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Disney pouring $60 billion into theme parks, cruises over the next 10 years

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:49 GMT

The Walt Disney Co. is planning to invest approximately $60 billion into its theme parks and cruise lines over the next decade, as the company looks to continue growing one of its more successful business segments.The company said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday that the planned investment is nearly double what it spent in the prior 10-year period.The Disney Parks, Experiences and Products segment continues to do well for the company, with revenue rising 13% in its fiscal third quarter. That’s helped to offset the struggles in its Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution unit, which saw revenue dip 1% in the period.Disney is confident in its plans, saying in a prepared statement that it’s seen growth following previous periods of significant investment, which included the additions of Cars Land at Disney California Adventure, Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland and Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World, Avengers Campus at California Adventure and Walt D...

Amazon driver in serious condition after being bitten by rattlesnake in Florida

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:49 GMT

PALM CITY, Fla. (AP) — An Amazon driver is in serious condition after being bitten by a rattlesnake while making a delivery to a Florida home, officials said Tuesday.The woman placed a box next to the home’s front door Monday evening when the eastern diamondback snake jumped out and bit her, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. She immediately became ill and called out for help.She was taken to the hospital, where the sheriff’s office said she was in “very serious” condition Tuesday. Her name and age were not released. Officials caught the snake and it was euthanized.Eastern diamondbacks are common in the Southeast U.S. and are the largest rattlesnake. They can grow to about 7 feet (2 meters) in length, but are more commonly about 4 feet (1.2 meters). The toxinology.com website maintained by an Australian university says the eastern diamondback’s bite is fatal in 10% to 20% of cases if not treated.Martin County is on Florida’s ...

South Plantation High School placed on lockdown, police investigating

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:49 GMT

South Plantation High School was placed on “secure” status Tuesday morning following reports of a written threat that was received. The school is located at 1300 SW 54th Avenue in Plantation. Officers with the Plantation Police Department are on scene and investigating the threat. https://twitter.com/PlantationPD/status/1704142988396359778?s=20Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

Miami social media influencer ejected from American Airlines flight after in-flight altercation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:49 GMT

A social media influencer from Miami got into an argument with passengers on an American Airlines flight.“Call me a [expletive] again, I did nothing wrong,” she said in Morgan Osman. In video footage, she was seen arguing with some passengers that are off-screen. You can hear her raise her voice and shout profanities after a passenger tells her to shut up. “You shut the [expletive] up and your [expletive],” said Osman. She then grabs her bags from the overhead bins and walks towards the front of the plane as passengers laugh. When Osman noticed she was being filmed she responded by saying she was “Instagram famous” before calling the passenger a bum. Osman was previously featured on “Bad Girls Club,” an Oxygen reality television series. According to The New York Post, OSman has claimed that she was seeing Britney Spears’ husband, Sam Asghari, while he was still dating the iconic pop star. It remains unclear why she got kicked off...

Kemi Badenoch cools talk of imminent UK-India trade deal

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:49 GMT

LONDON — Britain’s trade chief waved away reports that a U.K.-India trade deal is imminent or will be signed during next month’s Cricket World Cup in India.Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch said Tuesday that reports her boss Rishi Sunak will go to India next month to sign a deal to coincide with the England vs India World Cup match are “very optimistic briefing from newspapers” and that “it is possible, but I would not be setting that sort of deadline.”“We have always been very, very specific that it’s about the deal, not the day. We will get there when we have a deal which is mutually beneficial for India and the U.K.,” Badenoch told Westminster’s business and trade committee.“We’ve done a lot, so we’re quite close, but as I said [in parliament] last week …. the last few bits left are always the toughest bits,” she added.There has been fevered speculation over the past month that a deal is getting...

