Memphis Grizzlies point guard Ja Morant was fined $35,000 for getting angry at a referee and not leaving the court “in a timely manner” after he was ejected from Wednesday’s game. The fine was announced Saturday by the NBA. Morant was assessed a technical and tossed from the game against …
Read More »Biden administration proposes refunds for travelers hit with major flight delays
WASHINGTON — The Transportation Department is proposing to require airlines to offer passengers a refund if their flight schedule is changed significantly or the airline makes major changes to their itinerary. The proposed rule announced Wednesday would require airlines to give refunds if their departure or arrival time changes by …
Read More »Georgia Senate runoff smashes early voting records — and attracts new voters
ATLANTA — Georgia has set new records for early voting again as the two Senate candidates blitz the state ahead of Tuesday’s runoff election. And the contest is drawing new voters, too. More than 1.85 million Georgians have voted early, according to the office of Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, …
Read More »Fortnite’s latest live event was its strangest yet
Fortnite just wrapped up its most recent large-scale live event, and it was a strange one — even by Fortnite standards. The event, dubbed “Fracture,” was meant as a sendoff for Fortnite Chapter 3, and now that it’s over, the game is down ahead of the launch of the next …
Read More »St Edward’s Crown undergoing ‘modification’ for King Charles’ coronation – details
Like St Edward’s Crown, the Imperial State Crown is incredibly heavy and it is adorned with several gemstones. The Queen once said of the Imperial State Crown in a documentary: “You can’t look down to read the speech, you have to take the speech up, because if you did, your …
Read More »Pension crisis fears as number of self-employed women rockets | Personal Finance | Finance
Fred Hicks, Senior Policy Adviser at the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed (IPSE), said: “We know that more needs to be done to support the self-employed to save adequately for retirement, with IPSE research suggesting that 14 percent of freelancers aren’t saving for later life in any way. …
Read More »Kirk Douglas ‘was impossible and went berserk’ on set of Rock Hudson’s The Last Sunset | Films | Entertainment
Having worked with formerly blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo on Spartacus to great success, Kirk Douglas hired the scribe to adapt Howard Rigsby’s 1957 novel Sundown at Crazy Horse. The 1961 movie title The Last Sunset would see the Hollywood star play fugitive Brendan O’Malley, who crosses the Mexican border and …
Read More »Elvis ‘so intense and sweating’ at private first viewing of his 1968 Comeback Special | Music | Entertainment
Priscilla enthused: “They were all saying, ‘Oh my god, Elvis was really great…what a night!’ When it came out in the papers it told all the ratings of how well the show did and it was like a big sigh of relief [for him]. But, y’know he was nervous.” During …
Read More »Meghan Markle’s body language when discussing wedding veil was ‘not genuine’
A couple of weeks after Meghan Markle and Prince Harry got married in 2018, the new Duchess of Sussex took part in a documentary exploring Queen Elizabeth’s role as a figure on the global stage. In the two-part ITV series about the monarch’s role as head of the Commonwealth, Meghan …
Read More »Rams place Matthew Stafford on IR, all but ending disappointing season
After they won the Super Bowl in February, you’d be hard-pressed to find somebody accurately predicting the fate of the 2022 Los Angeles Rams. They sit in last place in the NFC West with a 3-8 record, and their quarterback, who led them to the Super Bowl last season, will …
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