There is no age limit to success. Today, Forbes released its fifth annual 2025 50 Over 50 list, featuring female entrepreneurs helping solve rare genetic diseases, deploy charitable donations faster and more.
There are 200 fresh faces on the list, which highlights women who are making the greatest professional impact in their career’s second act. The list is divided into four categories—impact, innovation, investment and lifestyle—but the honorees are all tackling major issues like climate change and wealth inequality.
“Being over 50 has given me superpowers,” says Chéri Smith, the 56-year-old founder and CEO of the Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy.
A magnitude 8.8 earthquake in a remote region of Russia, the biggest recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey since 2011, triggered powerful waves across the Pacific, as tsunami activity continued to build along the coast of northern California early on Wednesday. Tsunami watches and advisories are in effect all across the U.S. West Coast, and the National Weather Service warned residents not to go to the coast, noting it will “NOT be a single wave.”
When President Donald Trump travels, he’s usually frequenting his own businesses: The president has visited his businesses on 75 of his first 190 days back in office, according to Forbes analysis. The fact that he sold his only Washington, D.C., property hasn’t stopped Trump, as he’s now frequenting far more inconvenient locations in places like Florida, Nevada, New Jersey and, very recently, Scotland.
A Blackstone executive was among the four people who were killed Monday in a shooting at the investment firm’s Manhattan headquarters. Wesley LePatner joined Blackstone in 2014 after more than a decade at Goldman Sachs, and oversaw the Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, which has a real estate portfolio totaling more than $53 billion.
The maker of Ozempic and Wegovy slashed its sales and profit guidance for the year, leading shares to plummet 22% Tuesday, its worst loss in 23 years. Danish pharmaceutical firm Novo Nordisk warned of competition and slower growth for its obesity and weight loss treatments in the U.S., and cautioned about the “persistent use” of compounded alternatives, which are generic drugs altered to meet a patient’s needs.
Union Pacific Railroad will acquire rival rail company Norfolk Southern for $85 billion, laying the groundwork for the creation of the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. The combined company will be worth over $250 billion, and Norfolk Southern’s debt accounts for $13 billion of the merger’s cost.
The $8 billion merger between Paramount and Skydance Media is set to close next week, making the world’s second-richest man Larry Ellison and his son David one of the most powerful duos in Hollywood, wielding influence over TV shows, movies, news and more. David Ellison will oversee an entertainment empire as Paramount’s chairman, CEO and owner of 50% of its voting rights, but it’s his father who controls the purse strings and owns the equity, regulatory filings show.
President Donald Trump broke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where the United Nations has said there is “mounting evidence” of “widespread starvation, malnutrition and disease.” U.S. allies have also increased the pressure on Netanyahu, with the U.K. threatening to recognize a Palestinian state unless Israel takes steps to end its siege in Gaza.
Television is an industry where reinvention is often necessary, but Vanna White’s consistency on Wheel of Fortune has been her greatest asset. White, a member of Forbes’ 50 Over 50 list, struck a reported two-year, $10 million deal for 34 days of filming per year in her first contract without longtime co-host Pat Sajak—her first pay raise in nearly two decades. And if the show’s plans to make episodes available for streaming cultivate a new online audience, White could end up challenging Betty White on the Guinness World Record for longest television career for a female entertainer.
The NFL’s New York office will be shuttered for at least the next 10 days after it was targeted in a shooting Monday, according to an email sent to employees by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. New York Mayor Eric Adams told reporters the gunman, who killed four people, was likely targeting the NFL office but “appeared to have gone to the wrong floor.”
DAILY COVER STORY
President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement is divided over porn.
Vice President JD Vance, along with the influential conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, want the government to ban it. But a close associate of Trump—and a key player in his social media business, Truth Social—appears to have different views on the adult entertainment industry.
Chris Pavlovski, CEO and former billionaire founder of the video platform Rumble, also founded Jokeroo, a company that owned a number of explicit domains, for roughly a decade between 2003 and 2013. Some of the domains owned by Pavlovski appeared to be offline during the years he owned them, but not all.
Pavlovski’s background in porn domains is consistent with his views about content restrictions online. He has decried the “mass censorship” that he says is practiced by other tech companies, and suggested that porn might be allowed on Rumble (where it is currently banned) if it weren’t for Apple and Google’s app store rules.
Meanwhile, Trump’s close relationship with Pavlovski and Rumble continues. Earlier this month, Pavlovski posted a video from a bill signing event at the White House where Trump called him out by name during his speech. “How’s Rumble doing, good?” Trump asked Pavlovski, who answered “great.”
“Good,” the president said. “If Rumble’s doing good, that means Truth is doing good. That’s great. You’re doing a great job.”
WHY IT MATTERS “Today, porn is legal and constitutionally protected, but some conservatives want to change that,” says Forbes senior writer Emily Baker-White. “Trump’s own Truth Social, though, has close ties to men who’ve made money from porn, exposing an inconsistency that leaves us wondering whether MAGA can agree with itself about the adult entertainment business.”
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FACTS + COMMENTS
President Donald Trump’s golf outing in Scotland over the weekend appeared to feature an armored golf cart, which some are calling “Golf Force One.” The debut of Trump’s fortified golf cart comes nearly a year after an attempted assassination of the then-presidential candidate at his West Palm Beach golf course:
‘Part of the Presidential fleet of specialty vehicles’: A White House spokesperson said of the new golf cart
$190,000: The price of an armor kit similar to that used on “Golf Force One”
About $19 million: The policing cost of Trump’s four-day stop in the U.K. in 2018
STRATEGY + SUCCESS
If you’re feeling dissatisfied at work, it doesn’t necessarily mean you need to switch fields—it could just be time for a shift within the same industry. One of telltale signs is if you still enjoy the work, but the team around you doesn’t support—or even undermines—that enjoyment. And if you’re stagnating in a role you’ve held for five years or longer, it might be time to look for an opportunity that offers more growth.
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QUIZ
The FDA is recommending a new ban on an over-the-counter supplement called kratom, which is technically a concentrated byproduct of the kratom plant, and is sold in gas stations and vape shops. Which controlled substance have experts likened kratom to?
A. Heroin
B. Morphine
C. Codeine
D. All of the above
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