Folk-rock superstar Neil Young has sold a 50% stake in his song catalog to investment company Hipgnosis for an estimated $150 million. The deal covers copyright and income interests from 1,180 songs, Hipgnosis said in a statement on Wednesday. Young is the latest in a series of artists to strike rights deals as streaming helps
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Rev. Raphael Warnock will make history when he becomes Georgia’s first Black senator and the first Black Democrat to represent a southern state in the Senate. Once sworn in, Warnock will be the 11th African American to serve in the US Senate — a group that includes former President Barack Obama, who served as a
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The fallout from Wednesday’s congressional session to count the 2020 electoral votes will echo for years to come. The state of the presidential electoral process. The state of the country. The state of a political party. The state of a Congress potentially moving into a new era of Democratic control. The significance shouldn’t be minimized.
Continue ReadingWhen a freezer that was used to store the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at a Northern California hospital broke, officials soon realized they only had about two hours to administer the more than 800 doses that were inside. And they took on the challenge. The executive team at Mendocino County’s Adventist Health Ukiah Valley Medical Center
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The Rev. Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, will be the first Black senator from Georgia, CNN projected early Wednesday, a repudiation of Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler and her adherence to President Donald Trump. Control of the US Senate now comes down to Republican David Perdue, who is trailing in
Continue ReadingThousands of stocks trade on Wall Street every day. But let’s be honest: Just a half dozen companies really, truly matter for many investors. Following the addition of Tesla to the S&P 500 last month, Elon Musk’s electric car giant joins a quintet of tech stocks that dominate the blue chip index. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon,
Continue ReadingRapper, producer and entrepreneur Dr. Dre announced Tuesday that he is currently hospitalized in Los Angeles. “Thanks to my family, friends and fans for their interest and well wishes. I am doing great and getting excellent care from my medical team. I will be out of the hospital and back home soon,” Dr. Dre wrote
Continue ReadingRusten Sheskey will not face charges in the shooting of Jacob Blake, Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley announced Tuesday. Sheskey, a White officer, shot Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, seven times while responding to a domestic incident on August 23, 2020. Blake survived the shooting but was left paralyzed from the waist down. “It
Continue ReadingCivil rights icons took part in a coronavirus vaccination event at a historically Black medical school in Georgia. The event was held to encourage Black Americans to be immunized, Atlanta’s Morehouse School of Medicine said in a news release. Former UN Ambassador Andrew Young, civil rights leader Xernona Clayton, Former Health and Human Services Secretary
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President Donald Trump’s desperate effort to subvert democracy and steal the election will hit a brick wall of truth and America’s constitutional defenses when Congress meets Wednesday to finalize President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. But a futile bid by radicalized pro-Trump Republicans to block the process based on bogus vote-fraud claims will inflict new blows on
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The House of Representatives and the Senate will convene in a joint session of Congress on Wednesday to count the Electoral College votes from the 2020 presidential election. The vote count on Capitol Hill typically unfolds as a routine formality, but this year a number of Republican lawmakers plan to object to the results from
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After the elections in November, Wall Street put predictions of a “blue wave” aside. Now, investors are once again reckoning with the possibility that for the next two years, Democrats could control both chambers of Congress and the White House. What’s happening: CNN projects that Rev. Raphael Warnock will defeat Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, while
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Two new variants of the coronavirus have emerged that seem to make the virus more easily transmitted. But will they stymie vaccination efforts? One, first identified in Britain, has popped up around the world. While researchers worried at first that it might have changed enough to evade the protection offered by coronavirus vaccines, the evidence
Continue ReadingThe US reported its highest daily Covid-19 death count ever Tuesday — a grim milestone that comes as state leaders work urgently to combat a slow pace of vaccinations. More than 3,770 American deaths were reported in one day — more than two dozen above the country’s previous record, set less than a week ago.
Continue ReadingA Chinese court has sentenced the former chairman of a huge state-owned financial company to death after finding him guilty of bribery. It’s a rare use of the most severe punishment in a long-running crackdown by Beijing on corruption. Lai Xiaomin — who used to chair China Huarong Asset Management — was guilty of taking
Continue ReadingMore than 1,000 people have died of Covid-19 in Los Angeles County over the past week as California grapples with surging cases and overwhelmed hospitals. “L.A. County reached the terrible milestone of more than 11,000 deaths due to Covid-19,” Los Angeles County DPH Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer said in a statement, as she urged all
Continue ReadingIt’s hard to imagine anyone has had a better year than Elon Musk did in 2020. His personal net worth soared like one of his SpaceX rockets, increasing by more than $100 billion. And his loudest critics, aka investors who shorted Tesla stock on the assumption the share price would go down, lost a record
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The Rev. Raphael Warnock will become the next senator from Georgia, CNN projected early Wednesday morning, and the other race in the twin Georgia runoffs that will decide control of the Senate remained too close to call on Tuesday night. Despite not having a result in the race between Jon Ossoff and Sen. David Perdue,
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Break out the king cakes! It’s Epiphany, also known as Twelfth Night or Three Kings’ Day, which marks the start of Carnival season. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily.
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The family and supporters of Jacob Blake, who learned Tuesday that the officer who shot him seven times will not face charges, vowed to bring their protest to Washington, D.C. “Now our battle must go in front of the Congress, it must go in front of the Senate,” his father Jacob Blake Sr. said Tuesday.
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