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☆ Don Lemon Returns to ‘CNN This Morning’ Without Acknowledging Nikki Haley Comments On Air
  + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Don Lemon returned to “CNN This Morning” after a multiday absence, but he didn’t discuss comments he made on air about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley. Lemon and his co-anchors, Kaitlan Collins and Poppy Harlow, hosted the show as usual starting at 6 a.m. ET on Wednesday. They talked about the day’s top headlines, including President Biden’s European trip, but by the first hour they hadn’t mentioned the story unfolding on their own set: That Mr. Lemon spent three days off air after making the widely condemned comments.
☆ Ohio Metal Factory Explosion Kills One, Injures at Least a Dozen Others
  + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
An explosion at a metal factory outside Cleveland sparked a big fire on Monday, killing one person and injuring at least a dozen others, authorities said. Officials in Oakwood Village, Ohio, said there was an explosion in the afternoon at a plant run by I. Schumann & Co., which manufactures metal blocks and pellets. All of the injuries were caused by the subsequent fire at the factory about 10 miles southeast of Cleveland, authorities said.
☆ Passengers Fly 16 Hours to Nowhere After Fire, Power Outage at JFK Thwarts Operations
  + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | Gareth Vipers | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Passengers with their luggage in JFK’s Terminal 1 on Friday. A power outage at John F. Kennedy International Airport’s Terminal 1 caused dozens of flight cancellations and forced several planes to turn around in midair on Friday, including one bound for New York from New Zealand. Terminal 1 was closed on Friday because of electrical issues that started a day earlier, thwarting operations at one of the busiest airports in the world at the start of a holiday weekend.
☆ Ryan Seacrest Is Leaving ‘Live with Kelly and Ryan’ After Nearly Six Years
  + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Ryan Seacrest is leaving the ABC talk show “Live with Kelly and Ryan” after six years, he said Thursday. Mr. Seacrest, the perennial television emcee, joined Kelly Ripa in the hosting chair in 2017 after a drawn-out search for a co-host. The backstage drama on the show became tabloid fodder as Ms. Ripa rotated through a number of guest hosts.
☆ Captain of Thai Soccer Team Rescued From Cave Dies at 17
  + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Duangphet Phromthep , the captain of the Thai youth soccer team that drew international attention when it was rescued from a flooded cave in 2018, died in England on Tuesday, officials said. Mr. Phromthep had been living in England to attend a soccer academy about 75 miles northwest of London, years after he and his teammates were freed from the dark cave in northern Thailand. A team of international divers saved the boys after they had wandered into the cave with their coach and got trapped by rising waters for more than two weeks.
☆ Captain of Thai Soccer Team Rescued from Cave Dies at 17
  + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Duangphet Phromthep , the captain of the Thai youth soccer team that drew international attention when it was rescued from a flooded cave in 2018, died in England on Tuesday, officials said. Mr. Phromthep had been living in England to attend a soccer academy about 75 miles northwest of London, years after he and his teammates were freed from the dark cave in northern Thailand. A team of international divers saved the boys after they had wandered into the cave with their coach and got trapped by rising waters for more than two weeks.
☆ New Mexico State University Fires Men’s Basketball Coach Amid Hazing Investigations
  + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Talal Ansari | Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Greg Heiar was in his first season as New Mexico State’s head basketball coach before his termination. New Mexico State University said it fired its men’s basketball coach, days after a player reported to campus police that three of his teammates had been hazing him in locker rooms for months. Chancellor Dan Arvizu said he made the decision Tuesday to terminate coach Greg Heiar , following the hazing allegations. He said the university’s director of athletics informed Mr. Heiar of the decision Tuesday afternoon.
☆ Gunman Who Killed Three Michigan State University Students Had No Ties to School
  + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | Joe Barrett | Ben Kesling | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
EAST LANSING, Mich.—Michigan State University officials on Tuesday morning identified the gunman who killed three students and injured five others the night before, saying he was a 43-year-old man who had never attended or worked at the school. Officials said they didn’t know the motive of the gunman, Anthony McRae , who opened fire in two campus buildings on Monday night. The five students injured remained in critical condition on Tuesday morning, officials said.
