Article content NEW YORK (AP) — Simon & Schuster has been sold to the private equity firm KKR, months after a federal judge blocked its purchase by rival publisher Penguin Random House because of concerns that competition would shrink in the book market. The private equity giant will buy Simon & Schuster for $1.62 billion […]
Article content The Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game franchise says it won’t allow artists to use artificial intelligence technology to draw its cast of sorcerers, druids and other characters and scenery. D&D art is supposed to be fanciful. But at least one ax-wielding giant seemed too weird for some fans, leading them to take to […]
Article content SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon has extended rules restricting the state’s lucrative Dungeness crab fishery in order to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in ropes attached to crab traps, the state’s fish and wildlife department has announced. Humpbacks, which migrate off Oregon’s coast, and other whales can get caught in the vertical […]
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: The Associated Press Bobby Caina Calvan Published Aug 05, 2023 • Last updated 16 minutes ago • 3 minute read Join the conversation Article content NEW YORK (AP) — Social media influencer Kai Cenat is facing charges of inciting a riot and promoting an unlawful gathering in […]
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: The Associated Press Michael Liedtke Published Aug 05, 2023 • 5 minute read Join the conversation Article content SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — I won’t forget the first time I took a ride in a car without anyone sitting in the driver’s seat. It happened one night […]
Article content Federal investigators said Thursday that the pilot of a charter jet took off without permission, creating a “conflict” with a JetBlue plane that was preparing to land on an intersecting runway at Boston’s Logan International Airport in February. A screen grab from video shot from the JetBlue cockpit captures the moment that the […]
Article content COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio-based utility company says it’s being investigated by a state office focused on organized crime in connection with payments the company made to the state’s former House speaker and a top utility regulator, a news outlet reported Wednesday. FirstEnergy said in a financial report filed Monday that it […]
Article content WASHINGTON (AP) — Fitch Ratings has downgraded the United States government’s credit rating, citing rising debt at the federal, state, and local levels and a “steady deterioration in standards of governance” over the past two decades. Article content The rating was cut Tuesday one notch to AA+ from AAA, the highest possible rating. […]
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: The Associated Press Sam Metz Published Aug 01, 2023 • 3 minute read Join the conversation Article content SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Environmentalists filed a lawsuit on Monday to prevent the construction of a new potash mine that they say would devastate a lake ecosystem […]
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: The Associated Press Bobby Caina Calvan Published Jul 29, 2023 • 3 minute read Join the conversation Article content NEW YORK (AP) — Chatter on one of Prabha Rao’s WhatsApp groups exploded last week when India announced that it was severely curtailing some rice exports to […]