Thirteen media-centric thoughts, notes and takeaways off NFL divisional weekend:1. Joe Buck’s oldest daughter is getting married in Mexico this week, so the ESPN broadcaster was understandably juggling quite a mental load when The Athletic reached him on Saturday night following his call of the Kansas City Chiefs’ win over the Houston Texans. But Buck was lucid about his partner, Troy Aikman, who had a great broadcast on Saturday and has been terrific all season. (From my perspective, the Buck-Aikman-Lisa Salters team was the best working NFL announcing group this season.)“What makes me happy is I feel like Troy is…
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A transition team for President Trump has asked scores of senior career diplomats to resign from their positions on Monday, as soon as Mr. Trump takes office, and many of those asked to step down intend to do so, two U.S. officials said.The practice is common when a presidential transition occurs, but it is happening faster and on a larger scale than with previous administrations, one U.S. official said. That means a possible loss of valuable knowledge of both the American institution and global affairs at the start of the administration.The Trump transition team at the State Department is led…
MELBOURNE, Australia — The thing about the circus Novak Djokovic has drummed up around himself at the Australian Open is that it’s all going to end.The way Djokovic’s mind works, it probably already has. The claim in an interview with GQ that someone poisoned him during his detention in Australia in 2022; the battles with the raucous Australian crowds; the row with Tony Jones, the Australian sportscaster who made “insulting and offensive comments”about him and his Serbian supporters; the wading into anti-government protests in Belgrade; it’s all in a little box in some corner of his brain. Carlos Alcaraz is…
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via EmailJapan attracted a record-breaking 36.9 million travelers in 2024, placing it closer to reaching its goal of 60 million travelers by 2030. However, Kyoto’s new plan to increase overnight accommodation taxes, which for some could rise from $6 to $64 per person per night, signal it has reached a breaking point, reports CNBC’s Monica Pitrelli.02:33Mon, Jan 20 20251:04 AM EST Source link
Workers announce customers about power outages as they were closed outside of Costco Wholesale in Foster City, California, United States on Jan. 16, 2025. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu | Getty ImagesA union representing thousands of Costco employees voted to authorize a strike, paving the way for a work stoppage if the labor group and retailer do not reach an agreement.Costco Teamsters, the union with 18,000 employees for the retailer nationwide, said 85% of members voted to approve the action. The current contract between the Teamsters and the wholesaler is set to expire Jan. 31.”Costco’s greedy executives have less than two weeks…
James Biden and Valerie Biden Owens arrive at the federal court for Hunter Biden’s trial on criminal gun charges, in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., June 10, 2024. Hannah Beier | ReutersPresident Joe Biden on Monday issued preemptive pardons for three of his siblings and two of their spouses, citing concerns that they will be targeted by “baseless and politically motivated investigations.”The White House announced the pardons just minutes before President-elect Donald Trump entered the Capitol Rotunda to be sworn in as the next commander in chief.Earlier Monday, Biden preemptively pardoned a number of other figures — including Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley and…
Welcome to The Briefing, where every Monday The Athletic discusses three of the biggest questions posed by the weekend’s Premier League action.During this set of fixtures, Darwin Nunez rebooted his navigation software to lift Liverpool past Brentford, Arsenal gave up a late two-goal lead over Aston Villa to lose ground, Nottingham Forest continued to thrill, Manchester City romped back into the top four and the bottom three all lost (again).But here, after another defeat at Everton, we will ask whether Tottenham’s biggest problem is their manager or the man who hired him, what Manchester United could learn from the most…
Hours after the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas took effect, a senior Hamas official said that the militant group was ready to start a dialogue with the United States, making a rare overture to a country that Hamas has long excoriated for supporting Israel.The comments made by the official, Mousa Abu Marzouk, who is based in Qatar, suggest that at least some senior members of Hamas hope it can engage directly with the incoming Trump administration even though the United States has designated Hamas as a terrorist organization since 1997.Mr. Abu Marzouk’s remarks may also indicate that Hamas feels buoyed…
Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller believes Donald Trump’s re-election renewed a jolt of speculative enthusiasm in the markets and surging optimism within businesses.”I’ve been doing this for 49 years, and we’re probably going from the most anti-business administration to the opposite,” Druckenmillar said on CNBC Monday. “We do a lot of talking to CEOs and companies on the ground. And I’d say CEOs are somewhere between relieved and giddy. So we’re a believer in animal spirits.”While the notable investor, who now runs Duquesne Family Office, is bullish on the economy in the near-term, he remains somewhat cautious on the stock market because of elevated…
The world is getting older — and with that demographic change comes “significant” investment opportunities, according to Goldman Sachs. Fertility rates are declining and people are living longer, resulting in an older demographic taking a larger share of the total population. The global population is expected to rise by about 20% through 2050, said analyst Evan Tylenda, EMEA head of Goldman Sustain, the firm’s investment research team dedicated to finding the best environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments. But the number of people over the age of 65 is expected to double, to 1.6 billion from 800 million, over the…
