During a news conference four day after the fires began, Kathryn Barger, the chair of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, said she had been forced to pay a $95 fee to the company to make a $500 donation to a friend whose home had been lost in the fire. “I was shocked,” she […]
The PlayStation Network is now back online, the service has said, after it experienced a multi-hour outage that began on Friday evening. PlayStation said the network had now “fully recovered” and apologised for the disruption, but did not disclose what caused the problem. The outage rendered the online aspects of games such as Fortnite, Call […]
The winter of 2022 was the greatest frenzy of sports broadcasting talent in history, with hundreds of millions doled out for NFL commentators. ESPN poached Fox’s top team, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, for a combined total of $165 million. Newcomer to the NFL, Amazon Prime Video signed Al Michaels — who had been discarded […]
Media lawyers scoffed last year when President Trump sued two news organizations for producing journalism that, he claimed, violated laws meant to protect consumers from things like deceptive advertising. They’re not laughing anymore. First Amendment experts still believe that Mr. Trump’s cases, against CBS News and The Des Moines Register, lack legal merit. But they […]
As introductions to English football go, this was about as unceremonious as it gets. Two of Manchester City’s four midseason signings made their debuts in Saturday’s 2-1 FA Cup fourth-round win (stream a replay on ESPN+,U.S. only) at League One minnows Leyton Orient. Nico Gonzalez lasted 22 minutes before injury struck and Vitor Reis was […]
Employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were instructed to cease “all supervision and examination activity” and “all stakeholder engagement,” effectively stopping the agency’s operations, in an email from the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, on Saturday evening. Mr. Vought, who was confirmed this week to lead the Office of […]
Christal Hayes and Kayla Epstein Reporting fromLos Angeles Watch: Moment horses are rescued from approaching LA fire The trailers arrived all at once, carrying hundreds of horses fleeing the Eaton and Palisades fires in Los Angeles. Some horses came solo, others in trailers packed with fellow animals. Many had their owners, but others arrived alone, […]
President Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Anna Rose Layden/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Rose Layden/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images The question of who should have access to the nation’s secrets is one of the utmost importance. In the […]
President Trump said on Friday that Nippon Steel was planning to make a major investment in U.S. Steel after the Biden administration moved to block the Japanese company’s $14 billion takeover bid last month on the basis that it was a threat to national security. Such an investment, if it moves forward, could be a […]
The International Criminal Court receives a wave of support after it’s hit with US sanctions. Donald Trump’s executive orders are coming thick and fast. The latest being sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC). Trump claims the ICC abuses its power, taking “illegitimate and baseless” actions against the US and its biggest ally Israel. He […]