The drama offers a rare peek behind the curtains of the music industry and the complexities of music ownership, recording and publishing contracts, as well as the lucrative business of master recordings. The average fan might assume a performer like Swift, because she wrote and recorded a hit song like “Shake It Off,” has full ownership of her work. Not quite so. Big Machine owns the master recordings to Swift’s first six albums, Taylor Swift through Reputation, which were recorded under her deal with the country music label....

The Shanghai Shenhua loanee was introduced as a 90th-minute substitute for Aaron Wan-Bissaka but his introduction could not save the Red Devils from going down at Old Trafford. Neymar secured all three points for PSG in stoppage time with his second goal of the night after Marquinhos restored their lead in the second half. The Brazil star broke the deadlock for the French champions in the sixth minute but Marcus Rashford cancelled out the opener just before half-time....

Maximo Alvarez, a Cuban-born businessman from Florida, claimed during a Friday interview with Fox News morning show Fox & Friends that President Joe Biden and progressive Democrats are bringing “communism” to the country by their efforts to provide Americans with free preschool and community college, free school meals, paid family leave, and higher taxes on the rich and corporations. In reality, these proposals have long been the norm in other wealthy developed nations around the world....

As a Muslim American woman myself, it’s hard to imagine being in her position, with the president of the United States leading a mob chanting “send her back.” Yet Omar is continuing not only to do her job, but to overperform at it— including on behalf of the very working white people Trump himself claims to represent. Let’s take a look at Omar’s work in just the last few months....

Omar was elected to Congress in 2019 and is the first Somali American and the first naturalized citizen of African birth in Congress, as well as one of only two Muslim women to serve in Congress. She’s also the first black woman to represent Minnesota. “Clarence Thomas needs to be impeached,” Omar wrote on Twitter, sharing a tweet that remarked on Justice Thomas’ being the only justice in the court to vote “no” in a 8-1 decision in January 2022 to allow the release of Donald J....

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, told Fox News host Sean Hannity last Thursday that he planned to cooperate with White House counsel if Trump is impeached by the House of Representatives and the case is brought to trial in the Senate. “There is no chance the president is going to be removed from office,” McConnell asserted. GOP Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, has repeatedly dismissed the allegations against Trump throughout the impeachment inquiry....

Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, the Minnesota congresswoman—who’s been representing the state’s 5th district in Congress since 2019—was asked by anchor Dana Bash what she has learned from her “Jewish colleagues and allies” since her comment on Israel in 2019 created a firestorm. “A lot. I certainly did not or was not aware that the word ‘hypnotized’ was a trope. I wasn’t aware of the fact that there are tropes about Jews and money....

Akeem Kosoko, 26, allegedly stole direct payments provided as part of the CARES Act, a COVID-19 economic stimulus package. Under the CARES Act, eligible Americans were sent $1,200 stimulus checks. Kosoko allegedly worked together with postal carriers, including his brother Ahmed Kosoko, to take the checks. According to a grand jury indictment handed down in November 2020, Ahmed Kosoko “stole United States mail containing financial instruments, and proved the stolen mail to AKEEM KOSOKO, in exchange for payment or the promise of payments....

The news came one day after the state reported its largest surge in new cases, with 4,014 cases reported by health officials Tuesday and an additional 1,677 cases reported Wednesday. In total, 84,698 cases and 3,792 deaths had been reported in the state by May 13. “I know this is hard. I know people are hurting,” Governor J.B. Pritzker said during a Wednesday news conference. “This virus has taken many lives and destroyed many livelihoods....

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that the issue was that the Cook County Board of Review overestimated the value of the Trump International Hotel & Tower’s hotel rooms and retail space. The Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board voted 5-0 to reduce the assessment on the building’s commercial property last month. The Cook County State’s Attorney disputed the refund and filed a lawsuit with the Illinois Appellate Court in order to block it....

In a conversation with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, Blinken said China—no longer content to let differences lie—was employing coercive means and could use force to achieve its objective of unifying the island it claims as part of its territory. “There has been a change in the approach from Beijing toward Taiwan in recent years,” he said, citing “a fundamental decision that the status quo was no longer acceptable, and that Beijing was determined to pursue reunification on a much faster timeline....

Three days after the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the petition, which was organized by the public policy advocacy group MoveOn, saw a sharp increase in support and reached 300,000 signatures. This surge appears to be continuing. The petition didn’t initially mention the ruling and instead focused on the January 6 Capitol insurrection. Since then, the section on the petition under ‘Why is this important’ has been updated....

The 69-year-old former cricket star claimed without evidence that the result of Sunday’s vote which forced him from office was a White House-led conspiracy. Ahead of the vote, there were fears Khan would seek martial law instead of step down as prime minister, with Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, an ally of Khan, reportedly telling journalists “those who bought MPs will be responsible if martial law is imposed.” Khan’s post came just hours after the parliamentary motion proceeded in the capital Islamabad and ended with 174 votes (of the 342-member house) against him, two more than were needed to remove him from office....

Sure, a lot of words will be cynically spewed about how this is a relatively convenient way for the Blackhawks to get out from under the salary cap hell they currently reside in due to a series of short-sighted long-term contracts and no-movement clauses. And they won’t be wrong. The timing on this couldn’t be more advantageous to the only club currently over the salary cap in the NHL....

That’s the question manager Dave Roberts and those five All-Stars faced most at All-Star Media Day in Cleveland on Monday. The Dodgers have lost the World Series each of the last two seasons, but Dodgers outfielder and MVP candidate Cody Bellinger insists that isn’t a thought this team thinks about on a day-to-day basis. “I think in spring training you think about October and what we can do in spring training to get back to October,” Bellinger said....

But, speaking at Cavs media day on Monday, he confessed that he is happy we’re asking. It means that even as those of us in the media pass him over when we make our season-award picks (James went from third in MVP balloting two years ago to fourth last season), we know where the league’s bread is buttered: It’s still James, and even with Russell Westbrook and Paul George set to hit the market next summer, James’ free-agent decision will dominate all speculation....

Last weekend’s MLB on FOX window drew a 0.9 final rating, likely the lowest ever for MLB on broadcast television . FOX has earned a 1.0 rating for MLB coverage on multiple occasions — including the week before — but there is no previous record of anything below that mark. All things considered, 0.9 is not very different from 1.0. Considering the mitigating factors — competition from college football, little promotion and a weak timeslot — it can even be considered respectable....

The Wikipedia phenom currently has more than 5 million entries in multiple languages and draws an estimated 7 billion page views a month. Now Wales—known to Wikipedians worldwide as the “God King”—is embarking on a new venture: a new wiki-inspired search engine than plans to rely on human intelligence “to do what algorithms cannot.” Wales spoke to NEWSWEEK’s Arlene Getz about his work, his Bono connection, the money he hasn’t made from Wikipedia and what Microsoft’s Bill Gates said to him when they met at last week’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos ....

That’s how Addie Arbach, co-founder of Next Step Initiative in Knoxville, Tennessee, begins her outreach to people dealing with drug addiction, many of whom may be homeless. As someone in recovery herself, she knows that sometimes the simplest question can create an opening for support that might otherwise be refused. For some, that might consist of a naloxone kit to reverse overdoses or a drive to syringe services programs; for others, it might be help finding treatment for drug addiction or just someone willing to listen....