Billy Ray Cyrus is forging ahead with his music career, undeterred by family concerns and public scrutiny.On Friday, the country music icon revealed plans for a new album produced in collaboration with his son, Braison Cyrus.The announcement comes amidst reported family worries over Billy Ray Cyrus’ well-being following a controversial and chaotic performance at President Donald Trump’s post-inauguration Liberty Ball.Article continues below advertisementNew Music Is On The WayZUMAPRESS.com / MEGABilly Ray Cyrus and his son Braison have spent the past year pouring their hearts and creativity into the studio together, and their hard work is about to pay off in a big…
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JERUSALEM: Palestinian militant group Hamas announced the names on Friday (Jan 24) of four Israeli female soldier hostages to be released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in the second swap under the ceasefire deal in Gaza. Karina Ariev, Daniela Gilboa, Naama Levy and Liri Albag, all members of a military surveillance unit posted near Gaza when Hamas’ Oct 7, 2023 attack occurred, would be released on Saturday, the group said. The exchange follows the release on Sunday, the ceasefire’s first day, of three Israeli women and 90 Palestinian prisoners, the first such exchange in more than a year. Prime Minister…
Trump administration freezes new funding for anti-HIV programme and other health services, excepts key food programmes.The administration of United States President Donald Trump has announced a freeze on almost all new funding for foreign assistance programmes, with exceptions for allies Israel and Egypt. The order from the US State Department on Friday also includes exceptions for emergency food programmes, but not health programmes that supporters say provide vital, life-saving services. In an accompanying memo, newly confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed senior officials to “ensure that, to the maximum extent permitted by law, no new obligations shall be made…
The NFL hiring cycle is nearing its conclusion, with five of the seven openings filled.With only the Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints still in the market, here’s our ranking in inverse order of the head-coaching hires this offseason.5. Pete Carroll (Las Vegas Raiders) Pros: Culture builder; successful track recordCons: Short-sighted, uncertain timelineThe Raiders have long lacked a winning culture, which will change with Carroll. He has won wherever he’s gone, and we’d be shocked if the Raiders didn’t improve in the win column in 2025. The problem is, this isn’t the 2010 NFC West. Carroll led the Seahawks to a division…
The continued snubbing is confounding. Horror’s appeal now extends well beyond the weirdos who once flocked to double features and midnight madness screenings. The genre has proved to be one of the few that can reliably lure audiences to see original, non-franchise fare on the big screen. Consider the success last year of “Longlegs,” a chillingly inventive “Silence of the Lambs” homage, which rode an ingenious marketing campaign and a flamboyant performance from Nicolas Cage to a box office return of over $125 million worldwide, making it the year’s highest grossing independent film.Last year also solidified the rise of a…
If you went back in time and asked composer and musician Mark Mothersbaugh to predict what his biggest moneymaker would be in his nearly 50-year career, he would not have said “Uncontrollable Urge.”The now 74-year-old musician has composed music for TV shows like “The Fairly OddParents” and “Rugrats” and movies like “Thor: Ragnarok” and “The Lego Movie,” but “Uncontrollable Urge,” a song he wrote in 1978 as a founding member of the band Devo, has turned into his biggest source of income over the past decade.Mothersbaugh’s wife and manager Anita Greenspan told Rolling Stone earlier this month that the composer…
Coal power plants contribute to global warmingWalaiporn Sangkeaw Current policies of governments around the world are likely to result in Earth warming by anywhere between 1.9 and 3.7°C by 2100, with potentially more to come in the 22nd century. “Every year we keep emitting CO2 after 2100 results in higher and higher global temperatures,” says Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at Stripe, a California-based software company that invests in carbon-removal technology. His conclusions are based on a review of more than a dozen studies published in the past five years looking at the implications of current policies. According to these…
President Donald Trump landed in California on Friday afternoon to view the devastation from wildfires that have ripped through the Los Angeles area and continue to wreak havoc.Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom greeted Trump on the tarmac when Air Force One landed in Los Angeles. The diametrically opposed politicians have sparred frequently, but they struck a more collegial tone during brief remarks to reporters at the airport.Trump said that he appreciated Newsom meeting him, adding, “We want to get the problem fixed.” The president compared the devastation of fire-ravaged areas of southern California as looking like the city “got hit by…
For more than six years, Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud computing company, provided technical support to deliver TikTok videos to tens of millions of Americans.But over the weekend, Amazon faced a dilemma. A new law was taking effect banning TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, in the United States. Tech companies were barred from distributing and updating it or they would face financial penalties. At the same time, President-elect Donald J. Trump was telling tech companies he planned to pause enforcement of the law with an executive order.Just hours before the ban took effect, Amazon appeared to…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 26.89 points or -0.07% to 39,931.98 • Shanghai increased 22.46 points or 0.70% to 3,252.63 • Hang Seng increased 365.63 points or 1.86% to 20,066.19 • ASX 200 increased 30.20 points or 0.36% to 8,408.90 • SENSEX decreased 329.92 points or -0.43% to 76,190.46 • Nifty50 decreased 113.15 points or -0.49% to 23,092.20 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD increased 0.00328 or 0.52% to 0.63173 • NZDUSD increased 0.00316 or 0.56% to 0.57151 • USDJPY decreased 0.295 or -0.19%…