☆ New Mexico State University Cancels Men’s Basketball Season After Player Said He Was Hazed
  + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
New Mexico State University Chancellor Dan Arvizu said it was time for the men’s basketball program to reset. New Mexico State University canceled the rest of its men’s basketball season after a player reported to campus police that three of his teammates had been hazing him in locker rooms for months, according to the university and a campus police report. University officials on Sunday called off the season with five games left after reviewing the hazing accusations. The school’s Division I men’s basketball team has a 9-15 record this season after making it to the second round of the NCAA March Madness tournament last year.
☆ Brett Favre Sues Shannon Sharpe, Pat McAfee and Mississippi Auditor for Defamation
  + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Brett Favre and around 30 others were sued last year for allegedly misusing welfare funds. He has denied wrongdoing. Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre sued the Mississippi state auditor and two sports commentators, Shannon Sharpe and Pat McAfee , for defamation, saying they made false statements about him on TV and online shows. Mr. Favre alleged that the auditor, Shad White , and Messrs. Sharpe and McAfee made defamatory statements about him last year in connection with his ongoing welfare fraud case. The state sued him last year for allegedly misusing federal welfare aid meant for poor families.
☆ A Second New Jersey Council Member Fatally Shot This Month
  + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A screenshot from a video of police investigating the scene of a shooting outside a PSE&G facility in New Jersey on Thursday. A second city council member in New Jersey was fatally shot outside of his car in a parking lot, officials said, a week after a councilwoman was shot and killed inside her car. The 51-year-old councilman, Russell Heller , who represented the borough of Milford in central New Jersey, was found dead in the parking lot outside his workplace on Wednesday morning, local police and prosecutors said.
☆ Battery Catches Fire on United Airlines Plane, Sending Four Flight Attendants to Hospital
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Four United Airlines flight attendants were taken to a hospital on Tuesday after a passenger’s battery pack caught fire, forcing the plane to turn around and go back to San Diego, the airline said. United Airlines Holdings Inc. said that after the battery pack ignited, the flight crew on the New Jersey-bound plane acted quickly to contain the device.
☆ LeBron James Fans Spent Big to See Him Make History on Thursday. They Picked the Wrong Game.
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | Jennifer Calfas | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
John Larson lives in Utah, but he really wanted to be in Los Angeles to watch LeBron James make history. Mr. Larson, 54 years old, and his 24-year-old son, Adam, had studied Mr. James’s stats and took a gamble that this week the NBA star would break the league’s all-time scoring record.
☆ Beyoncé Fans Make Plans A, B and C to Get Tickets After Taylor Swift Ticketmaster Debacle
  + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Jennifer Calfas | Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Beyoncé fans rejoiced when the singer last week revealed her hotly anticipated “Renaissance” tour schedule. Then they quickly fell into a frenzy of urgent logistics. “This is not a drill,” read the subject line of an email Stella Safo, a 39-year-old HIV primary-care physician in New York, sent to her friends to launch their Beyoncé ticket-buying plans.
☆ The CEOs Taking Pay Cuts: Here’s the List
  + stars: | 2023-02-02 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Apple CEO Tim Cook asked for his 2023 target compensation to be $49 million, which is 40% less than his 2022 pay. The chief executives of at least four U.S. companies are taking pay cuts as the economy slows ahead of a potential recession. Companies across the U.S. in recent months have ordered hiring freezes, spending slowdowns and layoffs. The corporate belt tightening is starting to extend to some CEO compensation packages, which had surged to record amounts over the past few years.
☆ ‘Dr. Phil’ Show to End After 21 Seasons in Another Daytime TV Shakeup
  + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The talk show “Dr. Phil” is set to end this year after 21 seasons, CBS said, the latest shift in daytime television programming as viewership declines. The network said Dr. Phil McGraw has chosen to move on from the hosting chair, from which he advised guests in an often dramatic fashion about addiction, mental health and other topics. CBS said Dr. McGraw would focus on creating prime-time programming once his final season ended later this year.
☆ The CEO Who Quoted Martin Luther King Jr. in Her Layoff Email Apologizes to Staff
  + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The chief executive of a San Francisco startup apologized for quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr . in a layoff announcement, saying her email to employees was “inappropriate and insensitive.”Jennifer Tejada , chief executive at PagerDuty Inc., a cloud computing company, told staff last week she was cutting 7% of employees. PagerDuty is one of a number of companies that have recently delivered layoff news through email and have apologized for the downsizing.
