The Horn News

Proudly American, Fiercely Independent

Court sides with Apple Inc. even after appeal

An appeals court on Monday upheld Apple’s exclusive control over the distribution of iPhone apps, rejecting the latest attempt to force one of the world’s most powerful companies to dismantle the digital walls protecting its most lucrative product. The 92-page decision issued by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals… Read More

Reeling UK economy gets tourism boost from this

Kelly Curto is taking her first trip outside the U.S., and the die-hard fan of the British royal family is making it the one at the top of her bucket list — heading to London for King Charles III’s coronation. After arriving on May 5, the 44-year-old school bus driver… Read More

Lyft gears up for ‘significant’ layoffs under new CEO

Lyft is preparing to lay off hundreds of employees just days after new CEO David Risher began steering the ride-hailing service with a eye of driving down costs to help bring its fares more in line with its biggest rival, Uber. Risher, a former Amazon executive, informed Lyft’s workforce of… Read More

Twitter yanks blue check marks from agencies, causing confusion

Twitter has long been a way for people to keep track of tornado watches, train delays, news alerts or the latest crime warnings from their local police department. But when the Elon Musk-owned platform started stripping blue verification check marks this week from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee,… Read More

French trade group now frothing at the slogan ‘Champagne of Beers’

The guardians of Champagne will let no one take the name of the bubbly beverage in vain, not even a U.S. beer behemoth. For years, Miller High Life has used the “Champagne of Beers” slogan. This week, that appropriation became impossible to swallow. Urgent: Common prescription drug now linked to… Read More

Ben Affleck’s ‘Air’ yields unlikely deal with cinemas, streamers

After Ben Affleck and Matt Damon test screened their Nike drama “Air,” the film executives at Amazon Studios threw them a curveball. “They said, ‘What do you guys think about a theatrical release?’” Damon says. “It wasn’t what we expected when we first made the deal.” “Air,” about Nike’s pursuit… Read More

Rupert Murdoch’s son Lachlan ends Australian defamation suit

Fox Corp. chief executive Lachlan Murdoch on Friday dropped his defamation lawsuit against Australian news website Crikey, citing the settlement of the separate U.S. case where Fox News agreed to pay almost $800 million over its lies involving the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s son filed the… Read More

Musk’s Twitter drops ‘government-funded media’ labels

Twitter has removed labels describing global media organizations as government-funded or state-affiliated, a move that comes after the Elon Musk-owned platform started stripping blue verification checkmarks from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee. Among those no longer labeled was National Public Radio in the U.S., which announced last week… Read More

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ $10,000 credit card scandal

by Frank Holmes, reporter Yet another new financial mystery is swirling around Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. AOC sits on the House Financial Services Committee, but the far-Left Democrat just got mired deeply in an economic scandal that has Republicans asking, “What is she hiding?” The New York Democrat has been… Read More

Watch: Elon Musk’s rocket explodes on test flight Thursday

SpaceX’s giant new rocket exploded minutes after blasting off on its first test flight Thursday and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. Elon Musk’s company was aiming to send the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built on a round-the-world trip from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican… Read More