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By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Senators grilled Ticketmaster Tuesday, questioning whether the company’s dominance in the ticketing industry led to its spectacular breakdown last year during a sale of Taylor Swift concert tickets. Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee also debated possible action, including making tickets non-transferable to cut down on scalping
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By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Senators grilled Ticketmaster Tuesday, questioning whether the company’s dominance in the ticketing industry led to its spectacular breakdown last year during a sale of Taylor Swift concert tickets. Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee also debated possible action, including making tickets non-transferable to cut down on scalping
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Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Una demanda civil presentada en virtud de la Ley de Sobrevivientes Adultos en Nueva York pide US$ 5 millones de Mike Tyson por la presunta violación a una persona anónima, según la demanda judicial. La persona anónima que hizo la denuncia afirma que Tyson le quitó los pantalones y la violó
Continue Reading By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris is rushing to finish construction work in time for the 2024 Olympics with just 18 months to go. Delays are being experienced in part because of the impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine on the steel industry. One venue was due to be finished this summer.
Continue Reading By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris is rushing to finish construction work in time for the 2024 Olympics with just 18 months to go. Delays are being experienced in part because of the impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine on the steel industry. One venue was due to be finished this summer.
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN David Adams spent half a decade fighting an illness he couldn’t name. He was in and out of the hospital several times per year. His inflamed joints made his hands feel like they had been squeezed into gloves — and he could no longer play his beloved classical and jazz guitars.
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Nurses who went on strike this month at two major New York City hospitals have ratified the contracts that were hammered out to end the walkout. Their union, called the New York State Nurses Association, said Tuesday that 98% of nurses at Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Medical Center voted in
Continue ReadingBy Max Foster and Eleanor Pickston, CNN Britain’s Princess Eugenie, niece of King Charles III, is pregnant with her second child, Buckingham Palace said in a statement Tuesday. “Princess Eugenie and Mr Jack Brooksbank are pleased to announce they are expecting their second child this summer,” the statement read. “The family are delighted and August
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By Web staff Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — A 94-year-old Bossier City man charged with a sexual assault on a fifth-grade girl pleaded guilty Monday in Caddo District Court. Otis Leroy Allen, a former Bossier Sheriff’s deputy, admitted to one count of indecent behavior with a juvenile under the
Continue Reading Marysabel E. Huston-Crespo (CNN Español) – A lo largo de los años, España ha regalado a Latinoamérica cantantes icónicos del pop y Héctor Pérez, parte de esa generación de relevo, busca hacerse un espacio en la escena actual ibérica. Pérez, de 29 años, oriundo de Zaragoza, España, ya ha logrado que su trabajo de composición
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — La cotización de decenas de empresas en la Bolsa de Nueva York (NYSE, por sus siglas en inglés) se interrumpió brevemente este martes por la mañana, poco después de la apertura del mercado. Entre las principales empresas afectadas figuran Verizon, McDonald’s, Morgan Stanley, AT&T y Nike, según la Bolsa de Nueva York.
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By Andi Babineau, CNN The man accused of killing 23 people and wounding nearly two dozen others in the 2019 mass shooting at a Texas Walmart in 2019 intends to plead guilty to federal charges, according to court filings. Days after the US government indicated it would not seek the death penalty, attorneys for Patrick
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Remember when Issa Rae was presenting the Oscar nominations for best director in 2020 and quipped “Congratulations to those men”? It’s déjà vu. In a year that saw many critically acclaimed films helmed by female directors, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is again taking heat for failing
Continue Reading By Andi Babineau, CNN The Dallas Zoo is working with the Dallas Police Department to increase security on the zoo campus following a string of incidents involving several animals and enclosures, zoo officials said. “On Saturday morning, the animal care team discovered one of our lappet-faced vultures dead in its habitat,” zoo President and CEO
Continue ReadingBy Andi Babineau, CNN The Dallas Zoo is working with the Dallas Police Department to increase security on the zoo campus following a string of incidents involving several animals and enclosures, zoo officials said. “On Saturday morning, the animal care team discovered one of our lappet-faced vultures dead in its habitat,” zoo President and CEO
Continue Reading CNN, WJLA By Zoe Sottile, CNN A 9-year-old aspiring paleontologist found the find of a lifetime on Christmas morning: a massive 5-inch tooth from a prehistoric megalodon. Molly Sampson, a fourth grader from Prince Frederick, Maryland, made the astonishing find on Calvert Beach. Molly told CNN that she has spent years combing Maryland’s beaches for
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Shailene Woodley says she had a tough time filming last year because of what she was going through personally. In a recently published interview with “Porter,” the actress talked about her experience working on “Three Women,” the Showtime adaptation of Lisa Taddeo’s New York Times bestselling study of the sex
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN The New York Stock Exchange experienced a technical issue Tuesday morning that led to a brief trading halt for dozens of major companies just after the market opened. As a result of the issue, some trades that occurred before the halt will be made “null and void,” according to an exchange
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By Samiar Nefzi Click here for updates on this story BLACK MOUNTAIN, North Carolina (WLOS) — Several Haywood County Veterans banded together to lay a soldier to rest. “It’s sombering,” Paul Taylor, adjutant of Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Chapter 90, said. Last week, U.S. Veteran Thomas Chapman passed away at the V.A. Hospital in Asheville.
Continue Reading KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Oil drilling has begun in a Chinese-operated field in Uganda and the East African country expects to start production by 2025. The spokesman for Uganda’s ministry of energy and mineral development said Tuesday the beginning of drilling at the Kingfisher oil field in the Kikuube district was “a significant stride” toward
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