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A record fiscal quarter for Walt Disney Co.βs theme parks division was dampened slightly by a streaming acquisition and a protracted fight with YouTube, the Burbank media and entertainment giant reported Monday. Disney recorded overall revenue of about $26 billion in the three-month period that ended Dec. 27, up 5% compared to the previous year….
Anas Sarwar has vowed to ban transgender women from the female prison estate “within days” if he becomes first minister after the Holyrood election. The Scottish Labour leader has pledged his party will “act swiftly” to ensure prisons are “single-sex, based on biological sex” if it gets into power in May. His declaration comes ahead…
Just a few hours after Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a statement that said, without evidence, that the 37-year-old registered nurse βwanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.β Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem would later imply Pretti had been βasked to…
NEW YORKΒ βΒ Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of the Lakersβ acquisition of Luka Doncic. Coach JJ Redick acknowledged he felt βstressedβ knowing about the trade before the Lakers played the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden that night in 2025. While his stress may have faded, Redick couldnβt have liked what he saw from the…
Gold and silver costs are taking further punishment on Monday following record routs seen at the end of last week. Both precious metals had stood at record values on Thursday but fell sharply after Donald Trump revealed his nomination for the chair of the US central bank. The announcement on Friday that he wanted Kevin…
In speech after speech, this yearβs Grammy-winning artists returned to one messageβICE is a menace that must be stopped. After dramatic, violent escalations in federal raids on immigrant communities and their supporters in Minneapolis and across the country, Americans have been shocked into despair and action. Many artists up for top Grammys have been vocal…
In the end, it was a scandal too far, even for Peter Mandelson. The latest explosive Epstein revelations have forced him to resign from his beloved Labour Party, he says, to save the party from “further embarrassment”. It’s difficult to imagine what could be more embarrassing than this weekend’s disclosure of alleged payments by Jeffrey…
How do you find the missing? If you do find them, how can you help? Oakland civil rights attorney James Cook has been on the ground in Minnesota for months figuring out answers to these question as he goes. A fast-talking Minneapolis native who still lives in the Twin Cities part time, Cook is one…
Rams coach Sean McVay goes through it nearly every year. The Rams have a successful season and other NFL teams raid his coaching staff. Mike LaFleur, the Ramsβ offensive coordinator for the last three seasons, is the latest to parlay his time with McVay into an NFL head coaching opportunity. The Arizona Cardinals on Sunday…
While Thomas Edison’s cylinders were the first to play recorded sound, they were impractical β leading Emile Berliner to come up with a better way to play music: The gramophone, invented in 1887, which played flat discs. Jane Pauley reports.