☆ Where Is the Snow? New York City Shatters 50-Year Record for Snowless Winter
  + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Instead of snow this winter, there has been plenty of rain and drizzles in New York City. In New York, a mystery has captivated the city: Where is the snow? It hasn’t snowed across New York City in 326 days, meteorologists say, dashing dreams of a white Christmas, sledding in the park or building a snowman.
☆ Footage of Paul Pelosi Being Attacked With a Hammer Should Be Released, Judge Orders
  + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A state judge in California ordered prosecutors to release evidence from the attack on Nancy Pelosi‘s husband, including his 911 call and police body-camera footage. San Francisco prosecutors have so far declined to release video and audio evidence connected to the October attack on 82-year-old Paul Pelosi . The footage in part shows an intruder striking Mr. Pelosi with a hammer while Mrs. Pelosi, then the House Speaker, was away in Washington, D.C.
☆ Investigation Into Death of Tyre Nichols Will Take Time, Prosecutors Say
  + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A portrait displayed at a memorial service for Tyre Nichols, who died three days after a traffic stop with Memphis police. Federal prosecutors said their civil-rights investigation into the death of Tyre Nichols , a 29-year-old Black man who died after a traffic stop with Memphis police, would take time. Mr. Nichols died in a Memphis, Tenn., hospital on Jan. 10, three days after police officers pulled over his car, according to the Memphis Police Department and Benjamin Crump , a lawyer for his family. The family said Mr. Nichols, a father who loved to skateboard, was fatally beaten beyond recognition.
☆ Disney World Closes Splash Mountain Ride to Remove Racist Themes
  + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The Splash Mountain ride at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom was based on the controversial 1946 film ‘Song of the South.’Disney World closed its popular Splash Mountain ride this week to remove references from a 1940s movie with racist themes. The last Disney fans took a turn through the ride on Sunday, Walt Disney Co. said on its website. Splash Mountain, one of the theme park’s most famous rides, features music and characters from the controversial 1946 film, “Song of the South.”
☆ Dozens of Major Shootings Sweep the U.S. in January
  + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | Jon Kamp | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Two mass shootings in California in recent days have added to the dozens of other major episodes of gun violence across the U.S. at the start of the year. Rising gun violence and a dizzying pace of mass public shootings in recent years have pushed concerns about public safety to the forefront for many Americans. It remains an open question how 2023 will play out, but several weeks in, there have already been two major public shootings that together left at least 18 dead along with a string of other often-deadly shootings involving multiple victims.
☆ Monterey Park Death Toll Rises as Investigators Continue to Look for Motive
  + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Dan Frosch | Alyssa Lukpat | Christine Mai-Duc | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
MONTEREY PARK, Calif.—An eleventh person shot last weekend at a dance ballroom in Monterey Park, Calif. died Monday, officials said, as authorities continued to investigate why a 72-year-old man carried out the attack on a roomful of people celebrating the Lunar New Year. Law-enforcement officials named Huu Can Tran as the gunman. Tran took his own life Sunday morning after officers surrounded his vehicle in a shopping-plaza parking lot in Torrance, Calif., about 30 miles from where the shooting took place.
☆ Spotify to Cut 6% of Workforce in Latest Tech Layoff
  + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Spotify Technology SA is laying off about 600 employees, or roughly 6%, of its workforce as part of broader cost-cutting measures after the streaming company went on a spending spree during the pandemic. The company’s move is the latest in a wave of technology layoffs, as the industry recalibrates after growing rapidly over the past few years and ahead of a potential recession.
☆ Spotify to Cut 6% of Workforce in Latest Tech Layoffs
  + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Spotify Technology SA is laying off 6% of its employees as part of broader cost-cutting measures after the streaming company went on a spending spree during the pandemic. The company’s move is the latest in a wave of technology layoffs, as the industry recalibrates after growing rapidly at the start of the pandemic. Tech companies big and small are grappling with economic turbulence after swelling their head counts over the past few years. Now, many are cutting some of their recent additions and abandoning long-shot projects.
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