Jennifer Kuo Baxter, an entertainment attorney and executive who worked as SVP Business and Legal Affairs at Sony Pictures and in senior positions at DreamWorks Animation and other studios during her 30-year career, has died. She was 62. A friend told Deadline that Kuo Baxter died July 23 of cancer at her Pasadena home, surrounded by family. A Hawaii native, […]

Warner Bros Discovery has revamped its group focused on diversity, equity and inclusion and announced its new executive team. Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer Asif Sadiq will head the group. Other key leaders will include Karen Horne, SVP for North America; Rukasana Bhaijee, VP in Europe, Middle East, and Africa; Niarchos Pabalis, director for Latin America. All four report […]

Air travel collapsed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Carriers laid off workers, mothballed planes and lost massive sums of money. In the United States, the federal government had to come to their financial rescue. The layoffs ended up putting out tens of thousands of workers, who were helped by government assistance as well. The desire of people to travel by air […]

The Centre is pushing for bilateral trade with Cuba and its settlement in rupee as a part of its strategy to internationalise the domestic currency. A delegation from Cuba, including officials from its central bank, met Indian government officials and banks last month to discuss bilateral trade and settlement using the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) payment mechanism in rupee, […]

Erick Adame, meteorologist for Spectrum News NY1, said that he was terminated from his position after he secretly appeared on an adult cam website. “I am taking this opportunity to share my truth rather than let others control the narrative of my life,” Adame wrote in an Instagram post on Monday. “Despite being a public figure and being on television […]

DirecTV has formally apologized for a second straight week of glitches that wiped out its popular, decades-old Sunday Ticket offering. NFL fans and customers lit up Twitter on Sunday with their outrage when it became clear that the TV operator was experiencing a second straight week of technical difficulties. From end to end, the outage lasted about two hours, and […]

You’ve saved and saved during your working years, and now it’s time to retire. Among the many decisions you have to make as you enter retirement is where to spend your golden years. While you may want to stay close to your family and friends, you might also want a place with affordable housing, a reasonable cost of living, and […]

Homebuilder confidence in the U.S. declined for the ninth consecutive month in September, according to a report released by the National Association of Home Builders on Monday. The report showed the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index slid to 46 in September from 49 in August. Economists had expected the index to edge down to 48. With the bigger than expected […]

President Joe Biden has appointed Dr. Renee Wegrzyn as the first director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), a new agency established to drive biomedical innovation that supports the health of all Americans. Dr. Wegrzyn, a scientist with professional experience working for two of the institutions that inspired the creation of ARPA-H – the Defense Advanced Research […]