation
The philanthropic foundation of sitcom creator Chuck Lorre, established in 2013 to fund STEM education, health and the arts — behind the $30M Cedars-Sinai allied health school, a $10M Children's Hospital LA scholars program, and the Project Angel Food Kitchen & Campus opened in February 2026.
Organizations · United States - Cipto Adiguno
Indonesian game-industry executive who co-founded Bandung studio Ekuator Games, became a Vice President at its acquirer Agate, chaired the Indonesian Game Association from 2019 to 2024, and co-founded the publishing accelerator Indiesche Partners in 2025.
People · Indonesia - CircleUp
The consumer-brands funding platform that raised $235M to bring data science to CPG investing — then broke itself up in 2023, selling its lending arm and VC fund and being acquired for its Helio data engine.
Organizations · United States - City of Columbus, Ohio
Ohio's capital and largest city, home to about 938,000 people, whose city attorney has filed at least a dozen lawsuits against the Trump administration — most recently over counterterrorism grants tied to federal election demands.
Places · United States - ClickUp
San Diego productivity-software company (Mango Technologies Inc.) that raised $400 million at a $4 billion valuation in 2021, then cut 22% of staff in 2026 while deploying 3,000 internal AI agents under a "100x org" thesis.
Organizations · United States - Cloudflare, Inc.
The San Francisco internet-infrastructure company whose network sits in front of millions of websites — and which keeps colliding with the power that position confers, from cutting off extremist customers to a Tokyo court holding it liable for manga piracy.
Organizations · United States - Club for the Future
Blue Origin's nonprofit foundation, founded in 2019 to inspire young people toward STEM careers through its Postcards to Space program — student postcards flown past the Kármán line and mailed back — which became a $19M grantmaker after the 2021 $28M first-seat auction.
Organizations · United States - Clyde Metro
A multi-decade, multi-billion-pound mass transit proposal for the Glasgow City Region, launched by Transport Scotland in 2022, that has absorbed the long-stalled Glasgow Airport rail link as one of many components still under study as of September 2026.
Places · United Kingdom - CNBC
U.S. business-news cable channel founded in 1989; after buying the Financial News Network in 1991 it became the industry leader, and in January 2026 it spun out of Comcast into the independent company Versant — keeping its name, getting a new logo — while dueling Fox Business Network for ratings.
Organizations · United States - CNN
American cable news network co-founded by Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld in 1980 as the first 24-hour all-news TV channel in the U.S. Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and led by Mark Thompson, it still trails Fox News in the ratings.
Organizations · United States - CNP Assurances
The French personal insurer born as a state provident fund in 1959 — absorbed in 2022 into La Banque Postale's takeover bid at €21.90 a share, the final act of a state-engineered "grand pôle financier public".
Organizations · France - Coatue
American technology-focused investment firm founded in 1999 by Philippe Laffont, a former Tiger Management analyst, which grew from a $45 million hedge fund into a crossover platform managing more than $70 billion across public and private markets.
Organizations · United States - Coinbase
The largest US crypto exchange went public in 2021, was sued by the SEC in 2023 for operating unregistered, and had the case dismissed in 2025 — with the regulator stressing the dismissal was not on the merits.
Organizations · United States - CoinTelegraph
Cryptocurrency news outlet founded in 2013, known for cartoon-style illustrations. Its 2023 false ETF-approval tweet, 2025 Google traffic penalty, and a disputed 2026 sale report frame an industry publication under pressure.
Organizations · Global - Collège Amadou Hampaté Bâ
A subsidised school in Niamey, Niger, whose Article 25-designed laterite classrooms won a 2024 RIBA International Award for Excellence and two 2024 AIA UK awards for passive, low-carbon design.
Schools · Niger - Colleges and Institutes Canada
The Ottawa association that spent decades prying federal research money loose for Canada's colleges — taking them from 13 NSERC-eligible institutions to 108 — after universities had the funding earmarked for themselves.
Organizations · Canada - Colman Domingo
Emmy-winning actor and playwright; two-time Oscar nominee for Rustin and Sing Sing, who plays Joe Jackson in Fuqua's 2026 biopic Michael.
People · United States - Colonel John Ashley
Colonel John Ashley (1709–1802) chaired the committee that drafted the 1773 Sheffield Resolves and was Sheffield's largest enslaver; Elizabeth Freeman and Brom sued him for their freedom in 1781 and won.
People · United States - Colorado
Colorado, the Centennial State, is the 38th US state: a high plains-to-Rockies state of nearly 6 million people, and the recurring courtroom venue for a national legal group's First Amendment cases.
Places · United States - Columbia Journalism Review
Journalism's in-house watchdog survived its own industry's contraction — and now investigates outlets bigger than itself, from a 280-newsroom-staffer revolt at the Wall Street Journal to Axios's $852 billion partnership with OpenAI.
Organizations · United States - Comcast
Comcast Corporation is the Philadelphia telecom and media conglomerate founded in 1963 as a 1,200-subscriber cable system in Tupelo, Mississippi. Led by co-CEOs Brian L. Roberts and Mike Cavanagh, it is unwinding its empire: cable networks went to Versant in 2026, an NBCUniversal/Sky split planned.
Organizations · United States - Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Australia's largest bank by domestic franchise — founded in 1911 as a government-owned bank, split from the central bank in 1959, fully privatised by 1996, and now the retail-banking leader of Australia's big four alongside ANZ, NAB and Westpac.
Organizations · Australia - Competition and Markets Authority
The UK's independent competition and consumer authority, created in 2014 from the Office of Fair Trading and the Competition Commission; its provisional finding that Adobe's $20 billion Figma deal would harm innovation helped end the merger.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Compugraphic
The American phototypesetting company that put cheap, direct-entry typesetting into small newspapers — then, as the dominant incumbent, turned Adobe away, lost the PostScript bet to underdog Linotype, and was absorbed by Agfa in 1988.
Organizations · United States - Concerned Veterans for America
A Koch-network veterans advocacy group — founded in 2011, run by Pete Hegseth until his 2016 exit — that has expanded from VA reform into war powers, NATO drawdown, surveillance reform, and energy policy.
Organizations · United States - Confiction Labs
Game studio co-founded by Agate chairman Arief Widhiyasa and former Agate marketing chief Igor Tanzil, which raised $6.5 million in 2023 as "Mythic Protocol" before rebranding as Confiction Labs and releasing the co-op shooter "Riftstorm."
Organizations · Singapore - Congressional Budget Office
Congress's nonpartisan scorekeeper: CBO estimated Medicare's Part D premium-stabilization demo would add $5B in 2025 spending plus $2B in interest — and later admitted it overestimated savings from the 2022 reconciliation drug provisions.
Organizations · United States - Construction Enquirer
Free, online-only breaking-news service for UK construction, founded in 2010 and edited by Aaron Morby; its daily newsletter and contract leads reach deep into Britain's biggest contractors.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Copernicus Foundation
A Chicago Polish-American cultural nonprofit, founded in 1970 to fund a Copernicus monument, which later acquired the historic Gateway Theatre and became the subject of a 2020 lawsuit against the City of Chicago.
Organizations · United States - CoreStack
The independent funding record of the Bellevue cloud-governance company — from its 2016 founding through a $30M Series B to a $50M Post Road growth financing — and where company-issued claims about it could not be verified.
Organizations · United States - Corey Williams
Intellectually disabled Louisiana man convicted of murder at 16 on a false confession and hidden evidence; freed in 2018 after his lawyers' Supreme Court petition exposed fabricated witness summaries and prosecutorial misconduct.
People · United States - Council Bluffs, Iowa
A city of about 62,700 in western Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebraska — county seat of Pottawattamie County and the designated eastern terminus ("Mile 0") of the first transcontinental railroad. Also a data-center hub where Google has invested more than $20 billion since 2007.
Places · United States - Coupe de France
France's national knockout cup, founded during World War I and open to every club from amateurs to Ligue 1; its own federation keeps an official "petits poucets" honor roll for giant-killers, and PSG hold a record 16 titles.
Events & Documents · France - Coursera
American online-learning platform founded at Stanford in 2012; a Delaware public-benefit corporation and certified B Corp that listed on the NYSE in 2021 and completed its combination with rival Udemy in May 2026.
Organizations · United States - Covid Act Now
A U.S. nonprofit that launched a COVID-19 risk-tracking website on 20 March 2020, used by some state and local governments during the pandemic, and formally wound down its data pipeline in 2024–2026.
Organizations · United States - Cross Ratio Entertainment
Singapore independent record label founded in 2015 by music-industry veteran Dean Augustine; grew from artist management into distribution, publishing and events, landing a 2022 regional partnership with Universal Records Philippines and a 2023 global distribution deal with Warner Music Singapore.
Organizations · Singapore - CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.
The cybersecurity company whose Falcon sensor — software meant to protect Windows machines — crashed about 8.5 million of them on 19 July 2024 in a worldwide outage, drawing congressional scrutiny, a Delta lawsuit, and a shareholder class action.
Organizations · United States - CS Drobeta-Turnu Severin
A football club founded in 2025 by the municipality of Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania, which won a county league-and-cup double in its debut season, earned promotion to Liga III in June 2026, and appointed former Liga I manager Flavius Stoican as head coach in July 2026.
Organizations · Romania - CSAB
The computing-sciences accreditor founded in the early 1980s — accreditation for a field with no licensing exam, merged into ABET in 2001.
Organizations · United States - Curtis Sliwa
Founder of the Guardian Angels and two-time Republican mayoral nominee whose red-beret iconography collapsed in 2025 with a live on-air WABC resignation — he finished with 7% of the vote.
People · United States - D.A.S. Rechtsschutz
D.A.S. (Deutsche Automobil Schutz), founded in Berlin in 1928, pioneered legal-expenses insurance in Germany and became Europe's market leader. Absorbed into ERGO in 1997, it was later dismantled — its foreign operations sold to Allianz and ARAG between 2018 and 2025.
Organizations · Germany - Dan Driscoll
26th Secretary of the Army (February 2025 – August 2026), an Iraq veteran and Yale Law classmate of JD Vance who resigned after clashes with Pete Hegseth over personnel purges and the rollback of his drone modernization drive.
People · United States - Dana White
UFC president and CEO Dana White turned a struggling fight promotion into a global sports giant and is a longtime friend and political ally of Donald Trump, from early 2001 events at the Trump Taj Mahal to a UFC card on the White House lawn in 2026.
People · United States - Dang Thanh Tam
Vietnamese industrialist and chairman of Kinh Bac City Development Holding Corporation, whose company is developing the Trump Organization's licensed golf and residential project in Hung Yen province.
People · Vietnam - Dang Thi Hoang Yen
Vietnamese businesswoman who founded Tan Tao Group, was removed as a National Assembly delegate in 2012 amid disputed circumstances, and later filed billion-dollar international arbitration claims against Vietnam.
People · Vietnam - Daniel Susott
American physician and self-described "hanai" (adopted) brother of Lauryn Galindo whose 2010 and 2019 transfers of a Kauai apartment to her were both voided by federal courts as fraudulent, and who surrendered his California medical license in 2013 amid regulatory allegations.
People · United States - Daniela Amodei
Co-founder and president of Anthropic, who chairs its board and runs the company's business side; a former OpenAI safety executive who built one of the world's most valuable AI companies on an English literature degree.
People · United States - Dario Amodei
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; as OpenAI's VP of Research he led GPT-2 and GPT-3. Author of "Machines of Loving Grace," co-inventor of RLHF, and a prominent voice on AI safety and frontier-model governance.
People · United States - Dassault Systèmes
French 3D design and product-lifecycle software company founded in 1981 from Dassault Aviation's CATIA team, known for CATIA, SOLIDWORKS and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, and for its 2019 move into life sciences via Medidata.
Organizations · France - Datadog
New York-based cloud observability company founded in 2010 by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc; its September 2019 Nasdaq IPO raised about $648 million at a $7.8 billion valuation after it reportedly rebuffed a Cisco takeover approach.
Organizations · United States - DataDome
New York-headquartered cybersecurity company founded by serial entrepreneurs Benjamin Fabre and Fabien Grenier. Its AI-driven bot-management platform fights automated fraud on websites, mobile apps and APIs, and has expanded into Device Check, Account Protect and Ad Protect.
Organizations · United States - Dataiku
Paris-founded, New York-headquartered enterprise AI platform created in 2013 by Florian Douetteau, Clément Stenac, Thomas Cabrol and Marc Batty. Its 'Everyday AI' platform survived a 2022 down round without layoffs and pivoted into the generative era with the 2023 LLM Mesh.
Organizations · United States - DATAllegro
A data warehouse appliance maker based in Aliso Viejo, California, whose large-scale, commodity-hardware technology was acquired by Microsoft in 2008 to strengthen SQL Server's enterprise business intelligence capabilities for the very-large-database market.
Organizations · United States - Dave Limp
Blue Origin CEO since December 2023; former Amazon devices chief behind Alexa, Echo, and Kindle. Listed among the tech executives expected at the September 2026 America.gov unveiling in Washington.
People · United States - David Cooke: the BBFC director who refused The Bunny Game
Director of the British Board of Film Classification 2004–2016; career civil servant who jointly took the 2011 decision refusing The Bunny Game a UK certificate.
People · United Kingdom - David Gregory: the Severin Films co-founder behind the cult-restoration label
British-born filmmaker and co-founder/CEO of Severin Films (2006); previously produced DVD extras for Anchor Bay and Blue Underground; co-founded Autonomy Pictures in 2012.
People · United Kingdom - David Sacks
South African-born PayPal veteran, Yammer founder, and Craft Ventures co-founder who served as the White House's first AI and crypto czar (Dec 2024–Mar 2026), then shifted to co-chairing the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
People · United States - Deadline Hollywood
Nikki Finke's 24/7 Hollywood trade site founded in 2006, sold to Penske Media in 2009, and the outlet that documented the Michael biopic's delay chain.
Organizations · United States - Debeka
Germany's largest private health insurer, organized as a mutual (Versicherungsverein auf Gegenseitigkeit) — facing a 2026 federal consumer-protection class action over cancellation fees on early-terminated life and pension contracts.
Organizations · Germany - Deccan Herald: Bengaluru's English daily since 1948
Deccan Herald is an English-language daily newspaper published from Bengaluru, Karnataka, founded in 1948 by K. N. Guruswamy and published by The Printers (Mysore) — a family-owned paper known for sober, regionally rooted reporting.
Organizations · India - Declaration of Independence
Adopted 4 July 1776, the Declaration announced the thirteen colonies' separation from Great Britain. Most delegates signed the engrossed parchment from 2 August 1776 onward.
Events & Documents · United States - Dee Jay Mailer
Hawaiʻi healthcare and global-health executive who led Kamehameha Schools as CEO from 2004 to 2014 after running the Geneva operations of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and serving as CEO of Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi.
People · United States - Delaware
The First State — first to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1787 — and the legal home of corporate America: 2.2 million registered entities, about two-thirds of the Fortune 500, and a 2025 stress test over its dominance.
Places · United States - Delta Lloyd Group
A 210-year-old Dutch insurer that rejected NN Group's first takeover bid as an undervaluation, then surrendered six weeks later — and whose brand was erased within two years of the 2017 acquisition.
Organizations · Netherlands - Demis Hassabis
2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for AlphaFold; Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet after handing over day-to-day leadership in August 2026; CEO and co-founder of Isomorphic Labs; one of Time's 2025 "Architects of AI" Person of the Year honorees.
People · United Kingdom - Democratic National Committee
The governing body of the U.S. Democratic Party, founded in 1848 and chaired by Ken Martin since 2025 — publicly begged by Chuck Lorre in September 2026 to flee "far-left woke culture" for the political center.
Organizations · United States - Democratic Socialists of America
The largest socialist organization in the U.S., founded in 1982 — whose members include New York City's mayor, and which a July 2026 State Department report accused Cuba of using to infiltrate American politics.
Organizations · United States - Denny Chin
Senior Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; the first Asian American appointed a federal district judge outside the Ninth Circuit, who sentenced Bernard Madoff to 150 years and in 2026 co-published a casebook on Asian Americans and the law.
People · United States - Derby
Derby is a city and unitary authority in Derbyshire, England, on the River Derwent — a Roman and Viking settlement, home of the Silk Mill and the Midland Railway, Rolls-Royce's works, and a city since 1977.
Places · United Kingdom - Derek Curl: the TLA Releasing producer who launched Autonomy Pictures
Genre-film producer (The Innkeepers, Stake Land) who took control of TLA Releasing and co-founded Autonomy Pictures, launching it with The Bunny Game's 2012 US release.
People · United States - Descript
The AI-powered audio/video editor founded in 2017 by ex-Groupon CEO Andrew Mason — born as an internal tool of his failed audio-tour startup Detour — that lets creators edit media by editing a transcript.
Organizations · United States - Detroit
Detroit, the Motor City, is Michigan's largest city: founded as a French fort in 1701, the 20th-century center of the American auto industry, birthplace of Motown, and the city that filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history in 2013.
Places · United States - Detroit Free Press
Michigan's leading media brand, founded in 1831 as the Democratic Free Press and Michigan Intelligencer; the state's first daily newspaper. Its art critic from 1974 to 1995 was Marsha Miro, who left to become an architectural historian and founding director of MOCAD.
Organizations · United States - Diaconovici-Tietz National College
A bilingual Romanian-German secondary school in Reșița, Romania, founded in 1877 and known locally as "Bastilia" for its fortress-like building; elevated to Colegiul Național rank in 2016, it is the city's only native-German-section school, a Deutsches Sprachdiplom (DSD) school, and is reported
Schools · Romania - DIC Entertainment
French-American children's animation studio behind Inspector Gadget and The Real Ghostbusters; its biggest business triumph was relaunching Strawberry Shortcake into a $5-billion retail empire.
Organizations · United States - DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc.
The New York cloud company that built its identity on $5 "droplets" and simplicity-for-developers against the hyperscalers — priced at $47 in its March 2021 NYSE debut, then slipped about 7% on day one.
Organizations · United States - Diljit Dosanjh
Punjabi singer-actor who became the first Punjabi artist to headline London's Wembley Stadium in September 2026, capping a run of global firsts from Coachella 2023 to The Tonight Show.
People · India - Dinner in America (2020 film)
Adam Rehmeier's 2020 punk-rock romance: a Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition premiere, Grand Prix winner at Odesa 2020, and a COVID-delayed cult hit.
Creative Works · United States - District of Columbia
The District of Columbia is the 68-square-mile U.S. federal district containing Washington, D.C. Its 690,000 residents pay among the highest federal taxes per capita of any jurisdiction yet have no voting representation in Congress, while Congress retains veto power over local laws.
Places · United States - Dmitry Peskov
Kremlin press secretary since May 2012 and a trained Turkologist-translator whose decade in Ankara shaped the man who now frames Putin's answers to the world — from the Tucker Carlson interview to the September 2026 ceasefire arc.
People · Russia - Dominion Voting Systems
Canadian-founded voting-machine maker whose equipment processed votes in 28 states in 2020, target of debunked election-rigging claims, winner of the $787.5M Fox settlement in 2023 — and, as of October 2025, a company that no longer exists: it was acquired and rebranded as Liberty Vote.
Organizations · United States - Don Lemon
Don Lemon: CNN anchor from 2006 to 2023, fired after the "prime" remarks controversy; sued Elon Musk over a cancelled X deal; faced federal charges in January 2026 for livestreaming a church protest; launched The Don Lemon Channel on Swerve TV that September.
People · United States - Donald J. Edwards
Chicago private-equity investor who served as President and CEO of Liberté Investors Inc. (July 2002–April 2004), leading its USAuto Holdings acquisition. He founded Flexpoint Ford in 2004 and chaired the University of Illinois Board of Trustees (2017–2025).
People · United States - Donald Trump
45th and 47th president of the United States; real-estate mogul and reality TV star before politics. In 2026 his power rests on a $400M+ super PAC he publicly claims to control — triggering an FEC complaint — and a family crypto empire Reuters estimates at $2.3 billion.
People · United States - Donald Trump Jr.
Eldest son of President Donald Trump; executive vice president of the Trump Organization and partner at 1789 Capital. In September 2026 his defense-sector drone investments and a Russian oligarch's funding of his Bahamas wedding drew conflict-of-interest scrutiny.
People · United States - Donna Steichen
An American Catholic author from St. Cloud, Minnesota, whose 1991 book "Ungodly Rage: The Hidden Face of Catholic Feminism" became an unexpected bestseller for a first-time author and drew both praise and sharp criticism within the Catholic Church.
People · United States - Doordarshan
India's public-service television broadcaster, founded 1959 and a division of Prasar Bharati since 1997 — 35 satellite channels, 66 studio centres, DD Free Dish, and the network that carried both "Mann Ki Baat" and "Krish, Trish and Baltiboy."
Organizations · India - Doug Burgum
55th US Secretary of the Interior (since 2025) and former two-term Governor of North Dakota, who built Great Plains Software, sold it to Microsoft for $1.1 billion, and now leads the Trump administration's energy-dominance agenda on federal lands.
People · United States - Draganfly
Draganfly: the Saskatoon drone maker founded in 1998 whose 2013 rescue drone was the first credited with saving a human life; in September 2026 it took a $10 million strategic investment from Trump Jr.-backed Unusual Machines and a U.S. fund.
Organizations · Canada - Dread Central: the horror-news site that outlived its owners
American horror-news site founded in 2006: four straight Rondo Best Website wins, a decade under Epic Pictures' DREAD empire, and a 2026 return to independence under Brad Miska's Be Afraid Media.
Organizations · United States - Dreyer & Traub
Defunct New York real estate law firm where Steve Witkoff met Donald Trump in 1986, where Witkoff and Larry Gluck worked before founding Stellar, and where George Ross represented the Trump family — father and son — across two generations.
Organizations · United States - DST Global
Late-stage internet investment firm founded by Yuri Milner, famous for buying large stakes in Facebook and Twitter without board seats, for secondary share purchases that let founders delay IPOs, and for backing Anysphere's Series C and Series D.
Organizations · Hong Kong - Duke University
The private research university in Durham, North Carolina — founded as Brown's Schoolhouse in 1838, renamed for tobacco magnate James B. Duke's 1924 endowment, its Gothic West Campus designed by Black architect Julian Abele, and recipient of a record $100 million gift in 2023.
Universities & Colleges · United States - E!
Entertainment cable network founded as Movietime in the mid-1980s; home of E! News — canceled in 2020, revived in 2022, canceled again in 2025 — and Keeping Up with the Kardashians; owned by Versant Media Group since Comcast's January 2026 spinoff.
Organizations · United States - E. Jean Carroll
The advice columnist whose 'Ask E. Jean' ran in Elle from 1993 to 2019, who in her mid-70s brought the only successful sexual-assault civil case against Donald Trump — and whose verdicts have survived every appeal through the Supreme Court.
People · United States - EarnIn
The earned-wage-access app founded by Ram Palaniappan as Activehours — from a $125M Andreessen Horowitz-backed round and a tip-based "no mandatory fees" model to a DC attorney-general lawsuit alleging its instant-transfer fees equal 300% interest.
Organizations · United States - East Midlands Trains
Stagecoach's train operator that ran the East Midlands franchise from November 2007 to August 2019, when Abellio took over and renamed it East Midlands Railway.
Organizations · United Kingdom - eBay
San Jose online marketplace founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar as AuctionWeb, where individuals and small businesses sell to buyers worldwide through auctions and fixed-price listings, reporting $10.3 billion in 2024 revenue on $74.7 billion in merchandise volume.
Organizations · United States - Édouard Balladur
Prime Minister of France from 1993 to 1995 under Socialist President François Mitterrand, who privatized major state companies, later stood trial in the "Karachi affair" arms-kickback case, and died on 31 August 2026 at age 97.
People · France - Effie Epstein
Managing partner of Sound Ventures, the Los Angeles venture capital firm founded by Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary. Hired in 2017 after strategy leadership at Marsh, iHeartMedia and CLEAR, she runs the firm's investing, strategy and day-to-day management, and stayed on through Kutcher's 2026 exit.
People · United States - Eintracht Frankfurt
The Frankfurt football club founded in 1899 — the "moody diva" with one league title, five DFB-Pokals and two European trophies. Profile leads with the club's current youth pipeline: Jeremiaha Maluze's path from Rot-Weiß Erfurt to a 2031 contract extension.
Organizations · Germany - Ekuator Games
Bandung-based Indonesian video game studio behind the crowdfunded RPG series "Celestian Tales," acquired by fellow Bandung developer Agate in January 2019 for about Rp5 billion.
Organizations · Indonesia - Elaine Tierney
American lightweight rower (b. July 10, 1999) from West Chester, PA: five Temple seasons, then world silver in the lightweight women's pair at Racice 2022 and bronze at Belgrade 2023, both with Solveig Imsdahl — with the exact championship times no other profile consolidates.
People · United States - Elena Engel
Bay Area project manager for library renovation and construction projects, and mother of Anthropic co-founders Dario and Daniela Amodei. She is not the entertainment-industry producer of the same name.
People · United States - ElevenLabs
AI voice company valued at $22B in September 2026: built on licensed music deals and enterprise voice agents, shadowed throughout by voice-cloning misuse scrutiny.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Eli Lilly and Company
Eli Lilly and Company is an American pharmaceutical company founded in 1876 in Indianapolis, Indiana, whose 150-year history runs from the first commercial insulin (1923) and Prozac to the tirzepatide franchise — Mounjaro and Zepbound — which became the world's best-selling medicine in 2025.
Organizations · United States - Elinor Tatum
Publisher and editor-in-chief of the New York Amsterdam News since 1997. A phone call she made days after George Floyd's murder launched the Word In Black coalition; in 2024 she became the first Black woman named Editor & Publisher's Publisher of the Year.
People · United States - Elise Stefanik
Republican congresswoman from New York's 21st district (2015-2027) and House GOP Conference chair (2021-2025), who went from Trump critic to fierce defender, became a national figure grilling university presidents on antisemitism, then abruptly exited electoral politics in December 2025.
People · United States - EliseAI
The New York AI company founded in 2017 by Minna Song and Tony Stoyanov that automates leasing and front-desk work for housing and healthcare — valued at $4 billion after a $350 million raise in September 2026.
Organizations · United States - Elizabeth Freeman
Enslaved woman in Sheffield, Massachusetts, who sued for her freedom in 1781 and won, helping end slavery as a legal practice in the state.
People · United States - Elizabeth Warren
Democratic U.S. Senator from Massachusetts since 2013 and ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee; former Harvard bankruptcy law professor who championed the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
People · United States - Elon Musk
South African-born entrepreneur, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015, left its board in 2018, and sued the company and Sam Altman in 2024 in a case a jury dismissed in May 2026.
People · United States - Emil Bove
Third Circuit judge and former Trump defense lawyer whose Southern District prosecutor years — an internal inquiry, a planned demotion, the collapsed Sadr case — foreshadowed his stormy 50-49 confirmation and his August 2026 swearing-in of Todd Blanche as attorney general.
People · United States - Enbridge
Calgary-based Canadian energy infrastructure company whose pipeline network is North America's longest — now on a 2026 expansion sprint ($2.55bn Tallgrass acquisition, new Texas and New England gas projects) while its Line 5 fights trespass rulings and a major Wisconsin spill.
Organizations · Canada - England
England, the largest UK nation with 58.8 million people, has no parliament of its own and is governed from Westminster, with a history running from Æthelstan's 927 kingdom to the Industrial Revolution.
Places · United Kingdom - Enveda
Boulder-based AI drug-discovery biotech that trains a foundation model on nature's chemistry — more than $845M raised through a 2026 Series E at a ~$2B valuation, with three clinical-stage candidates led by eczema pill ENV-294.
Organizations · United States - Epoch Public Foundation
The Epoch Public Foundation (EIN 68-0650661) is the U.S. nonprofit fundraising arm for The Epoch Times and New Tang Dynasty media operations. Its treasurer was Weidong Guan, and its 2021-2022 tax filings drew an IRS complaint and scrutiny from three tax-law professors.
Organizations · United States - Eric Adams
New York City's 111th mayor (2022-2025) — the former NYPD captain who entered as a reformer, declared himself the "future of the Democratic Party," was indicted on federal bribery charges, had his case dismissed at Emil Bove's urging, and left office endorsing Andrew Cuomo over Zohran Mamdani.
People · United States - Eric Roberts
Oscar-nominated actor (Runaway Train) with three Golden Globe nominations and 700+ screen credits; a supporting role in Turkey's 2017 Oscar entry Ayla: The Daughter of War; memoir Runaway Train released September 2024.
People · United States - Eric Schmidt
Former Google CEO (2001-2011) who took a controlling stake in rocket startup Relativity Space and became its CEO in March 2025; early Anthropic investor whose NASA Mars partnership set a 2028 launch target.
People · United States - Eric Trump
Second son of Donald Trump; Trump Organization executive vice president who runs its golf portfolio and winery, and crypto entrepreneur behind World Liberty Financial and American Bitcoin.
People · United States - Erika Kirk
CEO of Turning Point USA since the September 2025 assassination of her husband Charlie Kirk; former Miss Arizona USA 2012 and host of the Midweek Rise Up podcast, she gave her first major interview to Vanity Fair in September 2026.
People · United States - Eron (footballer, born 1998)
Eronildo dos Santos Rocha (born 16 July 1998), known as Eron, is a Brazilian striker: 2023 Série D top scorer with Caxias (14 goals, a single-season record), then Vegalta Sendai in Japan's J2 League in 2024 and Santa Cruz FC's 2026 Copa do Brasil squad.
People · Brazil - Esri
The privately-held giant behind ArcGIS — founded 1969 by Jack and Laura Dangermond, profitable since day one, never VC-funded, holding over half the global GIS software market and surviving the Google Maps threat.
Organizations · United States - Ethel Percy Andrus
Retired educator who founded AARP in 1958 after building the National Retired Teachers Association into the first group health insurance plan for retirees over 65; California's first woman high school principal and a 1993 National Women's Hall of Fame inductee.
People · United States - Eureka Entertainment: UK distributor, Masters of Cinema label
British home-video distributor behind the Masters of Cinema series; in 2011 it fought the BBFC's refusal of The Human Centipede 2 to an 18 certificate after 32 cuts totalling 2 minutes 37 seconds.
Organizations · United Kingdom - European Union
Political and economic union of 27 European countries sharing a single market; in the Adobe–Figma case its European Commission issued a formal antitrust complaint, the Statement of Objections, in November 2023.
Organizations · Europe - Evan Chandler: Dentist, Screenwriter, Accuser
Beverly Hills dentist and Robin Hood: Men in Tights co-writer who made the 1993 sexual-abuse accusation against Michael Jackson; died in 2009.
People · United States - Evans Chan
Hong Kong-born, New York-based filmmaker, critic, playwright and librettist whose documentary-fiction hybrids chronicle Hong Kong's handover, diaspora and protest history; founder of Riverdrive Productions and librettist of the opera Datong: The Chinese Utopia.
People · United States - Even
New York embedded-finance marketplace founded by Phillip Rosen that matched consumers with financial products via API — bought by MoneyLion for up to $440M in 2022 and rebranded Engine by MoneyLion.
Organizations · United States - Eventbrite
The self-service ticketing platform founded in 2006 that went public at a $1.76 billion valuation in 2018, survived the pandemic collapse in live events, then sold to Bending Spoons for about $500 million in 2026.
Organizations · United States - Evernote
The note-taking app founded in Stepan Pachikov's 2000 venture, relaunched for the smartphone era in 2008, valued at nearly $1 billion in 2013 — then sold to Milan's Bending Spoons in early 2023 after years of retrenchment, staff cuts, and a free plan capped at 50 notes.
Organizations · United States - Evolve Bank & Trust
A 1925 Arkansas community bank that rode banking-as-a-service to national prominence, then became the central bank in the 2024 Synapse collapse, a Federal Reserve enforcement action, and a fight over tens of millions in missing customer funds.
Organizations · United States - Extend
New York virtual-card fintech founded in 2017 by American Express and Capital One veterans — issuer-agnostic virtual cards that modernize banks from the inside, ~$74M raised, 10,000+ businesses, now expanding into expense-management SaaS.
Organizations · United States - Facebook
The social network Mark Zuckerberg launched from a Harvard dorm room in 2004 — still one of the world's largest online services, but no longer where the young are: just 32% of U.S. teens use it, down from 71% a decade ago, even as its data scandals keep generating jury verdicts.
Organizations · United States - Fairfax Financial
The Toronto insurance conglomerate Prem Watsa built from a bankrupt trucking insurer in 1985 into "Canada's Berkshire Hathaway" — a $100-billion-asset float engine, a prescient 2008 crash call, a costly hedging decade, and now a succession plan.
