After debating for years, King Charles finally stripped Prince Andrew of his Duke of York title. The title which his mother Queen Elizabeth bestowed on him in 1986 is back in storage.
When Andrew agreed to relinquish his title, he also technically gave up his HRH designation (His Royal Highness).
Prince Andrew gave up all of his titles, but still allegedly has one demand
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Apparently, the answer to that question is a resounding “no.” The prince may have given up his titles, but at home he still insists his staff address him as “his royal highness.”
“Nothing has changed inside Royal Lodge,” a household insider told Rob Shuter’s#ShuterScoop on October 23. “The butler still says Your Royal Highness, and the staff still bow. Andrew’s made it clear — palace rules don’t apply inside his walls.”
According to the source, the prince “insists” it’s his “birthright” to issue directives at home to his staff. “[It’s] not something the King can erase,” the insider adds.
Ultimately, Charles made the decision to strip his brother of his titles when he reached a “tipping point” in his brother’s scandals, especially from his former association with Jeffrey Epstein.
Things promise to get much worse for Andrew when William takes the throne, once his father passes. Not only will he ban his uncle from attending his coronation, but he promises to exile Andrew totally from royal life. Meanwhile, the US Congress is making noises about calling the prince to testify in the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Even though Buckingham Palace maintains Andrew’s titles and honors are in the past, it would actually require an act of Parliament to make it legal.
In the meantime, Prince Andrew lives “in his own royal bubble,” the source continued. “To the world, he’s a fallen prince — but in his home, he’s still the Duke.”
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Pennywise the Clown is coming back to terrorize a whole new generation of kids and adults, alike, only… well, he doesn’t show face in Sunday’s series premiere. But buck up, kiddos! That doesn’t mean HBO’s new prequel “IT: Welcome to Derry” isn’t chock-full of terror and jump scares that’ll disrupt your sleep and make your skin crawl.
When the highly anticipated series kicks off, it’s 1962, a full 27 years before the events of the first IT movie and the novel. A young boy named Matty Clements is kicked out of a Derry, Maine movie theater, and from the bruises on his face, we can tell he has a rough home life. During his attempt to run away from his at home horrors, he’s eventually picked up by a nice looking family who agree to drop him off in Portland. But it doesn’t take long for Matty to deduce that something is very wrong here, as the family seemingly goes bats—t crazy right in front of his eyes. And even though their car left Derry, someway, somehow they get turned around and re-enter the mysterious little town despite Matty’s screams of horror. The pregnant mom then goes into labor right in the passenger seat, only it’s no human baby. It’s a terrifying winged creature that flies around the vehicle, smashing glass while mom tries to pull the umbilical cord to control it. A creepy opening that only gets creepier as the hour unfolds.
Elsewhere, Major Leroy Hanlon (Mike’s grandfather!) and Captain Pauly Russo, two men in the Air Force, arrive in Derry at their new station. Major Hanlon seems respected in his field thanks to his accomplishments in the Korean War that, at the time, left him considerably injured. (He’s got a serious facial scar to prove it.) He’s there to test the country’s new B-52 jet so he can fly it straight into the heart of the enemy and finish what he started. But once he meets the rest of his squadron, one of his subordinates is blatantly racist against him. (Leroy is Black; for what it’s worth, it’s comforting to see that their superior, General Shaw, is ready to squash this BS from the jump.) But in the middle of the night, three masked men break into Hanlon’s quarters. They beat him with a lead pipe, demanding to know the details and specs of the B-52. Hanlon, like the absolute badass he is, tells them it’s classified, and even at gun point, he refuses to utter a peep. His buddy Pauly hears the commotion and helps Hanlon scare them away.
