Author: Cristin Dusks

Live Nation reached a tentative settlement with the US Justice Department on Monday in the federal antitrust case brought against the entertainment giant.The settlement, which still requires the approval of District Judge Arun Subramanian, comes just days after the antitrust trial began in New York.The case was initiated under then-president Joe Biden, with prosecutors accusing Live Nation — which owns Ticketmaster — a monopolist that controlled virtually all live entertainment in the United States.The settlement requires Live Nation to open up the ticketing platform to competitors and to allow other promoters to stage events at certain Live Nation venues, a…

The case examines competition in the concert and ticketing market dominated by Live Nation Entertainment and its ticketing platform Ticketmaster.

A US official confirms to Al Jazeera that the strikes were conducted as a joint military operation between Washington and Tel Aviv.

Federal prison officials visited Alcatraz last week after Donald Trump’s announcement earlier this month of plans to rebuild and reopen the infamous island prison, which has been closed for over 60 years. David Smith, the superintendent of the Golden Gate national recreation area (GGNRA), told the San Francisco Chronicle that officials with the Federal Bureau of Prisons are planning to return for further structural assessments. “They have been out here. They’ll be coming out again to do assessments of the structure,” Smith told the news outlet. The island facility has been closed since 1963, when then attorney general Robert F Kennedy ordered its shutdown amid…

A federal judge on Friday granted Harvard University’s emergency motion to block the Trump administration from revoking its ability to enroll international students, as litigation on the matter continues. In her order, U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs said Harvard showed “it will sustain immediate and irreparable injury” if the Trump administration is allowed to implement its revocation notice before “there is an opportunity to hear from all parties.” The order allows Harvard to maintain its “status quo” in enrolling international students for now. Burroughs has scheduled another hearing for May 27. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem notified Harvard a day earlier that the government…

The justice department has reached a deal with Boeing that will allow the airplane giant to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading US regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed and killed 346 people, according to court papers filed on Friday. Under the “agreement in principle” that still needs to be finalized, Boeing would pay and invest more than $1.1bn, including an additional $445m for the crash victims’ families, the justice department said. In return, the department would dismiss the fraud charge in the criminal case against the aircraft manufacturer. “Ultimately, in applying the facts, the law, and Department…

Republicans are backing away from broad proposals to slash federal funding to Medicaid and inching toward a more modest approach, fearful of the political risk of cutting a program that has swelled to the point thatit now insures 1 in 5 Americans. They are leaning toward smaller changes such as adding work requirements and extra eligibility checks — ideas more palatable to moderate and vulnerable Republicans, many of whom are loath to cut a program that covers a substantial slice of their constituents and risk a political backlash in next year’s midterm elections. “Obviously there would be political ramifications for…

The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration may start enforcing a ban on transgender troops serving in the military that had been blocked by lower courts. The ruling was brief, unsigned and gave no reasons, which is typical when the justices act on emergency applications. It will remain in place while challenges to the ban move forward. The court’s three liberal members — Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson — noted dissents but provided no reasoning. The case concerns an executive order issued on the first day of President Trump’s second term. It revoked an…

Kevin Warsh was sitting in the East Room of the White House when President Donald Trump took a beat to praise the former central banker. At the January 2020 signing ceremony, Trump turned to the former Federal Reserve governor — a finalist for the central bank’s top job a couple of years earlier — and delivered an unscripted aside. “I would have been very happy with you,” Trump said, singling out Warsh. “I could have used you a little bit here. Why weren’t you more forceful when you wanted that job?” It was yet another implicit swipe at Jerome H.…

An arrest warrant for the former City minister Tulip Siddiq has been issued in Bangladesh with a new allegation accusing her of illegally receiving a plot of land from her aunt, the ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. Bangladeshi media reported the warrant was issued by a judge for 53 people connected to Hasina, including Siddiq. There is no formal extradition treaty between the UK and Bangladesh. Siddiq’s representative said there was “no basis at all for any charges to be made against her, and there is absolutely no truth in any allegation that she received a plot of land in Dhaka through…