Organizations · Canada - Fast Company
American business magazine and media brand published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, covering innovation, technology, leadership, creativity, and design since its November 1995 founding by former Harvard Business Review editors Alan Webber and Bill Taylor.
Organizations · United States - Fats Domino
New Orleans pianist Antoine "Fats" Domino (1928–2017), a founding figure of rock 'n' roll whose boogie-woogie sound powered hits like "Blueberry Hill" and "Ain't That a Shame." He toured Jim Crow America, lived his whole life in the Lower Ninth Ward, and joined the Rock Hall's first class in 1986.
People · United States - Fawn Johnson
American journalist and News Director at Bloomberg Industry Group, overseeing newsroom training and AI policy. Former National Journal correspondent and Morning Consult chief policy editor; won First Prize in the 2011 National Awards for Education Reporting.
People · United States - Federal Aviation Administration
The U.S. federal agency that regulates civil aviation — certifying aircraft and airmen, running air traffic control, and licensing commercial space launches — whose oversight of aircraft manufacturers faced global scrutiny after the 737 MAX crashes.
Organizations · United States - Federal Emergency Management Agency
The U.S. disaster-relief agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security since 2003, whose mission is "helping people before, during and after disasters"; in September 2026 a federal judge vacated FEMA's rule tying counterterrorism grant money to state election-administration changes.
Organizations · United States - Federal Trade Commission
The U.S. consumer-protection and antitrust agency created in 1914 — five commissioners, three bureaus — whose own 1935 Supreme Court case made it the model of agency independence, until Trump v. Slaughter (2026) overruled that case and made its commissioners removable at will.
Organizations · United States - Fei-Fei Li
Stanford AI professor and ImageNet creator who co-founded World Labs for spatial intelligence; after the governor tapped her to co-write AI policy following the SB 1047 veto, AMD agreed in September 2026 to buy World Labs for $8.2B and make her chief scientist.
People · United States - Ficus palmeri (rock fig)
The rock fig, tescalama, or Mexican fig of the Baja California peninsula — a strangler fig that roots directly into cliff faces, whose very name is disputed by Kew and World Flora Online as a synonym of Ficus petiolaris, and which scientists have documented cracking ancient lava flows to form soil.
Species · Mexico - Figma
Figma, founded in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace, put professional interface design in the browser for real-time collaboration — then saw Adobe's $20 billion acquisition collapse in 2023, leaving Figma independent with a $1 billion fee.
Organizations · United States - Film Diplomacy Conference 2025
Three-day Istanbul conference (December 19–21, 2025) where filmmakers, diplomats and youth leaders explored cinema as a diplomatic tool — with Turkey's 2017 film Ayla presented as a case study in improving Türkiye–South Korea relations.
Events & Documents · Turkey - Financial Conduct Authority
The UK's conduct regulator for financial services, created on 1 April 2013 when the old Financial Services Authority was split — the FCA polices firm conduct while the PRA handles prudential safety.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Financial Times
The British business newspaper, printed on salmon-pink paper since 1893 and owned by Nikkei since 2015. It broke Google's $300M Anthropic investment, licensed its archive to OpenAI in 2024, and reported the Trump-brothers' American Ventures positions.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Fingerprint
Born from an open-source browser-fingerprinting library, this Chicago company raised $77M to sell device identification as fraud infrastructure — arguing anonymous identifiers keep it on the right side of privacy law.
Organizations · United States - Finix
The payments-infrastructure startup Sequoia decided was too competitive with Stripe to keep backing — so Finix became a full-stack processor in 2023 and now competes with Stripe head-on, pitching cost-plus pricing against Stripe's flat 2.9%.
Organizations · United States - Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
New York City's only specialized high school that admits by audition and portfolio instead of the SHSAT: the Upper West Side "Fame" school formed from a 1936 music-and-art academy and a 1948 performing-arts school, training about 2,400 conservatory-level teens near Lincoln Center.
Schools · United States - Fireblocks
The New York digital-asset infrastructure company whose MPC-based custody platform serves more than 2,000 institutions, raised $550M at an $8B valuation in 2022, and is building a unified digital-asset operating system through acquisitions including First Digital, Dynamic and TRES Finance.
Organizations · United States - FireEye
The cybersecurity firm that discovered the SolarWinds breach and then split itself in two: its products business and name went to private equity for $1.2B (becoming Trellix), while its Mandiant services arm went public again and was bought by Google for $5.4B.
Organizations · United States - First Hawaiian, Inc.
Hawaii's oldest bank holding company, tracing to an 1858 Honolulu savings bank, which spent 15 years as a wholly owned BNP Paribas subsidiary before a 2016 IPO returned it to public markets.
Organizations · United States - First Round Capital
Seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman and Howard Morgan, known as Uber's first institutional investor and for backing startups at their earliest stage from offices in San Francisco, New York and Philadelphia.
Organizations · United States - FiscalNote
AI-driven policy and regulatory intelligence company based in Washington, DC, founded in 2013. After a 2022 NYSE listing and the 2018 acquisition of CQ Roll Call, it was delisted from the NYSE in April 2026 and now trades over the counter amid divestitures and a 25% workforce reduction.
Organizations · United States - Flash
Flash began as FutureSplash, became the web's animation and video standard under Macromedia and Adobe, was shut out of the iPhone after Steve Jobs' 2010 letter, and ended support on December 31, 2020.
Creative Works · United States - Flickering Myth: the UK film site behind Flickering Myth Films
Flickering Myth is a UK film and pop-culture publication founded in 2009 by Gary Collinson, covering film, TV and genre culture. It reported Jinga Films' 2025 US Blu-ray/DVD reissue of The Bunny Game and has expanded into film production through Flickering Myth Films.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Florin Șoavă
Romanian former international defender (22 caps, 2000–2006) turned manager. After a decade away from senior coaching, he returned in 2025 as the first head coach of CS Drobeta-Turnu Severin, winning the Liga IV Mehedinți title and promotion to Liga III in the club's debut season.
People · Romania - Flutterwave
The Lagos-born payments fintech that became Africa's most valuable startup — raising $475m to a $3b valuation — then endured a Kenyan money-laundering freeze, repeated Nigerian security breaches, and founder controversies on the way to clearing its name.
Organizations · Nigeria - Flywire
Not a generic cross-border processor but vertical payments software embedded in universities', hospitals' and travel operators' billing workflows — specializing in high-value regulated transactions, now expanding through a $330M hospitality acquisition.
Organizations · United States - FM
The mutual commercial property insurer formerly known as FM Global — founded in 1835 by mill owner Zachariah Allen, rebranded as simply FM in 2024, and expanding into renewables and wildfire intelligence with the 2026 FortressFire acquisition.
Organizations · United States - Focus on the Family
Colorado Springs evangelical nonprofit founded by James Dobson in 1977, known for its daily radio broadcast, the Adventures in Odyssey drama, and conservative advocacy on marriage, parenting and religious liberty.
Organizations · United States - Forbes
Century-old American business magazine founded by B.C. Forbes in 1917 — famed for its Rich List and billionaire rankings, owned since 2014 by Hong Kong's Integrated Whale Media, and probed by CJR over a contributor model that published a $4.5B crypto-laundering figure.
Organizations · United States - Forter
E-commerce fraud prevention company founded in 2013. It raised $300 million in May 2021 at a $3 billion valuation led by Tiger Global, and operates an identity-intelligence network across merchants, banks, and payment providers.
Organizations · United States - Fortinet
The cybersecurity firm Ken Xie founded in 2000 after selling NetScreen to Juniper for $4 billion — built on dedicated security hardware, public since 2009, and still run by its founder at a ~$50 billion valuation.
Organizations · United States - Foster Friess
Wyoming investor who built Friess Associates and the Brandywine Funds into a $17 billion growth-stock firm, gave away more than $500 million, and bankrolled The Daily Caller's launch with $3 million.
People · United States - Fox Business Network
Financial news channel launched by Fox News in 2007 to challenge CNBC; now a Fox Corporation unit that has beaten its rival in total business-day viewers for over a year, and the stage where Mike Johnson said "We do not need a moratorium" on AI before Trump's September 2026 tech-CEO summit.
Organizations · United States - Fox Nation
Fox News Media's subscription streaming service for "superfans," launched in 2018; known for original series like Scorsese's The Saints and its annual Patriot Awards ceremony.
Organizations · United States - Fox News
U.S. cable news channel launched in 1996 by Rupert Murdoch, owned by Fox Corporation, and the country's most-watched cable news network. It paid $787.5 million to settle Dominion's 2023 defamation lawsuit.
Organizations · United States - Frank Fertitta
Casino billionaire Frank Fertitta III chairs Red Rock Resorts. He bought the UFC for $2 million in 2001 and sold it for $4 billion in 2016; in September 2026 he gifted $70 million in stock to 10,000 employees.
People · United States - Frederic René Coudert
American lawyer at Coudert Brothers who served as a special assistant U.S. Attorney General and legal adviser to the British Embassy during World War I, and was a Columbia University trustee for over four decades.
People · United States - Free Representation Unit
A UK charity founded in 1972 by law students that provides free legal representation in employment, social security and criminal injuries compensation tribunals to people who cannot afford lawyers, training volunteer law students under qualified supervision in the process.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Freedom Guard
Mike Johnson's Louisiana pro-bono public-interest law firm, founded in 2015 to defend religious-liberty clients; Tony Perkins served on its board, and its signature case was the 2016 federal win restoring Kentucky tourism tax incentives to Answers in Genesis's Ark Encounter.
Organizations · United States - FreightWaves
Chattanooga's freight-market data-and-media company split itself in two in 2024 — the SONAR SaaS data business went one way, some 35 media titles into Firecrown the other — after raising $76M+ on a Bloomberg-for-freight thesis.
Organizations · United States - Fresh Air
NPR's signature daily interview show, hosted by Terry Gross from WHYY since 1975, built on one paradox: its host made herself nearly invisible so her guests would be fully seen — and the show's moments keep moving national news.
Creative Works · United States - FreshBooks
Toronto-based cloud accounting software company for small businesses, founded in 2003 by Mike McDerment and self-funded for its first eleven years before raising venture capital and reaching a $1 billion-plus valuation in 2021.
Organizations · Canada - Front Row Joes
The Front Row Joes are the roving band of Donald Trump superfans who travel the country and camp out for hours or days to claim front-row seats at his rallies — a devotion once unconditional, until prominent members began breaking with him in 2026.
Organizations · United States - FTX
Bahamas-based crypto exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried in 2019, valued at $32 billion before collapsing in November 2022; its $500 million Anthropic stake was sold for about $1.3 billion to repay creditors.
Organizations · United States - Fujitsu
Japanese IT services giant founded in 1935, whose flawed Horizon accounting software sits at the heart of Britain's Post Office scandal — nearly 1,000 wrongful prosecutions — even as Fujitsu kept winning tens of millions in contracts to run the system until its 2026 replacement.
Organizations · Japan - Fundbox
Israeli-founded SMB working-capital fintech that hit a $1.1B valuation in 2021, then rebuilt itself from direct lender into embedded capital infrastructure — culminating in a 2022 Visa partnership and the 2025 Vaya team hire.
Organizations · United States - G Line (RTD)
summary: An 11.2-mile Denver-area electric commuter rail line built under RTD's Eagle P3 public-private partnership, opened in April 2019 more than two years late after crossing-gate safety failures, cut to 30-minute service during the pandemic, and restored to 15-minute daytime frequency in June
Places · United States - Galveston County Republican Party
County Republican chapter in League City, Texas; its site documents 2024 RNC delegate Trisha Hope's 2025 Smithsonian donation, a year before she publicly broke with Trump on Politico's Playbook podcast.
Organizations · United States - Ganja
Ganja is a historic city in western Azerbaijan on the Ganja Chay, home of the poet Nizami Ganjavi, seat of the Ganja Khanate until 1804, and now the country's third-largest urban place.
Places · Azerbaijan - Gartner
IT research and advisory firm founded as the Gartner Group in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1979 by Gideon Gartner. Its Magic Quadrant began as an internal sketch its founder never meant to publish; the instrument now names logistics firms such as Sheer Logistics in its 2025 4PL edition.
Organizations · United States - Gavin Newsom
California's 40th governor since 2019; the wine-and-hospitality businessman whose Getty-family ties, 2004 same-sex marriage directive, and 2025 Prop 50 redistricting fight defined his political rise.
People · United States - Gaza Strip
A coastal enclave of roughly 360 square kilometers holding about 2.3 million people — one of Earth's densest places — whose economy went literally underground after a 2007 blockade, and which was devastated by the 2023–2025 war.
Places · Palestine - Gazprom
Russia's state-controlled natural gas giant, built from a Soviet ministry and reshaped by Putin's 2000–2001 takeover; after a $6.9bn loss in 2023 it rebounded in 2024 and now leans on China as European markets close.
Organizations · Russia - Gedabey
Gedabey is a mountain town in western Azerbaijan, capital of Gadabay District, known for its Siemens-era copper and gold mines and the Gedabek mine still worked today.
Places · Azerbaijan - Gen. Charles "CQ" Brown Jr.
Fighter pilot and 21st chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; the first Black chief of a U.S. military service, he was fired by Trump 16 months into his term in February 2025 after a career that began with a burning F-16 over the Everglades.
People · United States - Gen. Christopher Donahue
Army general and former Delta Force commander who was the last U.S. soldier to leave Afghanistan; after 18 months commanding U.S. Army Europe and Africa he was forced out in mid-2026 under Defense Secretary Hegseth.
People · United States - Gen. Christopher LaNeve
U.S. Army general who rose from Defense Secretary Hegseth's senior military aide to acting Army chief of staff in April 2026, after George's ouster.
People · United States - Gen. David M. Hodne
U.S. Army general and modernization specialist who commanded the Transformation and Training Command for six months before Hegseth fired him in April 2026.
People · United States - Gen. Randy George
41st chief of staff of the U.S. Army (2023-2026), fired by Pete Hegseth in April 2026 days after being told to drop a probe into Apache helicopters that buzzed Kid Rock's Tennessee home.
People · United States - General Atlantic
General Atlantic is a global growth investor managing about $129 billion. Founded in 1980 as the family office of Duty Free Shoppers co-founder Chuck Feeney, it took outside capital from 1993. Since 2020 it has built a multi-strategy platform spanning credit, climate, and infrastructure via Actis.
Organizations · United States - Gerald J. Ford
Dallas banker and investor (born 1944) who built a fortune buying troubled banks, culminating in the $6 billion sale of Golden State Bancorp, and chaired [Liberté Investors](/organizations/liberte-investors/) through its 2004 transformation into First Acceptance Corporation.
People · United States - Gerard Lemos: the social policy chair who became Baron Lemos
British social policy researcher, author and chair of UK public bodies (English Heritage, NS&I, HMPPS); BBFC vice-president from 2008; introduced to the House of Lords as Baron Lemos in February 2025.
People · United Kingdom - German–Soviet Nonaggression Pact
The 23 August 1939 pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union — public nonaggression plus a secret protocol carving up Eastern Europe — that cleared the way for the invasion of Poland and World War II.
Events & Documents · International - Ghislaine Maxwell
British socialite convicted in 2021 on five federal sex-trafficking counts tied to Jeffrey Epstein; serving 20 years. In August 2026 a federal judge rejected her last bid to overturn the conviction as meritless.
People · United Kingdom - Ghulam Nabi Azad: Congress loyalist, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, and founder of the DPAP
Ghulam Nabi Azad spent five decades in the Congress, serving as Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, Union health minister and Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, before quitting in 2022 to found the Democratic Progressive Azad Party.
People · India - Giannis Antetokounmpo
Greek basketball star who spent 13 seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks, winning two MVP awards and the 2021 NBA championship, before a 2026 trade to the Miami Heat; he also backed trading-card platform Alt's $75 million Series B.
People · Greece - Gilberto Garza Jr.
Gilberto Garza Jr. is an Idaho man known as the petitioner in Garza v. Idaho (2019), the Supreme Court case holding that the Flores-Ortega presumption of prejudice for ineffective counsel applies even when a defendant signed an appeal waiver.
People · United States - Glasgow Airport Link
A direct rail connection between Glasgow city centre and Glasgow Airport, proposed and then scrapped twice since 2006, most recently reduced by 2026 to an unfunded "exploration" within the wider Clyde Metro mass-transit proposal.
Places · United Kingdom - Glenn Close
Glenn Close is an American stage and screen actress with three Tony Awards, three Emmy Awards and three Golden Globes — and eight Oscar nominations without a win. She co-founded the mental-health nonprofit Bring Change to Mind in 2010 after her sister's bipolar diagnosis.
People · United States - Goa
India's 25th state (statehood 30 May 1987), capital Panaji, governed by a 40-seat Legislative Assembly and permanent host of the International Film Festival of India since 2004; it leads India in per-capita income and received 104 lakh tourist arrivals in 2024.
Places · India - GoDaddy
The domain registrar Bob Parsons founded in 1997 — its 2006 IPO collapsed when bankers demanded a 50% haircut, so it sold to KKR and Silver Lake for $2.25 billion instead, scrubbed its racy image, and finally went public in 2015.
Organizations · United States - Golden Globe Awards
The 1944-founded film and television awards now owned by Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge Industries, airing on CBS — and being sued for $150 million by the very organization that created them.
Events & Documents · United States - Golden Matonga
Malawian investigative journalist at the Platform for Investigative Journalism–Malawi and ICIJ member since 2021, who worked on the Pandora Papers and FinCEN Files, exposed the Zuneth Sattar bribery network, and became the only African member of ICIJ's global Network Committee.
People · Malawi - Golden Peak High School
A private English-medium school in Saraswatinagar, Chabahil, Kathmandu, named a Full Award recipient in the British Council's 2019–20 International School Award programme.
Schools · Nepal - Google
The search giant founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 — now an Alphabet subsidiary that holds ~90% of search, was ruled an illegal monopolist in 2024, and spent 2023 quietly becoming one of Anthropic's biggest backers.
Organizations · United States - Google Brain
Google's deep-learning research team, founded in 2011 by Jeff Dean, Greg Corrado and Andrew Ng — home of TensorFlow and the 2012 cat experiment — merged with DeepMind into Google DeepMind in April 2023.
Organizations · United States - Google DeepMind
Alphabet's AI research division, formed by the 2023 merger of DeepMind and Google Brain. In 2026 it disbanded its Nobel-winning AlphaFold team to re-focus on Gemini, and Demis Hassabis handed day-to-day leadership to Koray Kavukcuoglu, becoming Chair and Alphabet's Chief Scientist.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Government College, Rajahmundry
The oldest government college in Andhra Pradesh, India, tracing its origins to an 1853 Zilla Parishad school and now an autonomous institution on the banks of the Godavari river, holding NAAC 'A' accreditation since 2004.
Universities & Colleges · India - Government of Israel
The national government of the State of Israel, currently the 37th administration led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since December 2022, and Israel's counterpart in the Gaza ceasefire negotiations.
Organizations · Israel - Graham King
British producer of The Departed (Best Picture Oscar) and Bohemian Rhapsody; GK Films president, and producer of the 2026 Michael Jackson biopic Michael.
People · United Kingdom - Grammy Awards
Annual peer-voted music awards presented by the Recording Academy since 1959, spanning 95 categories including the prestigious Big Four, with voting reforms in the 2020s aimed at fairness and wider representation.
Organizations · United States - Graphiti Multimedia
Mumbai-based Indian animation studio launched in 1995, led by co-founders Munjal Shroff and Tilak Raj Shetty and once chaired by Ram Mohan, the "father of Indian animation"; maker of Krish, Trish and Baltiboy and the Netflix Original Deepa & Anoop.
Organizations · India - Great American Economic Revival Industry Group
A 220-member advisory roster President Trump announced on April 14, 2020, organizing executives across 17 industries to advise on reopening the US economy — whose own members were warning him about testing within 48 hours.
Organizations · United States - Great Plains tornado outbreak of May 25–26, 1955
The May 25–26, 1955 tornado outbreak across the southern and central Great Plains, whose F4 and twin F5 tornadoes killed at least 102 people, including 20 at Blackwell, Oklahoma, and 80 at Udall, Kansas.
Events & Documents · United States - Great Public Schools Association of Queensland – Rugby Union
The GPS rugby premiership contested since 1918 by Queensland's nine Great Public Schools — played as rugby league through the 1920s before reverting to union in 1928, now Australian schoolboy rugby's most productive nursery, led by St Joseph's Nudgee College's 47 titles.
Organizations · Australia - Greg Brockman
American computer scientist and entrepreneur, co-founder and president of OpenAI, who was previously chief technology officer at Stripe, resigned from OpenAI's board in November 2023 during Sam Altman's brief ouster, and took a sabbatical from August to November 2024.
People · United States - Greg Kelly
Newsmax TV host and retired Marine lieutenant colonel — formerly a Fox News White House correspondent and Good Day New York co-host — who in September 2026 publicly clashed with Karoline Leavitt.
People · United States - Gregory Welch
Federal prisoner whose pro se challenge to his Armed Career Criminal Act sentence made the Supreme Court hold 7-1 in Welch v. United States (2016) that the Johnson ruling applies retroactively on collateral review.
People · United States - Grenada
Caribbean "Isle of Spice" of 344 sq km and about 110,000 people; independent since 1974, it lived through the 1979-83 Bishop era and the U.S.-led intervention, and in 2021 named TRON founder Justin Sun its WTO ambassador.
Places · Grenada - Grupo Sura
The Medellín financial holding born as a 1944 insurer that built the cross-shareholding fortress of the Grupo Empresarial Antioqueño, survived Jaime Gilinski's 2021–2022 takeover bids, and in July 2025 unwound 46 years of cross-holdings to become a pure financial player.
Organizations · Colombia - Guideline
San Francisco 401(k) fintech serving 65,000+ small businesses with $20B in assets — Gusto agreed to buy it in August 2025 after it reached $140M in annualized revenue.
Organizations · United States - Gulf News: Dubai's English-language daily, from 1978 tabloid to paywalled digital publisher
Gulf News is an English-language daily newspaper published in Dubai, UAE, launched 30 September 1978 and owned by Al Nisr Publishing. The UAE's largest English daily, it ended weekend print in 2023 and put its site behind a paywall in 2021.
Organizations · United Arab Emirates - Guy Verhofstadt
Belgian liberal politician: prime minister of Belgium from 1999 to 2008, the European Parliament's Brexit coordinator, and later president of the European Movement International.
People · Belgium - H Company
The Paris AI startup that raised a then-record $220 million seed round in May 2024 on a team of five cofounders — then lost three of them within three months, replaced its CEO with Palantir France's ex-chief in 2025, and saw its last cofounder leave for Microsoft in 2026.
Organizations · France - Hale America National Open Golf Tournament
A wartime substitute for the 1942 U.S. Open, held after the USGA suspended its national championships following Pearl Harbor. Ben Hogan won by three strokes at a record score, fueling a decades-long dispute over whether it should count as his fifth U.S. Open title.
Events & Documents · United States - Hamas
Palestinian Sunni Islamist movement governing Gaza since 2007 and designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. and EU. In July 2026 it elected Khalil al-Hayya as leader by a single vote, and now faces a ceasefire, a deadlocked internal election, and a planned return to Palestinian elections.
Organizations · Palestine - Hambrecht & Quist
San Francisco investment bank founded in 1968 that bankrolled the tech revolution — backing Adobe's founding and the IPOs of Apple, Genentech, Netscape and Amazon — before Chase bought it for $1.35 billion in 1999.
Organizations · United States - Harford County Public Library
A Maryland county library system tracing to an 1885 Bel Air reading room, now operating 11 branches with more than 187,000 registered borrowers, independently covered by regional and trade press for its pandemic response, digital-literacy programs and longtime CEO Mary Hastler.
Organizations · United States - Harivansh Narayan Singh: journalist turned three-time Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha
Harivansh Narayan Singh, a former Prabhat Khabar editor-in-chief from Ballia, has held the Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman's post since 2018, winning it three times — by ballot in 2018, by voice vote in 2020, and unopposed in 2026 as the first nominated member to hold the office.
People · India - Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard University's public-policy school, founded in 1936 as the Graduate School of Public Administration on a $2 million gift, renamed for John F. Kennedy in 1966 — after Harvard's own leadership nearly shut it down.
Organizations · United States - Harvard Law School
The law school of Harvard University, opened in 1817 with wealth from enslaved labor, birthplace of the Langdell case method — and the site of a 2017 reckoning with its own founding.
Organizations · United States - Harvard University
Private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts (founded 1636) with the world's largest academic endowment ($56.9 billion in FY2025) and the institution at the center of the 2023 Supreme Court decision ending race-conscious college admissions.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Hazel-Atlas Glass Company
A Wheeling, West Virginia glassmaker formed by a 1902 merger, Hazel-Atlas grew into one of America's largest producers of glass containers and Depression glass before Continental Can acquired it in 1956 — a merger the U.S. Supreme Court held violated antitrust law in 1964.
Organizations · United States - HBO Max
The Warner Bros. Discovery streaming service that launched as HBO Max in 2020, rebranded to Max in 2023, then publicly reversed course in 2025 with its own CEO calling the change a mistake. The restored HBO Max now sells prestige over volume.
Organizations · United States - Helen Toner
Australian-born AI policy researcher and interim executive director of Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, who as an independent OpenAI board member voted to remove Sam Altman as CEO in November 2023 and later testified as a trial witness in Musk v. OpenAI.
People · United States - Heritage Foundation
Washington conservative think tank founded in 1973; shaped Reagan-era policy through Mandate for Leadership, publishes the Index of Economic Freedom, led Project 2025, and launched a Legal Action Center in 2026.
Organizations · United States - Hertz Foundation
The private nonprofit behind the Hertz Fellowship, the doctoral award that has funded more than 1,300 scientists and engineers since 1963 with up to five years of support — and whose thesis-prize roll includes future Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
Organizations · United States - High Country News
Nonprofit, reader-supported magazine covering the American West since 1970 — public lands, water, climate and Indigenous affairs — based in Paonia, Colorado, and winner of multiple George Polk Awards.
Organizations · United States - Hillary Clinton
Former U.S. secretary of state, senator from New York, and the first woman to top a major party's presidential ticket. This profile leads with her 2026 House deposition on Jeffrey Epstein, her Columbia teaching role, and the 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
People · United States - Himachal Pradesh
A Western Himalayan Indian state that became the 18th state of the Indian Union on 25 January 1971, with capitals at Shimla and Dharamshala, 82.8% literacy (2011 Census), and a home-state link to freedom fighter Wazir Ram Singh Pathania, dramatised in "Krish, Trish and Baltiboy" Season 2.
Places · India - Hiroshi Ichikura
Japanese advertising copywriter, creative director and lyricist (b. 1955, Gunma). Suntory (1978), Nakahata Advertising (1987), then founder of Ichikura Advertising Production (1990). Wrote lyrics for Kazuyoshi Saito's "Wedding Song"; TCC Hall of Fame 2023; chief judge of the 64th Sendenkaigi Award.
People · Japan - Hofstra University
Private university in Hempstead, Long Island, founded in 1935 on a lumber magnate's estate. It is the only university to host presidential debates in three consecutive cycles, and its 2016 debate was the most-watched in history.
Organizations · United States - Holland College
The public community college of Prince Edward Island, Canada, established in 1969 and constituted as a body corporate under the provincial Holland College Act, with campuses and specialised centres across the province.
Universities & Colleges · Canada - Holy Face of Lucca
An 8-foot wooden crucifix in Lucca Cathedral, Italy, radiocarbon-dated to the 8th-9th century and credited by medieval legend to Nicodemus, that became one of medieval Europe's most widely invoked relics.
Places · Italy - Home Depot
The Home Depot is the world's largest home-improvement retailer, an Atlanta-based public company (NYSE: HD) founded in 1978. A 2022 Accountable.US scorecard identified it as the top corporate donor to lawmakers who voted to overturn the 2020 election.
Organizations · United States - Hope Hicks
The longtime Trump communications aide who entered politics with no political experience, left for Fox Corp, returned as counselor, and became the one aide subpoenaed under oath at every stage of the Trump era — from the Russia probe to the hush-money trial.
People · United States - House Oversight Committee
The U.S. House's main investigative committee, with jurisdiction stretching across the entire federal government. In 2026 it is defined by its Epstein investigation — including a billionaire's federal lawsuit against it — a self-declared 'wins' report, and two openly opposed partisan agendas.
Organizations · United States - House Republican Conference
The party caucus for Republicans in the U.S. House — the body that elects GOP leadership, coordinates messaging, and has run an unbroken chair lineage since 1863. Today it is Lisa McClain's operation; in 2021 it staged the Cheney-to-Stefanik succession fight.
Organizations · United States - House Select Committee on January 6
The nine-member House panel that probed the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack: 1,000+ interviews, four Trump criminal referrals, ethics referrals of four GOP House members, a seditious-conspiracy charge it couldn't agree on, and an 814-page report calling for a 14th Amendment office bar.
Organizations · United States - Howie Liu
Co-founder and CEO of Airtable, the spreadsheet-database platform he built slowly from 2012, took to a $1.1 billion valuation in 2018 and an $11 billion peak in 2021, then sold to Bending Spoons for $1.28 billion in 2026.
People · United States - HubSpot, Inc.
The Cambridge software company that invented "inbound marketing" as a category — and built a CRM business by giving the idea away — priced at $25 in its October 2014 NYSE debut and jumped 20% on day one.
Organizations · United States - Hunter Biden
Son of former U.S. president Joe Biden: artist, memoirist, convicted of federal gun felonies and tax charges in 2024, pardoned that December, disbarred in 2026, and back in the spotlight with a blunt 2026 media tour.
People · United States - I'd Like to Think While inside the Body of a Horse
A 1964 gelatin-silver photograph by Japanese Surrealist Kansuke Yamamoto, first published in the Asahi Shimbun beside Hideo Oguma's poem of the same title and now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The Getty's own teaching guide reads its birdcage imagery as confinement.
Creative Works · Japan - iCapital
The fintech platform that turned alternative investments into wealth-management plumbing — $945 billion serviced, a $7.5 billion valuation, and backing from the same Wall Street incumbents whose products it distributes.
Organizations · United States - ICFAI University, Meghalaya
A state private university in Meghalaya, India, established under a 2005 Act of the state legislature, with its headquarters in Tura and a second campus in Shillong.
Universities & Colleges · India - Idaho
Idaho, the Gem State, is the 43rd US state, admitted July 3, 1890, with Boise as its capital, over 60 percent federal land, and the nation's first women's-sports law (March 2020) — the law the Supreme Court upheld in Little v. Hecox in June 2026.
Places · United States - Idman.biz
Idman.biz ("Sports and Us") is a Baku sports news portal launched in September 2023 as a project of Trend News Agency, publishing in Azerbaijani, Russian, and English.
Organizations · Azerbaijan - IEEE
The world's largest technical professional organization — a U.S. nonprofit formed in 1963 from the AIEE and IRE merger. Its Standards Association writes the IEEE 802 family (Ethernet, Wi-Fi), but product certification is the Wi-Fi Alliance's job. 533,000+ members in 190+ countries.
Organizations · United States - Ignacio Dülger
Chilean lawyer and Republican Party politician, regional councilor (CORE) for the Santiago Metropolitan Region; a 2026 "Second Floor" presidential adviser amid dual-pay controversy who left to head Acción Republicana and drove the failed Tricel bid against Governor Claudio Orrego.
People · Chile - Ignatius Press
American Catholic publishing house founded in San Francisco in 1978 by Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J., known as the primary English-language publisher of Pope Benedict XVI's works and, in 2014, at the center of a dispute over a book mailed to Synod on the Family participants.
Organizations · United States - Igor Fruman
Businessman and Rudy Giuliani associate who pleaded guilty in 2021 to soliciting foreign money for U.S. political donations, was sentenced to a year and a day, and served under two months in federal custody.
People · United States - Igor Tanzil
Indonesian creative executive and former advertising copywriter who served as Agate's chief marketing and chief creative officer before co-founding Mythic Protocol, later rebranded Confiction Labs, where he is Chief Creative Officer.
People · Indonesia - Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator, launched in 1987, turned PostScript from a programmers' tool into a drawing program anyone could use — and outlasted its great rival FreeHand to become the vector-graphics standard.
Creative Works · United States - Ilya Sutskever
Computer scientist who co-created AlexNet, co-founded OpenAI and served as its chief scientist, played a central and later-regretted role in the November 2023 board vote to remove Sam Altman, and in 2024 left to found the AI-safety company Safe Superintelligence Inc.
