The NFL and Jay-Z’s entertainment and sports representation company are teaming up for events and social activism. The league said it will use Jay-Z’s Roc Nation to consult on its entertainment shows, including the Super Bowl halftime show, and work with him to “strengthen community through music and the NFL’s Inspire Change initiative.”
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With a 73-year-old in the White House and several of his fellow Democratic presidential candidates eligible for Social Security, Pete Buttigieg told Iowa State Fair attendees Tuesday that the country needs a leader for the 21st century.
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Bernie Sanders kicked off his speech at the Iowa State Fair on Sunday by reminding the packed crowd that when he appeared before them at the fair four years ago, his ideas seemed radical to some. Now they have been adopted by many of the two dozen candidates vying for the Democratic nomination.
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Democratic presidential candidates on Saturday placed responsibility for inaction on gun violence in the hands of President Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association, in the face of broad national support for some gun control measures.
Read moreNine Democratic presidential candidates took turns on the Political Soapbox stage at the Iowa State Fair Saturday, and much like fair exhibitors in the livestock arenas, they are trying to show why they should win the grand prize of American presidential politics.
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Julian Castro’s challenge in his appearance at the Iowa State Fair on Friday was to set himself apart from the crowded field of contenders who are barnstorming across Iowa this week. He did that by talking about how he would not make America great again, but make America better.
Read moreFormer Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday gave Iowa State Fair visitors a sample of the major themes he is hitting on the presidential campaign trail, including some Trump-bashing and promises of restoring middle-class values and universal health care in an appearance before a standing-room-only crowd.
Read moreThe FBI will investigate the deadly July 28 shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern California as a case of domestic terrorism, officials announced Tuesday.
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The commander of the Swiss air force’s aerial display team has apologized after his unit performed a low-altitude pass over the wrong municipality
Read moreA festival goer who says his cheeky confrontation with police got him arrested later that day on trumped-up charges lost his case Tuesday at the Supreme Court.
Read moreThe streets of New Orleans will be filled Tuesday with excited kids catching beads from atop ladders, revelers in fancy costumes walking through the French Quarter and Mardi Gras Indians wearing finely beaded costumes.
Read moreFyre Festival promoter Billy McFarland was sentenced Thursday to six years in jail and $26 million in restitution for frauds that ran long after a disastrous 2017 concert in the Bahamas led to his arrest.
Read moreAmericans are increasingly turning to festivals, musicals and other venues for entertainment, and while large swathes of adults still read fiction or go to the movies, a new study found interest in those art forms is in decline.
Read moreA golden effigy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan evoking the famous statue of Saddam Hussein has been erected in a central German city as part of an art festival whose motto is “bad news.”
Read moreThe story making social media rounds of two elderly men escaping their retirement home to attend Germany’s largest heavy metal festival seemed too good to be true. And, alas, it was.
Read moreAn attorney for a victim’s family told a Fifth Circuit panel Monday that organizers of an Austin, Texas, music festival knew the risk of wayward drivers because they discussed it with city officials shortly before a drunk driver sped into a crowd and killed four festivalgoers.
Read moreA pair of street preachers ejected from the 2015 Nashville Pride Festival and threatened with arrest argued Wednesday before the Sixth Circuit that their First Amendment rights were violated by event and security staff.
Read moreAn annual music festival in Portland brought a federal complaint Monday over the Coachella music festival’s requirement that bands sit out all other West Coast festivals for the six months surrounding Coachella.
Read moreThe grandson of an Irish immigrant, Vice President Mike Pence will attend the South’s biggest and rowdiest St. Patrick’s Day parade on Saturday with his family.
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