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Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Politics Subscribe Log In Log In Today’s Paper Politics | 116th Congress Live Updates: The New House Elects a Speaker Supported by Live Briefing ByThe New York Times Jan. 3, 2019 Right Now: The oaths of office are being administered to the speaker and members. • The 116th Congress, with the House in Democratic control, has come to order. • Representative Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, was elected speaker. • Anticipating victory, Ms. Pelosi suggested in an interview Thursday morning that President Trump can be indicted. Democrats take control. Right on schedule, the House gaveled in for the 116th Congress, with Democrats now in control. The name plate wasn’t on the door of the Capitol’s sumptuous speaker’s suite yet, but Ms. Pelosi strode out of the speaker’s office toward the chamber, grandchildren in tow. … [Read more...] about 116th Congress Live Updates: The New House Elects a Speaker

On 9/11, Stephen Feuerman saw the World Trade Center aflame through the window of his Empire State Building office and watched, transfixed, as a second fireball burst from the twin towers. He ran through the 78th floor urging everyone to get out, thinking their skyscraper could be next. With transit hubs shut down, he couldn't get home to his family in suburban Westchester for hours. Among the dead were someone he knew from college and people he recognized from his commuter train. Feuerman had always seen himself as a New Yorker, but "everything changed that day," he says. Shaken by the experience, the apparel broker and his wife put their home on the market weeks later. Within four months, they and their two small children moved to a gracious South Florida suburb they figured would be safer than New York. So it was until this past Valentine's Day, when mass violence tore into Parkland, Florida, too. "There really is no safe place," says Feuerman, whose children survived but lost … [Read more...] about ‘Wake-Up Call’: 9/11 Prompted Some to Move Away to New Lives

(Some entertainment analysts question whether those figures represent piracy or consumers spending their money elsewhere.)Christopher Sabec is a former entertainment law attorney who has represented the Dave Matthews Band. He also takes credit for discovering and managing the band Hanson. And in 2000, he was hired by the estate of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia to manage businesses spun from Garcia's intellectual property."The Garcia business was a five-year project, and when I went to get back in the music business, I found it had been decimated by piracy," Sabec says. He began sharing notes with technologist Robert Steele—now chief operating officer and chief technology officer of Sabec's new business—and they came to a conclusion: "We can solve this problem."The duo founded Santa Monica, California-based Rightscorp Inc. in 2011, and as of Sept. 30, it had settled more than 130,000 cases of copyright infringement.Rightscorp contracts with copyright holders; its … [Read more...] about Rightscorp fights Internet piracy by ‘ticketing’ copyright infringers

A one-of-a-kind voice in the musical world is being remembered as a person who's left an unfillable void in the music industry.Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday after a battle with pancreatic cancer, is being honored by her peers across multiple generations and musical genres as a legend and the undeniable queen of all things soul.MORE: Aretha Franklin: R&B legend dies at 76Photos: Remembering Aretha FranklinCelebrity deaths of 2018: Remembering those we've lost this year Clive Davis "I'm absolutely devastated by Aretha's passing," Davis told CNN's Don Lemon. "She was truly one of a kind. She was more than the Queen of Soul. She was a national treasure to be cherished by every generation throughout the world. Apart from our long professional relationship, Aretha was my friend. Her loss is deeply profound and my heart is full of sadness."Barbra Streisand "This photo was taken in 2012 when Aretha & I performed at a tribute celebration for our friend Marvin Hamlisch," … [Read more...] about R-E-S-P-E-C-T for Aretha: Tributes flood in for Queen of Soul

Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Television Subscribe Log In Log In Today’s Paper Television | Dana Carvey Remembers George H.W. Bush, From Muse to Friend Supported by ByDana Carvey Dec. 7, 2018 Late on Nov. 8, 1988, the phone rang. I answered, and a familiar voice said: “Well, congratulations. You won.” “I won? What do you mean I won?” “Bush won, so you won,” he answered. “Jon?” “YES, it’s me! JON LOVITZ! And NOW YOU are going to be the president on ‘Saturday Night Live’ for the next four years. HAPPY NOW?” On “Saturday Night Live,” your friend’s defeat can be your victory. Comedians can be insanely competitive — the reason “class clown” is singular is because if there were two class clowns, one clown would ultimately kill the other clown. Jon had played the Democratic … [Read more...] about Dana Carvey Remembers George H.W. Bush, From Muse to Friend