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The NFL kicked off its 2024 season Thursday night, when Kansas City took on Baltimore. Next up are games on Friday, Sunday, and Monday.NFL season can’t come soon enough for the TV industry, which shrinks every year, and depends on pro football to survive. We can’t stress this enough — increasingly, the chief reason for some TV networks to exist is to transmit NFL games.For instance: More than a third of NBC’s viewing time last year was attributable to NFL games and related programming, according to analysts at MoffettNathanson. CBS was even more dependent, at 40%. And at Fox, NFL…

China has announced that it is ending the practise of allowing children to be adopted overseas, bringing uncertainty to families currently going through the process.A spokeswoman said that the rule change was in line with the spirit of international agreements.At least 150,000 Chinese children have been adopted abroad in the last three decades.More than 82,000 have gone to the US, more than anywhere else in the world.At a daily briefing Thursday, foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said in the future Beijing would only allow foreign nationals who are relatives to adopt Chinese children.She did not explain the reason for the…

Reese Witherspoon. (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images) Reese Witherspoon and Oliver Haarmann are officially dating. A source confirms for Us Weekly that things have turned romantic for Witherspoon, 48, and the financier, 57, after the twosome had been initially enjoying time together as friends. The new couple were spotted holding hands on Wednesday, September 4, while on vacation in New York City. After exiting their hotel, Witherspoon and Haarmann were seen in photographs captured by Page Six walking hand-in-hand together to an awaiting SUV. In the images, Witherspoon wore a short-sleeved black dress and heels while Haarmann cut a svelte…

In an industry where managing a web of technology vendors to support LO’s sales and marketing needs has become overwhelmingly complex, inefficient and creates unnecessary security and compliance risks, CANDID is quickly becoming a leader in transforming how mortgage lenders operate. With its new partnership with Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group, CANDID is set to make an even greater impact. A visionary partnership with Atlantic Bay Mortgage Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group, known for its innovative leadership and forward-thinking approach, is committed to providing its LOs with cutting-edge marketing and sales technology. This commitment has made Atlantic Bay a top destination for…

Pavel Durov, chief executive officer of Telegram, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016.Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe boss of messaging platform Telegram said late Thursday that charges against him by France are “misguided,” in his first public comments since being detained in the country nearly two weeks ago.Pavel Durov, who founded Telegram in 2013, was last week charged with enabling criminal activity on the messaging app — including dissemination of child pornography, drug trafficking, and fraud, and refusal to share information with authorities.One of the charges — complicity in the administration…

On a family trip in Montana, a father shares a tradition with his two sons even as climate change threatens the certainty of the rivers he grew up running. Source link

English Teacher (Photo: Tatiana Pozuelo) LONDON (CelebrityAccess) – The Leeds-based indie rock band English Teacher were recognized for their 2024 debut album This Could Be Texas with the 2024 Mercury Prize. Comprised of Lily Fontaine (vocals, rhythm guitar, synth), Douglas Frost (drums, piano, vocals), Nicholas Eden (bass) and Lewis Whiting (lead guitar), English Teacher was selected for the accolodae from a shortlist of stiff competition. “This has been a really tough year for the Mercury Prize judges, with the final 12 albums being so reflective of our diverse & rich musical landscape. There…

Google announced last week it would reinstate its Gemini AI chatbot’s ability to generate pictures of people after it paused the feature for several months due to backlash.The company also sprinkled in some other long-promised features, such as letting users customize their own chatbots. However, there’s just one catch: you’ll need to pay Google $19.99 a month to use these features.Google is certainly not the only company that’s discovered that the AI boom brings a new way for customers to pay money for these features, but for Alphabet, it opens up even bigger potential in a growing new section of…

Transport links shuttered as Asia’s strongest storm this year drenches southern China and will impact Vietnam and Laos.Powerful gales and heavy rain brought by Super Typhoon Yagi hit southern China as more than 400,000 people were forced to evacuate with the storm approaching Hainan province. Packing maximum sustained winds of 245km/h (152mph) near its centre, Yagi registers as the world’s second-most powerful tropical cyclone in 2024, after the Category 5 Atlantic Hurricane Beryl, and the most severe in the Pacific basin. On Friday, at least 419,367 residents in the heavily populated island province of Hainan, a popular holiday destination, were…

Play video content TMZSports.com The Windy City can now let out a big exhale … Simone Biles has just ensured TMZ Sports she has so much Chicago swag in her closet now, there should be no more Packers attire on her at Soldier Field going forward. Biles, of course, ruffled plenty of Bears supporters’ feathers with her wardrobe earlier this summer … when she was seen at her hubby Jonathan Owens’ Aug. 17 preseason game wearing a grip of Green Bay logos on her jacket. It obviously wasn’t meant to be any shade — the piece was just a tribute…