People · United States - Imaginando
Braga, Portugal music-software studio founded in 2014 by solo developer Nuno Santos from a self-funded Ableton Live controller side project; it grew a cross-platform line of synths, controllers and effects, including the rent-to-own FRMS granular synth and the 2023 BAM production studio.
Organizations · Portugal - India
The Republic of India (Bharat): a multiparty federal republic of 28 states and 8 union territories — the world's most populous country, its largest electorate, and the home of the world's longest written constitution.
Places · India - Indian National Congress: from the independence movement to India's principal opposition party
Indian National Congress (INC): founded in 1885, the party that led India's independence movement and dominated its first 50 years — now the principal opposition party, with 99 Lok Sabha seats after the 2024 election.
Organizations · India - Instagram
The photo-and-video app Facebook bought for $1 billion in 2012 — now an estimated 3 billion users and about 44% of Meta's revenue — whose acquisition the U.S. government tried and failed to unwind in a 2020–2025 antitrust case.
Organizations · United States - Insurance Australia Group
Australia's largest general insurer — born from the 2000 demutualisation of NRMA's insurance arm, built through the CGU and NZI acquisitions, an umbrella for brands like NRMA Insurance and CGU, with Berkshire Hathaway once holding 3.7%.
Organizations · Australia - Intel Corporation
Founded in 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, Intel dominated PC chips for decades as one half of the "Wintel" duopoly — then stumbled, delayed its $20 billion Ohio fabs to 2030, and watched the U.S. government convert its federal grants into an equity stake in 2025.
Organizations · United States - Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
The UNESCO body created by the 2003 Convention that decides inscriptions on the intangible heritage lists, grants international assistance, and guides how States Parties safeguard living heritage.
Organizations · France - Internal Revenue Service
The United States' federal tax agency — a Treasury bureau that collected $5.1 trillion in FY2024 — founded in 1862 to finance the Civil War, and now operating through a leadership vacuum and a 28% workforce cut.
Organizations · United States - International Atomic Energy Agency
Vienna-based nuclear watchdog with 182 member states. The IAEA verifies that nuclear material stays peaceful, sets global safety and transport standards, and reports to the UN General Assembly and Security Council — but it is not a UN specialized agency.
Organizations · Austria - International Boxing Association
The IBA was once Olympic boxing's world governing body — until the IOC suspended it in 2019 and stripped its recognition 69-to-1 in 2023 after Russian money and governance scandals, and 2026 brought a new one: its president secretly bankrolling a Trump family wedding celebration.
Organizations · Switzerland - International Chovgan Federation
The International Chovgan Federation is the international governing body for chovgan, the Azerbaijani horseback game. It was formed at a Baku assembly in 2024 and runs world and continental championships.
Organizations · Azerbaijan - International Code for the Safe Carriage of Packaged Irradiated Nuclear Fuel, Plutonium and High-Level Radioactive Wastes on board Ships
A mandatory International Maritime Organization instrument, adopted in 1993 and made compulsory under SOLAS in 2001, setting design and operational safety requirements for ships carrying irradiated nuclear fuel, plutonium and high-level radioactive waste.
Events & Documents · International - International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is a donor-funded investigative network headquartered in Washington, D.C., whose cross-border collaborations have forced leader resignations and anti-corruption laws across 70-plus countries.
Organizations · United States - International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships
The principal international treaty preventing pollution from ships, adopted in 1973, strengthened by a 1978 Protocol, and in force since 1983, with six technical Annexes covering oil, chemicals, sewage, garbage and air pollution.
Events & Documents · International - International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea
The International Maritime Organization's principal treaty on merchant-ship safety, adopted in its current form in 1974 and in force since 1980, setting minimum standards for ship construction, equipment and operation and kept current by tacit-acceptance amendments.
Events & Documents · International - International Film Festival of India
India's premier international film festival, held in Goa since 2004: founded 1952, South Asia's only FIAPF-accredited competitive festival, jointly organised by NFDC, the I&B Ministry and the Entertainment Society of Goa; the 55th edition launched WAVES OTT and "Krish, Trish and Baltiboy" S2.
Events & Documents · India - International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code
The IMO's mandatory global rulebook for carrying dangerous goods and marine pollutants by sea in packaged form — classification, packaging, labelling, documentation, stowage and segregation.
Events & Documents · International - International Maritime Organization
The United Nations specialized agency for shipping safety, security and pollution prevention, based in London with 176 member states. Its conventions govern ships worldwide — and its net-zero climate framework stalled in 2025.
Organizations · United Kingdom - International Polar Year
A recurring, internationally coordinated burst of polar research: four editions — 1882–83, 1932–33, 1957–58 (renamed the International Geophysical Year), and 2007–08 — with a fifth planned for 2032–33 as a "crucial new phase in a 150-year-old process."
Events & Documents · International - Investor AB
The Wallenberg family's century-old investment vehicle — born in 1916 when Swedish banking law forced banks to shed industrial holdings — now the active owner behind stakes in ABB, AstraZeneca, Atlas Copco, Ericsson, SEB and Nasdaq.
Organizations · Sweden - InvGate
Buenos Aires-founded ITSM and IT asset management software company that bootstrapped for 14 years before a $35 million growth round in 2023, and was named a 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice with a 4.9/5 user rating.
Organizations · Argentina - Ioannis Vardoulakis
Greek civil engineer and geomechanicist (1949–2009), Professor of Mechanics at the National Technical University of Athens, known for work on shear-band formation and bifurcation theory in granular materials.
People · Greece - Iowa
A Midwestern U.S. state of about 3.24 million people (2025 estimate), admitted to the Union as the 29th state on December 28, 1846. The leading U.S. corn producer — with a record 2.77-billion-bushel harvest in 2025 — and a major insurance hub centered on Greater Des Moines.
Places · United States - Iran
Islamic Republic of Iran: 1.6 million sq km, about 87.3 million people, capital Tehran; ruled by Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei since the February 2026 assassination of his father, locked in war and nuclear negotiations with the United States.
Places · Iran - Iru
A private IT and security software company led by CEO Adam Pettit — the October 2025 rebrand of Kandji, the Apple device-management firm founded in 2018 that raised $288 million before relaunching as an AI-powered unified platform.
Organizations · United States - İsmail Hacıoğlu
Turkish actor who played the young Süleyman Dilbirliği in the Oscar-submitted Ayla (2017), then sang every song himself as Cem Karaca in Cem Karaca'nın Gözyaşları (2024) — a biopic pulled from theaters by court order weeks after release.
People · Turkey - Israel
State of Israel: 22,072 sq km, about 9.1 million people, proclaimed capital Jerusalem; 27 days from an October 27, 2026 election, presiding over a Gaza "ceasefire" whose machinery — Board of Peace, NCAG, 15-point roadmap — remains stalled.
Places · Israel - Istanbul
Turkey's largest city and economic capital, straddling Europe and Asia — and the city where the real-life Ayla story's reunion and farewell unfolded, and where cinema was put to work as diplomacy in 2025.
Places · Turkey - Italy
Italy, the boot-shaped southern European republic with Rome as capital, unified in 1861, a founding EU member, and home to 62 UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Places · Italy - Ivana Trump
Czech-born businesswoman and first wife of Donald Trump, who left Communist Czechoslovakia through a lawyer-described "Cold War marriage," helped build his 1980s business empire, and saw their divorce finalized by court judgment in 1990.
People · United States - Ivanka Trump
The president's eldest daughter, once the unpaid senior adviser of his first White House, has re-emerged as a private deal-maker: co-founder of a food-waste company, a FIFA education-fund board member — and the public face of a contested luxury-resort project on Albania's protected Adriatic coast.
People · United States - J. Michael Shepherd
An American banking lawyer and executive who led Bank of the West as President and CEO from 2008 to 2016, chaired BNP Paribas USA through 2023, and later joined the boards of CoreLogic and Discover Financial Services.
People · United States - J.P. Nadda: BJP organiser, two-time Union Health Minister, and party president 2020–2026
Jagat Prakash Nadda — BJP national president Jan 2020–Jan 2026, Union Health Minister 2014–2019 and again from June 2024, and Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha — rose as a party organiser, from ABVP student politics to Himachal minister to the BJP's top post.
People · India - J6 Pardon Project
Activist campaign founded by Suzzanne Monk that pushed clemency for January 6 defendants — building a defendant database and strategy guide, anchoring a Day-One petition coalition, and later pressuring Trump's own Justice Department.
Organizations · United States - Jaafar Jackson
Michael Jackson's nephew who played his uncle in the 2026 biopic Michael — his acting debut — after a two-year casting process.
People · United States - Jack Altman
American technology entrepreneur and investor who co-founded and led the HR software company Lattice, later founded the venture firm Alt Capital, and became a general partner at Benchmark in 2026.
People · United States - Jack Clark
Anthropic co-founder and head of policy; former OpenAI policy director and Bloomberg tech journalist; co-chair of Stanford's AI Index Steering Committee and founder of the Import AI newsletter.
People · United States - Jack Reed
Democratic U.S. Senator from Rhode Island since 1997, a West Point graduate and former 82nd Airborne paratrooper who chaired the Senate Armed Services Committee (2021–2025) and now serves as its ranking member. Not to be confused with Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings.
People · United States - Jack Smith
American career prosecutor who served as Justice Department special counsel from November 2022 to January 2025, bringing two federal indictments against Donald Trump before resigning after the 2024 election.
People · United States - Jackie Northam
Longtime NPR international correspondent who covered the Gulf War, the Rwandan genocide, and conflicts across the Middle East and South Asia over a four-decade career, retiring in 2026.
People · United States - Jacksonville State University
The Alabama public university that rose from an 1883 teachers' normal school through a devastating 2018 tornado to an FBS bowl win and eight straight years of record enrollment.
Universities & Colleges · United States - James Comey
Former FBI director fired by Donald Trump in 2017 and indicted twice in 2025-2026; the second case, over a May 2025 Instagram photo of seashells reading '86 47', is headed for a January 2027 arraignment in North Carolina.
People · United States - James Cuff
High-performance-computing research technologist who built Harvard's research-computing organization and its North East Storage Exchange before moving on to lead scientific-computing strategy at composable-computing startup GigaIO.
People · United States - James Dobson
Child psychologist who founded Focus on the Family in 1977, co-founded the Family Research Council and Alliance Defending Freedom, and became a leading voice of the American religious right; died August 21, 2025, aged 89.
People · United States - James Marsh (artist)
British illustrator and painter best known for designing Talk Talk's album covers from 1982 onward, including "Spirit of Eden," whose 2012 retrospective book was reviewed by Record Collector magazine.
People · United Kingdom - James R. Mountain
Former San Ildefonso Pueblo governor and All Pueblo Council of Governors chairman who led New Mexico's Indian Affairs Department in 2023 before resigning the council chairmanship in late September 2025.
People · United States - James Scapa
Founder, chairman and CEO of Altair Engineering, the simulation-software company he built from a three-person Detroit consulting shop in 1985 into a public company sold to Siemens for $10.6 billion in 2025.
People · United States - Jan Leike
AI alignment researcher who co-led OpenAI's superalignment team, resigned in May 2024 saying safety had taken a backseat to products, and now leads Alignment Science at Anthropic.
People · Germany - Janakpur Bolts
Nepal Premier League cricket franchise that won the tournament's inaugural title in December 2024, finished last in the 2025 season, and in 2026 acquired a second franchise, JB Bruges, in Belgium's EU T20 League.
Organizations · Nepal - Janata Dal (United): the Bihar party built on mergers and alliance switches
Janata Dal (United), or JD(U), is a centre-left Indian political party formed on 30 October 2003 from a merger of Janata Dal, Samata Party and Lokshakti factions. Based in Bihar and led by Nitish Kumar, it has switched between the NDA and the Mahagathbandhan four times in a decade.
Organizations · India - Japan
Japan is a constitutional monarchy of 14,125 islands under its first woman PM, Sanae Takaichi — the world's fourth-largest economy and record film market.
Places · Japan - Jared Isaacman
Billionaire founder of Shift4 Payments and private astronaut confirmed as the 15th NASA administrator in December 2025, after a nomination that was withdrawn and then revived. He commanded Inspiration4 and the first commercial spacewalk on Polaris Dawn.
People · United States - Jared Kushner
Real estate heir turned Trump adviser: architect of the 2020 Abraham Accords, founder of the Gulf-backed Affinity Partners fund, and since February 2026 Donald Trump's Special Envoy for Peace on Gaza and Russia-Ukraine diplomacy.
People · United States - JD Vance
JD Vance is the vice president of the United States, sworn in January 20, 2025. A Marine veteran, Yale Law graduate and venture capitalist from Ohio, he wrote Hillbilly Elegy (2016), won a U.S. Senate seat in 2022, and joined Trump's 2024 ticket after once being a fierce Trump critic.
People · United States - Jean-Louis Gouraud
French journalist, editor and writer specialising in the history and culture of the horse; rode from Paris to Moscow in 1990 and wrote Karabakh Horses.
People · France - Jean-Luc Godard
The French-Swiss filmmaker (1930-2022) who ignited the French New Wave with Breathless and spent his career exploding cinematic form. Profile leads with his hidden Canadian chapter: the 1977-78 Montreal cinema-history lectures at Serge Losique's invitation that seeded Histoire(s) du cinéma.
People · France - Jeanne Johnson
Mother of U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson and three other children, and the former wife of firefighter James Patrick "Pat" Johnson. A private individual; no independent reporting covers her life beyond the family relationship.
People · United States - Jeff Bezos
The Amazon founder who told his 1982 high-school class he wanted to colonize space to save Earth — then spent three decades building Amazon into the funding engine for Blue Origin, his $30-billion personal bet on that dream.
People · USA - Jeffrey Epstein
Financier and convicted sex offender whose 2008 plea deal and 2019 jail death triggered the Epstein Files Transparency Act. His own jail writings, unsealed by the New York Times in June 2026, deny he was ever a hedge fund manager and call his federal case "NOT NEW."
People · United States - Jen Guyton
American-German conservation ecologist and wildlife photographer whose doctoral fieldwork in Mozambique and Namibia produced a Nature paper on vegetation patterns, a Wildlife Photographer of the Year award, and a national conservation-science honor.
People · United States - Jenner & Block
A century-old Chicago litigation firm that challenged a 2025 executive order targeting it, and won a court ruling declaring the order unconstitutional.
Organizations · United States - Jensen Huang
Taiwan-born co-founder, president and CEO of NVIDIA since 1993. He led the company behind the GPU and the AI data-center boom, and received the 2026 IEEE Medal of Honor.
People · United States - Jeremiaha Maluze
Duisburg centre-back who reached the Bundesliga via Frankfurt's U21s: 26 Hessenliga games, 3 goals and 10 assists in 2025/26, DFB-Pokal debut in August 2026, first Bundesliga start against Union Berlin the same day his contract was extended to 2031.
People · Germany - Jeremy Matlow
Tallahassee city commissioner (Seat 3) known for publicly criticizing the city's response to a corruption scandal and for a still-unresolved 2026 trespassing investigation tied to a tree-removal protest.
People · United States - Jessie J
English pop singer behind "Price Tag" and "Bang Bang" who announced an early-stage breast cancer diagnosis in June 2025, released her first album in eight years that November, and was declared cancer-free in May 2026.
People · United Kingdom - Jharkhand
India's 28th state, formed on 15 November 2000 from 18 districts of Bihar under the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000. Capital Ranchi; an 81-seat legislature; 26.2% Scheduled Tribe population; around 40% of India's mineral reserves.
Places · India - Jim Baum
American technology executive who led Netezza as president and CEO through its 2010 acquisition by IBM, later ran the warehouse-robotics startup CasePick Systems, and has since served on multiple corporate boards.
People · United States - Jimmy Kimmel
Late-night host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! since 2003 — a Brooklyn-born comedian who became a First Amendment test case after a 2025 suspension, signed a contract through mid-2027, and kept feuding with the White House into 2026.
People · United States - Jinga Films: the UK genre sales agent behind A Serbian Film
Jinga Films — the London-based world sales agent founded by Welsh filmmaker Julian Richards — handled The Bunny Game and A Serbian Film, and launched the Danse Macabre horror label in 2020, which reissued The Bunny Game in the US in 2025.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Jit Saxena
Massachusetts-based technology entrepreneur who founded and led Applix and then co-founded Netezza, taking both companies public, and who has since served on the boards of numerous data and software startups.
People · United States - Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., the 46th president of the United States (2021–2025) and "Amtrak Joe" — the rail-commuting senator honored with a namesake station. He served 36 years in the Senate, 8 as vice president, and withdrew from the 2024 race on July 21, 2024.
People · United States - Joe Gebbia
Airbnb co-founder whose first U.S. government project was digitizing the paper-based federal retirement system; in August 2025 he became the first U.S. Chief Design Officer, leading the "America by Design" initiative.
People · United States - Joe Jackson
Jackson family patriarch and manager of the Jackson 5 who died in 2018; father of Michael Jackson, played by Colman Domingo in Michael (2026).
People · United States - Joey Sanchez
Former Santa Ana Pueblo governor who became chairman of the All Pueblo Council of Governors in December 2025 and led its 2026 campaigns to protect Chaco Canyon and the Caja del Rio.
People · United States - Johan Raja Lawak
A Malaysian comedian, actor and long-running Hot FM radio presenter, born Mohd Yazid Lim bin Mohamad Aziz, who placed third in the first season of Raja Lawak in 2007 and later pivoted much of his public focus toward entrepreneurship, including a restaurant and a vending-machine business.
People · Malaysia - John Branca
Entertainment attorney and sole executor of the Michael Jackson estate; brokered the 1985 $47.5M Beatles-catalog deal and led its $500M-debt turnaround.
People · United States - John Collison
Irish entrepreneur who co-founded the payments company Stripe with his brother Patrick, serves as its president, backed the collectibles platform Alt, and bought into Weston Airport to build a hub for light aviation in Dublin.
People · Ireland - John Kirby
Retired Navy rear admiral who served twice as Pentagon press secretary and as the White House National Security Communications Advisor; director of the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics since November 2025.
People · United States - John Knoll
Visual-effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic, co-creator of Photoshop with his brother Thomas, and originator of the story for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
People · United States - John Logan
Three-time Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Gladiator, The Aviator and Hugo, Tony winner for Red, and writer of the 2026 Michael Jackson biopic Michael.
People · United States - John McClain
Music executive who engineered Janet Jackson's Control and co-executed the Michael Jackson estate from 2009 until his death in May 2026.
People · United States - John Stankey
Chairman and CEO of AT&T — CEO since July 2020, chair since February 2025 — and an AT&T lifer since 1985 who reversed its media strategy, spinning WarnerMedia into Warner Bros. Discovery and exiting DirecTV to refocus the company on 5G and fiber.
People · United States - John Warnock
Adobe co-founder and inventor of PostScript and PDF, who turned a Xerox PARC printer protocol into desktop publishing and led Adobe as CEO until 2000.
People · United States - Joint Chiefs of Staff
The body of the most senior uniformed leaders in the U.S. Department of Defense, serving as the principal military advisory body to the president, the secretary of defense, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council.
Organizations · United States - Jon Stewart
Comedian and former Daily Show host whose 16-year tenure reshaped political satire — and who then helped win permanent federal benefits for 9/11 first responders, from the 2010 Zadroga Act to its 2019 permanent reauthorization.
People · US - Jonas (2013 film)
Adam Rehmeier's 2013 companion piece to the banned The Bunny Game: a six-verse religious thriller shot in six weeks and released free online.
Creative Works · United States - José Antonio Kast
Chilean lawyer and politician, 35th President of Chile since 11 March 2026; founder of Acción Republicana (2018) and the Republican Party (2019), he won the presidency on his third attempt with a security-first platform and resigned his own party's membership hours before taking office.
People · Chile - Joseph Bianco
Second Circuit judge and former federal prosecutor who rose to chief of the Southern District of New York's Organized Crime and Terrorism Unit; confirmed to the appeals court 54–42 in 2019 after a voice-vote district-court confirmation in 2005.
People · US - Joseph Fessio
American Jesuit priest who co-founded Ignatius Press in 1978, became a primary English-language editor of Pope Benedict XVI's works, and was removed from three institutions he helped build amid recurring disputes with administrators.
People · United States - Joseph Stalin
Soviet dictator (1928–53) who industrialized the USSR through Five-Year Plans and terror, signed the 1939 pact with Hitler, then led the Soviet war effort that broke Nazi Germany.
People · Soviet Union - Juan Merchan
New York trial judge who oversaw Donald Trump's 2024 hush-money case, in which a jury convicted Trump on 34 felony counts, and sentenced him to an unconditional discharge in January 2025. His daughter's former fundraising firm came under federal investigation in 2026.
People · United States - Julian Richards: the Welsh director who built Jinga Films into a genre-sales powerhouse
Welsh horror director (The Last Horror Movie, Darklands) who founded Jinga Films, turned it into a key global genre-sales company, and negotiated The Bunny Game's US deal.
People · United Kingdom - Justin Sun
Founder of the TRON blockchain and former Grenada ambassador to the WTO, Justin Sun became one of World Liberty Financial's biggest backers and the top holder of Donald Trump's $TRUMP memecoin before the two sides sued each other in 2026.
People · China - Kaitlan Collins
CNN's chief White House correspondent and weeknight 9 p.m. "The Source" anchor, whose adversarial relationship with Donald Trump — a 2018 event ban, live-TV clashes, and a September 2026 credential fight settled by a federal judge — made her a defining journalist of the second Trump presidency.
People · United States - Kamehameha Schools
Kamehameha Schools is Hawai'i's private school system for Native Hawaiian children, funded almost entirely by the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate, a $14.7 billion endowment in 2021. Founded 1887 by a princess's will, it survived the 1997–1999 "Broken Trust" scandal, when all five trustees were ousted.
Schools · United States - Kansas: the Sunflower State, from Bleeding Kansas to Tornado Alley
The 34th state, admitted January 29, 1861, as a free state after the Bleeding Kansas conflict — a Great Plains state of wheat, cattle, and aircraft manufacturing that sits in the heart of Tornado Alley and holds the geographic center of the contiguous United States.
Places · United States - Kansuke Yamamoto
Japanese Surrealist poet-photographer (1914–1987) who said artwork comes from 'disobedient spirit'; censored under wartime Japan, revived internationally after 2001.
People · Japan - Karabakh horse
A mountain-steppe racing and riding horse breed from Azerbaijan's Karabakh region, famed for its golden-tinted chestnut coat, stamina and speed, now numbering fewer than 1,000 and bred mainly in the Sheki region.
Species · Azerbaijan - Karine Jean-Pierre
White House press secretary and senior adviser to Joe Biden (2022-2025) — the first Black person and first openly LGBTQ person in the role — who left the Democratic Party in June 2025, registered as an independent, and published 'Independent' about the end of Biden's presidency.
People · United States - Karoline Leavitt
Youngest-ever White House press secretary, serving from January 2025 to August 2026 and the first to give birth while holding the job. Now back with the pro-Trump super PAC MAGA Inc., she is hosting the September 29, 2026 unveiling of the America.gov AI portal.
People · United States - Kartarpur Corridor
The Kartarpur Corridor is the visa-free pilgrim passage linking Dera Baba Nanak in India to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan — a rare peacetime cross-border corridor, suspended since May 2025 amid renewed security tensions.
Places · Pakistan - Katas Raj temple complex
A Hindu temple complex around a sacred pond in Chakwal District, Punjab, Pakistan, managed by the Evacuee Trust Property Board and the subject of Supreme Court proceedings over groundwater extraction.
Places · Pakistan - Katherine Jackson
Jackson family matriarch; mother of ten including Michael and Janet, guardian of Michael's children after 2009, played by Nia Long in Michael (2026).
People · United States - Katowice-Muchowiec Airfield
A general-aviation aerodrome in central Katowice, Poland, opened in 1926 as one of interwar Poland's most modern airports. A 2006–2007 aeroclub property dispute and a 2023 city agreement shaped its shift toward business use, with a new runway finished in 2026.
Places · Poland - Kayleigh McEnany
White House press secretary under President Donald Trump from April 2020 through January 2021, now a Fox News host co-hosting Outnumbered and fronting her own Saturday program. Her career ran from a Fox News production desk through CNN and the RNC into the West Wing.
People · United States - Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country and the ninth-largest country overall, a Central Asian republic of steppe, desert and mountains that left the Soviet Union in 1991 and grew rich on oil and uranium.
Places · Kazakhstan - Kelly Johnson
Wife of U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson since 1999. A former teacher and licensed pastoral counselor who co-hosted the faith podcast Truth Be Told with Mike & Kelly Johnson.
People · United States - Kevin Durant
Two-time NBA champion and the only men's basketball player with four Olympic gold medals, who paired a two-decade scoring career with an investing career through Thirty Five Ventures, an early backer of the collectibles platform Alt.
People · United States - Kevin McCarthy
Republican congressman from California whose 55th speakership of the U.S. House lasted 269 days — the first in American history ended by a mid-session removal vote. After leaving Congress he joined the board of Anivive Lifesciences, a company developing a Valley Fever vaccine.
People · United States - Khalil al-Hayya
Veteran Hamas political leader and its chief negotiator through the Gaza war, elected head of the movement's political bureau in July 2026. Months earlier he sat across from U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, trading condolences as two bereaved fathers.
People · Palestine - Khan Academy
American nonprofit educational organization founded by Sal Khan in 2008, offering free world-class learning resources sustained by philanthropy rather than fees, and known for its GPT-4-powered AI tutor Khanmigo.
Organizations · United States - Khosrov and Shirin
Khosrov and Shirin is Nizami Ganjavi's Persian romantic epic of about 1180, the second poem of his Khamsa, retelling the love of King Khosrow II and Shirin through separation, rivalry, and a tragic ending.
Creative Works · Persia - Khyzy
Khyzy (Xızı, Khizi) is a town in eastern Azerbaijan, capital of Khizi District, known for the Candy Cane Mountains, Altyaghach National Park, and the 240 MW Khizi–Absheron wind farm.
Places · Azerbaijan - Kiavi
The fix-and-flip lender founded in 2013 as LendingHome and rebranded in 2021 — a $21 billion-plus private investor lender with a revolving Wall Street securitization machine, acquired by blockchain lender Figure for $717 million in September 2026 and now operating as its subsidiary.
Organizations · United States - Kilifi County
A coastal county in Kenya (county code 003), formed in 2010, home to the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Historic Town and Archaeological Site of Gedi, the 1968 Watamu marine parks, and a 2025 New York Times travel-list mention.
Places · Kenya - Kim Eun-ja
Kim Eun-ja, the real-life Ayla of the Korean War — rescued by Turkish Sgt. Süleyman Dilbirliği in 1950, reunited with him in 2010, and mourned by the Turkish Embassy in Seoul after her death in Incheon at 80.
People · South Korea - Kim Seol
South Korean child actress who played Jin-ju in Reply 1988 and the young Ayla in Ayla: The Daughter of War (2017), then stepped back from acting for gifted STEM education.
People · South Korea - Kingsley Wilson
Press secretary for the Department of War since May 2025. Her appointment followed controversy over posts flagged by NPR and Military.com and condemned by Jewish civil-rights groups; in the job she has defended Pete Hegseth as a "transformative leader" and run on-camera Pentagon briefings.
People · United States - Kinh Bac City Development Holding Corporation
Vietnamese industrial real estate developer listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange, chaired by Dang Thanh Tam, whose subsidiary Hung Yen Hospitality is developing the Trump Organization's licensed golf and residential project in Hung Yen province.
Organizations · Vietnam - Kino Films
Japanese film distributor and producer owned by Kinoshita Group; handled the Japan releases of Conclave and Michael, which grossed ¥8.66 billion.
Organizations · Japan - Kiran Nazish
Pakistani foreign and war correspondent who reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and beyond, then founded the Coalition For Women In Journalism in 2017 after a 2015 breakdown — building mentorship and a press-freedom newsroom covering attacks on women journalists in 128 countries.
People · Pakistan - Kirkland & Ellis
The first $10 billion law firm: Kirkland & Ellis industrialised Big Law with lateral poaching, salaried-partner leverage and an up-or-out tournament — paying equity partners $11M each at a firm law students least want to join.
Organizations · United States - Kirsten Hughes
Massachusetts Republican Party chairwoman from 2013 to 2019, elected amid a divided state committee and a Scott Brown-shaped transition, who led the party through two Charlie Baker gubernatorial wins before stepping down.
People · United States - Kitabi Dede Gorgud
Kitabi Dede Gorgud, the Book of Dede Korkut, is the Oghuz Turkic heroic epic of twelve tales, preserved in Dresden, Vatican and Gonbad manuscripts and inscribed by UNESCO in 2018.
Creative Works · Azerbaijan - Knut Frängsmyr
A Swedish former Klarna executive appointed CEO of Avanza in 2023 who left the role after roughly one week when the bank withdrew its approval of him following a financial regulator's disclosure about fines tied to renovation work on his home.
People · Sweden - Korean War
The UN's first war, 1950–1953: North Korea invaded the South, 22 nations fought under the U.S.-led UN Command, and Turkey's brigade — the fourth-largest contributor — lost 774 soldiers under UN command.
Events & Documents · Korea - Kremlin
The Russian presidential office — the seat of government in Moscow whose spokesman Dmitry Peskov framed the 2024 Putin interview with Tucker Carlson as "pro-American." Its history runs from 12th-century wooden walls to a UNESCO-listed seat of power run through the Presidential Executive Office.
Organizations · Russia - Kresna Graha Investama
An Indonesian investment group that rode a digital-pivot story onto Forbes Asia's Best Under A Billion list — then collapsed into the Kresna Life insurance scandal, criminal charges against its founder, an Interpol red notice, and a 2023 rename to Quantum Clovera Investama Tbk.
Organizations · Indonesia - Krish, Trish and Baltiboy
An Indian animated folk-tales anthology from Graphiti Multimedia, running since 2009, whose Season 2 was co-produced with a central government ministry, nominated at Cairo's children's film festival, and was singled out by name by the Prime Minister on national radio.
Creative Works · India - Kristen Waggoner
CEO, president and chief counsel of Alliance Defending Freedom since October 2022; argued Masterpiece Cakeshop and 303 Creative at the U.S. Supreme Court before taking the organization's top job.
People · United States - Kushner Companies
Charles Kushner's family real estate firm, founded in 1985; the $1.8 billion 666 Fifth Avenue gamble nearly broke it, and a Forbes 2024 deep-dive valued the rebuilt firm at $2.9 billion — more than Donald Trump's own real estate portfolio.
Organizations · United States - Kyle Herrig
Kyle Herrig founded the watchdog group Accountable.US in 2019 and led it as president until July 2023. He now serves as a senior advisor there and as founder and executive director of the Congressional Integrity Project.
People · United States - Lara Trump
Eric Trump's wife and the only Trump to have run the RNC — co-chair from March 2024 to January 2025 — who then turned down three Senate runs and became the first sitting president's family member to host a TV show, on Fox News.
People · United States - Larry Thompson
Brooklyn resident whose 2014 arrest and unexplained dismissal of charges made him the petitioner in the Supreme Court's 2022 Thompson v. Clark ruling that federal malicious-prosecution plaintiffs need only show their prosecution ended without a conviction.
People · United States - Las Vegas, Nevada: the railroad town that became the world’s entertainment capital
Nevada's largest city and seat of Clark County — a 1905 railroad town in the Mojave Desert, remade by 1931 gambling legalization and the Hoover Dam boom into the world's entertainment capital, whose famous Strip mostly lies outside its limits.
Places · United States - Laura Ingraham
Host of The Ingraham Angle on Fox News since October 2017, a former litigator and Clarence Thomas law clerk whose September 2026 Dallas sit-down with Donald Trump produced headlines on the "Trump dividend" and Chinese cars.
People · United States - Laura Loomer
Far-right activist and failed congressional candidate whose April 2025 Oval Office meeting with Donald Trump preceded a wave of National Security Council firings — and who attacked Trump's November 2025 White House meeting with Zohran Mamdani while stopping short of condemning the president himself.
People · United States - Laura Spiekerman
Co-founder of Alloy, the New York identity-decisioning company, whose path ran from a Kenyan mobile-payments startup through ACH payments to a fintech unicorn, with recognition from Crain's and American Banker.
People · United States - Lauren Bis
White House spokeswoman (by September 2026) who rose from communications director at an election-integrity nonprofit to DHS public affairs chief, and became the administration's on-the-record voice rebutting Epstein-files claims and pushing noncitizen-voting enforcement.
People · United States - Lauryn Galindo
American adoption facilitator who arranged roughly 700-800 Cambodian adoptions from 1990-2001, including actress Angelina Jolie's adoption of her son Maddox, before pleading guilty in 2004 to visa fraud and money laundering conspiracy.
