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Nine months ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged to more than double the annual amount of funds allocated to Californiaβs film and television tax credit program. Flanked by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, legislative leaders and union representatives, Newsom said the state βneeded to make a statement and to do something that was meaningfulβ to stop…
A savings and retirement services group backed by Apollo Global Management is closing in on a near-Β£6bn takeover of Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC), one of the City’s biggest specialist insurers. Sky News has learnt that Athora, which is minority-owned by Apollo, the US-based alternative investments giant, is days away from striking a deal to take…
Neil Druckmann is leaving βThe Last of Us.β Druckmann, the co-creator of the hit HBO series and the writer of the game on which it is based, announced Wednesday that he would be stepping away from the show ahead of its third season. βIβve made the difficult decision to step away from my creative involvement…
MPs have voted to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation after the group targeted an RAF base and an Israeli defence company’s UK headquarters. The legislation passed with 385 MPs voting to proscribe the group, while 26 voted against the move. The amendment to the Terrorism Act 2000 to include Palestine Action and two…
Critics blasted Paramount Globalβs decision to pay $16 million to settle President Trumpβs lawsuit over β60 Minutesβ edits, calling the move a βspineless capitulationβ that erodes U.S. press freedoms. Paramount late Tuesday agreed to a landmark settlement with Trump to end his $20-billion broadside against CBS News. The president will not be paid directly, or…
Former health secretary Matt Hancock has been accused of insulting the “memory of each and every person who died” over his description of the way patients were discharged into care homes during the COVID pandemic. Speaking at the inquiry into the government’s handling of the crisis, Mr Hancock said discharging patients from hospitals to care…
Federal prosecutors announced charges against Sean βDiddyβ Combs with great fanfare last year. This was not just a case of a celebrity behaving badly, they said. It was about a criminal enterprise that had, for years, concealed the crimes of a music and fashion mogul. It was a bold gambit, and it employed a strategy…
The president of the United States, who seems to enjoy nothing more than playing the bully, is picking on Los Angeles. But L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, not known as a public brawler until recently, is ducking punches and throwing her own jabs and uppercuts. She has accused President Trump of initiating the protests he condemned,…
Music mogul Sean βDiddyβ Combs has been found guilty by a jury of transportation for prostitution after a federal criminal trial in New York but not guilty on the most serious charges: Racketeering and sex trafficking. The split decision leaves the celebrity facing up to 10 years in prison. The verdict is at least a…
As rules change for girls seven on seven flag football in California with the implementation of a first national rule book, thereβs good news to report from Orange Lutheran, which won the first Southern Section championship last season. Quarterback Makena Cook, injured during the girlsβ soccer season, should be ready to go this fall. Cook,…
