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Montana’s House of Representatives today approved a bill that would ban streaming app TikTok. It now moves to Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte, who can sign it into law. If approved, Montana would be the first state to ban TikTok downloads. The legislature and critics of the streaming service fear the Chinese government’s potential to hoard US

“We hope you prove us wrong.” “We’re very focused on proving you wrong.” The exchange between Jeremy Hunt and IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva, captured by Sky News in Washington DC, tells you rather a lot about the Chancellor’s week here in Washington. This was Mr Hunt’s first International Monetary Fund meeting since taking on

A coalition of Broadway theater owners and producers, midtown Manhattan community and tenant organizations, and such well-known theater-district restaurants as Sardi’s and Joe Allen are among the members of a new coalition pledging opposition to a proposed casino in Times Square. Citing such potential liabilities of a Times Square casino as traffic congestion, economic disruption

Britain has become the first country in Europe to approve hands-free driving technology. The Department for Transport has granted Ford permission to use driver assistance technology in some of its Ford Mustang Mach-E cars along the 2,300 miles (3,700 km) of motorways in England, Scotland and Wales. The car still requires motorists to pay attention

What’s a Camelot without a little magic? Aaron Sorkin works up an answer to that question in the new Lincoln Center Theater production of the 1960 Lerner & Loewe musical, and the result is an adaptation that seems at every turn to be pleading its case for its own relevance. Where the West Wing creator

The chancellor has told Sky News there is “no room for complacency” in tackling the UK’s economic problems after official figures revealed no GDP growth in February. But Jeremy Hunt said that while inflation was too high and growth too low, he was confident that his budget plans unveiled last month would help turn things

Tim McGraw, the country music star whose acting career has hit a new gear lately with roles in Yellowstone and prequel 1883, is launching his own media company with backing from Skydance Media. Down Home, as the new venture is known, will be based in Nashville. Its activities across entertainment, media and marketing will involve

The UK economy flatlined in February, with no growth in GDP, according to official figures. Civil sector strikes and low energy consumption offset growth in areas such as construction, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) data showed. It followed growth of 0.4% in January and confirmation that the UK economy avoided recession in the second

Anne Perry, whose crime writing was shadowed by her role in a murder that was spotlighted in Peter Jackson’s 1994 film, Heavenly Creatures, has died at 84. Perry died in a Los Angeles hospital, her agent Meg Davis confirmed. She had been in steady decline since suffering a heart attack in December, Davis said. The

Andrew Bailey has called into question whether UK banks have large enough cash buffers to cope with crises similar to the recent run on Silicon Valley Bank. The Governor of the Bank of England (BoE) said last month’s turmoil, which led to the rapid takeovers of the bank’s US and UK arms, served as a warning

EXCLUSIVE: Demetrius “Lil Meech” Flenory Jr., the rising actor best known for starring in the hit Starz series BMF (or Black Mafia Family), has signed with M88 for management. The show inspired by a true story has Flenory playing his own father, notorious hip-hop icon and kingpin Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory Sr., who with his

The overall supply of candidates for jobs has increased for the first time in more than two years, a survey of recruiters suggests. While the rise in the availability of workers in March was “modest”, it marks the first such upturn in the UK since February 2021, a report from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation

The nation’s biggest movie theater advertising network National CineMedia said tonight it’s filed a voluntary Chapter 11 petition in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Texas – where one of its biggest shareholders and customers, Regal parent Cineworld, has just presented a restructuring plan to emerge from bankruptcy itself.   Cineworld filed in

Police are now investigating alleged sexual misconduct at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). The City of London Police said its inquiries were “at a very early stage”. Detective Chief Superintendent Richard Waight said: “The City of London police takes all acts of sexual misconduct and violence against women and girls extremely seriously. “We approached

As Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News heads to a trial next week, the judge in the case placed limits on what attorneys can and cannot bring up before the jury. Judge Eric M. Davis said that he would restrict references to the January 6th attack on the Capitol, saying that they

The director-general of the Confederation of British Industry Tony Danker has been sacked following an independent investigation into complaints of workplace misconduct against him. Three other CBI employees have also been suspended pending further investigation into a number of ongoing allegations. “It is already clear to all of us that there have been serious failings

The bodies of Lotus drummer Chuck Morris and his son have been recovered from a lake in Arkansas after both were reported missing almost a month ago. It was on March 16 when 47-year-old Morris and his 20-year-old son Charley went missing after going on a kayaking trip around the Lost Bridge Village of Beaver

Thousands of UK Vodafone customers have complained after suffering from a broadband connection outage. Downdetector, a website where people can log outages, reported a peak of 2,820 people experiencing problems on Monday morning. Vodafone said in a post on Twitter: “We’re aware of and investigating an issue impacting some of our home broadband customers since

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran sports and news broadcaster Keith Olbermann has signed with Buchwald. Olbermann is the host of the podcast Countdown with Keith Olbermann for iHeart. The podcast, which averages more than one million downloads per month, includes a news-driven mix featuring his trademark “Special Comment” segment, and his readings from the works of James Thurber.