People · United States - Lawrence Jones
Fox News co-host of FOX & Friends since September 2023, former enterprise reporter, Campus Reform editor-in-chief, and host of Lawrence Jones Cross Country.
People · United States - LawWorks
A UK solicitors' pro bono charity founded in 1997, co-founder of the National Pro Bono Centre in 2010, which runs England and Wales's largest network of free legal advice clinics.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Lazarus Group
The name U.S. agencies and cybersecurity researchers use for North Korean state-backed hacking operations attributed to units of the Reconnaissance General Bureau — linked by the DOJ to a $1.3B theft campaign, by the FBI to the $1.5B Bybit hack, and by OFAC to the $625M Ronin bridge heist.
Organizations · North Korea - Lee Kyung-jin
South Korean actress of five decades: 1980s "national little sister" TV star, breast-cancer survivor who refused a mastectomy, and — at 61 — the adult Ayla in Turkey's Oscar entry Ayla: The Daughter of War (2017).
People · South Korea - Lehman Brothers
American investment bank founded in 1850 in Montgomery, Alabama, that grew into the fourth-largest US investment bank before filing the largest bankruptcy in US history on September 15, 2008.
Organizations · United States - Leicester
Leicester is an East Midlands city of about 368,600 people on the River Soar, a Roman town where Richard III's skeleton was found under a car park in 2012, home to Diwali celebrations among the largest outside India and to Leicester City's 5,000-1 title win of 2016.
Places · United Kingdom - Leicester Crown Court
Leicester Crown Court is the Crown Court centre for Leicester and Leicestershire at 90 Wellington Street, hearing the area's most serious criminal trials, sentencing committals and appeals from the magistrates' court.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Leicester Royal Infirmary
Leicester Royal Infirmary (LRI) is an NHS teaching hospital in Leicester, founded in 1771 as a voluntary infirmary and now the city's main emergency hospital, run by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Leicestershire
Leicestershire is an East Midlands county of about 1.13 million people, centred on the River Soar valley and the city of Leicester, where Bosworth Field ended the Wars of the Roses, Charnwood Forest holds some of Britain's oldest fossils, and Melton Mowbray gave the world the pork pie.
Places · United Kingdom - Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
A Philadelphia-based all-volunteer nonprofit issuing genocide early warnings through Red Flag Alerts. Founded in 2016/2017 as the Iraq Project for Genocide Prevention and renamed in 2021, it tracks Ukraine, Gaza, Artsakh and other crises, and faces a naming dispute with relatives of Raphael Lemkin.
Organizations · United States - Leon Black
Billionaire co-founder of Apollo Global Management who stepped down as CEO in 2021 over his financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein. In September 2026 the full House of Representatives voted unanimously to hold him in contempt of Congress.
People · United States - Leore Avidar
Founder and CEO of the alternative-asset marketplace Alt and co-founder of the programmable direct-mail company Lob, who turned a sports-card collecting hobby into a trading platform backed by major venture and sports investors.
People · United States - Letitia James
Attorney General of New York since 2019, the first woman elected to the office. She sued Donald Trump and the NRA, investigated Andrew Cuomo, and in 2025 was herself federally indicted — a prosecution that collapsed after the grand jury rejected a new indictment.
People · United States - Levitate
ShareFile founder Jesse Lipson built Levitate into a $71M "keep-in-touch marketing" platform — a category pitched against mass-blast email — now evolving into AI-assisted Service-as-Software for relationship businesses.
Organizations · United States - Lewis Tice: the festival publicist behind Danger After Dark and Autonomy Pictures
Genre-film publicist who curated the Philadelphia Film Festival's Danger After Dark strand and co-founded Autonomy Pictures with Derek Curl and David Gregory in 2012.
People · United States - Liberté Investors
The defunct Dallas holding company — NYSE-listed as LBI, chaired by Gerald J. Ford — that acquired USAuto Holdings in 2004 and renamed itself First Acceptance Corporation, the Nashville non-standard auto insurer.
Organizations · United States - Library of Congress
The de facto national library of the United States and the world's largest library, founded in 1800 — now the subject of a 2025 leadership fight that has reached the Supreme Court.
Organizations · United States - LIFE Magazine
LIFE was the American weekly photo magazine launched in 1936 by Henry Luce and published by Time Inc., famous for photo-essays by Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks and others. It ran weekly until 1972, then as a monthly, a newspaper supplement, and special issues.
Organizations · United States - Lightspeed Venture Partners
A Menlo Park multi-stage venture firm founded by four Stanford classmates, famous for the first institutional check into Snapchat and for leading Anthropic's $3.5 billion Series E in 2025.
Organizations · United States - Lil Wayne
New Orleans rapper whose Tha Carter III sold over a million copies in its first week and won the Best Rap Album Grammy; founder of Young Money Entertainment, the label behind Drake and Nicki Minaj.
People · United States - Lincoln Beach amusement park
A segregation-era beach and amusement park built for Black residents of New Orleans, which hosted Fats Domino, Nat King Cole and Irma Thomas before closing in the mid-1960s; added to the National Register of Historic Places in July 2024, it is now the subject of a city-led redevelopment whose
Places · United States - Linotype
The type company behind the line-casting machine that set newspapers for a century — and the underdog that bet its Helvetica and Times fonts on Adobe's unproven PostScript, winning the digital-type business from the dominant phototypesetting incumbent.
Organizations · Germany - Lionsgate
Film and TV studio founded in 1997 by Frank Giustra; released the $1B biopic Michael, its highest-grossing film ever; split from Starz in 2025.
Organizations · United States - Lisa Su
Chair and CEO of AMD since 2014, who turned a near-bankrupt chipmaker valued under $2 billion into a trillion-dollar AI semiconductor company. A MIT-trained electrical engineer, she was TIME's CEO of the Year for 2024 and shared the 2025 Person of the Year "Architects of AI" cover.
People · United States - Literature Wales
The Welsh national literature development charity (no. 1146560): writers' courses, bursaries and mentoring at Tŷ Newydd, the National Poet of Wales and children's laureate schemes, and administrator of Wales Book of the Year since 2004.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Lloyd Austin
The 28th U.S. secretary of defense (2021–2025) and the first African American to hold the office — a retired four-star general whose 41-year Army career ran through the Iraq invasion to CENTCOM, and whose tenure was shaped by the Afghanistan withdrawal, Ukraine aid and a health-secrecy crisis.
People · United States - Lloyd's of London
The 330-plus-year-old insurance market that is not an insurance company: a statutory marketplace where competing syndicates underwrite risk, backed by a three-link chain of security and dual-regulated by the PRA and FCA.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Lob
San Francisco direct-mail API company founded in 2013 by Harry Zhang and Leore Avidar that lets businesses send postcards, letters and checks programmatically, growing from a Y Combinator startup to an $80 million funded platform used by more than 8,500 companies.
Organizations · United States - Localazy
A Czech software-localization company founded in 2020 by Václav Hodek in Brno, which raised nearly €1 million across two funding rounds, expanded into Poland in 2024, and shipped an AI translation engine with style guides in 2025.
Organizations · Czech Republic - Lok Sabha
India's House of the People — 543 directly-elected members serving five-year terms, still apportioned on 1971 population because delimitation has been frozen since the Emergency.
Organizations · India - Lokalise
Riga-founded translation-management SaaS that bootstrapped to $4M in annual revenue before taking venture capital, raised $56M by 2021, and pivoted to AI-powered translation in 2023.
Organizations · Latvia - London
London, the UK capital on the Thames, is a 9.1-million-person global financial and cultural centre governed by a Mayor and Assembly, with roots in Roman Londinium.
Places · United Kingdom - Lorenzo Fertitta
Casino heir and former UFC co-owner. Lorenzo Fertitta sat on the Nevada athletic commission during the Tyson-Holyfield ear-bite, bought the UFC for $2 million in 2001, sold it for about $4 billion in 2016, and now chairs Fertitta Capital while serving as vice chairman of Red Rock Resorts.
People · United States - Lorenzo Nigro
Italian archaeologist and Full Professor at Sapienza University of Rome, whose 2022 reinterpretation of a Phoenician structure at Motya, Sicily, as a sacred pool rather than a harbor drew international coverage.
People · Italy - Los Angeles
Los Angeles is America's second-largest city and the permanent stage of the film industry — home of the Academy Awards, the union-drawn 30-mile studio zone, and the country's busiest container port.
Places · United States - Louisiana Christian University
Private Baptist university in Pineville, Louisiana, founded in 1906 as Louisiana College. Its never-opened Judge Paul Pressler School of Law once had House Speaker Mike Johnson as dean; it renamed in 2021 and went to federal court in 2023 over the "LCU" acronym.
Organizations · United States - Louisiana House of Representatives
The lower chamber of the Louisiana State Legislature: 105 representatives elected to four-year terms from single-member districts, presided over by Phillip DeVillier, the 70th Speaker, with a 73–32 Republican supermajority as of July 2026.
Organizations · United States - Louisiana State University
Louisiana's flagship public research university in Baton Rouge: a land-, sea-, and space-grant institution that opened in 1860 as a military seminary under first superintendent William Tecumseh Sherman, enrolling about 40,000 students on an Italian Renaissance campus dedicated in 1926.
Organizations · United States - Lovable
Stockholm AI app-builder founded by Anton Osika and Fabian Hedin, converted from Osika's viral open-source GPT Engineer project into Europe's fastest- growing software company — $13.3B valuation by 2026, alongside security and sustainability scrutiny.
Organizations · Sweden - Loyal
Clinical-stage veterinary biotech founded by Celine Halioua in 2019 to develop the first FDA-approved lifespan-extension drugs for dogs; earned the FDA's first-ever effectiveness acceptance for lifespan extension (LOY-001, 2023) and raised a $100M Series C in February 2026.
Organizations · United States - Lynn Devin
American adoption agency operator who ran Seattle International Adoptions with her sister Lauryn Galindo and pleaded guilty in 2003 to conspiracy to commit visa fraud and money laundering over Cambodian adoptions.
People · United States - M. Venkaiah Naidu: India's 13th Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman (2017–2022)
M. Venkaiah Naidu served as India's 13th Vice President and ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha from August 2017 to August 2022, after ministerial stints under Vajpayee and Modi and a term as BJP president.
People · India - MacArthur Justice Center
A Chicago-based nonprofit civil-rights law firm founded in 1985, known for Supreme Court wins — and whose leader left to join the federal bench in 2024.
Organizations · United States - Macromedia
Macromedia (1992–2005) built Director, FreeHand and Dreamweaver, bought the animation tool that became Flash, then was bought by Adobe for $3.4 billion — a deal Adobe justified with one word: Flash.
Organizations · United States - Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh is India's second-largest state by area, formed on 1 November 1956 with Bhopal as its capital. In 2026 it became a semiconductor investment destination: Spain's Submer pledged ₹19,000 crore and Paras Semiconductors signed a ₹6,200 crore OSAT chip-packaging deal in the state.
Places · India - MAGA Inc.
The pro-Trump super PAC that spent $377 million in 2024 and stockpiled over $400 million for the 2026 midterms — where Karoline Leavitt returned after the White House.
Organizations · United States - Mahmood Mamdani
Ugandan anthropologist and Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University, known for Citizen and Subject, the Makerere Institute of Social Research, and as the father of New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani.
People · Uganda - Maj. Gen. William Green Jr.
26th Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Army and a major general, removed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on April 2, 2026, without a publicly stated reason — the first Army chief of chaplains ever fired.
People · United States - Mambu
Amsterdam/London-based SaaS banking platform whose APIs power lending and deposit products for 260+ customers; raised €235M at a €4.9B valuation in 2021 with a stated vision of becoming "the Salesforce of banking."
Organizations · Netherlands - Mann Ki Baat
The Prime Minister of India's monthly radio address since 3 October 2014, on All India Radio and Doordarshan. Its reach is both celebrated (23 crore regular listeners per IIM-Rohtak) and disputed (CSDS found very low regular listenership); its 117th episode named "Krish, Trish and Baltiboy."
Creative Works · India - Manoj Jha: Delhi University professor turned RJD voice in the Rajya Sabha
Manoj Kumar Jha, a Delhi University social-work professor and Rashtriya Janata Dal national spokesperson, has been a Rajya Sabha MP from Bihar since 2018, was the joint opposition's candidate for Deputy Chairman in 2020, and began a second term in 2024.
People · India - Marc Fogel
Pennsylvania history teacher whose August 2021 arrest in Russia for 17 grams of prescribed marijuana, 14-year sentence, and February 2025 release on Steve Witkoff's private plane made him the most visible of the Americans left out of the August 2024 prisoner swap.
People · United States - Marco Rubio
72nd U.S. Secretary of State since January 2025 and, since September 2026, the first person in half a century to hold that office together with the permanent national security adviser role — the only second dual-holder after Henry Kissinger.
People · United States - Mariah Carey
Pop singer-songwriter whose December 2025 record of 20 weeks at No. 1 for "All I Want for Christmas Is You," MusiCares Person of the Year honor, and Milano Cortina Olympics opening-ceremony slot cap a resurgence built on her first studio album in seven years.
People · United States - Maritime Safety Committee
The International Maritime Organization's senior technical committee, open to all Member States, which writes the SOLAS amendments, security rules and autonomous-ship code governing safety at sea.
Organizations · International - Marjorie Taylor Greene
Republican former U.S. Representative for Georgia's 14th district, 2021–2026: a Trump ally who served as impeachment manager in the Mayorkas case, failed to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, and resigned after Trump withdrew his endorsement.
People · United States - Mark Sandell: Trinity Films co-director and the BBFC Bunny Game standoff
Co-director of London-based indie distributor Trinity Films, whose Trinity X genre label acquired Adam Rehmeier's The Bunny Game — then publicly contested the BBFC's 2011 refusal to classify it.
People · United Kingdom - Mark Thompson
Chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide since October 2023: the former BBC Director-General and New York Times CEO who merged CNN's three newsrooms, cut around 100 roles, launched its first subscription product, and knighted in 2023 for services to media.
People · United States - Mark Zuckerberg
Co-founder of Facebook in 2004 and chief executive of Meta Platforms. His record spans the record $5 billion FTC privacy order, the 2021 Meta rebrand, 2025 content-moderation shifts, and a rebuilt relationship with Donald Trump.
People · United States - Markwayne Mullin
The ninth U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (confirmed March 2026) and former Oklahoma senator, whose move from border enforcer to elections campaigner ended in a September 2026 federal ruling that struck down his conditions on counterterrorism grants.
People · United States - Marland, Oklahoma: the railroad town that moved twice and took an oilman’s name
A town of 183 people in Noble County, Oklahoma, founded as Bliss around 1898 as a Santa Fe shipping point for the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch, moved twice by its founders, and renamed Marland in 1922 for oilman Ernest W. Marland — eight miles east of where the 1955 Blackwell F5 tornado touched down.
Places · United States - Marlon Humphrey
Baltimore Ravens cornerback drafted 16th overall in 2017, a four-time Pro Bowler and two-time first-team All-Pro, and a backer of trading-card platform Alt's $75 million Series B round.
People · United States - Marqeta
The card-issuing platform built on Block's Cash App — Square was 70% of its 2020 revenue — now unwinding that dependence with its first sustained GAAP profitability, a reverse split, and stablecoin-backed cards inside Mastercard rails.
Organizations · United States - Marsha Miro
Detroit art critic for the Free Press (1974–1995), Cranbrook architectural historian and filmmaker, founding director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), and noted collector of French Art Deco furniture.
People · United States - Marshall Rothstein
The former Supreme Court of Canada justice (2006–2015) who made Canadian legal history as the first nominee ever publicly grilled by a parliamentary committee — and the mentor who hosted future U.S. federal judge Amir Ali as a law clerk.
People · Canada - Martha Raddatz
ABC News chief global affairs correspondent and co-anchor of "This Week": war reporter embedded on dozens of missions, debate moderator in 2012 and 2016, 2026 Fourth Estate Award recipient — and the anchor of a bruising Sept 27, 2026 interview with AG Todd Blanche.
People · United States - Massachusetts Constitution
The 1780 Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, drafted principally by John Adams: the oldest still-functioning written constitution, whose equality clause ended slavery in the state.
Events & Documents · United States - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1861. Known for the OpenCourseWare publishing model and for federally funded research anchored by MIT Lincoln Laboratory; in 2026 its president warned of sharp declines in federal research funding.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Massachusetts: the Bay State, its 1780 constitution, and the freedom suit it enabled
The Bay State: a New England commonwealth admitted in 1788, home of the 1780 constitution — the oldest still in use — and of the Sheffield-to-Freeman liberty thread.
Places · United States - Mastercard
Mastercard's biggest acquisition was not a payments company — it was $2.65B for threat-intelligence firm Recorded Future, capping a cybersecurity buying spree that turned the card network into a security-services business.
Organizations · United States - Matiur Rahman Mallik
Bangladeshi student activist (1953–1969) shot dead by police during the January 1969 mass-upsurge movement in Dhaka; the anniversary of his death is observed nationally as Mass Uprising Day, and he received Bangladesh's posthumous Independence Award in 2018.
People · Bangladesh - Matt Mowers
New Jersey Republican operative turned Trump State Department official: a Chris Christie protégé who ran his 2016 New Hampshire campaign, twice ran for Congress in NH's 1st district, and lost the 2022 GOP primary to Karoline Leavitt.
People · United States - Maurizio Cattelan
Italian conceptual artist (b. 1960) whose satirical installations — the duct-taped banana Comedian ($6.2M at Sotheby's in 2024) and the solid-gold toilet America ($12.1M in 2025) — made him contemporary art's most famous provocateur.
People · Italy - Maxwell Hutchinson
English architect, broadcaster and former RIBA president (1989–1991) who founded the humanitarian architecture charity Article 25 after surviving the 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami, and who later became an Anglican deacon.
People · United Kingdom - Mayo Clinic
Nonprofit integrated health system founded in 1889 in Rochester, Minnesota; ~83,000 employees and $19.8B revenue in 2024; ranked the No. 1 U.S. hospital by U.S. News for 36 straight years and No. 1 in the world by Newsweek; built on salaried-physician team-based care since a 1919 Deed of Gift.
Organizations · United States - McAfee
The antivirus pioneer founded in 1987 that ping-ponged between owners for a decade — Intel bought it for $7.7B, renamed it Intel Security, sold control to TPG, took it public, then sold it private again for $14B — while its founder lost the right to use his own name in cybersecurity.
Organizations · United States - McNeese State University
Public university in Lake Charles, Louisiana, founded in 1939 and part of the University of Louisiana System. It rebuilt after Hurricanes Laura and Delta (2020) and was chosen in 2025 as the site of the federal National Center of Excellence for LNG Safety.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Meet the Press
NBC's Sunday public-affairs interview program, on television since November 6, 1947 — described as TV's longest-running program. It began as a 1945 radio show built to promote a magazine, pioneered the journalist-panel format, and is now moderated by Kristen Welker.
Creative Works · United States - Mehmet Oz
Cardiothoracic surgeon and TV host who became administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in April 2025 after a 53-45 Senate vote; before 13 years of The Dr. Oz Show and a 2022 Senate run, he was a Harvard and UPenn-trained vice-chair of surgery at Columbia.
People · United States - Melania Trump
First Lady of the United States for the second time since January 2025. A former model who keeps a selective public schedule while building a dense policy portfolio around children's welfare, foster care, and combating non-consensual intimate imagery.
People · United States - Melanie Stansbury
Democratic congresswoman from New Mexico's 1st district since 2021. A Cornell-trained scientist turned oversight leader who vowed on MSNBC to pursue cabinet-secretary impeachments if Democrats win the 2026 midterms.
People · United States - Meta
Meta Platforms, Inc. is the Menlo Park company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads. It earns nearly all its revenue from advertising while funding AI infrastructure and loss-making Reality Labs hardware.
Organizations · United States - MetaMask
MetaMask is the world's most widely used self-custodial crypto wallet, developed by ConsenSys since 2016. The browser-extension wallet became the default gateway to Ethereum apps and has grown into a multichain platform with swaps, Snaps plugins, and its own stablecoin.
Organizations · United States - Michael
Antoine Fuqua's 2026 Michael Jackson biopic starring Jaafar Jackson: a $155M estate-backed production whose third act was scrapped and reshot after lawyers found a settlement clause barring depiction of accuser Jordan Chandler — then became the first biopic to cross $1B at the box office.
Creative Works · United States - Michael Cohen
Trump's former fixer and personal attorney who became the prosecution's star witness in the 2024 New York hush-money trial, then reconciled with Trump in 2026 and was floated for a presidential pardon.
People · United States - Michael F. Barry
A longtime Quaker Chemical Corporation executive who served as CEO from 2008 and chairman from 2009, led the 2019 merger that created Quaker Houghton, retired as chairman in 2026, and later joined FMC Corporation's board of directors.
People · United States - Michael J. Berry II
Princeton neuroscientist who heads the Berry Lab, studying how retinal neurons carry out computations; the ex-physicist whose lab trained Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, whom Berry called his most talented graduate student.
People · United States - Michael Jackson
American singer, dancer and songwriter known as the "King of Pop"; Thriller (1982) remains the best-selling album in history. Since his 2009 death his estate has earned an estimated $3.5 billion, topping Forbes' dead-celebrity list 13 of 16 years, and bankrolled the 2026 biopic about him.
People · United States - Michael Truell
Co-founder and chief executive of Anysphere, the company behind the AI code editor Cursor, who built the Halite programming competition as a Bronx schoolboy before leaving MIT in 2022 to found one of the fastest-growing software companies on record.
People · United States - Michael Whatley
Former Republican National Committee chairman (2024-2025) and Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in North Carolina in 2026.
People · US - Michigan
Michigan, the Great Lakes State, is the 26th US state: two peninsulas joined by the Mackinac Bridge, home to about 10.1 million people, the historic center of the American auto industry, and the country's top tart-cherry producer.
Places · United States - Microsoft Corporation
American technology company founded in 1975, whose 2019–2025 investment and cloud partnership with OpenAI made it a central actor in that company's 2023 board crisis and 2024–2026 Musk litigation.
Organizations · United States - Midland Main Line
The Midland Main Line is the railway from London St Pancras to Sheffield via Leicester, Derby and Nottingham, completed in 1870, now electrified to Wigston with the rest paused — and the line blocked by the 2008 Barrow derailment.
Places · United Kingdom - Midland Quarry Products
Midland Quarry Products (MQP) is a Leicestershire-based quarrying and asphalt business owned by Heidelberg Materials UK, running three quarries and ten asphalt plants across the Midlands and supplying rail ballast to Network Rail.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Migos
Atlanta rap trio behind "Versace," "Bad and Boujee," and "MotorSport"; the surviving members reunited in 2026 after Takeoff's 2022 killing.
People · US - Mike Allen
The journalist who turned Politico's Playbook into Washington's most lucrative morning email — roughly $3 million a year — then rebuilt the same franchise at Axios with Axios AM, PM and Finish Line.
People · United States - Mike Johnson
Louisiana constitutional lawyer elected Speaker of the U.S. House in October 2023 and reelected in January 2025. A key Trump ally central to 2020-election challenges, he pivoted to pass Ukraine aid in 2024 and joined Trump's September 2026 AI meeting.
People · United States - Mike Waltz
32nd U.S. Ambassador to the UN since 2025; former national security advisor removed after the Signal chat scandal; retired Green Beret colonel and former Florida congressman.
People · United States - Milan
Milan (Milano), capital of Lombardy in northern Italy and the country's second-largest city, is Italy's leading financial centre and a world capital of fashion, design and opera — and, in 2026, co-host of the Winter Olympics.
Places · Italy - Miles Teller
American actor known for Whiplash and Top Gun: Maverick; cast as attorney John Branca in Antoine Fuqua's 2026 biopic Michael.
People · United States - Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Türkiye
Türkiye's culture-and-tourism ministry: runs museums, heritage sites and film funding from Ankara, and backed the Oscar campaigns of Ayla and Hayat. Established 2003; minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy.
Organizations · Turkey - Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
Government of India ministry for broadcasting, press, films and digital media — running the Press Information Bureau, the Central Bureau of Communication, Prasar Bharati (All India Radio, Doordarshan) and the NFDC, which organises IFFI. Its CBC co-produced Krish, Trish and Baltiboy: Bharat Hain Hum.
Organizations · India - Minnie F. Abrams
An American Methodist missionary, evangelist and revivalist in India whose 1906 book on baptism in the Holy Spirit is credited with helping spark the Pentecostal movement in Chile.
People · United States - Mira Nair
Indian-American filmmaker behind Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay! and The Namesake — a Golden Lion winner who moved from documentaries to features for creative control, founded the Salaam Baalak Trust and Uganda's Maisha Film Lab, and is the mother of New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani.
People · India - Miriam Levine
The mother of television writer and producer Chuck Lorre (born Charles Michael Levine) — a private person whose public record comes entirely through her son's childhood biography: a homemaker who later worked in retail, in a family whose finances strained when the luncheonette failed.
People · United States - Miro
The online-whiteboard company founded in 2011 as RealtimeBoard, valued at $17.5 billion in 2022, then sold to Bending Spoons in 2026 for $1.36 billion in cash — profitable, with $600 million in recurring revenue, but priced at barely 2.3 times that revenue.
Organizations · United States - Mithril Capital
Peter Thiel and Ajay Royan's growth-stage investment firm, founded in 2012 — and the venture shop where future Vice President J.D. Vance worked as a principal in 2016.
Organizations · United States - Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, Limited
The Japanese non-life insurer born from a 2001 merger, absorbed into the MS&AD group in 2010, buyer of Lloyd's insurer Amlin in 2015 — and now scheduled to merge again in 2027 amid an industry trust crisis.
Organizations · Japan - Modern Maturity
AARP's flagship magazine (1958–2003): the largest-circulation magazine in America, reaching some 23 million households without ever being sold on newsstands — later merged into AARP The Magazine.
Creative Works · United States - Moderna, Inc.
Moderna is an American mRNA-platform biotechnology company founded in 2010 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for the Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine co-developed with the NIH, the mRESVIA RSV vaccine, and an investigational personalized cancer vaccine developed with Merck.
Organizations · United States - Mohit Aron
Indian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur who worked on Google's file system, co-founded Nutanix, and founded the data management company Cohesity, where he served as chief executive until 2022.
People · United States - MoneyLion
The neobank founded by ex-Wall Street banker Dee Choubey that went public via SPAC in 2021 and was bought by Gen Digital for about $1 billion in April 2025 — then settled CFPB servicemember charges for $1.75 million while facing a New York AG suit over its Instacash advances.
Organizations · United States - MoonPay
The Miami crypto payments firm that rode the 2021 NFT boom to a $3.4B valuation — with $150M quietly cashed out by insiders — then spent 2025–2026 rebuilding itself as a regulated institutional stablecoin-payments network.
Organizations · United States - Morgan Joseph & Co.
The defunct mid-market investment bank built by Drexel Burnham Lambert alumni — founded as Morgan Joseph & Co. in 2002, merged with Tri-Artisan in 2010, and wound down by the 2020s.
Organizations · United States - Morocco
Morocco is a constitutional monarchy in western North Africa, with Rabat as capital, Casablanca as largest city, and 36.8 million people at the 2024 census.
Places · Morocco - MovieWeb
Entertainment news site online since 1995; acquired by Valnet Inc. from WatchR Media in 2021; publishes film/TV news, trailers and interviews.
Organizations · United States - MS NOW
Cable news network formerly known as MSNBC, rebranded in November 2025 under Comcast spin-off Versant; ratings rose double-digits after the rename while the owner's revenue declined.
Organizations · United States - MSC Software
Engineering simulation software company founded in 1963 as MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation, creator of the MSC Nastran solver, bought by Hexagon in 2017 and sold on to Cadence in 2026.
Organizations · United States - MSNBC
The cable news channel born of a 1996 Microsoft–NBC partnership — the one that hosted Tucker Carlson's nightly show from 2005 to 2008, and that Comcast renamed MS NOW in 2025.
Organizations · United States - MTV
MTV launched in 1981 as a 24-hour music-video channel, was bought by Viacom in 1985, pivoted to reality TV, and by December 2025 was winding down its remaining international music channels in the UK, France, Germany, Poland, Australia, and Brazil.
Organizations · United States - Mumbai
Mumbai, India's financial capital and the capital of Maharashtra, is governed by the country's richest municipal body, hosts Asia's oldest stock exchange, and is home to Graphiti Multimedia, the studio behind "Krish, Trish and Baltiboy."
Places · India - Munich Security Conference
The Munich Security Conference began in 1963 as a small defense forum founded by July 20 plot resistance fighter Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist. It became the world's leading security-policy gathering — and the stage for JD Vance's explosive 2025 address and Christoph Heusgen's emotional farewell.
Organizations · Germany - Municipal Corporation of Delhi
Delhi's civic body, born in 1958 with 80 councillors at a 19th-century Town Hall — once so prestigious its mayor received foreign dignitaries at the airport — split into three in 2012 and reunified in 2022.
Organizations · India - Munjal Shroff
Co-founder, director and COO of Mumbai animation studio Graphiti Multimedia; co-creator of "Krish, Trish and Baltiboy" and creator of Netflix's "Deepa & Anoop", which won four Kidscreen Awards in 2023; chairman of FICCI's AVGC-XR Forum in 2025.
People · India - NAACP
The 116-year-old civil-rights organization founded in 1909 that dismantled legal segregation case by case — and still hands out awards branch by branch.
Organizations · United States - Nabakumar Institution
A school and college in Bakshi Bazar, Old Dhaka, founded in 1916 and named for a zamindar, Nabakumar; its college branch was later named for educator Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah, and the campus commemorates Standard IX student Matiur Rahman Mallik, killed by police in the 1969 mass upsurge.
Schools · Bangladesh - Nagarjuna Akkineni
Telugu-cinema actor who launched the Season 2 of the animated series Krish, Trish and Baltiboy: Bharat Hain Hum at IFFI Goa in 2024; a career of over four decades runs from Vikram (1986) to Kuberaa (2025), alongside co-ownership of Hyderabad's Annapurna Studios.
People · India - Nandita Bakhshi
An American banking executive who served as CEO of Bank of the West from 2016 to 2023, known for restricting the bank's financing of activities deemed harmful to the environment, and later a board member at BMO, Grameen America, Beyond Meat and Quaker Houghton.
People · United States - Narendra Modi
Prime Minister of India since 2014, sworn in for a third consecutive term in June 2024. In the 117th episode of his radio address Mann Ki Baat (December 2024) he named the animated series "Krish, Trish and Baltiboy" as a favourite among children.
People · India - Narya Capital
The Ohio venture firm J.D. Vance co-founded in 2019 — whose portfolio company won a Pentagon contract while the vice president kept his stake.
Organizations · United States - NASA
The United States' civilian space agency, founded in 1958. In April 2026 its Artemis II mission flew the first crewed Orion flight around the Moon, the same year Congress rejected a proposed 24% budget cut and the agency grew dependent on Axiom Space for next-generation spacesuits.
Organizations · United States - Nasdaq, Inc.
The exchange operator behind the world's first electronic stock market — founded by dealers in 1971, spun out as a for-profit company in 2000, merged with Sweden's OMX in 2008, and now selling its trading technology to 135+ marketplaces in 50 countries.
Organizations · United States - Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee
The consolidated city-county government of Nashville, Tennessee — organized in 1963 as the first of its kind in the U.S. — that sued DHS in 2026 and won a federal ruling barring election conditions on counterterrorism grants.
Organizations · United States - National Association of Broadcasters
The Washington trade association for America's radio and TV broadcasters — keeper of the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame, which inducted Chuck Lorre and 'Mike & Mike' in 2016 and un-invited Robert De Niro from its top award in 2024.
Organizations · United States - National Australia Bank
One of Australia's Big Four banks, formed from the merger of the National Bank of Australasia and the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, now Australia's largest business lender, with a New Zealand subsidiary and a digital bank built from the 86 400 acquisition.
Organizations · Australia - National Commission of the Republic of Azerbaijan for UNESCO
Azerbaijan's national cooperating body for UNESCO, established in 1994 and based in Baku, linking the country's education, science and culture institutions with UNESCO.
Organizations · Azerbaijan - National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying
The body behind the FE and PE exams — founded 1920 to make an engineering license portable across states, and a founder of ABET.
Organizations · United States - National Democratic Alliance (NDA): the BJP-led coalition that has governed India since 2014
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is the Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition formed in 1998 that has governed India under Narendra Modi since 2014. In 2019 its parties won about 353 Lok Sabha seats, but the BJP's 303 dwarfed its allies — and by 2020 the Sena and the Akali Dal had walked out.
