The Vancouver Canucks have fired assistant coach Jason King, general manager Patrik Allvin announced on Thursday. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; King, 41, had been an assistant coach for the Canucks since 2020, after being with the team’s AHL affiliate for five seasons. King was promoted to join former coach Travis Green’s staff, and continued on when Bruce Boudreau was hired and, this season, Rick Tocchet. A native of Cornerbrook, N&L, King was drafted by the Canucks in the seventh round of the 2001 NHL Draft. King played for 11 years, including 59 games in the NHL –…
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In addition to the news division, layoffs would take place in its business, content, tech and administrative teams.Pulitzer Prize-winning digital media company BuzzFeed will shut down its news division and cut another 15 percent of its staff across the company, adding to layoffs made earlier this year. BuzzFeed has approximately 1,200 total employees, according to a recent regulatory filing. In a memo sent to staff, co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti said that in addition to the news division, layoffs would take place in its business, content, tech and administrative teams. BuzzFeed is also considering making job cuts in international markets.…
STUTTGART, Germany — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek returned from a rib injury with a convincing 6-1, 6-4 win over Zheng Qinwen to reach the quarterfinals of the Porsche Grand Prix on Thursday as Coco Gauff suffered an upset loss to Anastasia Potapova. Swiatek hadn’t played since reaching the semifinals at Indian Wells last month and missed the Miami Open as well as Poland’s match in the Billie Jean King Cup qualifiers. After a first-round bye in Stuttgart, Swiatek’s clay season started smoothly in a one-sided first set before Zheng came back from 3-1 down to level the second at 4-4, only…
Authorities say the death toll could rise as rescue workers clear debris and reach people trapped in homes.At least two people have been killed in the central United States as storms and tornadoes sweep through the region, damaging infrastructure and tearing homes apart. The National Weather Services (NWS) began issuing severe storm and tornado warnings on Wednesday. More storms are possible throughout Thursday, and the death toll is expected to rise as search and rescue efforts commence. “It is reasonable to expect possibly more based on the damage that we’ve seen,” Scott Gibbons, deputy sheriff for Oklahoma’s McClain County, said…
The Arizona Diamondbacks have decided to designate left-hander Madison Bumgarner for assignment after he had a disappointing four starts to open the 2023 season, the Arizona Republic’s Nick Piecoro reported Thursday. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; The move essentially ends Bumgarner’s time with the team. After signing the 2014 World Series MVP to a five-year, $85-million deal in 2020, Arizona will eat the more than $34 million that remains on Bumgarner’s contract. After he clears waivers, he can then sign with any team for the major league minimum of $720,000. Over four starts this season, the left-hander posted…
The family of Formula One great Michael Schumacher plans to take legal action against a German magazine for publishing what it claimed to be an artificial intelligence-generated interview with Schumacher. Family spokesperson Sabine Kehm confirmed to The Associated Press by email on Thursday that legal action is being planned over a “fake artificial intelligence interview by German outlet The actual.” The magazine printed a photo of the 54-year-old Schumacher on its front page last weekend along with the words: “Michael Schumacher, the first interview!” The magazine also wrote “it sounds deceptively real” with the supposed quotes attributed to Schumacher generated…
The Starship is the most powerful rocket ever built and is designed to send astronauts to the Moon, Mars or beyond.SpaceX’s massive Starship has launched, but failed to make orbit. The stainless steel space vessel – composed of a space craft sitting atop the so-called Super Heavy booster rocket – took off the launch site in launch site at Boca Chica, Texas on Thursday morning. At least five of its 33 Raptor engines did not appear to fire upon liftoff, said Stephen Clark, with Spaceflightnow.com. The rocket cleared the launch tower and headed into the sky. However, the space craft failed…
The April 15 front cover of weekly German magazine Die AktuelleMichael Schumacher’s family are planning legal action against a magazine which published an artificial intelligence-generated ‘interview’ with the former Formula 1 driver.Schumacher, a seven-time F1 champion, suffered severe head injuries in a skiing accident in December 2013 and has not been seen in public since.Die Aktuelle ran a picture of a smiling Schumacher, 54, on the front cover of its latest edition with a headline of “Michael Schumacher, the first interview”.A strapline underneath reads “it sounded deceptively real”, and it emerges in the article that the supposed quotes had been…
The US says the arrests ‘represent a troubling escalation by the Tunisian government against perceived opponents’.Several global powers have condemned the arrests of political opponents in Tunisia, including the main opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi, warning against the escalating crackdown launched by President Kais Saied. In a statement on Wednesday, the US government said the arrest on Monday of former Speaker of Parliament Ghannouchi and the closure of the Ennahdha party headquarters “are fundamentally at odds with the principles Tunisians adopted in a constitution,” State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said. He said the arrests “represent a troubling escalation by the…
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Islamabad says Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s foreign ministers’ meeting next month.Pakistan’s foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s (SCO) foreign ministers’ meeting in India next month, says the Pakistani ministry. The SCO is a regional political and security bloc whose members include Russia, China, India and Pakistan. The foreign ministers meeting will be held on May 4 and May 5 in the western Indian coastal state of Goa, reports said. Pakistan foreign office’s spokeswoman Mumtaz Zahrah Baloch said Bhutto-Zardari will be attending the SCO meet at the invitation of his…