The inquiry predates the botched presale of Taylor Swift tickets this week and is said to focus on whether Live Nation has abused its power in the live music industry.
The U.S. says Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s official standing as the sitting head of a foreign government should give him immunity in the lawsuit filed by the fiancée of slain Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. https://t.co/IwW0qa2GNG
Some Supreme Court justices are attempting to encourage the court to tackle cases that have the potential to hold the government more accountable for bad behavior or otherwise treat citizens' rights more seriously.https://t.co/SQex7zjFjj
Democrats grew increasingly optimistic on Thursday that they would hold the Senate as votes were counted in Arizona and Nevada. “I think we have a very legit chance of expanding our majority from 50 to 51,” said Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia. https://t.co/o5upgVf8Kw
[....] Graphika found Russia-linked actors are targeting the close Senate and gubernatorial races in Pennsylvania, Georgia, New York and Ohio by disseminating a series of racist and inflammatory political cartoons [....]
Yes, but: Graphika said the most recent set of political cartoons has "received very low engagement and no organic spread to other platforms."
Striking stat, via Roland Fryer: "First- and second-generation African immigrants, despite constituting only about 10 percent of the U.S. Black population, make up about 41 percent of all Black students in the Ivy League." https://t.co/3cndzw0LOH
@ NYTimes Live Coverage ongoingAt least 120 people died and another 100 were injured when they were crushed in a Halloween crowd in Seoul on Saturday night
Five years ago, @dwallacewells wrote a magazine article about worst-case climate scenarios. But today, as he explores in @NYTMag's Climate Issue, the most likely outcome is neither relief nor apocalypse: It is warming between 2 and 3 degrees Celsius. https://t.co/xTDPSklQLj
