Philadelphia Phillies managing partner and principal owner John Middleton signs autographs prior to the 2024 London Series game between the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies at London Stadium in London on June 9, 2024.Daniel Shirey | Major League Baseball | Getty ImagesThe Philadelphia Phillies recently raised close to $500 million in capital from three new investors in a transaction that values the Major League Baseball team and its 25% stake in regional sports network NBC Sports Philadelphia at about $3 billion, according to two people familiar with the deal.As part of the transaction, two existing owners, managing partner…
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WASHINGTON — Earth observation satellite operator Maxar Intelligence has divested a small part of its business focused on supporting classified U.S. government sensor programs. That business has been acquired by ARKA Group, a government contractor based in Danbury, Connecticut. ARKA last week announced the acquisition of Maxar’s Radar and Sensor Technology (RST) group located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. This group has deep expertise supporting U.S. government-led synthetic aperture radar (SAR) programs. SAR is a type of remote sensing technology that uses radar to create high-resolution images of the Earth’s surface. A spokesperson for Maxar Intelligence said the sale does not mean…
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. In a landslide. How did he do it? And what will it mean to the country? First, how did President-elect Trump pull off this triumph? He used three levers. Lever number one is publicity. Trump began to seek publicity 50 years ago. His mentor, the mastermind of the McCarthy witch-hunts of the 1950s, lawyer Roy Cohen, got Trump into the publications of one of Cohen’s clients, newspaper and TV station owner Rupert Murdoch. Twenty years later, Rupert Murdoch would create Fox News. And would make Trump its biggest star. Meanwhile, Mr. Trump did every controversial thing…
Hugh Grant in ‘Heretic’. Photo: A24.Opening in theaters November 8th is ‘Heretic,’ directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods and starring Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East, and Topher Grace.Related Article: Hugh Grant to Star in ‘Heretic’, a Horror Movie from the Writers of ‘A Quiet Place’Initial Thoughts(L to R) Chloe East, Hugh Grant and Sophie Thatcher in ‘Heretic’. Photo: A24.Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the co-writers of the original ‘A Quiet Place’ and writers-directors of the Adam Driver-starring dinosaur action thriller ’65,’ have returned to helm a much smaller scale horror tale here – but don’t be fooled by its…
Pet Shop Boys have shared their cover of ‘All the young dudes’ and electro-pop single ‘New London boy’. READ MORE: Pet Shop Boys: “This is our queer album” The double-A side single is available in two digital bundles, and forthcoming CD singles are set for release on November 15. You can pre-order and pre-save here. The first five-track format includes a new radio edit of ‘New London boy’ and the synth-legends’ version of the David Bowie-penned ‘All The Young Dudes’, which they originally performed in a performance for BBC Radio 2 in February. The lyrics of ‘New London boy’ are about…
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesPresident-elect Donald Trump on Friday reaffirmed that he has no plans to offload his majority stake in his social media company, Trump Media, and shot down alleged rumors that he was inclined to sell.DJT shares shot up immediately after the post, triggering a temporary trading halt due to volatility. “There are fake, untrue, and probably illegal rumors and/or statements made by, perhaps, market manipulators or short sellers, that I am interested in selling shares of Truth,” the Republican said in a post on the platform.”THOSE RUMORS OR STATEMENTS ARE FALSE. I HAVE NO INTENTION…
08 Nov 2024 6 New Thriller Novels for Fans of Sleeping Dogs If you were captivated by the pulse-pounding intensity and intricate twists of Sleeping Dogs, you’re in for a treat. Thrillers that keep you on the edge of your seat are hard to beat, and there’s a whole new crop of novels ready to grip you with high-stakes mysteries, dark secrets, and suspense that’ll make you lose track of time. From psychological games to complex conspiracies, these six new thrillers deliver the tension and excitement that fans of Sleeping Dogs crave. In Still Waters by Natalie Shpet Release Date:…
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Rudy Giuliani (C) arrives at the New York court following a judge’s order compelling his appearance in the defamation case filed by Georgia election workers in New York, United States on November 07, 2024.Lokman Vural Elibol | Anadolu | Getty ImagesA New York federal judge on Thursday threatened to hold former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court if he fails to surrender personal property — including luxury watches, baseball memorabilia, and a 1980 Mercedes-Benz — to satisfy at least some of a $146 million defamation verdict in favor of two Georgia election workers.Judge Lewis Liman chided Giuliani’s lawyer…
