Author: Alex Maschino
The Philadelphia Flyers hire Rick Tocchet to be their next head coach Philadelphia Flyers: Rick Tocchet was named the 25th head coach of the Flyers. Jackie Spiegel: Tocchet: “I’ve always been a Flyer at heart & have taken that passion & energy that embodies this city & org. w/me throughout my career…I couldn’t be more excited to lead this team back among the NHL elite where we belong.” David Pagnotta: Tocchet was their top choice but they did a thorough search. Flyers interim coach Brad Shaw was a finalist for the full-time position. Kevin Kurz: It’s not known at this…
Last year, a million Palestinians fled to Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip, to escape the brunt of Israel’s bombardment in its war against Hamas. When Israeli forces later invaded Rafah itself, they flattened areas along the border with Egypt, but many neighborhoods were largely spared the worst of the war.That is no longer the case.The Israeli military has destroyed extensive parts of Rafah since it ended a cease-fire in March after talks with Hamas collapsed. In early May, after much of the destruction was already complete, Israel announced it would soon launch an “intensive” escalation of its…
Good morning! It seems as if every business leader in the world is trying to figure out how to embrace AI to stay competitive in a rapidly-changing tech landscape. But when it comes to effectively incorporating the technology, their workforce expectations are not quite lining up with reality. Only 10% of C-suite leaders say that their companies are future-ready, according to new data from The Adecco Group, which surveyed 2,000 people, in a report shared exclusively with Fortune. That lack of readiness is likely the result of shoddy workforce training. While almost two-thirds of leaders expect employees to update their…
Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman is using Judge Michael Jesic‘s quick deliberation time in the Erik and Lyle Menéndez‘s resentencing case to question whether it was always the intention to let the brothers walk free. During a hearing on Tuesday, May 13, the brothers were resentenced to 50 years to life, which now makes them eligible for parole under California’s youthful offender law since they committed their crime under the age of 26. The state parole board must still decide whether to release them from prison. Hochman, 61, who has not supported the siblings’ bid for release, weighed in…
Carlo Ancelotti’s side is delaying the inevitable when it comes to the La Liga title.
ReutersSeveral homes in the northern Jabalia area were reportedly destroyed in the overnight strikesAt least 80 people have been killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza, hospitals and first responders say.The Indonesian hospital said 22 children and 15 women were among 50 people who died when several homes in the northern Jabalia area were hit overnight. Nearby al-Awda hospital said it had received the bodies of another nine people, seven of them children.The Israeli military said it struck Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters in the north. It had warned residents of Jabalia and neighbouring areas to evacuate on Tuesday after…
Sony’s global music rights operation – across recorded music and music publishing – generated USD $2.54 billion in the three months to end of March 2025.That’s according to MBW’s calculations based on Sony Group Corp’s calendar Q1 2025 (fiscal Q4 2024) results, as announced by the Japanese firm today (May 14).The $2.54 billion figure was up by 1.5% year-on-year (vs. calendar Q1 2024) at US dollar-converted consistent currency.In monetary terms, Sony’s overall music rights operation (recorded music plus music publishing) generated approximately $37 million more in calendar Q1 2025 than in the prior-year quarter.(As regular MBW readers will know, our…
Paul Feig has said it before and he’ll say it again: Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick are not feuding. The director, who worked with the two actresses on the 2018 film A Simple Favor and the May sequel Another Simple Favor, has seen the speculation and rumors surrounding two of the film’s stars. Time and time again, he makes it clear that there’s no drama between the pair. “Any controversy is good. I’m always like, ‘No press is bad press,’” Feig shared on the Tuesday, April 29, episode of iHeartRadio’s “Amy & TJ” podcast. “But I just know these people,…
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The administration of United States President Donald Trump has slashed another $450m in grants from Harvard University, amid an ongoing feud over anti-Semitism, presidential control and the limits of academic freedom. On Tuesday, a joint task force assembled under Trump accused Harvard, the country’s oldest university, of perpetrating a “long-standing policy and practice of discriminating on the basis of race”. “Harvard’s campus, once a symbol of academic prestige, has become a breeding ground for virtue signaling and discrimination. This is not leadership; it is cowardice. And it’s not academic freedom; it’s institutional disenfranchisement,” the task force said in a statement.…