• Conor McGregor becomes part-owner of the ‘fastest growing sport promotion in the world’

    Conor McGregor’s business empire has just got a bit bigger. The former dual-weight UFC champion has amassed a £200 million fortune by combining his massive fight cheques with wildly successful alco

  • Local students decorate coffee shop drink sleeves as part of Visit Lawrence County promotion

    500 Lawrence County students, grades kindergarten through fourth, colored personalized coffee cup sleeves as part of Visit Lawrence County’s Coffee Club.

  • Lyft CEO David Risher has a turnaround plan for the company—and Minneapolis’s new wage minimums are not part of it

    When Lyft CEO David Risher took the helm of the rideshare company from cofounders Logan Green and John Zimmer a year ago, his mandate was clear: create a sustainable business by getting the perennial second-place rideshare company to stop bleeding money. The former Microsoft and Amazon executive laid off more than a quarter of the company’s workforce last April and exited ancillary business lines, such as car rentals. That’s helped Lyft lower the prices of its rides, so they’re in line with...

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    Tesla cutting around 2,700 jobs in Austin and more than 3,300 in California as part of broad restructuring

    Tesla is eliminating about 12% of its workforce at a factory in Austin, Texas, where the electric vehicle company is headquartered.

  • Folie a trois: Challengers Is Less Than the Sum of Its Parts, But What Parts!

    Nonlinear storytelling can be a clever method of making us care about movie characters more than we ought. We’re enthralled by the sociopathic killers, crooks, pushers, and palookas who populate […]

  • Part protest, part rave: the Indigenous artists stunning the Venice Biennale

    From Gold Lion winner Archie Moore to Brazilians the Tupinambá collective, First Nations artists are making their voices heard at ‘the Olympics of art’. They talk hammocks, hunting and human connection‘I’m not using the word ‘representing’ as I can’t represent Australia,” says the softly spoken Indigenous artist Archie Moore, recovering after the packed opening of the Australia pavilion at the Venice Biennale. “I can’t even represent all the Aboriginal people – because we’re not a homogenous...

  • Tornado Watch issued for parts of Siouxland; Severe Thunderstorm Warnings & Tornado Warnings in effect for parts of Siouxland

    SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — UPDATE (4:43 PM) – The National Weather Service

  • The Most Disturbing Part of It

    The Big Ten, the Pac-12, and the Ivy League are overrun with antisemitic students protesting in favor of Hamas. They claim they support Palestinians, but “Globalize the intifada” and “Palestine will be free from the river to the sea” are explicit genocidal slogans of Hamas. Democrats insist words mean things. These words mean the students are terrorist sympathizers. Some of the protestors are chanting “Death to America.” At least one Columbia University student screamed at Jewish students, “The...

  • The Most Disturbing Part of It

    The Big Ten, the Pac-12, and the Ivy League are overrun with antisemitic students protesting in favor of Hamas. They claim they support Palestinians, but “Globalize the intifada” and “Palestine will be free from the river to the sea” are explicit genocidal slogans of Hamas. Democrats insist words mean things. These words mean the students are terrorist sympathizers. Some of the protestors are chanting “Death to America.” At least one Columbia University student screamed at Jewish students, “The...

  • Paramount cuts their CEO

    It’s Official – Bob Bakish Is Out At Paramount Global, Trio Of Division Heads Form New Office Of The CEO https://t.co/LwDb2gCKOc— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) April 29, 2024Those Paramount Layoffs have added another to their number - the CEO (though he may have justleft)?After almost 30 years at the company, Bob Bakish is out. Paramount does seem to be on the sales block to Skydance Media, and the earnings report is soon.Very soon.I think today?It's a lot of business guff, you don't care about...

  • Spain: The long and the short of it

    Spain holds the honour of having the longest place name in the EU and fifth longest in the world with its 39 letters. Of course, the European champion is from Wales and one that no doubt all Britons can easily pronounce: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. However, the EU champion is in the picturesque Baztan Valley of Navarra in […]

  • The Heatwave Baking Parts Of Asia

    Large swaths of Asia are sweltering through a heatwave that has topped temperature records from Myanmar to the Philippines and forced millions of children to stay home from school.