BEIJING – China on Friday announced a five-year package totaling 10 trillion yuan ($1.4 trillion) to tackle local government debt problems, while signaling more economic support would come next year.Minister of Finance Lan Fo’an told reporters Friday that authorities planned to “actively use” the available deficit space that can be expanded next year. He called back to October, when he had said that the space to take this step was “rather large.”His comments, translated by CNBC, came after the standing committee for China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress, on Friday wrapped up a five-day meeting that approved a proposal to…
YouTube announced several new and updated features in October. Among them were a new sleep timer, a resizable miniplayer, and some visual improvements. The Alphabet-owned video streaming platform has now reportedly started rolling out a redesigned version of the playback speed box. This is said to allow users to control the playback speed more intricately. This feature was teased by the company previously. A report claims that it is now coming to Android and iOS users. It is expected to be available to all users globally soon.YouTube Playback Speed Feature RedesignAccording to a 9to5Google report, YouTube is rolling out a redesigned version of…
Brianna LaPaglia has officially exposed Zach Bryan’s controlling behavior. It seems that a lot went down in there year long relationship. It is not all sunshine and roses. So, Brianna has took it upon herself to let fans know what truly happened. Even though she has not revealed everything, it was a lot. Keep reading to find out more. Zach Bryan Breaks Up With Her Zach Bryan and Brianna LaPaglia seemed to be happy on social media. However, this was not the case. Brianna went on tour with her friends. Zach claimed he did not want to go because he…
Brand new Lucid electric cars sit parked in front of a Lucid Studio showroom in San Francisco on May 24, 2024.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesLucid Group slightly beat Wall Street’s third-quarter expectations as the electric carmaker cuts costs ahead of plans to begin consumer production of a new SUV by the end of this year.Here is how the company performed in the quarter, compared with average estimates compiled by LSEG:Loss per share: 28 cents adjusted vs. a loss of 30 cents expectedRevenue: $200 million vs. $198 million expectedShares of Lucid increased more than 8% during after-hours trading Thursday. The stock closed regular…
Rivian Automotive lowered its earnings forecast for the year after missing Wall Street’s third-quarter expectations, including a significant miss in revenue.Here is how the company performed in the quarter, compared with average estimates compiled by LSEG:Loss per share: 99 cents adjusted vs. a loss of 92 cents expectedRevenue: $874 million vs. $990 million expectedRivian said it now expects adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of between a loss of $2.83 billion and a loss of $2.88 billion. That compares to a previous guidance of a roughly $2.7 billion loss.But Rivian reconfirmed plans Thursday to achieve a “modest positive gross profit” during the…
[This story includes spoilers from Grey’s Anatomy season 21, episode six, “Night Moves.”] Sophia Bush made her Grey’s Anatomy debut in Thursday night’s episode. In the latest episode of season 21, the actress plays Dr. Cass Beckman, a trauma surgeon at Seattle Presbyterian Hospital. She runs into Teddy Altman (Kim Raver) and Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd) at a fancy restaurant while on a date with her husband David Beckman a cardiothoracic surgeon at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. When Owen and David are called into work because there are multiple traumas coming in, Teddy and Cass decide to stay out and…
British Gambian rapper Pa Salieu has announced a new mixtape: the 11-song Afrikan Alien arrives next Friday, November 15. The project includes recent singles “Belly,” “Round & Round,” and “Allergy,” as well as tracks featuring contributions from Black Sherif, Byron Messia, and Odumodublvck. Afrikan Alien follows Salieu’s 2020 debut mixtape Send Them to Coventry. The mixtape also marks the artist’s first full-length record since he was released from prison earlier this year. Find the tracklist and cover artwork below.“Afrikan Alien is my story, my purpose. I started putting it together the moment I got out of prison, building it on…
Online election betting platform Polymarket plans to bring its prediction markets back to customers in the United States, on the heels of accurately forecasting the electoral win of President-elect Donald Trump.”I want to give a lot of credit to the people who fought the battle to go and legalize political prediction markets in America,” Polymarket founder and CEO Shayne Coplan told Andrew Ross Sorkin on “Squawk Box,” in his first live TV interview Thursday. “Now we are in the position to be aggressive around expansion.”Polymarket’s betting platforms are currently only available to customers outside of the United States. In 2022, it halted U.S.…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.Sales Surge for Dystopian BooksThe Handmaid’s Tale. On Tyranny. Men Explain Things to Me. These are the kinds of books folks are buying (at least those who are mortified by Trump’s win). 1984 was the book that flew off the shelves in 2016, when Trump’s habitual lying was terrifyingly novel. Seems like buyers now aren’t so much interested in a Big Brother comp as…