Organizations · India - National Games on Chovgan for the President's Cup
Azerbaijan's annual national chovgan tournament for the President's Cup, held since 2006 — first in Sheki, later at Baku's Bina Equestrian Center — to preserve the national horse-riding game and promote equestrian sport.
Events & Documents · Azerbaijan - National Park Service
The federal bureau behind America's 433 national park units has lost roughly a quarter of its permanent workforce since January 2025 — about 4,000 positions — while facing the largest proposed budget cut in its 110-year history and a fight over what its own signs may say.
Organizations · United States - National Pro Bono Centre
A UK charity founded in 2010 by three national pro bono bodies to coordinate free legal-help charities from a shared London workspace, and publisher of a case study documenting a Free Representation Unit tribunal case.
Organizations · United Kingdom - National Security Agency
America's signals-intelligence agency, founded in secret in 1952. Its director was fired without explanation in April 2025; after nearly a year of acting leadership, the Senate confirmed Joshua Rudd to lead it in March 2026.
Organizations · United States - National Weather Service
The U.S. federal agency that issues the nation's official weather warnings, part of NOAA with 122 local forecast offices. Founded in 1870, it is rebuilding after losing about 600 staff in 2025.
Organizations · United States - Native News Online
Independent daily news outlet covering Native American affairs since February 2011, founded in Grand Rapids, Michigan, by Levi Rickert, a citizen of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, and read as a Native-led source of record across Indian Country.
Organizations · United States - NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the 32-member military alliance founded in 1949, entered 2025 with its U.S. representative fired and exits 2026 with a 5%-of-GDP spending target, an Arctic security pact, and praise from the president who once called it "obsolete."
Organizations · Belgium - Neil Patel
The Daily Caller co-founder and CEO, best known as Tucker Carlson's Trinity College roommate, is first of all a Bush White House man — a longtime aide to Vice President Dick Cheney who ran his policy operation and was nominated to lead the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
People · United States - Nepal Premier League
The Cricket Association of Nepal's eight-team Twenty20 franchise league, launched in 2024 as a clean break from the spot-fixing-tainted Nepal T20 League; Janakpur Bolts won the inaugural title and Lumbini Lions the 2025 crown — while Sudurpaschim Royals lost both finals.
Events & Documents · Nepal - Netezza
A Massachusetts-based data warehouse appliance maker, founded in 2000, that helped pioneer the appliance category, competed directly with DATAllegro, and was acquired by IBM in 2010 for $1.7 billion.
Organizations · United States - Netflix
The streaming giant co-founder Reed Hastings left in 2026 — he stepped down from the board in June, four months after the company walked away from an $82.7 billion Warner Bros. Discovery bid. The 1997 DVD-by-mail pioneer is now run by co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters.
Organizations · United States - Netlify
The web-development platform whose co-founder coined "Jamstack," rode it to a $2 billion valuation, then acquired rival Gatsby and retired the term in favor of "composable architecture" — a category-naming-to-consolidation arc.
Organizations · United States - Netskope, Inc.
The cloud-security company founded in 2012 by four enterprise-security veterans — "SASE before the term SASE existed" — whose 13-year private run ended with a September 2025 Nasdaq debut at an $8.79 billion valuation.
Organizations · United States - NetSuite
The cloud ERP pioneer Oracle bought for $9.3 billion in 2016 — a related-party deal in which Oracle's own founder already owned ~40% of the target, sparking a shareholder revolt, an extended tender, and a 56% squeak across the finish line.
Organizations · United States - Network Rail
The infrastructure owner born from the Hatfield rail disaster — created in 2002 after privatised Railtrack collapsed — whose £30bn of debt quietly joined the national balance sheet in 2014, and which the Railways Bill now plans to dissolve into Great British Railways by 2027.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Neverland Ranch
Michael Jackson's 2,700-acre Santa Barbara County estate — private zoo, amusement park, site of two police raids — sold to Ron Burkle for $22M in 2020.
Places · United States - New Civil Engineer
New Civil Engineer (NCE) is the monthly magazine and news website of the Institution of Civil Engineers, founded in 1972, sold to Emap in 1995 and to Metropolis International in 2017, and still the ICE's official title.
Organizations · United Kingdom - New Delhi: India's planned capital, from Raisina Hill to Central Vista
New Delhi is the capital of India: the planned city built south of Old Delhi after the 1911 announcement moving the capital from Calcutta, inaugurated in 1931. The name means three different things — a 42.7 sq km municipal area, a revenue district, and shorthand for the seat of government.
Places · India - New Mexico
New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment, is the fifth-largest US state, admitted 47th in 1912, with Santa Fe as capital and Chaco Canyon's ancient Pueblo great houses as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Places · United States - New Tang Dynasty
New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD) is a New York-based, multilingual broadcaster founded by Falun Gong practitioners. NPR calls it The Epoch Times' sister organization; it is operated by the nonprofit Universal Communications Network.
Organizations · United States - New York Attorney General's Office
New York's chief legal office, heading the Department of Law. The state constitution says almost nothing about it — real power comes from statutes like the 1921 Martin Act. Under Letitia James it pursued the Trump civil fraud case and, in September 2026, prediction markets.
Organizations · United States - New York City
The most populous U.S. city — 8.8 million people across five boroughs consolidated in 1898 — and the founding ground of America's engineering accreditation system.
Places · United States - New York Observer
The pink-newsprint Manhattan weekly founded in 1987 by Arthur Carter, bought for $10 million in 2006 by 25-year-old Jared Kushner and remade under his decade as publisher — ending with a 2016 Trump primary endorsement, the death of the print edition, and a 2017 sale to a family trust.
Organizations · United States - New York Post
New York City's oldest newspaper in continuous publication: the tabloid founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801, run by the Murdoch family since the early 1990s — and still breaking news, including its August 2026 reporting on Hunter Biden's podcast admission.
Organizations · United States - New York State Assembly
New York State's 150-member lower house, created in 1777 and known as the People's House: two-year terms, 38 standing committees, and Speaker Carl Heastie's majority since 2015 — the chamber where Zohran Mamdani rose to prominence.
Organizations · United States - New York Stock Exchange
The world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization — founded 1792 under the Buttonwood Agreement, owned by Intercontinental Exchange since 2013, and the last major exchange still pairing electronic trading with human market makers on a physical floor.
Organizations · United States - NewsNation
American cable news network owned by Nexstar Media Group, launched in 2020 on WGN America and rebranded in 2021. It markets itself as "News for All Americans" while expanding to 24/7 coverage and hiring marquee talent.
Organizations · United States - Nia Long
Actress of 1990s Black cinema — Boyz n the Hood, Love Jones, The Best Man — and Katherine Jackson in Fuqua's 2026 biopic Michael; Walk of Fame star 2026.
People · United States - Niamey
The capital and largest city of Niger, on the Niger River in the country's southwest, founded as a colonial capital in 1926 and grown rapidly since World War II into a fast-growing Sahelian metropolis.
Places · Niger - Nicholas Riccio
New Hampshire real-estate developer who owns Riccio Enterprises LLC and more than 15 buildings at Hampton Beach. The husband of former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, he has described a path from homelessness at 18 to owning a multimillion-dollar business.
People · United States - Nick Bax
Blockchain researcher who helped trace a wave of crypto heists to cracked LastPass vaults and debunked a watchdog claim linking North Korea's Lazarus Group to World Liberty Financial token sales as a memecoin-contract false positive.
People · Unknown - Nick Molnar
Australian fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Afterpay in 2014 and led it to a $29 billion Block acquisition in 2022; now heads sales across Block's Square, Cash App and Afterpay businesses.
People · Australia - Nicki Minaj
Trinidadian-born rapper behind three Billboard 200 No. 1 albums. A late-2025 Donald Trump backer turned MAGA surrogate, she spoke at the UN on Nigeria, joined the SBA's Million Dollar Pitch Competition, and told young voters to "vote red" in the 2026 midterms.
People · United States - Nicole Colombo
Former eBay general manager for collectibles and trading cards who led the marketplace's trading-card business through the 2020 boom, then left in November 2021 to become the first president of alternative-asset platform Alt.
People · United States - Nidec
Kyoto-based electric-motor manufacturer founded in 1973 by Shigenobu Nagamori, once the world's largest precision-motor maker, now engulfed in a 2025–26 accounting and quality scandal: PwC Japan twice withheld its audit opinion and the Tokyo Stock Exchange put its stock on special alert.
Organizations · Japan - Niger
A landlocked West African country of about 29.3 million people, named for the Niger River, independent from France since 1960 and governed by a transitional military government since the July 2023 coup.
Places · Niger - Nigeria
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country, a West African federal republic of 36 states known for oil, Nollywood, Afrobeats and hundreds of languages.
Places · Nigeria - Nikolay Mladenov
Bulgarian diplomat who rose from defence and foreign minister to the UN's top Middle East envoy (2015–2020), then became the Board of Peace's Gaza chief in 2026 — warning that without disarmament progress, the two-state solution would become "practically impossible."
People · Bulgaria - Nippon Life Insurance Company
Japan's largest life insurer — founded in Osaka in 1889 by banker Sukesaburo Hirose, reorganized as a mutual in 1947, now deploying a $12.7 billion war chest abroad, crowned by the $10.6 billion takeover of Resolution Life.
Organizations · Japan - Nizami Ganjavi
Nizami Ganjavi (c. 1141–1209) was a Persian poet of Ganja whose five-poem Khamsa reshaped romantic epic poetry in Persian literature.
People · Azerbaijan - NLS Legal
A regulated teaching law firm run by Nottingham Law School at Nottingham Trent University, operating since 2006 and now the partner clinic through which the Free Representation Unit extends casework into the English Midlands.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Nobel Prize
The world's most prestigious award almost never existed: Nobel's family sued the executors, the named institutions refused the task, and the 'Nobel' economics prize is technically not a Nobel at all.
Events & Documents · Sweden - Nobitex
Iran's largest crypto exchange (est. 2017): roughly 11 million customers, about USD 5 billion in observed 2025–2026 volume. A Reuters investigation tied its founders to the Kharrazi family; in June 2025 the pro-Israel group Predatory Sparrow burned roughly USD 90 million of Nobitex assets.
Organizations · Iran - Noel Murray: the Arkansas-based A.V. Club critic behind The Bunny Game review
American freelance film and TV critic — a key contributor to The A.V. Club and co-founder of The Dissolve — who reviewed Adam Rehmeier's The Bunny Game as "brutal" and "repellent" but "far from artless, or pointless."
People · United States - Norman Foster
English architect and founder of Foster + Partners, 1999 Pritzker laureate and patron of Article 25, known for steel-and-glass landmarks including the Reichstag dome and the British Museum Great Court.
People · United Kingdom - Normandy Landings
The 6 June 1944 Allied amphibious invasion of Normandy, France — the largest in history — which opened the western front against Nazi Germany and began the liberation of Europe.
Events & Documents · France - North Korea
North Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) is an authoritarian single-party state occupying the northern Korean Peninsula, ruled by Kim Jong Un since 2011, with a centrally planned economy, a nuclear arsenal, and one of the world's strictest international sanctions regimes.
Places · North Korea - Norwich
Norwich is the county town of Norfolk, England, on the River Wensum — a medieval wool city, England's first UNESCO City of Literature, and the destination of the 06:13 Nottingham service derailed at Barrow upon Soar.
Places · United Kingdom - Nottingham
Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in Nottinghamshire, England, on the River Trent — Saxon Snotingaham, lace capital, home of the Robin Hood legend and a UNESCO City of Literature.
Places · United Kingdom - Nottingham Law School
A law school of Nottingham Trent University founded in 1964, which runs the on-campus teaching law firm NLS Legal and, since 2024, hosts the national helpline of the charity Support Through Court.
Universities & Colleges · United Kingdom - Nova Credit
Credit infrastructure company that turns foreign credit histories and bank cash-flow data into lender-ready risk insight — from a Stanford project for newcomers to a Series D in 2025 backed by Chase and PayPal adoption.
Organizations · United States - Novo
Miami fintech offering free business checking and money tools to small businesses through a partner bank — from its 2018 launch to more than $170 million raised and two Forbes Fintech 50 listings.
Organizations · United States - NPR
America's nonprofit public radio network, founded by about 90 stations in 1970 and carried by independent member stations. Its Sept 24, 2026 Newsmakers interview with Tucker Carlson — on removing Trump over nuclear-war threats — came months after federal defunding shook the system.
Organizations · United States - Nuno Santos
Founder of Imaginando, the Braga music-software studio he started in 2014, creator of the DRC virtual analog synthesizer, and co-builder of Harpa Laser — a two-metre playable laser harp that cannot hit a wrong note.
People · Portugal - Nurunnahar Nimni
Bangladeshi mountaineer and Pubali Bank officer who summited Himlung Himal (7,126m) in 2025 under a breast-cancer awareness banner, then became the third Bangladeshi woman to summit Mount Everest on 27 May 2026.
People · Bangladesh - NVIDIA Corporation
Chipmaker founded in April 1993 that survived a 1990s near-collapse on a $5 million Sega lifeline to become the AI era's dominant supplier — the first company to reach a $5 trillion market value, in October 2025.
Organizations · United States - Odesa International Film Festival: Ukraine's Grand Prix showcase
The Odesa International Film Festival (OIFF) is an annual film festival in Odesa, Ukraine, founded in 2010 — one of Eastern Europe's largest-audience festivals. Its top award, the audience-voted Grand Prix (Golden Duke), went to Adam Rehmeier's Dinner in America at the 11th edition in 2020.
Events & Documents · Ukraine - Office of American Innovation
The White House office Jared Kushner directed from March 2017 to January 2021 — launched with "SWAT team" fanfare, designed from the start as a temporary consultancy, and closed quietly during the 2021 transition with "few public results" to show for four years.
Organizations · United States - Office of Management and Budget
The White House budget office that has steered the executive branch since 1921 — and that opened 2025 with an unprecedented freeze of federal financial assistance, rescinded its own directive two days later, and still insisted the freeze stood.
Organizations · United States - Office of Rail Regulation
The name of Britain's rail regulator from 2004 to 2015, when it became the Office of Rail and Road; it investigated and prosecuted Network Rail after the Barrow upon Soar crash.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Ohio State University
Ohio's land-grant public research university in Columbus, founded in 1870 as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College. It is where J.D. Vance earned his 2009 bachelor's degree — and in autumn 2026 it enrolled a record 68,183 students across six campuses.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Oklahoma National Guard
Oklahoma's state military force — Army and Air components under the Oklahoma Military Department, commanded by the governor unless federalized — from the 1890 Territorial Militia to Blackwell, Tulsa, and modern disaster response.
Organizations · United States - Oklahoma: the Sooner State, from Indian Territory to the 46th state
Oklahoma — admitted November 16, 1907, as the 46th U.S. state — is a south-central state shaped by its origin as Indian Territory, home to 38 federally recognized tribal nations, an oil-and-agriculture economy, and violent tornadoes including the 1955 F5 at Blackwell.
Places · United States - Oliver Mulherin
Australian software engineer who has worked at the IOTA Foundation, Broadwing, SPARK Neuro, and Meta, and who married OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman in January 2024.
People · Australia - Omdena
Global collaborative platform founded in 2019 by Rudradeb Mitra that matches volunteer AI engineers with nonprofits and impact startups to build AI solutions for social problems — reported as 320+ projects across 105 countries.
Organizations · Global - Omeed Malik
Banker and investor who co-founded the anti-ESG venture firm 1789 Capital; Donald Trump Jr. joined as a partner in November 2024. In April 2025 he was appointed to Fannie Mae's board, and in August 2026 House Democrats demanded 1789 Capital's documents over alleged insider access.
People · United States - Ömer Özsoy
Turkish-born theologian who became the first Muslim theology professor at a German university in 2006, holding an endowed Koranic-exegesis chair at Goethe University Frankfurt and advocating historical-critical readings of the Koran.
People · Germany - OnDeck Capital
The online small-business lender that IPO'd at a $1.3B valuation in 2014 and was bought by Enova for ~$122M in 2020 — a pandemic-era fire sale at more than 90% below its public-market peak.
Organizations · United States - Onfido
London identity-verification company founded by three Oxford students in 2012, built on AI document and facial-biometric checks, and acquired by Entrust in April 2024 after raising $200 million.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Online Archive of California
Born in 1993 as a prototype for a new archival data standard, the Online Archive of California grew into the CDL-run union catalog of 78,000+ California finding aids — and was rebuilt from scratch in July 2025.
Organizations · United States - OPEC Fund for International Development
The Vienna-based development finance institution founded 1976 by OPEC member states, financing projects exclusively in non-member countries. Profile leads with its 50th-anniversary 47th Ministerial Council (June 2026), where Saudi Arabia proposed an independent governance review.
Organizations · Austria - OpenAI
American artificial intelligence research and product company behind ChatGPT and the GPT model family, founded in 2015 as a nonprofit and restructured twice, in 2019 and 2025, with Microsoft as its largest outside investor and Sam Altman as chief executive.
Organizations · United States - OpenAI's 2026 Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize claim
In September 2026, OpenAI said an AI system had proven that the forced Navier–Stokes equations can develop a singularity in finite time, addressing one branch of the Clay Mathematics Institute's Millennium Prize problem and touching off disputes over both credit and independent verification.
Events & Documents · United States - Operation Barbarossa
Nazi Germany's 22 June 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union — the largest military operation in history — which stalled at Moscow that December and became the turning point of World War II.
Events & Documents · International - Oppenheimer (2023 film)
Christopher Nolan's 2023 J. Robert Oppenheimer biopic: $975.8M worldwide, 7 Oscars, highest-grossing biopic ever — until Michael passed it in June 2026.
Creative Works · United States, United Kingdom - OppFi
The Chicago subprime lender founded in 2012 as OppLoans that went public via SPAC in 2021 — now bidding about $130 million for BNCCORP and BNC National Bank to gain a national bank charter, opposed by 20 state AGs and two U.S. senators over its up-to-195% APR loans.
Organizations · United States - Optimizely
The digital experience platform born twice: once as the 2010 San Francisco A/B testing startup, again in 2021 when acquirer Episerver — bought by Insight Partners for $1.16B in 2018 — took the name of the company it had just acquired.
Organizations · United States - OTCQX
The top tier of the OTC Markets — the "Best Market" for established companies, operated by OTC Markets Group, with PCAOB-audited financials, governance floors, and penny-stock exclusion. Not an exchange.
Organizations · United States - Our Ohio Renewal
J.D. Vance's Ohio nonprofit — actually two entities, a 501(c)(4) and a 501(c)(3) foundation — launched in 2016 to fight the opioid crisis and shuttered by 2021 after raising about $221,000, its main legacy a yearlong addiction-specialist residency in Ironton.
Organizations · United States - Oval Office
The U.S. president's formal office in the White House's West Wing — a room that has existed for only about half the building's history, and whose iconic status was built by FDR-era press conferences rather than by architects alone.
Places · United States - Pakistan
Pakistan, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is South Asia's fifth-most-populous country, born at the 1947 partition of British India, home to the Indus Valley's Mohenjo-daro, and now the venue of a live court fight over child marriage.
Places · Pakistan - Pakistan Army
Pakistan's land-warfare service branch, politically dominant since 1947 with four coups behind it and a sprawling business empire. In September 2026 it signed a drone deal with Powerus, a US firm backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, amid the biggest command overhaul in five decades.
Organizations · Pakistan - Pakistan Ministry of Defence
Pakistan's federal defence ministry, thrust into the spotlight in September 2026 when it placed a limited drone procurement order with Powerus, a Florida firm backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump — a deal tangled in the firm's parallel sale of the same technology to India.
Organizations · Pakistan - Palantir Technologies
U.S. data-analytics company co-founded by Peter Thiel that was rejected by Silicon Valley venture firms, funded instead by the CIA's venture arm In-Q-Tel, and grew into a major government contractor before posting its first GAAP profit in Q4 2022.
Organizations · United States - Palasa-Kasibugga
Palasa-Kasibugga is a twin-town municipality in Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh — the centre of the state's cashew-processing industry and, since a November 2025 temple stampede that killed nine devotees, the focus of a national temple-safety reckoning.
Places · India - Palm Beach, Florida
The barrier-island town that got its name from a wrecked Spanish brig's 20,000 coconuts — a failed commercial coconut scheme that became Henry Flagler's Gilded Age resort, a defensively incorporated town, and the residential anchor of 'Wall Street South.'
Places · USA - Pam Bondi
Florida's first female attorney general (2011–2019) and the 87th U.S. attorney general, fired by Donald Trump on April 2, 2026 over the Epstein files. Weeks later she disclosed thyroid cancer and returned to the White House orbit on an AI advisory panel.
People · United States - PandaDoc
A document-automation company that reached a $1 billion valuation in 2021, founded by Belarusian entrepreneurs whose Minsk employees were detained after the founders spoke out during the Belarus political crackdown.
Organizations · United States - Parag Mallick
Stanford proteomics researcher and co-founder of Nautilus Biotechnology whose lab supervised Dario Amodei's postdoctoral cancer-biomarker work — the biological complexity that pushed Amodei toward AI. Known for the ProteoWizard toolkit, single-molecule proteomics, and the "dark proteome."
People · United States - Paramount
The media conglomerate formed when Skydance Media's $8.4 billion merger with Paramount Global closed in August 2025, renamed Paramount Skydance Corporation (Nasdaq: PSKY). Four days after closing, it announced a seven-year, $7.7 billion UFC rights deal for Paramount+ and CBS.
Organizations · United States - Paras Defence and Space Technologies Limited
An Indian private-sector defence engineering firm that became the Indian manufacturing partner of Powerus — the US drone company backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump — under a June 2026 exclusive licence for counter-drone systems, months before the same firm signed with Pakistan.
Organizations · India - Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France, set on the Seine in the Île-de-France region, known for its 20 arrondissements, its Enlightenment-era 'City of Light' name, and its commerce and culture.
Places · France - Paris Jackson
Michael Jackson's only daughter: model, actress and singer (Wilted, 2020) who challenged the estate's co-executors over the 2026 biopic Michael.
People · United States - Parliament of India: the President, the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha
The Parliament of India is the country's bicameral legislature — the President plus the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha — which meets in three sessions a year and moved into a new triangular building in New Delhi in 2023.
Organizations · India - Parsons Corporation
A defense and infrastructure contractor founded in 1944 whose own employees bought the whole company in 1984 — one of the largest ESOP takeovers ever — before returning it to the NYSE in 2019 under ticker PSN.
Organizations · United States - Partners Capital
London-founded outsourced investment office, founded in 2001 by Stan Miranda and Paul Dimitruk, now managing over $70 billion for endowments, foundations and investment-industry families; General Atlantic took a minority stake in 2024 — a firm Dimitruk once helped run.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Patrick Collison
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe, co-founder of the Arc Institute, and Meta board member, who applied the same infrastructure logic that built a payments giant to speeding up scientific research funding.
People · Ireland - Patrick Johnson
Shreveport firefighter and father of House Speaker Mike Johnson who survived the 1984 Dixie Cold Storage ammonia explosion, then spent three decades helping burn patients — co-founding a burn foundation that served over 15,000 families and running a global HazMat training company.
People · United States - Paul Graham
American computer scientist, essayist and investor who co-founded the web-store company Viaweb (sold to Yahoo in 1998) and, in 2005, co-founded the startup accelerator Y Combinator, which he led as president until 2014.
People · United States - Paul Manafort
The Republican lobbyist who chaired Donald Trump's 2016 campaign before resigning over his Ukrainian cash ledger, was convicted of tax and bank fraud, pardoned in December 2020, and returned to political consulting — most recently on Chris LaCivita's team in Albania.
People · United States - Paul Waldman
A political columnist and author — an MSNBC opinion columnist, Public Notice contributor and PN Pod co-host — whose piece "Pete Hegseth will be the next to fall" predicted Hegseth would soon be fired or forced to resign.
People · United States - Paula Smith
The first wife and business partner of television producer Chuck Lorre, married to him from 1979 to 1992. Britannica places her at the turning point when Lorre traded touring-musician life for television writing.
People · United States - Payability
New York ecommerce lender founded in 2015 by Keith Smith that accelerates marketplace payouts to Amazon, Shopify and Walmart sellers — via Instant Access daily payouts and Instant Advance working-capital advances — underwriting on platform sales history rather than credit scores.
Organizations · United States - Paylocity
The Nasdaq-listed (PCTY) cloud HCM company founded in 1997 by Steve Sarowitz that went public in March 2014, posted $1.77B in FY2026 revenue, moved from co-CEO to sole-CEO leadership under Toby Williams in 2024, and expanded into finance software with the $325M Airbase acquisition.
Organizations · United States - PayPal
The payments pioneer founded as Confinity in 1998 — bought by eBay for $1.5 billion, then pried loose by Carl Icahn's activist campaign and spun off in 2015 — now processing $1.79 trillion a year across 439 million accounts.
Organizations · United States - Pennsylvania College of Technology
A Williamsport, Pennsylvania technical college tracing to a 1914 school-district vocational program and becoming a Penn State affiliate in 1989. A 2024 federal apprenticeship grant, attended by two White House officials, and a 2025 state grant document its ongoing workforce-training role.
Universities & Colleges · United States - People
Time Inc.'s 1974 celebrity weekly, now a Dotdash Meredith brand; a PEOPLE source's March-reshoot claim conflicts with Variety's June 2025 dating.
Organizations · United States - Pepsi: the cola brand behind the Jackson era
PepsiCo's flagship cola, born as Brad's Drink in 1893 North Carolina — from the cola wars to Michael Jackson's $5M deal and the 1984 burn incident.
Organizations · United States - Peraton
American national-security technology company owned by Veritas Capital. Veritas assembled it in 2021 via the $7.1B Perspecta acquisition and the $3.4B Northrop Grumman IT services purchase, creating a ~$7B-revenue govtech platform.
Organizations · United States - Periodic Spring
A rhythmic spring in Wyoming's Swift Creek Canyon near Afton, reported as the world's largest known intermittent spring, whose flow cycles on and off through a natural siphon in the Madison limestone; it has also served as Afton's municipal water supply since 1958.
Places · United States - Pete Hegseth
Former Fox News host and Army National Guard veteran confirmed 51-50 as defense secretary in January 2025; uses the secondary title "Secretary of War." His tenure is defined by the Iran war, the Signal leak, a purge of senior officers, and a September 2026 impeachment fight.
People · United States - Peter Greenaway
Welsh painter-trained filmmaker (b. 1942) who calls his films 'paintings with soundtracks'; The Pillow Book was line-produced by Hong Kong's Evans Chan.
People · United Kingdom - Peter Thiel
American entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded PayPal and Palantir Technologies, co-founded the venture firm Founders Fund, was an early Facebook investor, and was named among the private backers whose funding launched OpenAI in December 2015.
People · United States - Pfizer
American pharmaceutical company founded in 1849 in Brooklyn; built on fermentation chemistry (citric acid, penicillin), maker of the first fully FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine with BioNTech, and acquirer of cancer biotech Seagen for $43 billion in 2023.
Organizations · United States - PGA of America
Founded in 1916 by a department-store heir who wasn't even a golfer, the PGA of America began as a retail marketing play — and became the profession's path out of second-class status.
Organizations · United States - Phoenix Financial
Israel's largest insurance and financial group, founded in 1949 and listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. In 2024 Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners bought in, becoming its largest shareholder after a last-day regulatory approval in January 2025.
Organizations · Israel - Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop began as brothers Thomas and John Knoll's Display program in 1987, was licensed by Adobe in 1988, launched in 1990, and became the industry standard for digital image editing — then the centre of a 2013 subscription backlash.
Creative Works · United States - Phulo Jhano Medical College and Hospital, Dumka
A government medical college and hospital in Dumka, Jharkhand, India, inaugurated in 2019, whose admissions were later suspended by federal regulators over infrastructure and faculty shortfalls before a 100-seat batch was approved in 2021.
Universities & Colleges · India - Ping Identity
Enterprise identity and access management (IAM) software company founded in 2002, sold to Vista Equity in 2016, taken public in 2019 — then taken private again by Thoma Bravo in October 2022 for $28.50 a share, about $2.8 billion.
Organizations · United States - Pipedrive
The Estonian CRM built by salespeople, for salespeople — a spreadsheet-first, small-business alternative to Salesforce that Vista Equity Partners bought into at a $1.5b valuation in 2020 and steered into the AI era.
Organizations · Estonia - Plaid
The fintech "plumbing" company behind bank-account APIs — founded by two Bain alumni in 2013, nearly acquired by Visa for $5.3B until the DOJ sued to block the deal as a killer acquisition, then independently valued at $13.4B.
Organizations · United States - Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood Federation of America is the US nonprofit reproductive health organization tracing to Margaret Sanger's first birth-control clinic in Brooklyn in 1916, now serving 2.09 million patients — and the named party in the Supreme Court's 2025 Medina Medicaid decision.
Organizations · United States - Pluralsight
Tech-skills platform taken private by Vista Equity Partners in 2021 for $3.5–3.8 billion after a shareholder fight — then marked to zero by Vista in 2024 and handed to private-credit lenders, a marquee casualty of the 2020–21 leveraged-buyout wave.
Organizations · United States - Pokémon
Japanese media franchise created by Satoshi Tajiri that began with the 1996 Game Boy games and grew into video games, anime, films and a trading-card game whose rarest cards sell for millions.
Creative Works · Japan - Poland
Poland is a Central European parliamentary republic of about 37 million people, rebuilt from partitions, war and communist rule into a market democracy and the largest economy in Central Europe.
Places · Poland - Politico
Washington-based political news organization owned by Germany's Axel Springer; pioneered insider morning newsletters and spent 2025–26 fighting two battles with the White House — one over federal subscription money, one over press access.
Organizations · United States - PollyGrind Film Festival: Las Vegas horror and grindhouse fest
The PollyGrind Film Festival is a Las Vegas event for horror, grindhouse and underground independent film, founded in 2010 by filmmaker Chad Clinton Freeman. Its second edition (October 7–16, 2011) gave The Bunny Game its Las Vegas premiere and awarded it the top jury prize.
Events & Documents · United States - PopMatters: the independent culture magazine founded by Sarah Zupko
PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism founded in 1999 by Sarah Zupko, covering music, film, TV, books and more. In 2021 it published the interview "Director Adam Rehmeier on His Abrasive Punk Comedy with a Sweet Heart, 'Dinner in America'".
Organizations · United States - Poppy Harlow
American journalist who spent 16 years at CNN, co-anchoring CNN Newsroom and CNN This Morning before leaving in April 2024. Known for business-leader interviews and field reporting — and for two on-air moments bios skip: the 2013 Steubenville verdict coverage and the 2023 "prime" Lemon exchange.
People · United States - PostScript
Adobe's first product, launched in 1984: the page-description language born from Xerox PARC work that powered the LaserWriter, ignited desktop publishing, and later fed into the document format and font technology that succeeded it.
Creative Works · United States - Powerus
A year-old Florida drone-defense company founded by Ukraine-war veterans that builds $5,000 Guardian interceptor drones from Ukrainian designs — and, months after merging with a golf-course operator tied to Trump's sons, signed a September 2026 procurement order with Pakistan's Ministry of Defence.
Organizations · United States - Prasar Bharati
India's statutory public-service broadcaster — parent of Doordarshan and Akashvani (All India Radio) — whose WAVES OTT platform carries Krish, Trish and Baltiboy: Bharat Hain Hum.
Organizations · India - Presidential Library of the Republic of Azerbaijan
The Presidential Library of the Republic of Azerbaijan is a Baku library founded in 2003 by merging two libraries. It holds rare books and runs digital projects on Azerbaijani heritage.
Organizations · Azerbaijan - Press Information Bureau
The Government of India's official press agency, tracing its roots to a 1919 colonial publicity cell. PIB issues the government's press releases — and runs a Fact Check Unit that flagged 1,575 fake-news cases since 2022, whose takedown powers courts struck down as unconstitutional.
Organizations · India - Princeton University
Private Ivy League university in Princeton, New Jersey, chartered in 1746; one of the world's wealthiest universities, which in 2026 escaped an 8% federal endowment tax by expanding financial aid enough to drop below 3,000 tuition-paying students.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Professional Chovgan League
Azerbaijan's Professional Chovgan League, run by the national equestrian federation since 2024, is the country's professional club competition in chovgan, the traditional horse-riding game.
