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☆ Celine Dion Reveals Stiff-Person Syndrome Diagnosis, Cancels and Reschedules 2023 Tour Dates
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Celine Dion said Thursday she was diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder called Stiff-Person Syndrome that makes it hard to sing the way she wants to, prompting her to reschedule and cancel dozens of shows. The Canadian singer, 54 years old, said in a video on Instagram that she was recently diagnosed with the disorder. It affects her vocal cords, among other things, leaving an uncertain future for one of the bestselling artists of all time. Over her decadeslong career she has produced hits like “My Heart Will Go On” and “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now.”
☆ Mauna Loa Eruption Brings Traffic, Onlookers and Trespassers to Remote Site
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Talal Ansari | Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The eruption of the world’s largest active volcano has brought tourists, thrill seekers and locals to the steep slopes of Hawaii’s Big Island. Lighting up the Big Island’s night sky and spewing ash and lava as high as 200 feet, Mauna Loa awakened late last month after more than 35 years of dormancy.
☆ Broadway’s ‘KPOP’ Set to Close Two Weeks After Opening
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Cast members of the musical ‘KPOP,’ which was one of Broadway’s lowest-selling shows in recent weeks. The Broadway musical “KPOP” is closing on Sunday two weeks after it opened, the show said. The “KPOP” producers were betting that the K-pop genre’s international success would translate to a New York stage even as many Broadway shows have struggled to lure audiences back following Covid shutdowns. Several other shows are set to close soon.
☆ Gunfire Attack in North Carolina Leaves Thousands Without Power for Third Full Day
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Residents in Moore County, N.C., went a third full day without power Tuesday as the outages continue to upend daily life, forcing schools and businesses to remain closed. Paige Loyd , who lives in the town of Southern Pines, hasn’t had heat or a working stove since Saturday night. Authorities say vandals in Moore County disabled two substations that evening with gunfire.
☆ Taylor Swift Fans Sue Ticketmaster After ‘Eras Tour’ Sales Debacle
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Taylor Swift says it was ‘excruciating’ to watch the Ticketmaster debacle. More than two dozen Taylor Swift fans sued Ticketmaster in a California court for anticompetitive and fraudulent behavior after they alleged the company blocked them from buying tickets last month to the musician’s concerts. In the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the fans said Ticketmaster knew the sale would be plagued with issues in part because it had let too many people access the presale.
☆ Tampa Police Chief Resigns After Flashing Badge to Get Out of Traffic Stop on a Golf Cart
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Mary O’Connor came out of retirement to become Tampa’s police chief, the city said earlier this year. The police chief of Tampa, Fla., resigned on Monday, weeks after she flashed her badge to get out of a traffic stop, officials said. The former chief, Mary O’Connor , was off duty and riding in a golf cart with her husband in Oldsmar, a city in Pinellas County just west of Tampa, on the night of Nov. 12, Tampa police said. In a body-cam video of the traffic stop, a sheriff’s deputy said he stopped the couple because their golf cart wasn’t tagged.
☆ China Fines Jeremy Lin $1,400 for Criticizing Quarantine Facilities
  + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Former NBA star Jeremy Lin , who is currently playing professional basketball in China, was fined more than $1,400 by the Chinese Basketball Association after complaining about quarantine facilities on social media, the league said. Mr. Lin, in a since-deleted video post, criticized the hotel where he was quarantining Thursday with his team, the Guangzhou Loong Lions, ahead of an upcoming game, according to the league and the post, which other users circulated on the Chinese microblogging platform Weibo .
☆ The Laundress Is Recalling 8 Million Products Over Infection-Causing Bacteria
  + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Joseph De Avila | Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The Laundress is voluntarily recalling about eight million laundry and cleaning products that may contain bacteria that can cause respiratory infections among immunocompromised people. The company said it was issuing the recall Thursday after first warning customers on Nov. 17 to stop using its products. The Laundress said last month it had identified “the potential presence of elevated levels of bacteria” in some of its products and was working with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
☆ New York City Wants to Pay a ‘Rat Czar’ $170,000 to Solve Its Rodent Problem
  + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
New York has had a rat problem since the 1700s. City officials hope someone with a “general aura of badassery” can finally solve it. The city posted an unusual job listing this week: an opening for a director of rodent mitigation, or a “rat czar.” The ideal candidate—someone who is “highly motivated and somewhat bloodthirsty”—will be tasked with keeping the city’s rats “in check and on notice,” according to the job posting.
