Tokyo/Hong Kong    Mitsuko Tottori admits Japan has much more to do to get people like her into the chief executive seat. Tottori was named as the first female president and chief executive of Japan Airlines (JAL) in January, crowning a career that began nearly 40 years ago when she joined the airline as a flight attendant. Her rise is a rare feat in a nation where women still face major hurdles to promotion. “Japan is still in a place of establishing the initial goal to increase (the number of) female managers,” she told in an interview at the airline’s…

TikTok’s chief executive said on Wednesday the social media company expects to win a legal challenge to block legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden that he said would ban its popular short video app used by 170 million Americans. “Rest assured – we aren’t going anywhere,” CEO Shou Zi Chew said in a video posted moments after Biden signed the bill that gives China-based ByteDance 270 days to divest TikTok’s U.S. assets or face a ban. “The facts and the Constitution are on our side and we expect to prevail again.” Biden’s signing sets a Jan. 19 deadline…

Last updated: April 24, 2024 19:30 EDT | 2 min read The South Korean city of Busan’s plans to launch a city-run, blockchain-powered digital assets exchange may be in peril, a report claimed on April 24.Per Naeil Shinmun, the project is “showing signs of trouble” after effectively delaying its official launch.Busan Digital Exchange Hit With Launch DelayBusan’s digital asset exchange plans have been in the pipelines for some time, but have already been beset with issues.The city initially wanted to become the first in the world to launch a crypto exchange. However, this plan hinged heavily on promised changes to…

An Oklahoma man, alongside his girlfriend, “bludgeoned” his girlfriend’s relative with a brick, before dumping the victim’s remains in a wildlife refuge, federal authorities said.According to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Oklahoma, Tevin Terrell Semien, 29, and co-defendant Nicole Leigh Logsdon, 24, were indicted for the May 2023 murder of 68-year-old Karon “Dinkers” Conneywerdy Smith.Semien admitted to officers that he “agreed” to kill Smith and went to her home and “bludgeoned” Smith to death “with a brick, put her body in the trunk of her vehicle, and disposed of her body in the Wichita Mountains…

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the agency’s ban on noncompete agreements. In the lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in Tyler, Texas, the Chamber argues that the FTC lacked the constitutional and statutory authority to advance the sweeping regulation. The Chamber said after the FTC’s 3-2 vote, which advanced with the support of the agency’s majority Democratic commissioners, that there are already legal frameworks for determining whether a given noncompete should be upheld or dismissed, and would undermine American businesses’ competitiveness. The FTC on Tuesday released its final…

   The Gateway Pundit, the notorious far-right blog and prolific publisher of conspiracy theories, said Wednesday that it had filed for bankruptcy protection as it grapples with litigation related to its coverage of the 2020 election. The move comes as the staunchly pro-Donald Trump website, which promoted the false notion that the 2020 election was stolen by President Joe Biden and his allies, faces multiple lawsuits over its bogus claims. One of the lawsuits, filed by two former Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, accuses The Gateway Pundit of publishing stories that falsely accused them of election fraud, which the pair said prompted a wave of harassment and threats…

By7.com staff Thursday, April 25, 2024 1:44AMThe two barbers spotted the little girl running past their shop toward a busy intersection and immediately jumped into action.EAST HARTFORD, Conn. () — Dramatic video shows two barbers in Connecticut save a toddler from running into traffic in the nick of time.Video shows the little girl running past the Look Sharp Barbershop, heading toward a busy intersection in East Hartford.The two drop their scissors and immediately run out the door, chasing after the girl and scooping her up just before she reaches the main road.”I was right in the middle of the haircut,”…

Academy Award-winner Steve Carell makes his Broadway debut in Anton Chekhov’s UNCLE VANYA opening tonight at The Lincoln Center Theater.The new translation of the piece is written by Tony-nominee Heidi Schreck and directed by Lila Neugebauer. UNCLE VANYA features Steve Carell, William Jackson Harper, Jonathan Hadary, Jayne Houdyshell, Spencer Donovan Jones, Mia Katigbak, Alfred Molina, Alison Pill, and Anika Noni Rose. The production has sets by Mimi Lien, costumes by Kaye Voyce, lighting by Lap Chi Chu and Elizabeth Harper, and sound by Mikhail Fiksel and Beth Lake. Charles M. Turner III is the stage manager.  Jesse Green, The New York Times: That it does…

