Tag: shows
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British lawmaker suspended from Labour Party after video shows apparent assault
A member of the British Parliament was suspended Sunday by the Labour Party after a video appeared to show him punching and knocking a man to the ground. Mike Amesbury, 55, from Runcorn and Helsby in northwest England, was suspended pending an investigation into the incident that took place early Saturday morning. Surveillance footage obtained…
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Louisiana forces relocation of homeless camp before Taylor Swift’s New Orleans shows
An encampment of unhoused people in downtown New Orleans was forcibly relocated by the order of Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry ahead of this weekend’s Taylor Swift concerts, disrupting monthslong housing efforts with less than a week’s notice. City Councilwoman Lesli Harris, who represents the district where the Caesars Superdome venue is located, told NBC News…
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New poll shows Trump and Harris neck-and-neck nationally and in battlegrounds
Less than two weeks until Election Day, CNBC’s latest national poll finds a margin-of-error presidential contest between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris both nationally and in key battleground states, with Trump ahead on economic issues and Harris leading on character issues including honesty and the fitness to be president. In CNBC’s quarterly “All-America Economic Survey,”…
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Olivia Munn shows off mastectomy scars in new topless Skims campaign
Breast cancer survivor Olivia Munn is embracing her post-mastectomy body. The actor, a paid spokesperson for Skims, stars in the brand’s latest bra campaign in partnership with Susan G. Komen and shows her double mastectomy scars in the images. The 44-year-old is proud of how the images turned out, but told “TODAY” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie the…
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Video shows Beirut residential building leveled by Israeli airstrike
Israel has landed a series of strikes on the city in recent days, expanding its offensive in an assault that sparked panic. Throughout Sunday night, the Israeli military hit bank branches across Lebanon to target Hezbollah’s finances. Hundreds of residents in Lebanon’s capital and its surrounding suburbs were also forced to flee their homes after the Israel…
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Selena receives posthumous Medal of the Arts; shows Queen of Tejano’s enduring appeal
If the “Queen of Tejano” music Selena Quintanilla Perez — simply known as Selena — were alive today, the Grammy Award-winning superstar would be 53 years old. Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of her death. Yet, her standing as a musical and cultural icon was evident Monday, when President Joe Biden presented the 2022…
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Chick-fil-A is releasing its own entertainment app, with family-friendly shows and podcasts
Chicken sandwiches, waffle fries, milkshakes — and now TV shows and podcasts? Chick-fil-A plans to launch a new app on Nov. 18, with a slate of original animated shows, scripted podcasts, games, recipes and e-books aimed at families. While it’s an unusual move for a restaurant company to wade into the crowded media world, Chick-fil-A…
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An AI-powered bot army on X spread pro-Trump and pro-GOP propaganda, research shows
An army of political propaganda accounts powered by artificial intelligence posed as real people on X to argue in favor of Republican candidates and causes, according to a research report out of Clemson University. The report details a coordinated AI campaign using large language models (LLM) — the type of artificial intelligence that powers convincing,…
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Film on haenyeo, Korea’s ‘mermaids,’ shows women who fight to preserve sea and sisterhood
South Korea’s “haenyeo,” or women divers, say that they’ve become inseparable from their deep blue environment. In Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai’s first executive-produced film, she explores the divers’ world, most of them now in their 60s, 70s and 80s and living on Jeju Island, 80 miles off the Korean Peninsula. The women are…
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Video shows fire coming from Frontier flight after landing in Las Vegas
Video showed flames coming from underneath a Frontier flight that made a hard landing in Las Vegas after reports of smoke in the cockpit Saturday, officials said. Flight 1326 was on its way from San Diego to Las Vegas when “the pilots detected smoke and declared an emergency,” Frontier said in a statement. There were…