“I know Mike Tyson is going to be the toughest opponent I’ve had yet,” Jake Paul said on “The Claman Countdown” Thursday. The sanctioned fight, Tyson’s first in nearly two decades, will instead take place on Nov. 15 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. “You’re going to watch me knock out one of the greatest Continue reading
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Columbia protesters’ demands have worked before. This time may be different.
Go to newsletter preferences Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Student protests are escalating there and other college campuses over the Israel-Gaza war and schools’ investments in Israeli entities, with demonstrators on Tuesday breaking into a Columbia campus building and occupying it. Continue reading
A look at Harvey Weinstein’s health and legal issues as he faces more criminal charges
NEW YORK (AP) — Disgraced ex-movie mogul Harvey Weinstein faces mounting legal and health troubles some seven years after scores of women came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against him, helping launch the global #MeToo movement. On Thursday, he was indicted on additional sex crimes charges in New York ahead of a retrial this Continue reading
What a new development in Georgia could signal for Trump’s criminal case there
Georgia’s Republican lieutenant governor, Burt Jones, won’t face criminal charges like the ones being pressed against Donald Trump and others by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. The news underscores how destabilizing it would be if Willis is disqualified from the state election interference case, an outcome that the defense is pressing for on a Continue reading
Covid 19 India: Even record death toll may hide extent of India’s Covid crisis
Data vs cremations Counting struggles Bodies piling up at crematoriums and burial grounds across India are sparking concerns that the death toll from a ferocious new Covid-19 wave may be much higher than official records, underplaying the scale of a resurgence that is overwhelming the country’s medical system.Several cities across the South Asian nation have Continue reading
DirecTV, Disney reach deal to end blackout in time for college football
DirecTV and Disney have reached a deal that brings Disney’s ESPN and other channels back to the pay-tv provider’s customers after a roughly two week blackout. The dispute left DirecTV’s more than 11 million customers without access to the U.S. Open, college football and this season’s opening “Monday Night Football” game. DirecTV executives began calling Continue reading
As Trump demonizes immigrants, two targeted communities fear what’s next
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The Haitian eatery cooks were preparing for Thursday’s lunch rush when the phone rang. Romane Pierre, the 41-year-old manager of Rose Goute Creole, didn’t want to alarm his staff. During the presidential debate barely 36 hours earlier, Republican nominee Donald Trump had targeted Haitians in Springfield, falsely accusing them of “eating the Continue reading
Disney, DirecTV reach agreement in time for college football Week 3
Disney, DirecTV reach agreement in time for college football Week 3 ESPN, ABC, Disney Channel, FX and other other Disney-owned channels returned to DirecTV, DirecTV Stream and U-Verse on Saturday morning after DirecTV and Disney reached a carriage agreement. | Before the Snap Ahead Saturday’s packed college football schedule, The Walt Disney Co. and DirecTV Continue reading
Gender Liberation March Will Protest Trump In D.C.
LOADING ERROR LOADING Daniel Trujillo’s first month of junior year has been a “cakewalk.” He’s in two different jazz bands and is a member of his school’s chapter of March for Our Lives chapter, a student-led organization promoting gun control. But getting there has not been easy for Daniel and his family ― especially in Continue reading
Inquiry into Defence Forces failings ‘as soon as possible’, Varadkar says
Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images The Government is keen to have a statutory inquiry into allegations of sexual misconduct, bullying and discrimination in the Defence Forces up and running “as soon as possible”, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said. Speaking during Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil on Wednesday, the Taoiseach said a report on the Defence Forces Continue reading