☆ Uvalde Shooting Survivors File $27 Billion Lawsuit Against First Responders
  + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Dozens of Uvalde shooting survivors sued responding officers and others in a Texas federal court, seeking $27 billion in damages, for taking more than an hour to stop the gunman. Students, parents, teachers and school staff said in the lawsuit filed this week that they were traumatized by the first responders’ failure to intervene in the May shooting. Nineteen fourth-graders and two teachers died, making it the deadliest U.S. school shooting since the one in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
☆ Hurricane Season Caps a Year of Fewer but Still-Destructive Storms
  + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
One of the two major hurricanes this season, Hurricane Ian barreled from Cuba to Florida and the Carolinas. The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season came to an end on Wednesday, after a historically quiet period gave way to a destructive finale with some of the most catastrophic storms in recent years. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said there were 14 named storms during the season, which ran from June to November. That is an average amount for a typical season, forecasters say.
☆ Spotify ‘Wrapped’ Is Here and Joe Rogan, Bad Bunny Top the Streaming Charts
  + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Joe Rogan has hosted his podcast exclusively on Spotify since he struck a deal with the company in 2020. Joe Rogan ‘s podcast was the most popular on Spotify in 2022, the audio streaming giant said, a designation that came even after some of the podcaster’s comments ignited an internal controversy for the company earlier this year. Mr. Rogan’s show, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” was the most-streamed podcast worldwide on Spotify for the third year in a row, the company said in a report released Wednesday. Spotify didn’t say how many times the show was streamed.
☆ Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, World’s Largest Active Volcano, Erupts for First Time Since 1984
  + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the biggest active volcano on Earth, is erupting for the first time since 1984, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The volcano has been spewing ash and lava as high as 200 feet in the air since about 11:30 p.m. local time on Sunday, according to the USGS’s volcanic activity service.
☆ Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Volcano Is Erupting for the First Time Since 1984
  + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano, the biggest active volcano on Earth, has begun erupting for the first time since 1984, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The volcano has been spewing lava and ash since about 11:30 p.m. local time on Sunday, according to the USGS’s volcanic activity service, an event that people on the Big Island have long feared.
☆ Crypto Entrepreneurs Seek Elon Musk’s Attention With $600,000 Goat Statue
  + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Joseph Pisani | Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Kevin Stone got the call late last year: Could he make a statue of a giant goat with the head of Elon Musk riding a rocket. Mr. Stone, a metal sculptor in British Columbia, Canada, assumed the stranger on the phone was Mr. Musk. “I mean, who else would want something so crazy?” asked Mr. Stone, who typically gets hired to make metal dragons and eagles.
☆ Crypto Entrepreneurs Fail to Capture Elon Musk’s Attention With $600,000 Goat Statue
  + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Joseph Pisani | Alyssa Lukpat | Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
AUSTIN, Texas—Even as a cold night started to settle outside Tesla ‘s headquarters here on Saturday, a group of cryptocurrency entrepreneurs had no plans to leave until Elon Musk, the man they named their currency after, accepted a 12,000-pound sculpture of a Mr. Musk-headed goat riding a rocket. It is the latest stunt in the cryptocurrency space, where jokes and memes about digital currencies regularly flood social media. But a 6-ton sculpture as a marketing gimmick isn’t so common.
☆ Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Launching ‘Verified’ Service Next Week
  + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Elon Musk said Twitter Inc. will once again try to roll out a new verification service next week that its billionaire owner has championed despite a fumbled launch and numerous problems. He said Friday that Twitter would use a new color system for verified accounts, departing from the platform’s ubiquitous blue check mark. Companies would get gold check marks and government accounts would get gray check marks, he said. All individuals, whether they are celebrities or not, would have blue check marks.
