Rapid EV uptake in the US is creating a two-tiered fuel market, with some motorists' costs dictated by global oil markets and others' by local electricity prices, writes ROI's Gavin Maguire

Rapper Macklemore says he has been dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour after turning the stage into his own political soapbox. Macklemore says Robert Kraft told Sheeran that the rapper must be dropped or he wouldn't be able to perform at Gillette Stadium. "Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners, and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues," the rapper claimed. "Ed was in a f*cked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words." "I told him that if [Free Palestine] was more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public-facing, 'I don't take sides.'"

Rap music is dead. Scroll through the Top 100 and it’s nearly impossible to find a rap song. A massive stadium rap concert next month has only sold 160 tickets. That’s not a typo. Ludacris, T.I., Rick Ross, and BigXthePlug booked a Louisville stadium, and it looks abandoned. 20,000 tickets left unsold. Ever since USAID got defunded, rap’s popularity has completely vanished. It used to be most of the Hot 100 — Now it’s nonexistent. Meanwhile, country music is dominating the and selling out arenas across the country. Did the CIA really run the rap game?