The closing notice and possible return for Broadway’s Girl From The North Country was barely cold before a second major production announced its own hiatus: To Kill a Mockingbird will close this Sunday and reopen on June 1. Greg Kinnear, who recently took over the lead role of Atticus Finch in the Aaron Sorkin stage … Read more
TPG, owner of CAA and 30% stakeholder in DirecTV, is on course to raise $1 billion when its stock begins trading Thursday on the Nasdaq at $29.50. The pricing of the initial public offering, reported by The Wall Street Journal and other financial media outlets, values the firm at $9 billion. The company filed last … Read more
Speaking to the media for the first time since his team’s disastrous season ended, Giants owner John Mara admitted that he was embarrassed by how things panned out. Just how embarrassing was the Giants’ finish to the season? Mara said it was the lowest point of his time in charge of the franchise. “I kept thinking … Read more
The last time the Giants conducted a search for a new general manager was in December 2017. They interviewed four candidates for the job that eventually went to Dave Gettleman. Only one of the four, current ESPN football analyst Louis Riddick, came from outside their organization. It was by no stretch of the imagination a … Read more
The Philadelphia 76ers are in one of the more unique situations in the league as they have a certain 25-year old 3-time All-Star who refuses to play for the team at the moment citing that he needs to be mentally ready to play in order to get back out onto the floor. Ben Simmons has … Read more
CNN’s ratings took a nosedive by a massive 90 percent both overall and in the all-important demographic coveted by advertisers in the first week of the new year. The Jeff Zucker-led cable news network averaged just 548,000 viewers during the week of Jan. 3 — a major drop from the nearly 2.7 million viewers for … Read more
Andrew Cuomo is ready to fight the very ethics panel he created to try and keep his $5.1 million pandemic-windfall book deal. A lawyer for the forced-to-resign ex-governor threatened Wednesday to sue the state’s ethics board for trying to claw back the payday Cuomo received for his written-on-the-job memoir about the COVID-19 scourge — and … Read more
Spanish leader Pedro Sanchez has insisted it is time to start treating COVID-19 as an “endemic illness” like the flu. “It’s a necessary debate. Science has given us the answer to protect ourselves,” the 49-year-old prime minister told radio station Cadena Ser on Monday, according to Bloomberg. Sanchez cited the plunging death rate amid surging … Read more
"CBS Evening News" headlines for Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Text size TuSimple completed a fully autonomous 80-mile drive on a public road in December. Courtesy TuSimple Self-driving technologies are coming both to passenger cars and commercial vehicles such as big rigs rattling down the highway. That spells opportunity for TuSimple, a self-driving truck start-up. Wall Street is taking notice. On Monday evening, KeyBanc analyst … Read more