A dispute between two individuals at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center on Saturday led to panic during the National Cheerleaders Association (NCA) All-Star National Championship in Dallas. The chaos, which began around 1 p.m., escalated when several support poles were knocked over, creating a loud noise that many mistook for gunfire. However, the officials…
Sunil Amrith (Photo courtesy: Yale News) Sunil Amrith, a renowned professor of History and chair of the South Asian Studies Council, is set to take over as the new director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. Starting March 1, 2025, Amrith will succeed Steven Wilkinson, who led the center…
President Trump was officially elected chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, he announced on Wednesday, cementing his grip on an institution that he recently purged of Biden appointees. Mr. Trump posted on social media: “It is a Great Honor to be Chairman of The Kennedy Center, especially with this amazing…
President Donald Trump says he is firing members of the board of trustees for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and naming himself chairman. He also indicated that he would be dictating programming at one of the nation’s premier cultural institutions, specifically declaring that he would end events featuring performers in drag….
Wall Street went into panic mode about two weeks ago after the Chinese start-up DeepSeek released an artificial intelligence system that appeared to be radically more efficient than what its American competitors had built. The investors who had pumped trillions of dollars into tech stocks over the last few years worried whether the tens of…
NEW YORK — As noon approached on a cold winter Saturday in Midtown Manhattan, the crowd packing Madison Square Garden perked up when Alicia Keys’ “Empire State of Mind” began to play in the World’s Most Famous Arena. The star of this college basketball matinee had arrived. St. John’s coach Rick Pitino, 72 and dapper…
Arbel Yehud is the female Israeli hostage at the center of the crisis testing the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas. She was seized during the Hamas-led assault on Oct. 7, 2023, from her home in Nir Oz, a village in southern Israel near the border of the Palestinian enclave. Ms. Yehud, who was 28…
DENVER: An ex-cop fired from his job as an investigator at the U.S. Center for SafeSport for allegedly stealing money seized at a drug bust has been arrested again, this time charged with rape and sex trafficking. Jason Krasley, a former police officer in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was arrested Friday and charged with felony rape and…
When President-elect Donald J. Trump called Hussain Sajwani to the lectern at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday to promise a $20 billion investment in the United States, it was a moment for the Dubai developer to savor. For more than a decade, his company, DAMAC Properties, has helped generate millions for the Trump Organization through a partnership…
President-elect Donald J. Trump was at the lectern talking through the approaching inauguration of his second term. But across the ballroom at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., was a display of the extraordinary way that his family business interests are now fully mixed with his plans for governance of the United States. Mr….