An Unspeakable Horror Looms
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We cut to a school where we meet Lilly, a young girl who’s being terrorized in a different kind of way — this time by snotty classmates who are torturing her about her father’s freak-accident death. Other new kids we meet are Lilly’s friend Marge, and a pair of friends named Teddy and Phil, who later tell us that it’s been four months since Matty disappeared. Matty’s body was never found, giving them and everyone else in town absolutely zero closure. Lilly, too, was close with Matty. Before his disappearance, he brought her to his friends’ secret hangout. It’s there where she reveals that her dad died in a factory machine accident that tore him to pieces, an accident she unfortunately witnessed. Needless to say, Matty’s disappearance has had quite an effect on Lilly and the town, at large. As if the poor girl hasn’t suffered enough, she starts hearing Matty’s voice in the drain of her shower. And when she asks him to please come home, Matty shrieks, “HE WON’T LET ME!” as fingers emerge from the drain. When Lilly tells Teddy and Phil what happened, they aren’t quite sure if they believe her or not. (Though, at least Teddy is a bit nicer about it. Why do you have to be such a jerk, Phil?!)
Later that night, Teddy gets his own scare when he flips on his lamp and sees that it’s composed of a bunch of faces. Instead of a canvas lampshade, it’s human skin. (What in the Ed Gein and Leatherface is happening here?!) Teddy, Phil and Lilly meet back up the next day, with Phil finally getting on board with this “lampshade s—t.” Lilly says she can’t go back to Juniper Hill, which according to Phil is a “looney bin.” With all these bizarro happenings going down, the kids start sleuthing, along with Phil’s absolutely adorable little sister Susie. They look up Matty’s story using the library’s microfiche and learn that Matty was last seen by the daughter of a local theater owner. They go visit Ronnie, the girl from the beginning scene who allowed Matty to escape the theater. Initially, she doesn’t want to talk about it. The police swarmed around at the time of Matty’s disappearance, and attempted to blame it all on her dad. She tries to send them away, but once they mention hearing Matty in a drain pipe, Ronnie has her own freaky experiences to share, and so she joins their little detective gang.
Doomed in Derry
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The kids head to the theater to watch “The Music Man,” since that’s the song they heard Matty singing from the drain. Ronnie starts running the film, and to their surprise, they see Matty on screen in the film! He’s holding what looks to be a baby wrapped in a blanket, and he can hear them speaking to him. They tell him to walk forward, so he does. Only the baby he’s holding? It’s the winged creature from the first sequence, and it smashes through the screen and attacks the kids. It looks larger than ever as it swoops down to attack, picking up Phil and tearing him apart as blood rains down all over Lilly’s face. Lilly tries to save Susie, but the creature bites down hard. Lilly and Ronnie are the only ones to survive the attack, and once they escape to the lobby area, Lilly realizes she’s holding the chewed off hand of poor l’il Susie. (Dark.) She screams in absolute horror as the credits start to roll.
So what did you think of the “IT: Welcome to Derry” premiere? Grade it below, then let us know your thoughts in the comments!
Striking workers at Boeing Defense in the St. Louis area rejected the company’s latest contract proposal on Sunday, sending a strike that has already delayed delivery of fighter jets and other programs into its 13th week.
In a statement after the vote, union leadership said the company had failed to address the needs of the roughly 3,200 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 837.
“Boeing claimed they listened to their employees — the result of today’s vote proves they have not,” IAM International President Brian Bryant said in a statement. “Boeing’s corporate executives continue to insult the very people who build the world’s most advanced military aircraft — the same planes and military systems that keep our servicemembers and nation safe.”
Boeing’s latest offer was largely the same as offers previously rejected by union members. REUTERS
The five-year offer was largely the same as offers previously rejected by union members. The company reduced the ratification bonus but added $3,000 in Boeing shares that vest over three years and a $1,000 retention bonus in four years. It also improved wage growth for workers at the top of the pay scale in the fourth year of the contract.
“To fund the increases in this offer, we had to make trade-offs,” including reduced hourly wage increases tied to attendance and certain shift work, Boeing Vice President Dan Gillian said in a message to workers on Thursday.
IAM leaders have pressed the planemaker for higher retirement plan contributions and a ratification bonus closer to the $12,000 that Boeing gave to union members on strike last year in the company’s commercial airplane division in the Pacific Northwest.
