Theme park revenue soared, but the YouTube dispute took a toll on Disney’s Q1 earnings

Theme park revenue soared, but the YouTube dispute took a toll on Disney’s Q1 earnings

A record fiscal quarter for Walt Disney Co.’s 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….

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Scottish Labour commits to banning transgender women from female prisons if Anas Sarwar becomes first minister | UK News

Scottish Labour commits to banning transgender women from female prisons if Anas Sarwar becomes first minister | UK News

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…

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Trump officials’ loss of credibility in ICE cases seen in court defeats

Trump officials’ loss of credibility in ICE cases seen in court defeats

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 β€œwanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem would later imply Pretti had been β€œasked to…

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Did he jump or was he pushed? Either way, Mandelson had no alternative but to resign | Politics News

Did he jump or was he pushed? Either way, Mandelson had no alternative but to resign | Politics News

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…

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