Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has held talks about joining the consortium that is seeking to buy around 30% of Liverpool. The group led by former Queens Park Rangers co‑owner Amit Bhatia has made a provisional offer of £1.35bn to buy a stake from Fenway Sports Group (FSG), and is talking to other potential investors over … Read more
Local news Frank A. Ribaudo helped build Back Bay Place into a center for Boston’s LGBTQ+ community and HIV/AIDS advocacy. Club Café Director James Morraj (left) and Founder and Vice President Frank A. Ribaudo (right) Club Café The founder and vice president of popular LGBTQ+ café Club Café, Frank A. Ribaudo, died Tuesday after a … Read more
Kenneth Fok Kai Kung (L2), Hong Kong’s representative to the National People’s Congress and a popular sponsor of sporting events, attends a sub-forum during the 17th Annual New Champions Meeting on June 23, 2026 in Dalian, China. Yu Haiyang/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images Every January, the World Economic Forum turns Davos, Switzerland, into a … Read more
ArtPhilly founder and veteran art collector Kathy Sachs with creative director and CEO Bill Adair. Daniel Jackson/Embassy: Intra We’re sitting together at Joy Cafe in the Spring Garden neighborhood as birds chirp, a condenser unit hums, and fragments of conversation from other diners float by. We drink smoothies and cold-pressed juices and talk about ArtPhilly, … Read more
New York — The founder of SantaCon is a fraud, according to federal prosecutors in New York. Stefan Pildis was arrested Wednesday on federal fraud charges that accuse him of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars in charitable funds for his own use. SantaCon is an annual drunken bar crawl in December where 25,000 people … Read more
Wynton Marsalis is leaving Jazz at Lincoln Center after more than 30 years as its artistic and managing director. The organization announced Marsalis’ departure today (January 27), confirming that the influential musician, composer, and bandleader will stay on as artistic director through 2027, then serve in an advisory role through June 2028. He will remain … Read more
New York — LendingTree CEO and founder Doug Lebda died in an all-terrain vehicle accident over the weekend, the online lending platform said Monday. He was 55 years old. In an announcement by the company, LendingTree confirmed that Labda died on Sunday and that the company mourns his unexpected death. A spokesman said the incident … Read more
(Krona) – The San Jose team announced that the founder of Milan Mandrich died on Saturday at the age of 87. He died in a Serbian hospital after a short illness, according to his family. “Seismic Federation”: Equipment fans gathered behind the San Jose earthquake The earthquake said that they would respect Mandarić by wearing … Read more
James Dobson, a psychologist who founded the family of family preservation and was a political influential activist against abortion and LGBTQ+ rights on Thursday. It was 89. His death was confirmed by the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute. Dobson was born in 1936 in Sharifport, Louisiana, on a radio program that advises Christians on how … Read more
Memphis, Teen – The company said that Farid Smith, founder of Fedex Corp. That revolutionized the rapid delivery industry, died. It was 80. Fedex started working in 1973, as it provided parcels and small documents more quickly than the postal service. Over the course of the next half century, Ashraf Smith, a veterans of the … Read more