Boeing’s Gillian has called the company’s offer a landmark deal and “market-leading,” and he has repeatedly said Boeing would not increase the overall value of its terms, and only shift value around.
Boeing is expected to report another unprofitable quarter when it posts its third-quarter results on Wednesday. Wall Street analysts anticipate the company will announce a multi-billion dollar charge on its 777X program, which is six years behind schedule and not yet certified by regulators.
Boeing unionized workers in the St. Louis area have been on strike since Aug. 4. AP
In September, IAM members approved the union’s proposed four-year contract. However, Boeing management has refused to consider that offer.
The IAM estimates that its offer would add about $50 million to the agreement’s cost over its four-year duration, compared with the company offer that was rejected. Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg is set to earn $22 million this year.
Union officials accused Boeing of bargaining in bad faith in an unfair labor practice charge filed Oct. 16 with the National Labor Relations Board.
Boeing has delayed deliveries of its F-15EX fighter.
“It’s well past time for Boeing to stop cheaping out on the workers who make its success possible and bargain a fair deal that respects their skill and sacrifice,” Bryant said.
Union members say they are getting by on a mix of $300 a week in strike benefits from the IAM, second jobs, and belt-tightening. Boeing has said that striking workers’ coverage under company-provided health insurance ended on Aug. 30.
Since the strike began on Aug. 4, Boeing officials have repeatedly said the company’s mitigation plan has limited the effects of the work stoppage on production.
However, it has delayed deliveries of F-15EX fighters to the US Air Force, Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach told the Senate Armed Services Committee in comments submitted for a Oct. 9 hearing on his nomination as the Air Force’s chief of staff.
When Zohran Mamdani was in high school, he tried to seize the reins of (student) government power the usual way: By promising the voters free stuff. At the Bronx HS of Science he ran for student veep on a fruit-juice giveaway platform. Yep, we’re looking at a career founded on tempting kids with sweets. He lost anyway.
So he amped up his proposals by a few billion dollars, and now he looks like he’s going to promise his way right into City Hall.
A mere decade and a half later — yes, we’re about to have a mayor who was in high school until 2010 — Mamdani is wowing the party that never stops saying “What an intriguing idea!” when told it can help itself to things paid for by somebody else.
Step up to the Golden Corral buffet of social services, folks! Don’t worry about the costs.
Zo is somehow going to make the buses both free (meaning lots more passengers, many of them homeless) and faster (sure, bud). Buses are already pay-optional, of course: 48% of riders are fare beaters. But making the buses free is going to blow an $800 million hole in the budget. Never mind, New York: Zo has got this.
New York City mayoral Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani and New York Governor Kathy Hochul leaving the stage during the “New York Is Not For Sale” rally on Sunday. SARAH YENESEL/EPA/Shutterstock
Harsh reality
Mamdani is too young to remember the dot-com boom — hell, he’s barely old enough to remember 9/11 — but he’s the Kozmo.com of pols, the company whose business model was “build brand loyalty by giving customers enormously expensive yet free one-hour delivery.” After bleeding a quarter of a billion dollars of red ink, it died. Its last recorded remark was, “Oops!”
When Andrew Cuomo’s dad, Mario, was running for mayor in 1977 against closeted Ed Koch, some of his supporters muttered, “Vote Cuomo not the homo.” Today Andrew’s reality-acquainted backers are essentially saying “Vote Cuomey not the Commie.”
But Mamdani isn’t really a communist, nor even a socialist (despite compelling evidence to the contrary, such as him constantly saying “I’m a socialist”). Socialists want government to take over all of the major industries, but if Mamdani’s army of Bowdoinians had to wait in line at the iDMV the next time they wanted to upgrade their phones, Zohran would be as popular in this town as botulism or JD Vance.
Mamdani is not Vladimir Lenin. He’s something much more recognizable: our own Bowdoin Beto of the Boroughs. He’s a bluff, a hope, a whimsy, a rumor of a man who has no knowledge of anything, no experience running so much as a halal hot-dog stand and nothing to offer except vibes.