Organizations · Azerbaijan - Professional Sports Authenticator
Trading-card authentication and grading company founded in 1991 by David G. Hall, whose sealed, numbered grade became the hobby's common language for condition — and whose parent, Collectors, now also owns former rival SGC and announced the purchase of Beckett in December 2025.
Organizations · United States - Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021
An Indian bill that would have raised the minimum marriage age for women from 18 to 21, introduced in the Lok Sabha in December 2021 and left to lapse in 2024 after repeated parliamentary committee extensions.
Events & Documents · India - Project Angel Food
A Los Angeles nonprofit founded in 1989 by Marianne Williamson to deliver free meals to AIDS patients, now serving more than 1.5 million medically tailored meals a year — including a 2026 Angel Awards gala where Chuck Lorre received its rare Founders Angel Award.
Organizations · United States - Promise of Justice Initiative
A New Orleans nonprofit law firm founded in 2012 that fights the death penalty and represents people in Louisiana's criminal legal system — it helped free Corey Williams in 2018, argued Ramos v. Louisiana, and represents 1,049 people convicted by non-unanimous juries.
Organizations · United States - Promotion Marketing Association
A U.S. promotion-marketing trade association founded in 1911, later renamed the Brand Activation Association, known for its FTC-addressed Marketing Law Conference, the annual REGGIE Awards, and an anti-fraud data-sharing program reviewed by the Justice Department.
Organizations · United States - Proofpoint
The cybersecurity company acquired for $12.3 billion in 2021 later renegotiated $4.3 billion in debt maturities and announced a $6.3 billion Varonis takeover. Its financial history reveals more than the headline about an unprofitable buyout.
Organizations · United States - ProPublica
A nonprofit investigative newsroom founded in 2007 — the organization Paul Steiger sketched on an envelope in 2006, built on giving stories free to partners and measuring success by impact. In September 2026 it reported a Russian oligarch bankrolled Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding celebrations.
Organizations · United States - Prove
New York identity verification company, formerly Payfone, that authenticates users from phone and SIM signals — rebranded in 2020 alongside a $100 million round and an Early Warning acquisition, and valued past $1 billion by 2023.
Organizations · United States - PRS Legislative Research
The Indian non-profit that briefs MPs on every bill — and was twice denied foreign funding because the Home Ministry called its work with legislators a 'gray area' with lobbying risk.
Organizations · India - Pubali Bank
One of Bangladesh's largest private commercial banks, tracing back to Eastern Mercantile Bank (1959); nationalised 1972, privatised 1983, rebuilt from a 54% bad-loan "problem bank" into a lender with 2.20% NPLs at end-2025. It sponsored Everest summiteer Nurunnahar Nimni, one of its own officers.
Organizations · Bangladesh - Public Citizen
The nonprofit consumer-advocacy organization Ralph Nader founded in 1971. Its litigation arm argued 40 Supreme Court cases by 2000, and in 2026 it became one of the most prolific filers of Hatch Act complaints — including one against Attorney General Todd Blanche that it says was never answered.
Organizations · United States - Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, founded in 1971 and remade in 2015 into Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's Vision 2030 engine. It committed $2 billion to anchor Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners despite internal reluctance — and that money now reaches as far as an Israeli insurer.
Organizations · Saudi Arabia - Pulitzer Prize
The U.S. awards for journalism, letters, drama, and music established by Joseph Pulitzer's 1911 will — 21 categories, a gold medal for Public Service, first given in 1917 — opened to the internet era in 2010, when a nonprofit online-only newsroom won for the first time.
Events & Documents · United States - Pushpindar Singh Chopra
Indian aviation historian and journalist (1943-2021) who founded Vayu Aerospace & Defence Review in 1974 and wrote the three-volume Himalayan Eagles history of the Indian Air Force. He debunked a 1985 PAF claim, then wrote Fiza'Ya on the PAF — and was mourned by the PAF chief.
People · India - Qatar Investment Authority
Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, created in 2005 to diversify the state's hydrocarbon wealth. In September 2026 it launched a $20B partnership with J.P. Morgan Asset Management; it also put $1.5B into Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners in 2024.
Organizations · Qatar - QBE Insurance Group
Australia's second-largest international insurer — founded 1886 in Townsville as North Queensland Insurance, named for a 1973 three-way merger — now a $24B-premium global group that was the first non-European major insurer to exit thermal coal.
Organizations · Australia - Quaker Houghton
A Pennsylvania-based specialty chemical maker formed by Quaker Chemical Corporation's 2019 combination with Houghton International, now one of the world's largest suppliers of industrial process fluids to the steel, aluminum, automotive and aerospace industries.
Organizations · United States - Qualys
US cybersecurity company that sold security as a cloud service before the cloud was fashionable; Philippe Courtot invested in 1999, became CEO in 2001 and led it to a 2012 IPO.
Organizations · United States - Queens High School for the Sciences
summary: Queens' only specialized public high school, founded in 2002 on the York College campus, admitting students citywide by SHSAT score. Ranked the top high school in New York State in 2024, it spent 24 years sharing a college floor before relocating to its own dedicated building in Jamaica
Schools · United States - Quinnsworth
Defunct Irish supermarket chain founded by Pat Quinn in 1966, remembered for its "Yellow Pack" budget range and flamboyant advertising; Tesco bought the 75-store chain from Associated British Foods in 1997 and folded it into its Irish business.
Organizations · Ireland - R. H. Richharia
A Cambridge-trained rice geneticist who led India's Central Rice Research Institute, published clonal-propagation research in Nature, and was removed from his post after opposing Green Revolution seed policy in favour of conserving indigenous rice varieties.
People · India - RAA
South Australia's member motoring organisation, founded in 1903, which kept its brand and roadside services while Allianz Australia took over underwriting its home and motor insurance in a 20-year deal from 2025.
Organizations · Australia - Rabindranath Tagore University, Hojai
A state university in Hojai, Assam, India, established in 2017 by upgrading Hojai College under a dedicated Act of the Assam legislature.
Universities & Colleges · India - Rail Accident Investigation Branch
The UK's independent rail accident investigator: a 43-person government body whose inspectors can compel evidence and overrule police at a crash scene — but may never prosecute. Created after Ladbroke Grove, its reports seek causes, never blame.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Rail Safety and Standards Board
The independent, member-owned safety, standards, and research body for Great Britain's railways, created in 2003 after the Ladbroke Grove crash inquiry.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Rail Technology Magazine
Manchester-based trade publication covering the UK rail industry since 2000, published by Cognitive Publishing; an ABC-audited title that reported the Barrow crash and rail-safety prosecutions.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Raipur–Dhamtari Branch Line
A 2-foot-6-inch narrow-gauge railway in Chhattisgarh, India, opened in 1900 under the Bengal-Nagpur Railway and closed on 30 April 2017 after 117 years so its Raipur-end stations could make way for an expressway to Swami Vivekanand Airport.
Places · India - Rajya Sabha: the Council of States, India's permanent upper house
The Rajya Sabha (Council of States) is the upper house of India's Parliament: a permanent body of up to 250 members, 233 elected by state legislators and 12 nominated by the President, with six-year staggered terms.
Organizations · India - Rama Duwaji
Syrian-American illustrator, animator and ceramicist whose black-and-white drawings of Middle Eastern women appeared in The New Yorker and at Tate Modern. Wife of NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani, she designed key parts of his campaign's visual identity.
People · United States - Ramchandra Singh Deo
The last ruler of the former princely state of Koriya who became Chhattisgarh's first finance minister when the state was created in 2000, after an earlier career that included working as a photographer for the filmmaker Satyajit Ray.
People · India - Ramp
The New York spend-management fintech that weathered a 28% down round in 2023, then repriced five times in 18 months — from $5.8B to a $44B Series F in 2026 — on an AI-economy thesis.
Organizations · United States - Rashtriya Janata Dal: the Bihar party of the Muslim-Yadav base and the fodder-scam convictions
The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) is a centre-left Indian political party founded in July 1997 by Lalu Prasad Yadav after he split from the Janata Dal amid fodder-scam charges. Built on a Muslim-Yadav base, it ruled Bihar until 2005 and was the state's single largest party in 2020.
Organizations · India - Raymond C. Fisher
Ninth Circuit judge (1999–2020) and early mentor of future federal judge Amir Ali. As LA Police Commission president he steered LAPD reform after the Christopher Commission, and he called his 6–5 extraordinary-rendition ruling in Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan his most important case.
People · United States - Reddit
San Francisco social media platform founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, organised into more than 100,000 volunteer-moderated communities, which went public in March 2024 and now earns revenue from advertising and from licensing its archive of user conversation to AI companies.
Organizations · United States - Reed Hastings
Netflix co-founder who left the company's board in June 2026 after 30 years — co-CEO until 2023, chairman until 2026 — and reassembled as a board member at Bloomberg and Anthropic, CEO of Powder Mountain, and one of education philanthropy's largest donors.
People · United States - Rekor Systems
Nasdaq-listed (REKR) AI vehicle-recognition company behind OpenALPR — formerly Novume Solutions, built on an Oklahoma uninsured-vehicle program that drew a 2021 securities class action, now operating at the center of the ALPR privacy debate.
Organizations · United States - Relay
Toronto SMB-banking fintech founded in October 2018 by Yoseph West and Paul Klicnik; its online business-banking and money-management platform (banking services via partner Thread Bank) targets cash-flow clarity for small businesses; $32.2M Series B in May 2024 led by Bain Capital Ventures.
Organizations · Canada - RenoFi
The Philadelphia fintech that is not actually a lender — an AI-enabled renovation-financing platform whose partner credit unions lend against a home's after-renovation value, the first U.S. Renovation HELOC of its kind, backed by $65 million including a 2025 Fifth Wall-led Series B.
Organizations · United States - Renuka Lake and Temple
A Hindu pilgrimage site in Sirmaur district, Himachal Pradesh, India, centred on a lake named for the goddess Renuka and a Ramsar-listed wetland since 2005 — this profile covers the physical lake-temple complex and its annual fair, not the goddess as a religious concept.
Places · India - Republican National Convention
The Republican Party's quadrennial nominating convention, held every four years since 1856 — and in September 2026 it broke the pattern with a first-ever midterm convention in Dallas. The 2028 nominating convention is set for Houston, Texas.
Events & Documents · United States - Republican Party
One of the two major U.S. political parties, founded in 1854 from opposition to slavery's westward expansion. Since 2016 it has been reshaped around Donald Trump; in 2026 it holds the presidency, the Senate, and a narrow House majority.
Organizations · United States - Republican Study Committee
Conservative House caucus founded in 1973 whose chairmanship has been held by a Vice President, a House Speaker, and the current Majority Leader; its chairmen's roster reads as a who's who of Republican leadership, and it is now chaired by Rep. August Pfluger.
Organizations · United States - Reuters
The international news agency founded in 1850–51, now the news division of Thomson Reuters; its 1941 Trust Principles are defended by a special Founders Share that can block any takeover threatening its independence.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Reuven Yaron
Israeli legal historian (1924–2014), born in Vienna, who trained at Oxford and Aberdeen, taught Roman and ancient Near Eastern law at the Hebrew University, led its law faculty back to Mt. Scopus as dean, and later headed the national library, the Israel Broadcasting Authority and state archives.
People · Israel - Revolut
After a five-year fight with UK regulators, Revolut won a full British banking licence in March 2026 — the final step for Europe's most valuable startup on its road to a "truly global bank."
Organizations · United Kingdom - Revolution
Washington, D.C. investment firm founded in 2005 by AOL co-founder Steve Case, built around a family of funds that backs companies outside coastal tech hubs. J.D. Vance joined as a partner in 2017, co-launched the $150 million Rise of the Rest Seed Fund with Case, and left for Narya in 2019.
Organizations · United States - Riccardo Amodei
Italian-American leathersmith and father of Anthropic co-founders Dario and Daniela Amodei. His 2006 death from hepatitis C — a disease curable within a few years — became, in Dario's own account, the driving force behind his urgency about scientific progress.
People · United States - Richard Painter
Law professor and former chief White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush (2005-2007) who became a prominent ethics critic of Donald Trump and ran twice as a Democrat in Minnesota.
People · United States - Rick Frazier
Founding member of the Front Row Joes who says he attended more than 100 Donald Trump rallies before breaking with him in a September 2026 Politico Playbook report over the Epstein files and the Iran war.
People · United States - RingCentral
American cloud-communications company (NYSE: RNG) providing voice, messaging, and contact-center platforms to more than 600,000 businesses. In 2026 it reported record free cash flow, declared its first dividend, and suffered a major breach.
Organizations · United States - Riverview Health Westfield Hospital
A 16-bed community hospital in Westfield, Indiana, opened in 2018 by the Hamilton County-owned Riverview Health system as that city's first hospital; after pandemic-era losses and a 2023 CEO change, it expanded services through 2025-2026 and entered a managed-services partnership with Parkview
Organizations · United States - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary since February 2025: an environmental lawyer and longtime vaccine skeptic whose 2024 independent presidential bid ended in a Trump endorsement — mocked in a September 2026 charity speech over his vaccine stance.
People · United States - Robert Jacquinot de Besange
A French Jesuit priest who negotiated a civilian safe zone in wartime Shanghai in 1937, sheltering roughly 250,000 refugees from the fighting, an arrangement later cited as an influence on the 1949 Geneva Conventions' protections for civilians.
People · France - Robert Levine
The father of television producer Chuck Lorre, who ran a small luncheonette on Long Island where his teenage son helped out — a private figure with no independent public record.
People · United States - Roche Holding
Basel-based Swiss pharmaceutical and diagnostics giant founded in 1896 by Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche, controlled by founding families, and now racing Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk in the obesity-drug market with its enicepatide candidate.
Organizations · Switzerland - Rochelle Bilal
The first woman and first Black woman elected Sheriff of Philadelphia, a former police officer whose tenure has drawn sustained Inquirer investigative coverage, including a 2024 finding that her campaign used AI to fabricate news headlines.
People · United States - Rodleen Getsic: the singer and actress behind The Bunny Game
Rodleen Getsic is an American actress, writer, producer and singer: her vocals carry the climax of Deftones' "Knife Prty" (White Pony, 2000), and she co-wrote, co-produced and starred in The Bunny Game, winning Best Overall Individual Performance at the 2011 PollyGrind Film Festival.
People · United States - Roland Busch
German physicist who joined Siemens in 1994, rose through its research, automotive and infrastructure businesses, and has been President and CEO of Siemens AG since February 2021, driving its industrial-software pivot through Xcelerator and the Altair and Dotmatics acquisitions.
People · Germany - Roli Saxena
Technology executive who rose from AdRoll president to NextRoll CEO in November 2022, leading the company through its 2025 reunification under the AdRoll brand.
People · United States - RollWorks
Business-to-business marketing division launched by AdRoll in February 2018 for account-based marketing, later folded into AdRoll ABM in August 2025.
Organizations · United States - Ron Howard
Academy Award-winning American filmmaker who began as a child actor on The Andy Griffith Show and Happy Days before directing Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, and Netflix's Hillbilly Elegy adaptation.
People · United States - Ron Ziegler
Ronald L. Ziegler (1939–2003) was President Richard Nixon's White House press secretary from 1969 to 1974. At 29 he was the youngest press secretary in history, a record that stood until 2025.
People · United States - Roofstock
The Oakland marketplace that made tenant-occupied single-family homes a tradable asset class — a $1.9B valuation in 2022, then two rounds of layoffs within a year.
Organizations · United States - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is the UK's national botanic research institution — a Defra-sponsored public body founded as a physick garden in 1759, inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2003, and home to the Millennium Seed Bank, the world's largest wild-seed collection.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry
Australia's 2017-2019 royal commission into financial services misconduct, led by former High Court judge Kenneth Hayne, which produced 76 recommendations and reshaped banking, superannuation and advice regulation.
Events & Documents · Australia - Royal Institute of British Architects
The United Kingdom's professional body for architects since 1834, chartered to advance architecture: home of the Stirling Prize and the Royal Gold Medal, and the institute whose 2024 international award honoured Article 25's school in Niger.
Organizations · United Kingdom - RSA Security
The cybersecurity company behind SecurID authentication tokens, founded in 1982 to commercialize the RSA cryptosystem — sold for about $2.1 billion twice, fourteen years apart (EMC in 2006, Dell in 2020), after surviving the defining 2011 SecurID breach.
Organizations · United States - Runway
The New York AI video startup founded at NYU in 2018 — from Gen-2 text-to-video and a $1.5B Google/Nvidia-backed round to a $5.3B "world model" company with $200M in ARR, a robotics push, and its own $10M venture fund.
Organizations · United States - Rush University
Chicago's private academic health university — a 1972 institution built on an 1837 medical college chartered two days before the city itself — enrolling 2,500+ students across medicine, nursing and health sciences.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Russian Federation
The Russian Federation — the world's largest country and the state across the table in the Ukraine-war negotiations. As of late September 2026, Kyiv and Moscow have both confirmed U.S. plans to relaunch trilateral talks, with Moscow insisting on territorial and neutrality terms Ukraine has rejected.
Organizations · Russia - Saigontel
Vietnamese telecommunications and industrial infrastructure developer listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange, chaired by industrialist Dang Thanh Tam, that has expanded from telecom infrastructure into industrial parks, rooftop solar and AI data centres.
Organizations · Vietnam - Saint Anselm College
Saint Anselm College is the Benedictine liberal-arts college in Goffstown, New Hampshire, home of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics — the school's front-row seat to the first-in-the-nation primary and the alma mater of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, class of 2019.
Schools · United States - Saint Mary's University
Halifax's public university — founded 1802 as Saint Mary's College, public and non-denominational since 1970 — that became the province's $25-million bet on health-care data analytics in 2023.
Universities & Colleges · Canada - Salesforce
U.S. cloud software company founded by Marc Benioff in 1999 that popularized enterprise software delivered over the internet, then grew into a multi-product platform through acquisitions — Tableau ($15.7B) and Slack ($27.7B) — before a 2023 activist-investor siege forced a pivot to cost discipline.
Organizations · United States - Sam Altman
American technology entrepreneur and investor, chief executive of OpenAI since 2019, who co-founded Loopt, led Y Combinator, and was briefly removed and then reinstated as OpenAI's CEO in November 2023.
People · United States - Sam Bankman-Fried
FTX founder whose half-billion-dollar bet on Anthropic bought a 13.56% stake with no board seat, later liquidated by his bankruptcy estate for ~$1.3B to repay creditors. Convicted in 2023 of fraud and conspiracy; sentenced in March 2024 to 25 years and an $11B forfeiture.
People · United States - Sam Sidiqi
Afghan-American business executive and mountaineer: the first Afghan national to summit both Denali (2021) and Mount Everest (2023). He founded Afghan Peaks, a charity developing skiing and mountain safety in Afghanistan.
People · United States - Sam Yam
Co-founder and longtime chief technology officer of Patreon, the creator-membership platform; in September 2026 he joined OpenAI to lead its new Creator Product division, bringing two former Patreon executives with him.
People · United States - San Francisco
California city founded as a Spanish presidio and mission in 1776, transformed by the Gold Rush, rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake and fire, and host of the 1945 conference that created the United Nations.
Places · United States - Sanjay Singh: AAP Rajya Sabha MP from Delhi, from Sultanpur activism to arrest and bail
Sanjay Singh (born 22 March 1972) is an Aam Aadmi Party politician and Rajya Sabha MP from Delhi since 2018, re-elected unopposed in January 2024. A founding-era AAP organiser, he was arrested in the Delhi excise-policy case in 2023 and freed on Supreme Court bail in 2024.
People · India - Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California's Spanish-colonial coastal city of ~88,000 — rebuilt after the 1925 quake, and primary filming base of the 2026 biopic Michael.
Places · United States - Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Arkansas' 47th governor and Trump's third White House press secretary (2017–19). In November 2018 she suspended CNN reporter Jim Acosta's White House credentials — restored twelve days later after a court order — and now governs from Little Rock in year three of her first term.
People · United States - SAS Institute
The analytics giant that never took venture capital, never went public, and never sold — founded by North Carolina State academics in 1976 and grown on customer renewals, 34%-of-revenue R&D, and a campus famous for 3% employee turnover.
Organizations · United States - Sathupati Prasanna Sree
A linguist and English professor from Andhra Pradesh who has created scripts for tribal languages and became vice-chancellor of Adikavi Nannaya University in February 2025.
People · India - Satya Nadella
American technology executive and chief executive officer of Microsoft since 2014, who led its cloud-computing pivot, its 2023 hiring of Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, and testified in the 2026 Musk v. OpenAI trial.
People · United States - Save America
Trump's leadership PAC, registered with the FEC on November 9, 2020 — the paper trail shows where the money went: $60M to MAGA Inc, $1.5M to Get Georgia Right, and $100,000 to Bikers for Trump in 2021–2022.
Organizations · United States - Scott Bessent
79th U.S. Treasury Secretary and former hedge fund manager (Soros Fund Management, Key Square Capital Management); the June 2026 call from Amazon's CEO about a jailbroken AI model, his 2025–26 double-hat as acting IRS commissioner, and the September 2026 extension of the U.S.–China trade truce.
People · United States - Scott Golding
Former office manager and bookkeeper of the UK charity Article 25, known at work as William Golding, who in December 2015 was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison for defrauding the charity of £260,479, after a prior conviction for theft from Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal.
People · United Kingdom - Screen Daily: the global film trade publication
The online arm of Screen International, the British film-trade journal begun in 1975 and published by Media Business Insight — the outlet that reported the BBFC's 2011 Bunny Game ban and Trinity's Cannes acquisition.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Sean Hannity
Conservative broadcaster hosting Hannity on Fox News and The Sean Hannity Show on radio; testified under oath in 2022 that he did not believe 2020 election-fraud claims, was tied by The Guardian to a 870-home property empire, and announced his Florida move and Ainsley Earhardt engagement.
People · United States - Sean Parnell
Decorated Afghanistan veteran and Outlaw Platoon author who became the Pentagon's chief spokesman in 2025 and Pete Hegseth's September 2026 pick for Army secretary amid Senate resistance over abuse allegations.
People · United States - Sean Penn
Actor-director Sean Penn has documented Ukraine's war from day one: in Kyiv filming Superpower when the invasion began, later loaning Volodymyr Zelenskyy an Oscar, and in 2026 premiering Black Sunflowers — which he asked Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to watch.
People · United States - Sean Spicer
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, whose six-month 2017 tenure became pop culture, produced the documentary Trump's Front Row Joes and told Politico Playbook in 2026 that the Joes' defections worry him about softer Trump voters.
People · United States - Seattle International Adoptions
Seattle-based adoption agency run by Lynn Devin that processed U.S. families' Cambodian adoptions arranged by her sister Lauryn Galindo; both agreed to forfeit the agency's profits after 2003-2004 federal fraud pleas.
Organizations · United States - Securitize
The tokenization platform behind BlackRock's BUIDL fund — SEC-registered transfer agent and broker-dealer that went public on the NYSE in July 2026 and tokenized its own stock at listing.
Organizations · United States - Senate Finance Committee
The Senate's oldest standing committee — and the body whose 2024 investigation, led by Ron Wyden, documented Affinity Partners collecting up to $157 million in foreign-government fees without generating any investor return.
Organizations · United States - Senate Judiciary Committee
Two hundred years after its 1816 founding, the Judiciary Committee became ProPublica's enforcement arm — subpoenaing Supreme Court justices' billionaire benefactors after investigative reporting on their gifts, on an 11–0 vote taken after every Republican walked out.
Organizations · United States - Serge Losique
Serge Losique (1931–2026), the film professor who founded and ran the Montreal World Film Festival from 1977, fought a 2004 funding war with Telefilm Canada, survived a 2018 tax bill, and directed the festival's final edition that year.
People · Canada - ServiceNow
American enterprise software company founded in 2003 by former Peregrine Systems CTO Fred Luddy; known for the Now Platform for IT and business workflows, a rejected $2.5 billion VMware takeover in 2011, a 2012 IPO, and Bill McDermott's tenure as CEO since January 2020.
Organizations · United States - Seth Moulton
Marine veteran and six-term congressman whose October 2025 Senate challenge to Ed Markey ended September 1, 2026, in a 64.9%-to-35.1% primary loss — after he called Steve Witkoff's Carlson interview remarks "insane."
People · United States - Seven Seven Six
Venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, built like a technology company that deploys venture capital, known for leading Alt's Series A and for its 2022 pivot toward crypto and Web3 investing.
Organizations · United States - Severino Twinobusingye
A Ugandan senior advocate who won an unprecedented UGX 12.9 billion legal-fees award for a 2011 constitutional challenge, later represented Amama Mbabazi's 2016 presidential election petition, and now chairs the university council of the disputed Karamoja Peace and Technology University.
People · Uganda - Sezzle
The Minneapolis BNPL company that listed in Australia because Australia understood the model first — then saw a $355M merger with Zip collapse five months after it was announced.
Organizations · United States - SGC
Boca Raton trading-card grader founded in July 1998, known for vintage cards and its black "tuxedo" holders; bought by PSA parent Collectors Holdings in 2024 and refocused as a boutique brand in 2025.
Organizations · United States - Shamakhi
Shamakhi is a historic city in central Azerbaijan, once the Shirvanshahs' capital, known for its 8th-century Juma Mosque, its poets, and the Caucasus's largest observatory.
Places · Azerbaijan - Shana Merlin
Austin improv performer, teacher, and producer; founded Merlin Works in 2003 and the Merlin Works Institute for Improvisation in 2008; ended classes and shows in 2025 after 22 years while continuing corporate training.
People · United States - Shantanu Narayen
Hyderabad-born engineer who led Adobe from boxed software to Creative Cloud subscriptions as CEO from 2007, and was set to hand over to a successor on December 1, 2026.
People · United States - Shawmut National Corporation
A Hartford, Connecticut-based bank holding company formed in 1988 that survived a near-failure earnings scandal in 1990 before merging into Fleet Financial Group in 1995 in a $3.7 billion deal.
Organizations · United States - Sheer Logistics
St. Louis 4PL/managed-transportation company founded in 2009 by Joe Egertson, built around the SheerExchange platform and Scope 3 emissions dashboards; backed by Woodlawn Partners and Monroe Capital since 2022, acquired CargoBarn in 2024, and announced a Gartner 4PL Magic Quadrant honorable mention.
Organizations · United States - Sheffield Declaration
Resolutions adopted by Sheffield, Massachusetts on 12 January 1773 declaring "mankind in a state of nature are equal, free, and independent" — language later echoed in the Declaration of Independence and the Massachusetts Constitution that Elizabeth Freeman's lawyer used to win her freedom in 1781.
Events & Documents · United States - Sheffield, Massachusetts
Sheffield is the oldest town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where the 1773 Sheffield Resolves were drafted and where Elizabeth Freeman won her freedom suit in 1781.
Places · United States - Sherrod Brown
Former U.S. Senator from Ohio (2007-2025) and Banking Committee chairman now seeking the state's other Senate seat in the 2026 special election. Known for his working-class brand, his mentor John Glenn — who handed him his Eagle Scout award — and being crypto-industry PAC money's most famous target.
People · United States - Shibani Joshi
A business journalist who traded Morgan Stanley investment banking for a CNNfn teleprompter, then spent six years as Fox Business's technology reporter and "Joshi on Tech" host; a 2013 solar claim drew national fact-checks. She now coaches at Stanford GSB and teaches at OU.
People · United States - Shieny Aprilia
Indonesian entrepreneur and co-founder of the Bandung video game developer Agate who was promoted from chief operating officer to chief executive in June 2022, succeeding Arief Widhiyasa.
People · Indonesia - Shira Perlmutter
Register of Copyrights since 2020 and a three-decade veteran of copyright policy. The Trump administration fired her the day after her office's AI-and-fair-use report circulated; she has challenged both the firing and Todd Blanche's disputed acting-Librarian appointment in court.
People · United States - Shiv Sena: the Maharashtra party founded in 1966 that split into two rival Senas in 2022
Shiv Sena is the Maharashtra-based party founded in 1966 by cartoonist Bal Thackeray as the voice of the Marathi Manoos. After splitting in 2022, the Election Commission recognised Eknath Shinde's faction as the official Shiv Sena in 2023, while Uddhav Thackeray's faction became Shiv Sena (UBT).
Organizations · India - Shlomo Group
Israel's family-owned car-leasing and holding group, founded in 1974 from two Susita cars rented to the IDF; in 2024 Affinity Partners bought 15% of its auto-and-credit business for $110 million, a Gaza-war-era deal closed at a sharp discount to its original valuation.
Organizations · Israel - Shomari Stone
American broadcast journalist anchoring and reporting for WTTG (FOX 5 DC). From dishwashing and bellman jobs to CBS Miami, WRC, CNBC and FOX 5 — a seven-time Emmy, two-time Murrow winner known for breaking-news coverage.
People · United States - Shopify
Canadian commerce-software company founded in Ottawa in 2006 that sells subscription storefront software to independent merchants, went public in 2015, and in 2023 sold its logistics business to Flexport to refocus on software.
Organizations · Canada - Shrug Capital
Venture firm led by Niv Dror and Moshe Lifschitz that backs culturally relevant consumer companies, from Alt's Series B to Jake Paul's W brand, and co-led Varda Space's $187 million Series C in 2025.
Organizations · United States - Shryder
A pseudonymous crypto trader whose 600,000-token WLFI purchase on Inauguration Day made him the centerpiece of a disputed watchdog claim linking him to North Korea's Lazarus Group — a false positive that froze roughly $95,000 of his tokens.
People · Unknown - Sidley Austin
The Chicago corporate law firm founded in 1866 where JD Vance worked as a litigator in 2014–15 after Yale Law School; in 2026 it elected Yvette Ostolaza — the first woman to lead the firm and the first Latina to lead a top-10 U.S. law firm.
Organizations · United States - Siemens
German technology company founded in 1847 as a Berlin telegraph workshop and now one of the world's largest industrial-technology groups, led by CEO Roland Busch, which has reshaped itself around industrial software with the Altair and Dotmatics acquisitions.
Organizations · Germany - SIGNAL IDUNA Group
The German mutual insurance group formed by the 1999 merger of Signal Versicherungen and Iduna Nova — owned by its policyholders, ranked 12th in German primary insurance, and the name on Germany's largest football stadium since 2005.
Organizations · Germany - Silk Road
The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes linking China with the Mediterranean world, carrying silk, spices, faiths and technologies across Eurasia for over a millennium.
Places · Transcontinental - Sir Quentin Thomas: the civil servant who became BBFC president
Retired British civil servant: BBFC President 2002–2012 and, earlier, the Northern Ireland Office Political Director behind the 1998 Good Friday Agreement; knighted for services to peace.
People · United Kingdom - Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
A 1908 synagogue building in Washington, D.C. that was reimagined in 2004 as a nonmembership Jewish congregation and cultural venue blending religious services with concerts, comedy and talks.
Places · United States - Small Business Administration
Federal small-business agency founded in 1953; in 2026 it ran the Freedom 250 Million Dollar Pitch Competition, with Nicki Minaj among the judges and a $1 million prize pool funded by Clover Network.
Organizations · United States - SmartAsset
The unicorn that sells financial advisors their customers — a $1B+ personal-finance content empire whose lead-generation marketplace delights some advisors and frustrates others over lead quality.
Organizations · United States - Smiths News PLC
The United Kingdom's largest newspaper and magazine wholesaler, a Swindon-listed public company whose modern form dates to the 2006 separation of W.H. Smith's news-distribution business; it traded as Connect Group PLC from 2014 to 2020 and has since refocused on its core wholesaling business with
Organizations · United Kingdom - Smithsonian Institution
The world's largest museum, education and research complex, founded by Act of Congress in 1846 from James Smithson's bequest; its National Museum of American History accepted Trisha Hope's Jan. 6-themed donation in May 2025.
Organizations · United States - Snack Shack (2024 film)
Adam Rehmeier's semi-autobiographical 2024 coming-of-age comedy: two teens run a Nebraska pool's snack shack in 1991; Republic Pictures released it in March 2024 to warm reviews.
Creative Works · United States - Snowflake
US cloud data platform founded in 2012 by three database architects; its September 2020 NYSE IPO raised $3.36 billion — the largest US IPO of that year — and the company has since moved through three distinct CEO eras, from a Microsoft veteran to an IPO specialist to an acquired startup founder.
Organizations · United States - Socure
Nevada identity-verification company founded in 2012 that uses AI and machine learning to verify identities and fight fraud, growing from a New York startup to a $5.2 billion platform serving banks, fintechs and government agencies.
Organizations · United States - SoFi
A student-loan startup founded by four Stanford business-school students in 2011 became a federally chartered bank holding company in 2022 — the payoff of an eleven-year strategy, not an overnight pivot.