☆ Robert Iger Is Back at Disney. See How Other ‘Boomerang’ CEOs Have Fared
  + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | Emily Glazer | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ Man Suspected of Killing Six at Virginia Walmart Was an Employee
  + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | Sarah Nassauer | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A Walmart employee armed with a pistol allegedly opened fire at a store in Chesapeake, Va., Tuesday night, killing six people and injuring at least six others, officials said. The employee carried out the shooting less than an hour before the store was set to close and then fatally shot himself, Chesapeake Police Chief Mark G. Solesky said at a news briefing Wednesday morning. The suspect was already dead when the police arrived, the city of Chesapeake said on Twitter Wednesday afternoon.
☆ CNN’s Programming Chief Michael Bass Is Set to Exit by Year’s End
  + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta. The cable news network will launch a search for a new programming chief, CNN Chairman Chris Licht said. Michael Bass , CNN’s programming chief and a longtime ally of former President Jeff Zucker , is set to leave the network at the end of the year, CNN said. Chris Licht , CNN’s chairman and chief executive, wrote in an email to the company Monday that Mr. Bass decided to leave CNN after steering it through turbulent times. Mr. Licht didn’t say why Mr. Bass made the decision.
☆ CNN’s Programming Chief Michael Bass Is Set to Exit By Year’s End
  + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta. The cable news network will launch a search for a new programming chief, CNN Chairman Chris Licht said. Michael Bass , CNN’s programming chief and a longtime ally of former President Jeff Zucker , is set to leave the network at the end of the year, CNN said. Chris Licht , CNN’s chairman and chief executive, wrote in an email to the company Monday that Mr. Bass decided to leave CNN after steering it through turbulent times. Mr. Licht didn’t say why Mr. Bass made the decision.
☆ Taylor Swift Says It Was ‘Excruciating’ to Watch Ticketmaster Debacle
  + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Taylor Swift has responded to the Ticketmaster debacle that blocked many of her fans this week from getting tickets to her tour, saying Friday that it was “excruciating for me to just watch mistakes happen with no recourse.”Live Nation Entertainment Inc.’s Ticketmaster, the online ticket vendor, opened its presale Tuesday to select fans who had registered in advance. Millions of people swarmed the site, causing it to crash and forcing fans to wait sometimes hours to secure seats for the “Eras Tour” next year. Some fans didn’t get tickets.
☆ Manchester United Has ‘Initiated Appropriate Steps’ With Cristiano Ronaldo After Piers Morgan Interview
  + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the world’s most famous soccer players, has been with United since August 2021. Manchester United said it has “initiated appropriate steps” after one of its star players, Cristiano Ronaldo , criticized the team and its management in an interview with Piers Morgan . The interview, which aired over U.K. airwaves and on YouTube this week, appeared to be the culmination of longstanding tensions between the Premier League club and Ronaldo, one of its biggest stars, who has reportedly been trying to leave the team.
☆ Ticketmaster Sells More Than Two Million Taylor Swift Tickets in One Day, a Record
  + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Anne Steele | Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Taylor Swift ’s presale for her first tour in five years broke sales records as millions of fans rushed to snap up tickets despite glitches affecting Ticketmaster’s system and backlash from politicians over the ticket seller’s power. Ms. Swift’s 52-date stadium run sold over two million tickets on Tuesday—more than any other artist in a single day, according to the company. Tuesday’s presale was limited to a select group of people who had registered with Ticketmaster, part of an effort to ensure that actual fans, rather than scalpers, got first crack at tickets.
☆ Ticketmaster Backlash Mounts After Taylor Swift Ticket Debacle
  + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | Anne Steele | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Politicians and Taylor Swift fans are criticizing Ticketmaster for anticompetitive behavior after the online ticket seller’s website crashed this week and some people couldn’t buy tickets to Ms. Swift’s coming tour. When tickets went on sale Tuesday for Ms. Swift’s first tour in five years, a rush of fans swarmed Live Nation Entertainment Inc.’s Ticketmaster site. The site was one of the few places to buy a ticket for Ms. Swift’s “Eras Tour.” Fans complained on social media that the site kept crashing.
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