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The company said that all Six Flags rides and attractions would undergo safety reviews, as the park operator faces lawsuits over safety concerns. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Ukraine regains critical Starlink service after restrictions disrupt drone opera...
Ukraine's Ministry of Defense announced Saturday that it had regained broader access to Starlink, a critical service for military drones, battlefield communications and other fast-moving equipment.The restoration comes after more than a week of speed restrictions on SpaceX's Starlink and Starshield services that disrupted Ukraine's war effort against Russia.It remains unclear what led to the slowdown in service, with Ukraine having accused both President Donald Trump and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk of being behind it. Both men have denied involvement, and The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump called Musk on Wednesday and asked him to address the slowdown.ELON MUSK BLAMES TRUMP, US MILITARY FOR SPACEX RESTRICTIONS UKRAINE WARNS COULD HAVE DEADLY CONSEQUENCESVice President JD Vance appeared to leave open a role for the U.S. government going forward, saying Musk should not be expected to navigate the war without Washington "effectively directing him on what to do."Secretary of State Marco Rubio and War Secretary Pete Hegseth, however, have denied that the U.S. government was responsible for slowing Ukraine's Starlink service.The restrictions disrupted Starlink connections on Ukrainian drones traveling faster than roughly 100 mph, limiting their ability to maintain satellite communications at higher speeds.As of Saturday, Starlink connections are remaining stable at speeds of 250 mph, Ukrainian officials said.RUSSIA STRIKES KYIV HOURS AFTER PEACE TALKS PLEDGEThis comes as both sides appear more eager to reach a resolution in the war, which has now dragged on for more than four years since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.Russia agreed Wednesday to resume three-way negotiations with Washington and Kyiv next month, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Fox & Friends this week that he would be open to ending the war by freezing the fighting along the current front lines. Zelenskyy described it as a ceasefire, something Moscow has been routinely opposed to. However, on Friday, Kyiv and Moscow agreed to a ceasefire around Oleshky, a war-torn Russian-occupied town in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region.The White House said First Lady Melania Trump had a major role in negotiating the localized ceasefire, which will begin on Oct. 29 and allow humanitarian aid into Oleshky.TRUMP HOLDS BACK SWEEPING RUSSIA SANCTIONS AS GOP ALLIES WARN PRESSURE ON PUTIN IS SLIPPINGFighting has continued elsewhere. A missile strike on the city of Lozova in Ukraine's Kharkiv region killed one man and injured two others, local officials said Saturday, according to The Associated Press.Ukraine's General Staff said Saturday… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - Noah Adams, Longtime Host of ‘All Things Considered,’ Has Died at 84A postman’s son from Kentucky, he worked hard to lose his accent but never forgot his Appalachian roots. “The best stories come from west of the Potomac,” he said. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
- Live music hits a massive ‘Dynamite’ milestone – I found out why i...I have a soft spot for hard rock. So I find myself in one of Austin’s live music clubs listening to a band on the tail end of their world tour.A guitarist is under the stage lights at Come and Take It Live, swaying and concentrating, the strains of a Stevie Ray Vaughan classic floating from the amps. The night air crackles. The rapt audience takes it in, applauding as the guitarist moves gracefully through the soulful notes. If you’ve played a musical instrument of any kind at any skill level, the live show reveals the human effort at the foundation of every good performer, performance and song. As a mediocre drummer, I tend to watch that part of most shows, whoever the band is. The drummer in this show is effortlessly throwing out some amazing double-bass rolls.Rock and roll is an American invention that’s gone global. Nights like this have been happening across Austin, and across the country and the world, for generations, long before and after we sadly lost the great Texas firebrand.SRV was such a phenomenon there’s a statue of him downtown. It’s appeared in thousands of Instagram Reels and photos by now, especially during SXSW and ACL fests. Music is the heartbeat of the city. The guitar legend was the king of live music, and live music is still big. In fact, according to Pollstar, while we stream our favorite movies and songs into our homes, going out to watch live music has never been bigger.WHY THE NFL'S MOST VALUABLE FRANCHISE – THE DALLAS COWBOYS – CAN WIN BY LOSINGPollstar’s numbers reveal something in the age of AI, digital everything, on-demand and streaming: We still want real moments we can experience with others. In a world that increasingly feels all the same, we want to feel a beat. When a band we like hits the chorus of that song we love and everyone around us is singing along – that’s it.Live music shows topped $6 billion for the first time, and "The Worldwide Top 100 Touring Artists for 2026 are on track to have a record-setting year based on reported third-quarter tour revenues and ticket sales between Nov. 13, 2025 and Aug. 12, 2026." Three quarters, $6 billion – that’s a lot of us going to live shows.I SAW THE MOVIE THAT WARNER TRIED TO DELETE: ‘COYOTE VS. ACME’Topping the worldwide live show chart is South… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
- GOP firebrand Luna joins California Democrat Khanna in surprising push to overha...FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., jointly introduced a bill which would ban companies from imposing non-compete agreements on employees who make less than $100,000 a year, according to the bill text which Fox News Digital has obtained exclusively."This is something that people should easily be able to get behind," Khanna told Fox News Digital in an interview. Khanna highlighted the bipartisan nature of the bill, claiming that Vice President JD Vance has previously referred to non-compete agreements as unenforceable. "It's something that, after this election, may actually be able to bring the country together. I mean what other issue do you have JD Vance, Rep. Luna, Ro Khanna all in alignment on?" he asked.US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SUES FTC OVER NONCOMPETE BANIf passed, the Workers’ Right To Compete Act would ban future as well as pre-existing non-compete agreements within 30 days of its passing, allowing workers who were previously beholden to such contracts to seek out new employment. Khanna and Luna both argued that non-compete agreements limit American employees from pursuing opportunity and that the contracts hinder economic growth. "Independent contractors and hardworking Americans deserve the freedom to continue advancing their careers and earn the money they deserve without unnecessary legal red tape standing in their way," Luna told Fox News Digital in a statement."This legislation protects that freedom and puts Americans in charge of their opportunities and earning potential," Luna concluded.Khanna also pointed to the success of companies who have already done away with non-competes, such as KKR & Co., a private equity firm which prohibited companies it acquired from enacting a similar non-compete ban for employees making under $100,000 a year."They found that it actually improved the economic performance of the companies. It had no negative impact by not enforcing those non-competes," Khanna said.In an interview with Bloomberg, KKR’s co-head of global private equity Pete Stavros claimed economists say non-competes suppress wages. A 2021 article from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis supports that claim, with the authors writing that "When Oregon ended the enforcement of non-competes for hourly paid workers, wages for those workers rose by 2–3%."Khanna said that he’d ideally like to push for an even higher floor for those exempted from the non-competes than the $100,000 threshold proposed in the bill, but wanted to start somewhere that could get meaningful legislation passed. Khanna also pointed out that, thanks to California’s broad ban on… [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago
- C.E.O.s Say the A.I. Rollout Is Going Well. Employees Feel Differently.Surveys show workers and executives have different views on A.I. [TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago
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