US shoots down Chinese 'spy' balloon as Joe Biden vows to 'take care of it'

current interest in their operations within US politics in recent months, the company gave a statement that set out five key proposals to improve the regulation of the ticketing business.“If there’s any chance of improving ticketing for fans and artists, we all need to focus on the facts,” began Live Nation’s statement.“In the last few weeks alone,” it went on, “we’ve submitted more than 35 pages of information to provide greater context and transparency to policymakers on the realities of the industry.“These include the fact that this industry is more competitive than ever, Ticketmaster has actually lost market share since the 2010 merger, not gained it; and that venues set and keep most of the fees associated with tickets and are increasingly taking an ever-larger share.”Live Nation stressed that it supported an industry-wide move to “all-in pricing”, where ticketing platforms declare the price of a ticket including all and any fees upfront. This would arguably need to be achieved through regulation to ensure companies that voluntarily adopt all-in pricing aren’t disadvantaged by looking more expensive in advertising and search engine listings.President Joe Biden recently called on ticketing companies to limit such fees, often called “junk fees”, that are added to ticket prices which he said “can easily add hundreds of bucks to a family’s nights out”.The company also suggested the primary problem in the ticketing market was touts.

Barbara Broccoli is perplexed as we grab a moment alone (well, not exactly alone alone; we were surrounded on all sides) at the swanky soirée Saturday for BAFTA Film Awards nominees at the National Gallery just off Trafalgar Square.

once again called for red states to secede from the United States, “The View” host Sunny Hostin is pretty sure the Georgia congresswoman is unaware of how and why the Civil War actually started.Shortly after the reveal that President Joe Biden secretly traveled to Ukraine on Monday, Greene claimed Biden “chose Ukraine over America” by visiting the wartime nation on a federal holiday. She later tweeted, “We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government.

The head of railways in Ukraine has apologised to passengers — for only having nine in ten of services run ON TIME yesterday.

Click here to sign up for our newslettersThe state she represents - Georgia - voted for Joe Biden at the last election, meaning that if there was a national divorce along party lines - she'd likely be stuck in Democrat-land, or be forced to move. The reaction to her initial pitch on Twitter wasn't kind, with Adam Singer saying: "You are free to leave our country any time, the rest of us actually cooperate and get things done while you squawk into the wind.

told the New Yorker. “They shuttled us from room to room, and there was a different speaker in each room, and it was all leading up to this climax where we were going to sit in the auditorium, and Joe himself was going to get up on stage and give his speech.”According to the “White Lotus” star, she was “really angry” about the event because she felt that the students present weren’t given enough time to voice their complaints. “I had a stare-down with Joe Biden from the audience, because he asked how it went, and I raised my hand immediately,” said Plaza.

once again, a red state secession – over his surprise Kyiv visit on Monday. “We need a national divorce,” Greene tweeted.

Jimmy Carter has started end of life care. The Carter Center, his foundation, announced that 38th president of the United States of America entered hospice care on Saturday, February 18.

, written and directed by Tyler Perry and starring Kerry Washington. With the World War II biopic now in production, Perry shared a behind-the-scenes look at the actress and her co-stars in full period costume on set in the United Kingdom as they go back in time to chronicle the story of the only all-Black, all-female battalion. According to the streaming platform, tells the true story of the 855 women who «joined the war effort with little knowledge of what exactly they would be doing, but were quickly given the mission of a lifetime: sort through and fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail.» Tasked with this herculean mission, which was believed to be impossible at the time, the unit overcame discrimination, foreign land and a war-torn country to sort over 17 million pieces of mail and reconnect American soldiers with people back home.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences may have appallingly snubbed Till this year when it came to Oscar nominations, but the President of the United States today had nothing but accolades for the Chinonye Chukwu directed film about the 1955 lynching of civil rights activist teenage Emmett by racists and his mother’s relentless fight for justice.

President Joe Biden made his first extensive remarks on the discovery and shoot down of three unidentified aerial objects in separate incidents on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Former US president Donald Trump has said the "wonderful people of Scotland are much better off" without Nicola Sturgeon in office.

Joe Biden‘s tweet this past weekend about the Super Bowl was WAAAAAAAAY more popular than a similar one from Elon Musk, and the tech bro won’t let it go!

Nikki Haley has announced her intention to run for president in 2024.

All three major news networks carried Monday’s White House daily press briefing live, and for good reason: Administration officials were giving an update on the three aerial objects shot down by the U.S. military in recent days.

Super Bowl 2023 commercial featuring spheres in the sky.“An unidentified object has been spotted over the skies,” the ad proclaimed. While the commercial is advertising “U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at the Sphere” — a series of concerts that marks the band’s first live shows in four years — many on social media were quick to point out the similarities to the Chinese spy balloon that has been making headlines.“Did you guys make this commercial before last week?” one person asked.“Read the room.

The airspace above an American airport was closed yesterday after a fourth unidentified flying object was spotted.

(Updated with Biden statement) Less than a week after U.S. jets shot down a Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic, President Joe Biden this morning ordered the military to destroy a self-described “high-altitude object” over Alaska.

The US military has shot down an unknown object flying in US airspace off the coast of Alaska on the orders of President Joe Biden, White House officials said.

White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield will leave the White House at the end of this month and will be succeeded by Ben LaBolt, a veteran of the Barack Obama presidential campaigns.