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ESPN is aiming to shape the way the No. 1 sports league and sports entertainment company are viewed.Just days after reports that ESPN and the NFL reached a major media deal (which was confirmed on Tuesday), ESPN and WWE announced that the wrestling company's premium live events will be broadcast on the network's direct-to-consumer platform beginning in 2026.Events like WrestleMania, SummerSlam, the Royal Rumble, Elimination Chamber, Survivor Series, Money in […]

Claire's Stores Inc., once a teen retail staple, has filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in seven years as it contends with significant debt. The retailer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a federal court in Delaware on Wednesday, highlighting the "difficulty facing mall-based retailers geared to the teen and tween customer," according to Sarah Foss, head of legal at Debtwire. In the filing with the U.S. bankruptcy court […]

Google is investing $1 billion to support artificial intelligence training and education initiatives in the U.S. over the next three years, underscoring how some tech giants are working to scale access to their learning models and shape the future of education.Google's investment includes funding for new AI learning tools, and the Google AI for Education Accelerator, which is a new initiative that will provide free AI training and Google Career Certificates to […]

A Spirit Airlines pilot has been arrested and pulled from future flights for allegedly stalking two minors.Dominic Armando Cipolla, 40, is charged with two counts of stalking including a felony count for allegedly stalking someone under the age of 14. According to a criminal complaint, Cipolla targeted children born in 2008 and 2013 with conduct that would cause a reasonable person or their family to fear for their safety. The […]

A small medical transport plane crashed in Chinle, Arizona, on Tuesday while traveling to pick up a patient, killing four people on the aircraft.The plane crashed and caught fire near the Chinle Airport around 12:40 p.m., according to the Navajo Police Department.All four people on board were confirmed dead, police said.DELTA FLIGHT DIVERTED TO MINNEAPOLIS AFTER SEVERE TURBULENCE, LEAVING 25 PEOPLE ON BOARD HOSPITALIZEDThe victims were not local to the […]

The Trump administration will eliminate Elon Musk's program that required federal employees to email a summary of five workplace achievements from the previous work week. The Office of Personnel Management [OPM] is announcing plans to end the required emails to HR representatives across the federal government on Tuesday, the administration confirmed to FOX Business. "We communicated with agency HR leads that OPM was no longer going to manage the five things process […]

A dream vacation took a dark turn after passengers on board a Celebrity Cruises vessel reportedly experienced a temporary loss of power over the weekend, leaving it adrift for several hours.The ship, Constellation, was sailing near the Italian coast on Saturday, Aug. 2, when it encountered a power outage that a spokesperson for Royal Caribbean Group, Celebrity Cruises’ parent company, described as a "technical issue."Reports indicate the vessel was without electricity […]

Almost half of the states in the country allow some illegal immigrants to benefit from in-state tuition in some form or another, with Texas being the first to do so but the most recent to undo its policy.Twenty-three states – plus the District of Columbia – offer undocumented students the ability to pay the same rate as residents, whether through waivers or established law.In 2001, Texas passed a law allowing […]

The Trump administration's effort to modernize federal payment systems is coming to Social Security, which will start phasing out paper Social Security checks.The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced in mid-July that it would no longer issue paper checks starting on Sept. 30. The agency noted in a blog post announcing the move that electronic funds transfers (EFTs) get payments to beneficiaries faster than paper checks, while also providing increased security against fraud and […]