His stock answer to everything, when he even pretends to answer, is to smile charmingly and leave the details to the future.
We’re living through a multicultural real-life reenactment of “Being There,” in which a total moron is mistaken for a Solon because people want to believe things that can’t be.
Mamdani shouts, “Affordability!” and people go, “Dang, the kid’s got some good ideas!”
Andrew Cuomo may be a grabby jerk, but having been governor for 10 years, and a close-up observer of executive power when his dad was governor for another 12, at least he has some understanding of real-world governance.
Like the rest of us, he couldn’t believe that Mamdani wouldn’t say whether he backed the three ballot proposals meant to speed up home building, largely by taking the human roadblocks known as the City Council out of the process. At the debates, the imbalance of knowledge was such that Cuomo came across like a physics professor who had to explain to a pesky 6-year-old why he can’t have a fountain of Snapple and a pet dragon.
Old ideas
It won’t matter at all. Thanks in part to Curtis “I love this city so much I’m gonna help Mamdani” Sliwa, a part-time assemblyman who has never held a real job is going to win easily. He successfully debated Cuomo to a draw by dismissing everything Handsy Andy said as downer vibes. Who wants to vote for frownsy old Cuo-no? Who wants to tell the kids there’s no municipal Santa, and if there were, he’d cite union work rules to explain why he needs every third Christmas off?
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani waves to supporters at the “New York is Not For Sale” rally on Sunday. REUTERS
Mamdani may be young, but his ideas are not just old, they’re ancient, moldering, dead. A long time ago they were buried.
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But now they’re undead, and Zohran’s zombie notions are stalking the landscape to the tune of sinister music. A crucial detail of his appeal: His supporters are so young they don’t remember when there used to be items on the news about oxymoronic Soviet supermarkets, where you’d wait in line all morning to obtain enough provisions to get you through the day: a sad sack of gray taters and a quart of vodka. At least everything was affordable.
“Tax the rich even more than they’re already being taxed, which is a hell of a lot” is a bizarre policy for a city and state that are already heavily dependent on not pissing off the rich too much.
The wealthy are our most precious resource — they’re to our fiscal picture what the sun is to agriculture — and without them, our ways are not sustainable. Moreover, their wealth is closely linked to the fortunes of Wall Street, which could tank at any time and which a smart mayor would try to nurture instead of disparage.
Millionaires are mobile. They know where all the exit routes are.
Running from gov’t
Yes, OK, I admit if this burg actually turned into “Escape from New York,” it’d be kind of interesting, but short of creating Alcatraz-on-Hudson, the rich do have options other than paying for Mamdani’s $6 billion free child-care program — almost as expensive as the entire NYPD.
Most cities have zero income taxes, but New York has a sizeable one already. At any given moment, any given corporate shark or hedge-fund bro is thinking about how much easier life would be if he could just spend 180 days in some sunnier state. Say, one with zero income tax and sane governance.
Florida has begun to push to zero out property taxes. It gets more relatively attractive every day. Miami isn’t exactly St. Louis. It has a lot of attractions even if it weren’t much, much more affordable than New York.
Yet Mamdani would raise corporate taxes a dizzying 59% and charge each millionaire another $20,000 per million in income tax. Many of them will respond with the classic Michael Corleone counter-proposal: “My offer is this. Nothing.”
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaking at a campaign rally. AFP via Getty Images
Finance, law and tech are, for the most part, industries you can participate in from anywhere. And the funniest part of Mamdani’s wish-for-more platform is this: He can’t raise income taxes anyway. The whole thing is just Beto bluster. Taxes are a state thing, and Gov. Hochul has already said she’s against additional punishment for the rich.
Bill of goods
What about the housing vibes? Fewer than half of New York rental apartments are rent regulated; when Mamdani promises a rent freeze, he’s only talking about those. And what were the hikes last year? Three percent (amid a 6.5% hike in costs). The year before that it was 2.75%.