Authorities are searching for a man and his dog after they went missing at the Grand Canyon National Park while possibly trying to travel the Colorado River on a homemade wooden raft.Thomas Lee Robison, 58, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, “may have attempted to go down the Colorado River with his dog, who is a Welsh corgi, on a self made raft” the National Park Service said in a statement and in a missing person flyer Wednesday.Thomas Lee Robison with his Welsh corgi.Courtesy NPSRobison’s dog was described as a 25-pound corgi that is 11 years old.The park service included a…

Last updated: April 24, 2024 19:30 EDT | 1 min read Source: Dalle-3 Crypto custodian Fireblocks announced on Wednesday that it has launched its dApp Protection and Transaction Simulation products, which will help protect institutions from run-ins with scammers in decentralized finance (DeFi).Fireblocks’ DeFi Protection ToolsBoth products have undergone beta testing with Galaxy and FlowDesk since December of last year. They are now available to safety check decentralized applications (dApps) across over 40 blockchains using Fireblocks’ APIs, including WalletConnect and MetaMask Institutional.“As the DeFi sector experiences unprecedented growth, the need for proactive security measures has never been more critical,” wrote…

Body camera footage obtained by HuffPost shows a police dog viciously attacking an unarmed Black man in front of his 9-year-old son during a traffic stop in Denison, Texas, last year. Derrick Dunlap, 54, was pulled over by Denison police on May 25, 2023, while his son was with him. Dunlap’s attorneys say police reported that he was stopped because the light over his license plate was too dim. Footage shows an officer, identified by attorneys as Tyler Buchanan, get out of the police car and say “Here, here, here” to the dog as Dunlap’s child is heard screaming in…

A strange thing happens to time during Stereophonic, playwright David Adjmi and director Daniel Aukin’s sensational play at the John Golden Theatre in New York. The show’s three hours and 10 minutes collapse a full year, from June 1976 to June 1977, that a band—made up of vocalist Diana (Sarah Pidgeon), lead guitarist Peter (Tom Pecinka), keys player Holly (Juliana Canfield), bassist Reg (Will Brill), and drummer Simon (Chris Stack)—spends recording their new album, with engineers Grover (Eli Gelb) and Charlie (Andrew R. Butler) manning the board. And, to be clear, those three hours and 10 minutes don’t fly by.…

Robert Wilson/Starz Starz will travel even further back in time for the upcoming prequel series, Outlander: Blood of My Blood. In February 2024, production officially began in Scotland on Outlander: Blood of My Blood, which will consist of 10 episodes and will follow the parallel love stories of both Jamie and Claire Fraser’s parents. Starz’s Outlander, based on the historical fantasy series of novels by Diana Gabaldon, stars Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe as Jamie and Claire, respectively. The 16-episode first season of Outlander premiered on Starz in 2014. Based on Gabaldon’s 1991 novel of the same name, Outlander follows…

A Florida man was arrested this week on animal cruelty charges after he allegedly shot the family dog in the face during a fight about whether he cheated on his fiancée, officials said. Farhad Deiham, 41, had allegedly threatened to shoot everyone in his home, including two children, after he was confronted about cheating allegations, Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a Tuesday press conference. After officers arrived at the home on Monday night, they found the dog, Louie, hiding, “gushing blood from his neck and his face.”Surveillance video that the sheriff’s department showed at the press conference appeared to show…

New York    Ford’s electric vehicle unit reported that losses soared in the first quarter to $1.3 billion, or $132,000 for each of the 10,000 vehicles it sold in the first three months of the year, helping to drag down earnings for the company overall. Ford, like most automakers, has announced plans to shift from traditional gas-powered vehicles to EVs in coming years. But it is the only traditional automaker to break out results of its retail EV sales. And the results it reported Wednesday show another sign of the profit pressures on the EV business at Ford and other…