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
BuzzFeed to close entire division amid mass layoffs
Pulitzer Prize winning digital media company BuzzFeed will shut down its news division cuts another 15% of its staff across the company, adding to layoffs made earlier this year. BuzzFeed has approximately 1,200 total employees, according to a recent regulatory filing. Sponsored: Eerie WW2 Photo Reveals Shocking Secret In a… Read More
Oakland A’s purchase land for new stadium in Las Vegas
The Oakland Athletics have signed a binding agreement to purchase land for a new retractable roof ballpark in Las Vegas after being unable to build a new venue in the Bay Area. Team president Dave Kaval said Wednesday night the team finalized a deal last week to buy the 49-acre… Read More
Are you a Facebook user? You could get some settlement cash
Anyone in the U.S. who has had a Facebook account at any time since May 24, 2007, can now apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta has agreed to pay. Meta is paying to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social media… Read More
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