The Federal Trade Commission is suing Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, over allegations of illegal and deceptive business practices that it says has resulted in consumers paying "significantly more" than the face value of a ticket. In a lawsuit filed in California District Court on Thursday, the FTC accuses the companies of multiple forms of illicit behavior. Seven other states -- Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Nebraska, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia " joined the FTC's suit. read more
Former Vice President Kamala Harris has written in her forthcoming memoir that she considered former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as the top choice to be her running mate in her 2024 presidential campaign, according to excerpts of the book obtained by The Atlantic. But, she wrote, she decided that it would be too risky to have a gay man alongside her as a Black woman on the ballot, given how voters might react, according to the excerpts in The Atlantic. "We were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man. Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let's just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk. And I think Pete also knew that -- to our mutual sadness," Harris wrote in her memoir, "107 Days," according to The Atlantic. MORE: 'Recklessness': Kamala Harris turns on Joe Biden in new book ABC News has not independently reviewed the excerpts reported by The Atlantic.
Disney's ABC said it would take Jimmy Kimmel's popular late-night show off its schedule "indefinitely" after one of the biggest owners of TV stations in the U.S., Nexstar Media, said it intended to pre-empt airings of the program following remarks the host made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Disney's ABC said "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" "will be will be pre-empted indefinitely," a spokesperson confirmed to NBC News, after the late night host's Monday monologue about conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Kirk, co-founder of Turning Point USA, was giving a presentation at Utah Valley University when he was fatally shot last week. During his monologue Monday, Kimmel raised the possibility that the alleged assassin Tyler Robinson might have been a pro-Trump Republican. "The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it," Kimmel said.
Comcast is starting to move forward with the separation of its cable news outlet MSNBC from its broader NBC News division, according to information provided to workers this week. On Wednesday, employees at MSNBC were told the cable outlet will no longer offer reports from domestic or international NBC News journalists after October 6, the first significant step toward MSNBC's independence from NBC and Comcast. Journalists based at NBC News' bureau in Washington, D.C. will continue to make appearances on the channel through October 20, at which point MSNBC will be reliant upon its own news team and political analysts. read more
Red state fish in the Bermuda triangle oh my!