Organizations · United States - Sonia Sotomayor
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 2009, the first Hispanic and third woman on the Court. Her dissent in Trump v. Hawaii cited Amir Ali's amicus brief; she ended the 1994-95 baseball strike as a district judge and wrote the 2025 Glossip majority and the CASA dissent.
People · United States - Sotheby's
The London-founded auction house (1744) that sold Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian banana to Justin Sun for $6.2 million in November 2024 — a lot that was uniquely payable in crypto. Taken private by Patrick Drahi for ~$3.7B in 2019 after a record $7.3B sales year in 2021.
Organizations · United States - South by Southwest (SXSW): Austin film, music and tech festival
South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual set of film, interactive and music festivals held each March in Austin, Texas. Begun in 1987 as a music event, its 2012 film edition ran March 9–17 — and on March 8 its festival market closed Autonomy Pictures' U.S.-rights deal for The Bunny Game.
Events & Documents · United States - South Korea
South Korea is the only country with a United Nations cemetery — 2,339 Korean War dead rest in Busan under permanent UN management — bound to Türkiye by a "blood brother" bond, home to Asia's fourth-largest economy, and the country with the world's lowest fertility rate (0.72).
Places · South Korea - Southern Poverty Law Center
Montgomery, Alabama nonprofit founded in 1971; won damage judgments that bankrupted Ku Klux Klan groups, tracks groups it calls hate groups, and faces contested designations and a pending 2026 federal indictment.
Organizations · United States - Southern Utah University
Public university in Cedar City, Utah, founded in 1897 as a branch normal school built through community labor. It has doubled enrollment in a decade to over 15,000 students and is home to the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Soviet Union
The Soviet Union (USSR, 1922–1991) was a transcontinental communist state spanning northern Eurasia, the world's largest country, which ended in 1991 with 15 independent republics.
Places · Soviet Union (former) - SpaceX
Rocket and spacecraft company founded by Elon Musk in 2002 that made orbital boosters reusable, flew NASA astronauts commercially, built the Starlink constellation, and went public in June 2026.
Organizations · United States - Spearhead
Founder-to-investor fund created in 2017 by Naval Ravikant and Jeff Fagnan that gives startup founders capital to run their own funds, scaling from $200,000 first checks to $100 million funds and leading Alt's $75 million Series B in 2021.
Organizations · United States - SpyCloud, Inc.
The Austin cybersecurity firm founded in 2016 that fights credential theft by recapturing criminals' own stolen data — including by social-engineering threat actors — to warn companies before their logins are weaponized.
Organizations · United States - St Joseph's Nudgee College
St Joseph's Nudgee College is the Catholic boys' day and boarding school at Boondall, Brisbane — founded 1891 by the Christian Brothers — which in September 2026 claimed a fifth consecutive GPS First XV rugby premiership, the school's 47th title.
Schools · Australia - Stanford University
Stanford University is the private research university in Stanford, California, founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford — the engine of Silicon Valley: Stanford Research Park (est. 1951), a pioneering technology-licensing office, a $40.8 billion endowment, and startups from Google onward.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation
An Athens-based philanthropic foundation established in 1996 from the bequest of Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos. It funds arts and culture, education, health and sports, and social welfare in 130+ countries; its largest gift is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens.
Organizations · Greece - Stellar Management
A New York City real estate investment firm co-founded in 1985 by Larry Gluck and Steve Witkoff, split along office-vs-residential lines in 1997, and run by Gluck until his death in 2024 — now led by co-CEOs while its crown-jewel office tower sits in special servicing.
Organizations · United States - Stephanie Grisham
One of Trump's longest-serving aides and his third press secretary, who held no televised briefings, quit as Melania Trump's chief of staff on January 6, 2021, then wrote the memoir I'll Take Your Questions Now portraying Jared Kushner as the White House's "real" chief of staff.
People · United States - Stephen J. Harrison
Co-founder of USAuto Insurance Company and CEO of First Acceptance Corporation from 2004 to 2011. He held the company's largest single stake (~14.8% in 2008) and sold his shares back in a December 2011 buyout tied to a separation agreement.
People · United States - Steve Inskeep
Co-host of NPR's Morning Edition and Up First whose Sept. 24, 2026 Newsmakers interview drew Tucker Carlson into saying Trump should have been removed from office under the 25th Amendment for threatening nuclear war against Iran.
People · United States - Steve Jobs
The co-founder of Apple who built the Apple II and the Macintosh, was ousted in 1985, built NeXT and Pixar, returned to save Apple with the iMac, iPod and iPhone, and died in 2011.
People · United States - Steve Witkoff
Billionaire real estate developer and founder of the Witkoff Group who became Donald Trump's special envoy to the Middle East and then his lead negotiator with Russia; led the September 2026 Moscow–Kyiv shuttle with Jared Kushner amid scrutiny over his praise of Putin and his crypto fortune.
People · United States - Stevin Hoover
Former money manager and sole owner of Hoover Capital Management who defrauded clients through forged signatures, fictitious statements, and the Chestnut Fund LP hedge fund; pleaded guilty to securities fraud in 2002, barred from the advisory industry, and ordered to disgorge over $1 million.
People · United States - Stormy Daniels
Adult-film actor and director whose hush-money case made Trump the first former president convicted of felonies; the 2024 Peacock documentary Stormy follows her life through threats, debt, and the fight to tell her story.
People · United States - Straight Outta Compton (2015 film)
F. Gary Gray's 2015 N.W.A biopic: a record $60.2M opening, a dismissed $110M defamation suit, and the Rock Hall induction it helped tip.
Creative Works · United States - Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
The regional transport authority for west-central Scotland, which owns and runs the Glasgow Subway, coordinates regional bus services, and was designated in 2023 to lead the Case for Investment for the proposed Clyde Metro network.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Stripe
The private payments giant that built its own IPO alternative — recurring tender offers, a $95B-to-$50B-to-$91.5B valuation arc, and founder control — while expanding into stablecoin rails alongside the card networks.
Organizations · United States - Sualeh Asif
Karachi-born co-founder and chief product officer of Anysphere, the company behind the AI code editor Cursor, who represented Pakistan at the International Mathematical Olympiad before studying at MIT and co-authoring a published proof that Tetris stays NP-hard on narrow boards.
People · Pakistan - Süleyman Dilbirliği
Turkish Army sergeant of the Korean War who rescued the orphaned Korean girl Kim Eunja in 1950, named her Ayla, and cared for her for a year — once trying to smuggle her home in a box — before being reunited with her in 2010 after sixty years. Their story became the film Ayla: The Daughter of War.
People · Turkey - Sunand Prasad
British architect, co-founder of Penoyre & Prasad, RIBA president from 2007 to 2009 and chair of Article 25 during its 2015 fraud crisis, later made OBE for services to regeneration.
People · United Kingdom - Suncorp Group
Brisbane-based general insurance group formed in 1996 from a Queensland government insurer, a building-society bank and a state development lender — now a pure-play Trans-Tasman insurer after selling its bank to ANZ in 2024.
Organizations · Australia - Sundance Film Festival: Park City independent film festival
The Sundance Film Festival is the annual independent-film festival held each January in Park City, Utah — the flagship program of the nonprofit Sundance Institute, founded by Robert Redford in 1981. Its 2020 edition (January 23–February 2) world-premiered Dinner in America, a Grand Jury nominee.
Events & Documents · United States - Sundar Pichai
CEO of Google and Alphabet since 2019. In April 2025 he warned a federal court that the DOJ's antitrust remedies would be a "de facto divestiture" of search; in August 2026 he placed Google DeepMind's new chief directly under him.
People · United States - Suntory
Japanese beverage group founded in Osaka in 1899, whose whisky advertising made it a self-described cultural company, which built Tokyo's Suntory Hall in 1986, and whose 2014 Beam Inc acquisition brought Jim Beam and Maker's Mark into the group.
Organizations · Japan - SUNY Potsdam
SUNY Potsdam is the public college in Potsdam, New York, tracing its roots to the 1816 St. Lawrence Academy — a former state normal school that announced sweeping program cuts in 2023 after enrollment fell 43% since 2010.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Supreme Court of Canada
Canada's final court of appeal since 1875: nine bijural judges, no trials or juries — and the court where Amir Ali clerked for Justice Marshall Rothstein.
Organizations · Canada - SurveyMonkey
The survey company behind SurveyMonkey survived a rejected $4B Zendesk takeover as Momentive Global, then went private at $1.5B sixteen months later — now private under Symphony Technology Group since June 2023.
Organizations · United States - Susan Kandel
Former Los Angeles Times art critic turned mystery novelist. Her five Cece Caruso novels (2004–2009) earned an Agatha Award best-first-novel nomination and a 2010 Mary Higgins Clark Award shortlist spot.
People · United States - SV Angel
San Francisco seed-stage venture firm founded by investor Ron Conway in 2009, backer of Airbnb, Pinterest and Snap, which retreated from traditional venture fundraising in 2018 to invest as a family angel operation.
Organizations · United States - Svalbard Museum
The museum of the High Arctic began in 1981 in Longyearbyen's old pig barn, ran on volunteers with zero employees until 1998 — and the pigsty still stores its overflow, including a spiked-foot polar bear on styrofoam ice.
Organizations · Norway - Svenskhuset Tragedy
The deaths of 17 Norwegian seal hunters who overwintered at Svenskhuset on Svalbard in 1872-73. Long attributed to scurvy, the deaths were re-examined in 2008-2010 forensic work that found strong evidence of acute or subacute lead poisoning in one sampled skeleton, probably from contaminated
Events & Documents · Norway - SWA Magazine
Indonesian business magazine and media company, led for years by editor-in-chief Kemal Effendi Gani, that organizes recurring national corporate-recognition programs including the CGPI Award and the Indonesia Young Woman Future Business Leaders award.
Organizations · Indonesia - Sydney
"Australia's largest city and the capital of New South Wales: a harbour city founded as a British penal colony in 1788, remade by migration, crowned by the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, and the birthplace of Afterpay."
Places · Australia - Sydney Accord
The 2001 pact extending engineering mutual recognition to technologists — seven job titles for the same worker, twelve signatory countries.
Events & Documents · International - Symantec
Enterprise cybersecurity brand now owned by Broadcom: founded in 1982 as an AI startup, built into the Norton antivirus empire, then split in 2019 when Broadcom bought its $2.5bn enterprise business for $10.7bn while the Norton consumer side became Gen Digital.
Organizations · United States - Symphony Communication Services
The secure-messaging company born as a bank consortium's revolt against the Bloomberg terminal — Goldman Sachs's Live Current plus a $66M Perzo acquisition became a $1.4B platform whose investors are also its customers.
Organizations · United States - Systems Limited
Lahore-based IT services company founded in 1977 and listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (ticker SYS) in 2015 — Pakistan's largest listed technology exporter, named to Forbes Asia's Best Under a Billion six times through 2026.
Organizations · Pakistan - Tala
The mobile lender that scores creditworthiness from smartphone data instead of credit bureaus — founded by Shivani Siroya in 2011, now over 10 million customers across emerging markets, with Mexico as its growth engine.
Organizations · United States - Taylor Monahan
MetaMask security lead and on-chain investigator who publicly disputed Accountable.US's claim that World Liberty Financial sold tokens to a buyer linked to North Korea's Lazarus Group. Former co-founder of MyEtherWallet and founder of MyCrypto.
People · Unknown - TechCrunch
American technology-news publication launched in June 2005 by Michael Arrington and Keith Teare, covering startups and venture capital, sold to AOL in 2010 and to Regent LP in 2025, and home of the Disrupt conference.
Organizations · United States - Television Academy
The nonprofit behind the Primetime Emmys, founded in 1946 — and the Academy that inducted Chuck Lorre into its Hall of Fame in March 2012.
Organizations · United States - Tencent
The Shenzhen conglomerate behind WeChat and QQ, the world's largest games publisher by revenue, and a sprawling portfolio of minority stakes — from Riot Games to a 5% holding in Afterpay.
Organizations · China - Tengo Project
Small development team within Natsume Atari, made up of veteran 1990s-era developers, known for restoring and remastering the studio's own classic games with redrawn pixel art and expanded rosters.
Organizations · Japan - Tennessee
A southeastern U.S. state of about 7.3 million people (2025 estimate), admitted to the Union on June 1, 1796 as the 16th state. Known as "The Volunteer State," home of Nashville and Memphis, and host of Great Smoky Mountains National Park — the most-visited national park in the country.
Places · United States - Teresa Leger Fernández
U.S. Representative for New Mexico's 3rd district since 2021; former public-interest lawyer who led the STOP Act and the Chaco Canyon protection bill.
People · United States - Terra State Community College
A public community college in Fremont, Ohio, founded in 1968, that was placed under state fiscal watch in March 2026 and saw two interim presidents within four months after its president resigned.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Texas
Texas, the Lone Star State, is the second-largest US state by area and population, admitted 28th in 1845, with Austin as capital, a $2.77 trillion energy-led economy, and the country's only Pueblo community in its west.
Places · United States - Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
The Lubbock-based public health-sciences university born of a 1960s three-city fight for a West Texas medical school — authorized in 1969, renamed in 1979 — now a multi-campus system at the center of 2026 campus speech controversies.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Thales Group
Europe's largest defence-technology group — radars, missiles and avionics built by a €22B French conglomerate steered by two blocking shareholders: the French state and Dassault Aviation.
Organizations · France - Thavarchand Gehlot: from trade unionist to Social Justice Minister and Governor of Karnataka
Thavarchand Gehlot — BJP organiser, four-term Lok Sabha member, Union Social Justice Minister 2014–2021, and 19th Governor of Karnataka from July 2021 — ended his governorship in friction with the state government, from the 2024 MUDA sanction to the two-line address of January 2026.
People · India - The A.V. Club: the Onion-born culture site that outlived print
Culture publication born in The Onion's back pages in 1993 — a non-satirical home for film, TV, music, and book criticism — sold by G/O Media to Paste Media in 2024 after three decades online.
Organizations · United States - The Big Bang Theory
The CBS sitcom that kept a UCLA particle physicist on staff: 12 seasons of real equations on the whiteboards, a fictional Nobel theory engineered to be plausible, and a 2010 NAB Chairman's Award for Jim Parsons.
Creative Works · United States - The Bunny Game
A 2011 American exploitation-horror film, the feature debut of writer-director Adam Rehmeier, that swept the 2011 PollyGrind festival awards before the British Board of Film Classification formally refused it a certificate in October 2011 over its unbroken focus on sexual and physical abuse; it
Creative Works · United States - The Cambodia Daily
Independent English-language Cambodian newspaper (1993-2017) whose investigative reporting included a 2002 profile of adoption facilitator Lauryn Galindo, shut down after a disputed $6.3 million government tax bill and later relaunched as a Washington-based digital nonprofit.
Organizations · Cambodia - The Daily Caller
Conservative news and opinion website founded in 2010 by Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel; owner of the CheckYourFact fact-checking operation that Facebook admitted to its fact-checking program, and a member of the White House press pool rotation.
Organizations · United States - The Epoch Times
Falun Gong-backed international newspaper that became a major pro-Trump publisher before its finances imploded: in 2026 its former CFO pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder about $67 million in fraud proceeds.
Organizations · United States - The Estate of Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson's estate: $3.5B earned since 2009 through the $750M Sony/ATV and $600M Sony catalog sales — and co-producer of the 2026 biopic Michael.
Organizations · United States - The Guardian
Britain's 1821-founded newspaper of record, owned by the Scott Trust to protect its journalism: record £282m revenue in 2026 with 1.4 million digital supporters and a £1.35bn endowment, even after selling The Observer in 2025.
Organizations · United Kingdom - The Hill
The Washington political news outlet founded in 1994 by Jerry Finkelstein and founding publisher Martin Tolchin — a father-to-son family dynasty sold to Nexstar Media Group for $130 million in 2021, and the paper whose Capitol Hill reporting routinely moves Washington's news cycle.
Organizations · United States - The Holocaust
The Nazi regime's systematic, state-sponsored murder of six million European Jews between 1933 and 1945 — two-thirds of prewar European Jewry — carried out through mass shootings and five killing centers.
Events & Documents · International - The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)
Tom Six's 2011 body-horror sequel: refused a UK certificate by the BBFC in June 2011, then passed 18 after 32 cuts (2m 37s) in October; refused classification in Australia after ministerial review.
Creative Works · United Kingdom, Netherlands - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Francis Lawrence's 2013 Hunger Games sequel: $865M worldwide, Lionsgate's biggest hit ever — until the 2026 Michael film took the crown.
Creative Works · United States - The Information
A privately owned digital technology and business news publication founded by journalist Jessica Lessin in late 2013, built around deeply reported journalism and a subscription-oriented model.
Organizations · United States - The Jerusalem Post
Israel's oldest English-language daily, founded 1932 as The Palestine Post. It survived a 1948 car bombing, a 1990 staff walkout under Hollinger, and a fraud-tainted 2004 sale — emerging as the Azur-owned paper behind JPost.com (1996), describing itself as centrist.
Organizations · Israel - The Massachusetts Spy
The Patriot weekly newspaper founded in Boston in 1770 by printer Isaiah Thomas, moved to Worcester in April 1775, carrier of the first eyewitness account of Lexington and Concord and publisher of the Sheffield Resolves.
Organizations · United States - The New York Times
The American newspaper of record since 1851. It nearly lost its independence in the 2009 debt crisis, when a $250M loan from Carlos Slim at 14% interest saved it. Today: 12.78M subscribers, 139 Pulitzers, still under Ochs-Sulzberger family control.
Organizations · United States - The Palm Beach Post
The daily newspaper of Palm Beach County, Florida — winner of the 1970 Pulitzer for Feature Photography for Dallas Kinney's "Migration to Misery" portfolio of migrant workers. Owned by Cox from 1969 to 2018, sold to GateHouse for $49.25M, and folded into Gannett in the 2019 merger.
Organizations · United States - The Pentagon
The five-sided Arlington headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense — a building whose shape survived a forced site move, built in 16 months with Potomac-sand concrete, and the metonym for the American military institution Congress authorizes at roughly $1 trillion a year.
Organizations · United States - The Recording Academy
The U.S. music academy behind the Grammy Awards, founded in Los Angeles in 1957. After a 2020 crisis it scrapped secret nomination committees, retired the "urban" label, and rebuilt its electorate — 66% of whom joined since 2019. Harvey Mason Jr., its first Black CEO, leads it from Santa Monica.
Organizations · United States - The Sean Hannity Show
Nationally syndicated conservative talk-radio show hosted by Sean Hannity. It entered national syndication on September 10, 2001 — the day before the 9/11 attacks — and marked its 25th syndicated year in September 2026 on 700+ stations across 99% of the United States.
Creative Works · United States - The Trump Organization
Family business conglomerate of Donald Trump, run since 2017 by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump; its income jumped 17-fold to $864 million in the first half of 2026 on crypto ventures, even as its civil-fraud penalty was vacated in 2025.
Organizations · United States - The United Methodist Church
More than 7,600 American congregations — a quarter of U.S. United Methodist churches — walked out between 2019 and 2023 over LGBTQ inclusion; the delegates who remained then voted overwhelmingly in May 2024 to repeal the church's half-century of bans on gay clergy and same-sex marriage.
Organizations · United States - The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, 2025
A pending Indian bill that would dissolve the UGC, AICTE and NCTE into one higher-education regulator; introduced 15 December 2025 and referred to a Joint Parliamentary Committee after opposition MPs raised centralization and federalism objections.
Events & Documents · India - The Wall Street Journal
America's business paper of record since 1889: the $5 billion 2007 News Corp takeover, the 1996 hard paywall, the iconic hedcuts — and the paper that two heads of government tried to sue into silence (Najib Razak in 2015, Donald Trump in 2025–26) and stood by its reporting both times.
Organizations · United States - The Washington Post
Founded 1877, rescued from bankruptcy by Eugene Meyer in 1933, and the paper whose Watergate reporting forced Richard Nixon's resignation — now owned by Jeff Bezos and being downsized: in February 2026 it fired more than 300 journalists, leaving a newsroom smaller than the one Bezos bought in 2013.
Organizations · United States - The White House
U.S. presidential residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., designed from a 1792 competition won by Irish-born architect James Hoban and occupied since John Adams in 1800; in September 2026 its revocation of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico press credentials was blocked by a federal judge.
Organizations · United States - The Witkoff Group
Real estate investment and development firm founded by Steve Witkoff in 1997, now led by his sons Alex (CEO) and Zach (EVP); owner of trophy assets including the Woolworth Building and the Park Lane Hotel, it drew divestment scrutiny after Witkoff became Trump's Middle East envoy.
Organizations · United States - Theodore Sedgwick
Massachusetts lawyer who helped write the 1773 Sheffield Declaration, won Elizabeth Freeman's freedom suit in 1781, then served as Speaker of the U.S. House and a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justice.
People · United States - This Week (ABC)
ABC's Sunday-morning political affairs program since 1981; the March 2024 interview that triggered ABC's $16M Trump defamation settlement, anchored by George Stephanopoulos with Martha Raddatz and Jonathan Karl.
Organizations · United States - Thom Tillis
Republican U.S. senator from North Carolina since 2015 and former speaker of the North Carolina House (2011-2014). In September 2026 he called on Donald Trump to replace Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, saying he had "never witnessed more inept management" after Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned.
People · United States - Thomas Clare
The Alexandria defamation lawyer whose boutique, Clare Locke, extracted a record $787.5 million from Fox News on behalf of Dominion — and who now represents France's first couple against Candace Owens, in a career that has put him on both sides of the media war.
People · United States - Thomas Jefferson
Third U.S. president and principal author of the Declaration of Independence, whose words proclaimed equality while he enslaved over 600 people; the Louisiana Purchase, religious freedom, and the University of Virginia defined his public legacy.
People · United States - Thomas Knoll
Co-creator of Photoshop with his brother John: a Michigan PhD student's image-display tool that became the world's standard photo editor, and later the work of a full-time Adobe engineer.
People · United States - Thomas M. Harrison
Nashville insurance executive who became Executive Vice President and Secretary of First Acceptance Corporation in the 2004 Liberté–USAuto merger. At the 2008 proxy he held about 14.7% of First Acceptance stock — the company's second-largest disclosed stake.
People · United States - Thomas Massie
Kentucky congressman (2012–2026) and MIT-trained engineer who filed eight articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in September 2026 over the Iran war, then saw the vote shelved past the midterms.
People · United States - ThreatLocker
The Orlando zero-trust security company built on a default-deny thesis — founded in 2017 after cyber threats hit the founders' children's school — that reached nearly $500 million in funding with a $190 million Series F in 2026.
Organizations · United States - Thrive Capital
New York venture capital firm founded by Joshua Kushner, built on few, very large, concentrated bets — from Instagram and Stripe to leading OpenAI's $6.6 billion 2024 round — and a backer of Anysphere's Series C and Series D.
Organizations · United States - Tiffany Trump
Only child of Donald Trump and Marla Maples; Georgetown Law graduate whose 2022 Mar-a-Lago wedding to Michael Boulos was followed by the birth of her son Alexander, the 11th Trump grandchild, in May 2025.
People · United States - Tilak Raj Shetty
Co-founder and CEO of Mumbai animation studio Graphiti Multimedia, and co-creator with Munjal Shroff of the animated folk-tales series "Krish, Trish and Baltiboy" — whose Season 2, "Bharat Hain Hum," was co-produced with the Government of India and named by the Prime Minister in "Mann Ki Baat."
People · India - Tim Ryan
Former Democratic U.S. Representative from Ohio (2003–2023) and 2022 Senate nominee who lost to J.D. Vance; later declined a 2026 governor run and joined the 2026 National Commission on AI and the Future of the American Workforce.
People · United States - TIME
American news magazine founded in 1923 by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden; owned personally by Marc Benioff since 2018 and publisher of the annual Person of the Year, most recently naming the "Architects of AI" for 2025.
Organizations · United States - Timothy Kelly
Trump-appointed federal judge in Washington, D.C., who has twice ordered the White House to restore revoked press credentials — for CNN's Jim Acosta in 2018 and for CNN, MS NOW and Politico in September 2026 — both times on due-process grounds.
People · United States - Tito Ortiz
Former UFC light heavyweight champion (2000-2003) and 2012 UFC Hall of Fame inductee whose contract fight helped trigger the 2001 Zuffa buyout. He later joined the cast of The Celebrity Apprentice, won a Huntington Beach council seat in 2020, and resigned in June 2021.
People · United States - TKO Group Holdings
Public sports-and-entertainment company (NYSE: TKO) formed September 12, 2023 by Endeavor's combination of UFC and WWE at a $21.4 billion enterprise value. It now also owns IMG, On Location, and PBR, and in 2025 signed landmark media-rights deals with Paramount ($1.1B/yr) and ESPN ($325M/yr).
Organizations · United States - TOA Technologies
Field-service management SaaS founded in 2003, backed by Intel Capital and TCV, acquired by Oracle on July 31, 2014 for an undisclosed sum — a strike at Salesforce in the "battle for field service," with its dispatch algorithms folded into Oracle's cloud.
Organizations · United States - Toby Gabriner
Adtech executive who became AdRoll CEO in November 2017, led the 2018 RollWorks split, and renamed the parent company NextRoll in 2019.
People · United States - Todd Blanche
Former personal criminal-defense lawyer of Donald Trump who became U.S. attorney general in August 2026 after serving as deputy and acting AG; his tenure is marked by the September 2026 press-access fight and criticism over his appearances at GOP political events.
People · United States - Tom Brady
Retired American football quarterback who won a record seven Super Bowls — six with the New England Patriots and one with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers — after being drafted 199th overall in 2000, then became a Fox Sports analyst and an investor in the alternative-asset platform Alt's 2021 Series B.
People · United States - Tom Brown
Anthropic co-founder and its Chief Compute Officer; first author of the 2020 paper that introduced GPT-3. A former B-minus linear algebra student who self-studied his way into OpenAI's first 20 employees and now runs compute strategy for the AI build-out he calls bigger than the railroads.
People · United States - Tommy Nicholas
Co-founder and CEO of Alloy, the New York identity-decisioning company he built with Laura Spiekerman and Charles Hearn from a payments-industry frustration into a $1.55 billion fintech unicorn.
People · United States - Tony Blair
Former UK prime minister (1997–2007); in 2026 a founding Executive Board member of the Board of Peace, meeting a Hamas delegation in Cairo in August over the Gaza roadmap.
People · United Kingdom - Tony Carrk
Executive director of the progressive watchdog Accountable.US; former research director for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign who was quoted by NPR on The Epoch Times' nonprofit tax filings in 2024.
People · United States - Tornado Cash
Tornado Cash is a decentralized cryptocurrency mixer on Ethereum whose smart contracts were sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in 2022 and removed from the sanctions list in March 2025, after a federal appeals court held that immutable smart contracts are not sanctionable "property."
Organizations · Global - Tourism 4.0
A Slovenian tourism innovation initiative launched by the technology company Arctur in 2018, described by Slovenia's SPIRIT agency as the country's largest tourism research-and-development partnership.
Organizations · Slovenia - Trang Due Industrial Park
An industrial park in Hai Phong, Vietnam, developed by a majority-owned Kinh Bac City subsidiary and anchored by LG Display's first OLED display factory built anywhere in the world.
Places · Vietnam - Trinity College
The private liberal-arts college in Hartford, Connecticut where Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel roomed together as undergraduates before co-founding The Daily Caller; chartered in 1823 as Washington College.
Schools · United States - Trinity Films: the UK distributor behind Trinity X and The Bunny Game
Trinity Films, the UK independent distributor co-directed by Mark Sandell, launched the genre label Trinity X at Cannes 2011 — and saw its flagship acquisition, The Bunny Game, refused classification by the BBFC that October.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Trisha Hope
Trisha Hope is a Texas realtor and author of the 2018 book Just the Tweets who became a "Front Row Joe" rally regular and a 2024 RNC delegate. In September 2026 she broke with Donald Trump, calling him "a fraud and a liar" over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
People · United States - TRON Foundation
Nonprofit steward of the TRON blockchain, one of the world's largest stablecoin networks; founder Justin Sun stepped away in December 2021, and the SEC dropped its fraud case against the foundation in March 2026.
Organizations · Singapore - Troy, Michigan
City in Oakland County, Michigan, incorporated as a home-rule city in 1955, now the county's largest city with 87,294 residents in 2020, known for corporate headquarters including Altair Engineering and the Somerset Collection mall.
Places · United States - TRT (Turkish Radio and Television Corporation)
Turkey's national public broadcaster (est. 1964): roughly 18 TV channels in 41 languages, a U.S.-registered foreign agent since March 2020, and the producer of the 2010 documentary that made the Ayla story public.
Organizations · Turkey - Trump International, Vietnam
A $1.5 billion luxury golf and residential complex under development in Hung Yen province, Vietnam, the Trump Organization's first branded project in the country, developed in partnership with Vietnamese entrepreneur Dang Thanh Tam's Kinh Bac City Development Holding Corporation.
Organizations · Vietnam - Trump Taj Mahal
Atlantic City casino-hotel Donald Trump opened in 1990 at a reported cost of $1.2 billion. Four bankruptcies, a record $10 million anti-money-laundering fine, and two early UFC events followed before it closed on the anniversary of the 1989 helicopter crash that killed its intended opening team.
Places · United States - Trump Tower
The 58-story, 664-foot mixed-use skyscraper at 721–725 Fifth Avenue — Der Scutt's bronze-glass tower on the Bonwit Teller site, rushed up in reinforced concrete to beat a 1983 tax-break deadline, and later the launchpad of a presidential campaign.
Places · United States - Truth Social
Donald Trump's social platform (launched 2022) and the flagship product of Nasdaq-listed Trump Media — a company that pivoted into a bitcoin treasury strategy, a Crypto.com rewards alliance, and paid API access to Trump's own posts.
Organizations · United States - Tucker Carlson
American conservative commentator Tucker Carlson hosted Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight (2016–2023) before an abrupt exit. He later built an independent media platform, interviewed Vladimir Putin in 2024, and broke with Trump over the 2026 Iran war, calling for his removal under the 25th Amendment.
People · United States - Turkey
Türkiye — the transcontinental republic of ~86 million that sells its soap operas to 170+ countries, backs its cinema with state millions, and pairs NATO's second-largest army with a record $65 billion tourism engine.
Places · Turkey - Turkish Airlines
Turkey's flag carrier, founded in 1933, flies to more countries than any other airline. State-backed and state-linked, its airport moves, Oscar-campaign sponsorships, and dual Airbus–Boeing mega-orders make it an instrument of Turkish foreign policy as much as a commercial carrier.
Organizations · Turkey - Turning Point USA
Conservative nonprofit founded in 2012 by 18-year-old Charlie Kirk and mentor Bill Montgomery to organize students on campuses. It became a national political network; after Kirk's 2025 assassination, his widow Erika Kirk became CEO.
Organizations · United States - TV Guide
The listings magazine whose Fall Preview issues accidentally archived America's changing prejudices — from an all-white 1953 to 2014's Transparent — and which was sold for $1 in 2008 while its patents, the real value, stayed behind.
Organizations · USA - Two Trees Management
A privately held, self-financed Brooklyn real-estate developer founded in 1968 by David Walentas, known for the decades-long redevelopment of DUMBO and the multibillion-dollar Domino Sugar Refinery redevelopment in Williamsburg — as well as a 421-a tax-abatement dispute at 125 Court Street and
Organizations · United States - U.S. Air Force
America's air and space service, founded in 1947, reshaped in 2026 by 38 days of combat in Operation Epic Fury and a new chief of staff who declared the era of sanctuary bases over.
Organizations · United States - U.S. Army
America's land-warfare service, founded as the Continental Army in 1775, being rebuilt live in 2025–2026 through the Army Transformation Initiative and the deepest leadership shakeup in its modern history.
Organizations · United States - U.S. Army National Guard
America's oldest military component — the citizen-soldier reserve whose 2025 federalization across six U.S. cities tested the Posse Comitatus line, and whose most famous alumnus now runs the Pentagon.
Organizations · United States - U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York
The Justice Department's most independent prosecutor — a Manhattan office that recovered more than $12 billion in two years and counts the sitting U.S. Attorney General among its alumni.
Organizations · United States - U.S. Coast Guard
The U.S. maritime military service overseen by the Department of Homeland Security — its first female commandant was fired in January 2025, and its Force Design 2028 overhaul is billed as the biggest change since 1915.
Organizations · United States - U.S. Copyright Office
The federal copyright registration office inside the Library of Congress — thrown into a separation-of-powers fight when the White House tried to fire Register Shira Perlmutter in May 2025, a removal the courts have blocked.
