The chairman of the world’s richest basketball league has joined one of the consortia preparing to table final takeover bids for Chelsea Football Club this week. Sky News has learnt that Larry Tanenbaum, who chairs the National Basketball Association (NBA) and owns a host of North American sports teams, is among the investors backing Steve
A Texas district attorney said he will not prosecute a 26-year-old woman arrested in the state for an alleged “self-induced abortion.” Starr County District Attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez said in a statement Sunday that he filed a motion to dismiss a murder charge against Lizette Herrera. Herrera was arrested last week, and her bond was
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LONG BEACH — The 47th Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach ended under caution but winner Josef Newgarden was happy to celebrate his first NTT Indy Car Series victory in the streets of downtown Long Beach on Sunday. Newgarden said a big part of his win was navigating turn 8 on Pine Avenue. Josef Newgarden
US citizens are now able to select a gender-neutral “X” on their passport. Some 1.2 million and four million people in the US are estimated to be nonbinary and intersex respectively, according to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law and interACT, an intersex advocacy group. Many cannot get official identification that reflects
The chancellor has written to the prime minister asking him to refer him to the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests to determine whether all his interests were “properly declared”. In a tweet, Rishi Sunak said he had “always followed the rules” and that he hoped the review would “provide further clarity”. In the letter Mr
Birthday Candles, Noah Haidle’s Broadway dramedy starring Debra Messing as a woman who, over the course of the play’s 90 minutes ages from 17 to 107, has just about all the right ingredients for the poignant, funny and life-affirming experience it sets out to be. If everything doesn’t always come together just as it should,
A number of rogue Android apps that have been cumulatively installed from the official Google Play Store more than 50,000 times are being used to target banks and other financial entities. The rental banking trojan, dubbed Octo, is said to be a rebrand of another Android malware called ExobotCompact, which, in turn, is a “lite”
I’ve always been a big fan of Ryan Bingham. Ever since I first discovered his music in Crazy Heart, and then subsequently dove into Mescalito, and the rest of the catalog along the way, I’m continually impressed by everything he does. But it’s not just me, even his castmates on the hit series Yellowstone think he’s a total badass. Or
Sam Elliott is backing down from his harsh take on the Oscar-winning movie “The Power of the Dog” — words many considered homophobic … something that isn’t lost on the guy. The actor — who’s often cast as a cowboy type, and who apparently has some ties to the rancher community — apologized for what
Google has launched a self-repair programme that will allow Pixel owners to repair their phones themselves. Google said that it has collaborated with iFixit, an online repair community, for its Genuine Pixel Parts Program. It will provide step-by-step phone repair guides as well as genuine Pixel smartphone spare parts. The parts will be available for
Congestion chaos at the Dover port crossing is reportedly costing transport companies £800 per lorry – as British hauliers of perishable goods complain the long waiting times are causing products to go bad. The suspension of P&O ferry services at the terminal as well as Easter traffic, IT issues and bad weather, have led to
Sergei Loznitsa’s Donbass, the Ukrainian filmmaker’s movie that made the festival rounds in the now-seemingly ancient year of 2018, kicks off with two different vignettes. We watch an older woman getting rings put around her eyes in a makeup trailer — she’s part of a “cast” of “everyday people,” along with fake cops and corpses,
Media coverage of TikTok often centers on parents being absolutely scared shitless of what their kids are doing on the app — from the Devious Licks trend, in which parents were warned that their children were destroying school property en masse, to National Shoot Up Your School Day, a baseless hoax that postulated TikTokers were
The squeal that I released when I heard that Deanna Raybourn — who writes one of my favorite historical mysteries series (so funny + grump and sunshine pairing!) — was writing a crime book about assassins, could be heard on the moon. I was so excited that the day I was able to get my
Roughly two-thirds of the 70 million gallons of sewage spilled in Los Angeles County since 2007 ended up in a storm drain or a river connected to the Pacific Ocean, according to analysis of 15 years of data maintained by the county Public Health Department. Of that total, the vast majority of the sewage that
NFL quarterback Dwayne Haskins has died aged 24 after being hit by a dump truck while out walking in south Florida. The Pittsburgh Steelers star was trying to cross a highway while there was oncoming traffic when he was struck, and was pronounced dead at the scene. The Florida Highway Patrol said the incident happened
Rishi Sunak and his wife have recognised her tax “situation” was “not favourable”, says a government minister – as the chancellor launched an inquiry into the leaking of details about her non-dom status. After the disclosure that Akshata Murty was “non-domiciled” in Britain for tax purposes sparked a political storm, policing minister Kit Malthouse told
SAG-AFTRA’s national board voted today to approve a tentative agreement on a new $1 billion-a-year commercials contract and to recommend its ratification to the guild’s members. The deal, which was approved by 93% of the national board members, was reached Tuesday with the Joint Policy Committee of the advertising industry. Bargaining got underway February 16
Microsoft on Thursday disclosed that it obtained a court order to take control of seven domains used by APT28, a state-sponsored group operated by Russia’s military intelligence service, with the goal of neutralizing its attacks on Ukraine. “We have since re-directed these domains to a sinkhole controlled by Microsoft, enabling us to mitigate Strontium’s current