South Korea summons Russian ambassador after Putin and Kim summit

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:49 GMT

South Korea summoned the Russian ambassador on Tuesday to demand an immediate stop to the military cooperation between the Kremlin and North Korea, after a meeting last week between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un.Seoul “strongly urged Russia to immediately halt its military cooperation with North Korea and comply with [UN] Security Council resolutions,” First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Chang Ho-jin said in a written statement after a meeting with Andrei Borisovich Kulik, the Russian ambassador.Kulik was told that Russian violations of the UN Security Council resolution on non-proliferation would have “clear consequences, and that such actions will also have a very negative impact on U.S.-Russian relations.”Kim and Putin talked about weapons and satellite tech during their summit in Russia and Putin has “gratefully” accepted an invitation to North Korea. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is set to visit Pyongyang in October.

Rudy Giuliani’s former attorneys sue him for more than $1.3 million in unpaid legal fees

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:49 GMT

(CNN) — A law firm that represented Rudy Giuliani during recent years of investigations and lawsuits is now suing him for more than $1.3 million in unpaid legal fees, as the former New York City mayor is facing growing bills related to fallout for his actions around the 2020 election for Donald Trump.The law firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron said Giuliani had only paid $214,000 of his total legal bill, leaving him $1,360,196 indebted to them for work the firm’s attorneys did on his now-closed foreign lobbying federal criminal investigation; the January 6, 2021-related investigations by Georgia state prosecutors, the House of Representatives and the federal special counsel’s office; and in various lawsuits and attorney discipline probes that materialized after the 2020 election, according to a complaint filed in New York state court on Monday.His last payment to the firm came four days ago, for $10,000, according to the court filing.The firm handled Giuliani’s legal w...

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich to remain in detention after latest appeal is denied

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:49 GMT

(CNN) — Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will remain behind bars after a Moscow court refused to hear an appeal against his pre-trial detention on Tuesday.The Moscow City Court said in a statement it was sending the motion back to a lower court – effectively quashing it for the time being.The decision is the latest legal setback for Gershkovich, whose pre-trial detention has been extended twice since his arrest, once in May and again in August. An appeal against his first pre-trial detention was also denied.With the court’s latest decision, Gershkovich will remain in jail until at least November 30, Russia’s Tass news agency reported.Gershkovich was arrested in March while on a reporting trip. The FSB, Russia’s main security service, accused him of trying to obtain state secrets – a charge Gershkovich and his employer have strenuously denied.If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison.Journalists were allowed in the courtroom before the hearing began. Amid...

Bear spotted at Disney World prompts closure of parts of Magic Kingdom

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:49 GMT

(CNN) — A bear that prompted partial closures at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom on Monday was captured without incident and is being relocated, according to a news release from Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission.“In most cases, it is best for bears to be given space and to move along on their own, but given this situation, staff have captured the animal and are relocating the bear out of the park to an area in or around the Ocala National Forest,” FWC said.FWC added that the animal was an adult female.Nearly a dozen attractions were closed on Monday at the time authorities were trying to locate the bear at Magic Kingdom, according to the My Disney Experience app.At 11:17 am EDT, the attractions Swiss Family Treehouse, Magic Carpets of Aladdin, Jungle Cruise, Enchanted Tiki Room, Pirates of the Caribbean, Country Bear Jamboree, Tom Sawyer Island, Walt Disney World Railroad, Liberty Square Riverboat, Hall of Presidents and Haunted Mansion were closed...

Biden exhorts world leaders at the UN to stand up to Russia, warns not to let Ukraine ‘be carved up’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:49 GMT

By AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM (Associated Press)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Joe Biden made a robust case before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that the world must remain united in defending Ukraine against Russian aggression, warning that no nation can be secure if “we allow Ukraine to be carved up” as he tries to rally support for Kyiv’s effort to repel a nearly 19-month-old Russian invasion that has no end in sight.The U.S. president called on world leaders to not let support for Ukraine diminish, arguing that Russia is counting on countries to grow tired of prolonged conflict in Kyiv which will “allow it to brutalize Ukraine without consequence.” Russia alone is standing in the way of a resolution, Biden argued, saying that Moscow’s price for peace was “Ukraine’s capitulation, Ukraine’s territory and Ukraine’s children.”“I ask you this: If we abandon the core principles of the United Stat...