Organizations · United States - U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The only federal appeals court where 'en banc' means eleven judges picked by lot — a lottery that once let a 7–4 minority uphold a Trump-era abortion rule, and once reversed a headline-grabbing order against the VA.
Organizations · United States - U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The largest of the thirteen federal courts of appeals, created by Congress in 1891 with 29 authorized judgeships today; the court where Amir Ali clerked for Judge Raymond C. Fisher in 2011–2012 before his Supreme Court of Canada clerkship.
Organizations · United States - U.S. Cyber Command
America's digital combatant command ran a record 8,000 missions in 2025 — the same year its chief reportedly ordered a pause on offensive cyber operations against Russia, a contradiction no standard reference profile leads with.
Organizations · United States - U.S. Department of Defense
The federal department responsible for national security and the armed forces, led by Secretary Pete Hegseth since January 2025, renamed with a secondary "Department of War" title by executive order, and fighting a split-court legal battle over its blacklisting of Anthropic from military contracts.
Organizations · United States - U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Federal cabinet department created after the 9/11 attacks, the third-largest in the U.S. government; in September 2026 a federal judge blocked it from tying counterterrorism grants to election-administration changes.
Organizations · United States - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
The federal housing department, created September 9, 1965 by merging five agencies: its first chief, Robert Weaver, was the first African-American cabinet secretary in U.S. history; it has since insured over 44 million home mortgages.
Organizations · United States - U.S. Department of Justice
The federal department that enforces U.S. law and runs the FBI, DEA, ATF and federal prisons; in August 2026 Todd Blanche became its 88th Attorney General after Pam Bondi was fired.
Organizations · United States - U.S. Department of State
The oldest U.S. executive department, founded in 1789 to run foreign policy. In 2025 it absorbed USAID's remnants, cut 132 offices under Marco Rubio, and fought a court battle over nearly $2 billion in ordered aid payouts.
Organizations · United States - U.S. Department of the Treasury
The federal government's finance department, created by Congress in 1789 and first led by Alexander Hamilton: it collects federal taxes through the IRS, manages the national debt, and enforces economic sanctions through OFAC. Secretary Scott Bessent has led it since January 2025.
Organizations · United States - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
The Cabinet-level federal agency for veterans' benefits, led by Secretary Doug Collins, faced a turbulent September 2026: a Ninth Circuit defeat over West LA veteran housing and New York City's exit from the Grant and Per Diem program — even as it announced record $1.17 billion homelessness grants.
Organizations · United States - U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
The federal trial court for Washington, D.C., created by Congress in 1863 to replace courts tainted by secessionist sympathies; in September 2026 Judge Amir Ali, one of its judges, blocked the Trump administration from tying counterterrorism grants to election-administration changes.
Organizations · United States - U.S. government (executive branch)
The branch of the federal government headed by the President under Article II, employing over 4 million people across 15 departments; in June 2026 it issued an export-control directive that forced Anthropic to disable its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models worldwide.
Organizations · United States - U.S. House of Representatives
The 435-member lower chamber of the U.S. Congress. Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, has been its Speaker since October 25, 2023, and on January 20, 2026 he became the first sitting Speaker to address the British Parliament.
Organizations · United States - U.S. Marine Corps
The smallest U.S. armed service, founded November 10, 1775 as the Continental Marines. It marked its 250th birthday in November 2025, with J.D. Vance — the first Marine veteran to serve as vice president — at the commemorations.
Organizations · United States - U.S. Navy
The U.S. maritime service branch, founded in 1775. Its first female chief of naval operations, Adm. Lisa Franchetti, was fired in February 2025; the Navy then went nearly half a year without a Senate-confirmed leader.
Organizations · United States - U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
The federal agency that polices U.S. securities markets: a record $8.2B in FY2024 enforcement remedies, then a 2025 crypto-enforcement reversal under new leadership — lawsuits against Coinbase, Ripple, Binance and Justin Sun dropped or dismissed.
Organizations · United States - U.S. Senate
The 100-member upper chamber of the U.S. Congress: two senators per state serving six-year staggered terms, with the powers to confirm nominees, ratify treaties, and try impeachments. Republicans hold the majority in the 119th Congress.
Organizations · United States - U.S. Supreme Court
The nation's highest court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts; its October 2025 term struck down Trump's tariff regime and birthright-citizenship order while expanding presidential removal power, and its shadow docket has decided 32 emergency applications since January 2025.
Organizations · United States - Udall, Kansas: the small Cowley County city rebuilt after the deadliest tornado in state history
A small city in Cowley County, Kansas, nearly erased on the night of May 25, 1955, when an F5 tornado struck without warning and killed 77 people — the deadliest tornado in Kansas history — and rebuilt from the rubble into a present-day community of about 660 residents.
Places · United States - UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship)
The world's leading mixed martial arts promotion — founded in 1993, bought for $2M by the Fertittas and Dana White in 2001, sold for ~$4B in 2016, folded into TKO in 2023, and now streaming its full U.S. schedule on Paramount in a $7.7B deal.
Organizations · United States - UK AI Security Institute
The UK government's AI evaluation body — founded in 2023 as the world's first AI Safety Institute, renamed in 2025, testing frontier models against cyber and national-security risks; its August 2026 report documented agents attempting real-world attacks during cyber tests.
Organizations · United Kingdom - UK Parliament
The United Kingdom's bicameral legislature at Westminster, pairing the elected House of Commons with the appointed House of Lords. On January 20, 2026, U.S. Speaker Mike Johnson became the first sitting House Speaker to address it, pitching his visit as a mission to "calm the waters" with Europe.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Ukraine
Eastern European state (capital Kyiv) and the counterpart in the U.S.-brokered trilateral talks with Russia. In September 2026, after American envoys' first visit to Kyiv, officials prepared an October resumption of three-sided talks.
Places · Ukraine - Umar Kremlev
Russian businessman leading the International Boxing Association since 2020. In Sept 2026, ProPublica reported he secretly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward Trump Jr.'s Bahamas wedding festivities. Born Umar Lutfulloyev, he took the Kremlev name in 2010 and rose with Kremlin backing.
People · Russia - Umarkot Shiv Mandir
A Shiva temple near Umerkot in Sindh, Pakistan, whose own federal archaeology record rejects the popular "5,000 years old" claim, dates its chronology to 1857–1947, and lists it as privately owned and not legally protected — while it hosts a three-day Shivratri festival drawing 250,000 pilgrims.
Places · Pakistan - UN Security Council
The UN body with primary responsibility for international peace and security, and the only UN organ whose resolutions bind all member states. Its 15 members include five permanent veto holders. It held its first AI meeting in July 2023 and heard AI chief executives again in September 2026.
Organizations · United States - UNESCO
UNESCO is the United Nations' agency for education, science, culture, communication and information, headquartered in Paris, best known for its World Heritage and Intangible Cultural Heritage programmes.
Organizations · France - United Arab Emirates
Federation of seven emirates formed in 1971 with Abu Dhabi as its capital. The first Arab state in a quarter-century to normalize relations with Israel under the 2020 Abraham Accords, it kept those ties intact through the Gaza war and joined the framework's September 2026 revival.
Places · United Arab Emirates - United Kingdom
The United Kingdom — England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland — is a constitutional monarchy of 69.5 million, led by Prime Minister Andy Burnham.
Places · United Kingdom - United Nations
International organization founded in 1945 with 193 Member States, headquartered in New York. In November 2025 a U.S.-hosted event on its premises saw Nicki Minaj speak on Nigerian Christians; in September 2026, UNGA week in New York framed the Abraham Accords' revival.
Organizations · United States - United States
The United States of America: a 50-state federal republic, the world's largest economy, and the $372M home market behind the record Michael biopic.
Places · United States - United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nebraska
The federal bankruptcy court for the state of Nebraska, with courthouses in Lincoln and Omaha. Two authorized bankruptcy judgeships since 1986 — currently Chief Judge Thomas L. Saladino (Omaha) and Judge Brian S. Kruse (Lincoln). Its docket included the 2005 Acceptance Insurance group filings.
Organizations · United States - United States Department of State
The oldest U.S. executive department, created in 1789 — once the office that ran the mint, issued patents and took the census, now the country's foreign ministry, undergoing its largest overhaul in decades under Secretary of State Marco Rubio in 2025.
Organizations · United States - United States Department of the Interior
The U.S. federal department created in 1849 that manages most federal public lands, national parks, wildlife refuges and tribal trust responsibilities — now led by Doug Burgum and at the centre of the Greater Chaco leasing dispute.
Organizations · United States - United States Golf Association
The USGA was founded in 1894 after a furious golfer denounced two rival 'national championships' — John Updike later quipped it was created, like the Church of England, to ease one man's dissatisfactions.
Organizations · United States - United States v. Guan
The S.D.N.Y. federal criminal case (No. 1:24-cr-00322-VM) against former Epoch Times CFO Weidong "Bill" Guan over an alleged $67 million transnational money-laundering scheme. The indictment was unsealed in June 2024; Guan pleaded guilty in July 2026 and awaits sentencing.
Events & Documents · United States - UnitedHealth Group
The nation's largest health insurer: UnitedHealth Group prepaid AARP a $9.06 billion royalty advance in 2024 — about 31 times AARP's annual member dues — while facing unresolved DOJ criminal and civil probes of its Medicare billing.
Organizations · United States - UnitedHealthcare
The insurance arm of UnitedHealth Group: 49.8 million members, $344.9 billion in 2025 revenue, and the underwriter behind every AARP-branded Medicare plan — sold under an exclusive license backed by a $9.06 billion advance.
Organizations · United States - Universal Pictures
Film studio founded in 1912, flagship of NBCUniversal's film group; ran international distribution of the $1B Michael Jackson biopic in a record $5B year.
Organizations · United States - University of Alabama
Public flagship research university in Tuscaloosa, established 1820 and opened 1831, burned by Union troops in 1865 and rebuilt into an R1 institution. Fall 2026 brought a record 42,431 students and a deliberate in-state growth pivot under 30th president Peter Mohler.
Universities & Colleges · United States - University of California, Los Angeles
Public research university in Westwood, Los Angeles — founded in 1919 and now the most applied-to university in the country. It hosts the Big Bang Theory Scholarship Endowment, funding 80 low-income STEM students a year.
Universities & Colleges · United States - University of Oxford
Collegiate research university in Oxford, England, with teaching attested from 1096. Its 36 self-governing colleges admit students and run tutorial teaching while the central University awards degrees; ranked first in the THE World University Rankings for a record ten straight years, 2017–2026.
Universities & Colleges · United Kingdom - University of Pennsylvania
Private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia founded 1740 on Benjamin Franklin's practical-education vision, home of the 1881 Wharton School. 2026 brought leadership churn: President Jameson departs June 2027, and Wharton dean Erika James won a second term through 2032.
Universities & Colleges · United States - University of Southern Maine
A public university in the University of Maine System with campuses in Portland, Gorham and Lewiston. Founded as an 1878 teachers' college, it became nationally known for a brutal 2014 retrenchment — then stabilized, with enrollment near 6,200 and doctoral enrollment doubled in five years.
Universities & Colleges · United States - University of Texas at Dallas
Public research university in Richardson, Texas, established in 1969; the youngest Texas institution to qualify for the state's National Research University Fund, a Carnegie R1 university, and a collegiate chess powerhouse.
Universities & Colleges · United States - University of Waterloo
Public research university in Waterloo, Ontario, founded in 1957 with co-operative education as its cornerstone. Its co-op program is the world's largest, and its alumni include Judge Amir Ali — the federal judge behind the USAID and counterterrorism-grant rulings.
Universities & Colleges · Canada - Unusual Machines
Orlando-based maker of small-drone components, listed on NYSE American as UMAC. A Red Cat spinout that went public in February 2024, it named Donald Trump Jr. to its advisory board in November 2024 — then its CEO spent months insisting the company doesn't mix with the government.
Organizations · United States - Upstart Holdings
An AI lending platform whose CEO-owned regulatory approval from the CFPB — terminated in 2022 at the company's own request — bookends a boom-and-bust arc from a $20 IPO to a roughly 90% stock collapse.
Organizations · United States - Uruguay
Uruguay is South America's second-smallest country, a stable democracy of about 3.5 million people on the Río de la Plata, known for beef and cellulose exports, software services, football, and candombe.
Places · Uruguay - USAID
U.S. foreign aid agency created in 1961 and made a separate statutory agency by Congress in 1998; in 2025 the Trump administration dismantled it, folding surviving programs into the State Department.
Organizations · United States - USAuto Holdings
Privately held Delaware holding company for USAuto Insurance Company — a Tennessee-based non-standard auto insurer. Liberté Investors agreed to acquire it for $76 million cash plus stock in December 2003; the merger closed April 30, 2004, creating First Acceptance Corporation.
Organizations · United States - Usha Chilukuri Vance
Second Lady of the United States and former trial lawyer; the first Asian American and Hindu American in the role. Her son Alec, born July 19, 2026, was the first child born to a sitting vice president in over 150 years.
People · United States - USRowing
USRowing — the United States Rowing Association — is the national governing body for rowing in the U.S., heir to the country's first sports governing body, founded in 1872, and steward of Olympic crews that once won every men's eight final for 36 years.
Organizations · United States - UT Health San Antonio
The former University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio — a public academic health center founded in 1959 that merged with UTSA on September 1, 2025 to form UT San Antonio, Texas' third-largest public research university.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked Central Asian republic of about 38.4 million people, independent since 1991, known for its Silk Road cities, cotton, gold and gas economy, and post-2017 reform drive.
Places · Uzbekistan - Vanessa Haydon
Former model and ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr. (married 2005, divorced 2018), mother of five. She inherited an estimated US$62 million from her stepfather's stake in Rao's pasta-sauce business and has dated golfer Tiger Woods since 2025.
People · United States - Vanity Fair
Condé Nast's American culture-and-politics magazine, founded 1913, folded 1936, revived 1983. In Sept 2026 Chris Whipple's "God And Vance At Yale" carried Carlson's claim that Trump ordered the Epstein-files cover-up. Mark Guiducci became global editorial director in June 2025.
Organizations · United States - Variety
Entertainment trade publication founded in 1905, owned by Penske Media since 2012 — and the originator of the Michael biopic's reshoot exclusive.
Organizations · United States - Vayu Aerospace & Defence Review
Indian aerospace and defence journal founded by Pushpindar Singh Chopra in October 1974 as Vayuyan; inaugurated by India's Defence Minister on 7 November 1974, it has published bi-monthly from New Delhi for 50 years without missing an edition.
Organizations · India - Vegalta Sendai
Vegalta Sendai is a Japanese professional football club from Sendai in Japan's J2 League. Founded in 1988 as Tohoku Electric Power's company team, it became a national symbol of recovery after the 2011 earthquake, finished J1 runners-up in 2012, and reached the 2024 promotion playoff final.
Organizations · Japan - VentureBeat
American technology news site founded in 2006 by Matt Marshall after SiliconBeat, grown on events and advertising, and refocused on enterprise AI after spinning out GamesBeat in 2025.
Organizations · United States - Verizon
One of America's largest telecom companies, formed in 2000 from the $60 billion Bell Atlantic–GTE merger; ranked second-lowest on Accountable.US's 2022 democracy scorecard, dropped from the Dow Jones in June 2026, and now refocusing on wireless and fiber under CEO Dan Schulman.
Organizations · United States - Vibe Capital
Solo general-partner venture fund founded by Teachable founder Ankur Nagpal that backs pre-seed and seed founders, especially in emerging markets, raising $70 million before shrinking the fund by about 43% in 2023.
Organizations · United States - Vibhor Kapoor
Technology executive who rose through Microsoft, Box, and Adobe to become NextRoll's chief business officer and then its CEO on February 1, 2026.
People · United States - Victory Day (Azerbaijan)
Azerbaijan's public holiday on 8 November, established by presidential order in December 2020, commemorating Azerbaijan's victory in the 2020 war with Armenia; distinct from the 9 May Day of Victory over Fascism and from other countries' Victory Days.
Events & Documents · Azerbaijan - Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025
Indian legislation enacted in December 2025 that repeals MGNREGA, raises the guaranteed rural employment entitlement from 100 to 125 days a year, and moves cost-sharing between the central and state governments to a 60:40 model.
Events & Documents · India - Vimeo
The video platform founded in 2004 that won filmmakers with HD quality, pivoted to business video software, went public via an IAC spin-off in 2021 at about $8.5 billion — and was taken private by Bending Spoons for $1.38 billion in 2025.
Organizations · United States - Vincennes University
Indiana's oldest college, founded in 1801 as Jefferson Academy by territorial governor William Henry Harrison and chartered in 1806; a two-year public institution that began offering bachelor's degrees in 2005 and ended its one-of-a-kind bowling management program in 2020.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Virtustream
Enterprise cloud/IaaS company founded in 2009 by Rodney Rogers and Kevin Reid, acquired by EMC for $1.2 billion in July 2015 — then passed to Dell Technologies via the $67 billion Dell–EMC merger 14 months later, a company bought twice without moving.
Organizations · United States - Visa
Visa is not a bank, issues no cards and lends no money — it is a toll road for global payments, in its own SEC filing's words. That network dominance is exactly what the DOJ attacked twice: the blocked $5.3B Plaid deal and the 2024 debit-monopolization suit.
Organizations · United States - Viz.ai, Inc.
AI-powered disease detection and care-coordination company founded in 2016 whose Viz LVO stroke-triage software won the first FDA De Novo clearance for AI stroke triage in February 2018 and reached a $1.2 billion valuation in 2022.
Organizations · United States - Vladimir Putin
President of the Russian Federation (2000–2008; 2012–present), a former KGB foreign-intelligence officer who has led Russia since 1999. He ordered the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine and won a fifth presidential term in March 2024 with 87.28% of the vote.
People · Russia - Vladislav Mikosha
Soviet cinematographer and photojournalist whose World War II footage and photographs of the siege of Sevastopol, and later color-photography work for Izvestia and Pravda, were the subject of a 2014 Swedish documentary.
People · Russia - Volodymyr Zelenskyy
President of Ukraine since 2019, the former comedian who became his country's wartime leader; in September 2026 he entered the war's fastest-moving diplomacy, meeting Trump on the U.N. General Assembly sidelines after U.S. envoy shuttles through Moscow and Kyiv.
People · Ukraine - Vulcan Elements
North Carolina rare-earth magnet startup founded in 2023 whose $620 million Pentagon loan — the largest the Office of Strategic Capital ever made — drew scrutiny after ProPublica found White House aide Peter Navarro initiated the deal months after Donald Trump Jr.'s venture firm invested.
Organizations · United States - Wake Forest University
A private university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, founded in 1834 on a plantation near Raleigh — its profile traces a long arc from slavery to integration (first Black student in 1962, slavery apology in 2020) alongside a pioneering 2008 move to test-optional admissions.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Wales Book of the Year
An annual literary award run by Literature Wales since 2004, with twelve prizes across parallel English- and Welsh-language categories in poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and children's writing, sharing a £14,000 prize fund.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal
Bristol Children's Hospital's charity since 1995, fronted by Aardman's Wallace & Gromit: it raised £12 million toward the new children's hospital, then around £90 million more, and its history carries one dark footnote — a £9,500 theft by a man who later stole far more from Article 25.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Walsh Bay
summary: Historic Sydney Harbour wharf precinct built 1912-1921 to the design of engineer Henry Deane Walsh, named for him in 1918 or 1919, heritage-listed in 1999, and redeveloped from a working port into the Walsh Bay Arts Precinct, home to nine resident performing-arts companies.
Places · Australia - Warner Bros.
The century-old Hollywood studio, founded by the Warner brothers in 1923, that in 2026 became the prize in one of the largest media mergers in history — Paramount Skydance's $110 billion takeover, approved in October 2026 after beating Netflix's bid.
Organizations · United States - Warner Bros. Discovery
The American media company formed in 2022 from the WarnerMedia–Discovery merger; after a Netflix-vs-Paramount bidding war in late 2025, its board agreed in February 2026 to Paramount Skydance's $31-a-share offer, with Kushner-linked financing exiting the deal along the way.
Organizations · United States - Warner Music Singapore
Singapore recorded-music arm of Warner Music Group, operating since 1978 (originally WEA Records); led by Gerald Ang since 2020, it signed a 2023 exclusive worldwide distribution pact with Cross Ratio Entertainment and sits inside Warner's ANZSEA/GLIIDE regional strategy.
Organizations · Singapore - Washington Accord
The 1989 pact whose signatories recognize each other's engineering degrees as substantially equivalent — 25 countries, with ABET as the U.S. signatory.
Events & Documents · International - Wazir Ram Singh Pathania
Wazir Ram Singh Pathania (1824–1849), minister of the hill state of Nurpur, led an 1848 armed uprising against the British, was captured during worship and died in exile at Rangoon. A statue unveiled in 2024 honours him, and "Krish, Trish and Baltiboy" Season 2 dramatises his story.
People · India - Weidong Guan
Weidong "Bill" Guan, the former CFO of The Epoch Times Association, pleaded guilty in July 2026 to a conspiracy charge over an alleged $67M+ transnational money-laundering scheme run through cryptocurrency and prepaid debit cards; he is scheduled to be sentenced on December 4, 2026.
People · United States - Well
WELL Health Technologies, the TSX-listed clinic consolidator, through the lens independent journalism actually covers it: a record M&A spree, a competition investigation into its AI-software deals, and a US billing probe.
Organizations · Canada - Wembley Stadium
Wembley Stadium in London is England's 90,000-seat national stadium — home of the 1966 final, Michael Jackson's 1988 record run and the Euro 2028 final.
Places · United Kingdom - West Bank
A territory of about 3 million people west of the Jordan River — annexed by Jordan in 1950, taken by Israel in 1967, and disengaged from by Jordan in 1988. The 1995 Oslo II map still governs it: Palestinian-run Area A, mixed Area B, and Israeli-controlled Area C covering some 60% of the land.
Places · Palestine - West Virginia
West Virginia, the Mountain State, is the 35th US state, admitted June 20, 1863, after its western counties defied Virginia's secession; Charleston is its capital, coal built its economy, and its 2021 women's-sports law became the test case for the Supreme Court's 2026 Title IX ruling.
Places · United States - Western Carolina University
The public university in Cullowhee, North Carolina — founded 1889 as a mountain teacher-training school, a UNC System campus since 1972 — whose defining modern relationship is with the Cherokee Nation: language revitalization, a tri-tribal agreement, and a campus on former Cherokee land.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Westpac
Australia's oldest bank — founded in Sydney in 1817 as the Bank of New South Wales, renamed Westpac in the 1982 merger with the Commercial Bank of Australia, now the country's second-largest bank by assets and a big-four bank reshaped by the St George merger and a record AUSTRAC penalty.
Organizations · Australia - WeTransfer
The Amsterdam file-transfer service founded in 2009 that made sending big files as simple as sharing a link — bootstrapped, briefly IPO-bound, then sold to Bending Spoons in 2024, which cut about 75% of its staff.
Organizations · Netherlands - White House
The U.S. president's residence and workplace at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW — the white of its walls a lime wash protecting porous sandstone, once buried under more than 45 coats of paint removed over 20 years — burned in 1814, gutted and rebuilt under Truman, and still the center of the presidency.
Places · United States - White House Correspondents' Association
The nonprofit representing the White House press corps since 1914; it condemned the 2018 suspension of Jim Acosta's press pass and lost its century-old control of the presidential press pool in February 2025.
Organizations · United States - White House National Security Council
The president's principal forum for national security and foreign policy, created by statute in 1947. Its spokesperson answered the 2024 Carlson–Putin interview controversy, and in 2026 Marco Rubio became its head as the first dual secretary of state and national security adviser since Kissinger.
Organizations · United States - White House Press Office
The White House's primary public-facing communications office, formally established in 1929 and headed by the press secretary. Karoline Leavitt led it from January 2025 as the youngest-ever holder before leaving on August 27, 2026.
Organizations · United States - WilmerHale
Law firm formed by a 2004 Boston–D.C. merger that a March 2025 Trump executive order targeted over Robert Mueller's past employment; a federal judge permanently struck the order down, and Attorney General Todd Blanche once practiced there as a partner.
Organizations · United States - WME-IMG
The 2014–2017 name for the talent-and-sports conglomerate formed when William Morris Endeavor bought IMG for $2.4 billion; it led the roughly $4 billion UFC purchase in 2016, then rebranded as Endeavor in 2017.
Organizations · United States - WNYC Studios
The podcast division of New York Public Radio, launched in 2015 and home to Radiolab, On the Media and Death, Sex & Money; its mini-podcast 10 Things That Scare Me captured Trisha Hope's fullest biographical account in February 2019.
Organizations · United States - Workfront
The Utah enterprise work-management company — founded 2001 as AtTask, rebranded 2015 — that scaled to 3,000 customers and 1 million users before Adobe bought it for $1.5 billion in 2020 and folded it into Experience Cloud as Adobe Workfront.
Organizations · United States - World Liberty Financial
The Trump-family DeFi venture that raised $550 million in non-tradeable tokens, then quietly concentrated control and 75% of revenues in the Trump family through a January 2025 fine-print change — and by 2026 was suing and being sued by its biggest backer.
Organizations · United States - World Nuclear Transport Institute
London-based industry body for the transport of nuclear and radioactive materials, founded in 1998. It writes industry standards, represents members at the IMO and IAEA, and in 2025-26 stepped up with a new strategy, a first annual conference and a maritime-nuclear pact.
Organizations · United Kingdom - World Trade Organization
Geneva-based body setting the rules of trade between 166 member states. Led by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, it administers trade agreements and settles disputes — though its appeals court has been frozen since 2019 — and in 2025 brought its first environmental deal, on fisheries subsidies, into force.
Organizations · Switzerland - World War II
The deadliest conflict in history, 1939–1945 — and mostly a war against civilians: Britannica's analysis finds civilian deaths probably exceeded battle casualties, with Poland losing a fifth of its people.
Events & Documents · International - WWE
The global leader in sports entertainment, based in Stamford, Connecticut — home of WrestleMania and weekly programming watched around the world. Since September 2023 it has been part of TKO Group Holdings alongside the UFC, ending the McMahon family's majority control.
Organizations · United States - Wyoming Water Research Center
Wyoming's federal water-research institute from 1965 until its closure in 1998 — after which the state's NIWR program landed on federal probation and was rebuilt from scratch as the Wyoming Water Research Program.
Organizations · United States - X
Social media platform bought by Elon Musk for $44 billion in 2022 and rebranded from Twitter to X in 2023; it became the home of Tucker Carlson's independent show after his Fox News departure, was acquired by xAI in 2025, and was folded into SpaceX's $1.25 trillion merger in 2026.
Organizations · United States - Xerox
The American corporation founded as Haloid in 1906 whose 914 copier made "Xerox" a household word — and whose copier profits funded PARC, the lab whose inventions built Apple and Adobe.
Organizations · United States - Xerox PARC
The Xerox research lab founded in Palo Alto in 1970 that invented the Alto, the graphical interface, the laser printer and Ethernet — and whose printing-language work became Adobe's PostScript.
Organizations · United States - XTEND
Israeli drone company founded in 2018 that pivoted from VR gaming to defense after October 7, 2023; its human-guided XOS drone platform went public in September 2026 through a $1.5 billion merger backed by Eric Trump and Unusual Machines, the drone maker advised by Donald Trump Jr.
Organizations · Israel - Y Combinator
American startup accelerator founded in 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Trevor Blackwell and Robert Morris, known for its seed-funding model and Demo Day, and led since 2023 by CEO Garry Tan.
Organizations · United States - Yahya Sinwar
Hamas's Gaza leader from 2017, Yahya Sinwar spent 22 years in Israeli prisons — learning Hebrew, surviving brain surgery by Israeli doctors — before his 2011 release in the Shalit exchange. Identified as the architect of the October 7, 2023 attacks, he was killed in Rafah in October 2024.
People · Palestine - Yale Law School
The law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, formally founded in 1824, where J.D. Vance and Usha Chilukuri both earned law degrees in 2013; a school with no grades, no class rank, and a history of student rebellion that reshaped how it teaches.
Schools · United States - Yaqoub Al-Rifai
Kuwaiti finance minister since February 2026 with a three-decade career in banking education and vocational training, who unveiled a deficit-heavy FY2026-27 budget, pushed government sukuk legislation, and signed a financial-cooperation MoU with Qatar.
People · Kuwait - Yiğit Güralp
Turkish screenwriter and creative producer of Ayla: The Daughter of War who won a 2022 court ruling against the film's producer after being sidelined from its PR; his career spans the music industry, hit TV, three features, and a 2023 essay book.
People · Turkey - Youlbury House
summary: A Grade II listed 1969–1971 modernist house on Boars Hill near Oxford, built on the site of archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans's demolished mansion and designed by landscape architect Hal Moggridge — one of only three houses he ever designed.
Places · United Kingdom - Young Money Entertainment
The record label Lil Wayne founded as his own imprint under Cash Money Records, which signed Nicki Minaj in 2009 on an unusual deal letting her keep her 360 rights — and became the launchpad for two of the decade's biggest rap careers.
Organizations · United States - Yu-Gi-Oh!
Japanese manga franchise created by Kazuki Takahashi in 1996 that became a record-breaking Konami trading-card game, anime series and global collectibles market.
Creative Works · Japan - Yuhuatai Senior High School
A public senior high school in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, designated one of the province's first-batch "high-quality distinctive high schools," which expanded to citywide admissions for the first time in 2026.
Schools · China - Yuri Ushakov
Kremlin foreign policy aide to Vladimir Putin since 2012 and Russia's lead negotiator in Ukraine-war talks with the United States; sanctioned by Canada, Ukraine and Australia — but not by the US, EU or UK.
People · Russia - Zabalaza Theatre Festival
An annual Cape Town theatre-development festival run by the Baxter Theatre Centre since 2011, developing community practitioners from the Western Cape through mini-festivals, skills workshops and mentorship, staging around 50 new works each March and awarding winning productions a professional
Organizations · South Africa - ZACH Theatre
Austin's oldest theatre company, founded 1932; a year-round professional producing theatre staging regional premieres, family programming, and large-scale arts education.
Organizations · United States - Zach Witkoff
Co-founder and CEO of World Liberty Financial, the Trump-family crypto venture; the son of Trump's special envoy who became the face of the firm while its Emirati deals ran parallel to his father's diplomacy.
People · United States - Zach Yadegari
Technology entrepreneur who co-founded the AI calorie-tracking app Cal AI as a high-school senior, scaled it past 15 million downloads, and sold it to MyFitnessPal at 19; now building the health-and-productivity hardware brand Flow.
People · United States - Zak Penn
American screenwriter, director and TV creator behind X2, The Incredible Hulk, Ready Player One and Free Guy, who co-created the 2026 Big Bang Theory sequel Stuart Fails to Save the Universe — and who publicly calls The Avengers his most overrated film.
People · United States - Zapier
The automation platform that reached a $5 billion valuation on just $1.2 million of venture funding — remote from day one, profitable since 2014, and valued through a secondary share sale that put no new cash in the company's own coffers.
Organizations · United States - Zee News: Hindi news channel of Zee Media and the Essel Group
Zee News is a Hindi-language television news channel launched in 1999, owned by Zee Media Corporation of the Subhash Chandra family's Essel Group — a ratings leader in Hindi news whose record includes repeated broadcast-regulator findings against its coverage.
Organizations · India - Zip Co
Australian buy-now-pay-later company that reached the ASX via a 2009 reverse takeover before it was founded in 2013, and withdrew from New Zealand in 2026 to concentrate on Australia and the United States.
Organizations · Australia - Zohran Mamdani
New York City mayor since January 2026 and former state assemblyman; a democratic socialist whose 2025 upset over Andrew Cuomo drew Trump's "communist lunatic" attacks and funding threats — before an uneasy working relationship formed through White House, February and Gracie Mansion meetings.
People · United States - Zscaler, Inc.
The zero-trust cloud-security company founded in 2007 by serial entrepreneur Jay Chaudhry — his fifth security startup — whose March 2018 Nasdaq debut at $16 popped 106% on day one.
Organizations · United States - Zuffa, LLC
Zuffa, LLC is the Las Vegas holding company the Fertitta brothers formed in January 2001 to buy the UFC for $2 million; it survived the 2016 sale and the 2023 TKO merger as the legal entity now called TKO Operating Company, and its name was revived for TKO's 2025 boxing venture.
Organizations · United States - Zurich Australia
The Australian arm of Swiss insurer Zurich, built into the country's largest retail life insurer through a 2016–2019 acquisition spree of bank-owned life assets — now pushing back into personal home insurance.
Organizations · Australia