Needless to say, landlords will have to raise rents even faster on their other, non-regulated apartments to cover the increasing money drain of the regulated ones. Congrats, L-train hipsters, if you’re not lucky enough to have a rent-regulated place, you’re voting to raise your own rent! At least you enjoyed the vibes along the way.
As for Mamdani’s much-vaunted city grocery stores, which can only be called Trader Zo’s, the plan is so feeble it’s as laughable as the way he pretends to eat a burrito on the subway (occupying two seats, then spreading his meal out on a third, so it’s guaranteed to splatter all over the floor the first time the car jolts). He merely suggests launching one store in each borough, so even if these things are so clean, efficient and cheap that they make Costco’s CEO weep into his pillow every night while muttering “My whole life has been a lie!” they won’t do you much good unless you happen to live nearby.
The best possible result is one depressing store in each borough, each of them bound to be a dingy Post Office of Produce. When have you ever been in a store and thought, “I wish the government were running this”?
This is a New York Jets-level failure in the making. You know what would really help New Yorkers afford groceries? Ending the unspoken ban on the company that has mastered the art of selling cheap: Walmart. Even the dumocrats in DC have given up that silly fight against low prices and broad selection: There are now four of them in the nation’s capital. Adjusted for population, that’d be 44 Walmarts in New York — and we’d still be able to boast that we’re aligned with the most Democratic city there is.
Globalize the infantile
Mamdani still won’t renounce his favorite catchphrase, “Globalize the intifada.” This is meant to be a fancy college way to say, “Attack the Jews wherever you may find them,” but it isn’t particularly fancy. If it’s global, it has nothing to do with Israel and everything to do with hating the Jews: There’s no nuance or nicety here.
Mamdani once rapped in praise of a Hamas funding group. Just this month he was pictured smiling and hanging out with an actual unindicted coconspirator behind the first World Trade Center attack while continuing to swear he’ll arrest Benjamin Netanyahu the next time he comes to New York.
Mamdani once rapped in praise of a Hamas funding group. AFP via Getty Images
Sept. 11 happened when Mamdani was in fourth grade. If something like it happened again, a few things would follow in the weeks and months afterwards: the economy would crash (eliminating tax revenue to pay for Mamdani’s dumb ideas), tourism would crash (eliminating tax revenue to pay for Mamdani’s dumb ideas) and we’d have to wonder whether our mayor was privately thinking, “This is our fault for supporting Israel.”
Seventy-two law-enforcement officers died on 9/11, and we’re about to have a mayor who said, just five years ago, “We don’t need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety. What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD.”
And “queer liberation means defund the police.”
And “There is no negotiating with an institution this wicked & corrupt.”
In the second debate, he was still proposing insane ideas like having 911 dispatchers steer callers to social workers instead of sending police. That’s worse than unworkable; it’s going to get people killed.
Even Mamdani’s supporter and fellow Democrat Kathy Hochul said, “Everybody’s concerned what will happen to the policing of the city.”
Running this city is a serious job, not an internship for a silly rich kid who wants to inflict his dopey college-seminar thinking on 8 million people.
Kyle Smith is film critic for The Wall Street Journal.
Passive income remains a hot topic for investors aiming to secure financial stability with minimal daily effort.
One of the key insights from studying successful investors, especially those with seven-figure Stocks and Shares ISAs, is that they follow clear habits that consistently build wealth over time.
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Focus on stocks
British ISA millionaires typically have around 87% of their investments in stocks, including investment trusts. This is a deliberate choice, as shares offer better long-term growth and income prospects compared to cash or commodities.
The heavy weighting in stocks shows their confidence in businesses to grow and reward shareholders through dividends and capital appreciation. The discipline to stick with stocks through market ups and downs has been crucial to their success.
Defensive moats
Research reveals that ISA millionaires predominantly choose companies with defensive moats — businesses with strong competitive advantages that protect their profits.
Examples such as GSK, Unilever and BP come up frequently. These companies often operate in essential sectors like healthcare, consumer goods and energy, where demand tends to be stable even in tough economic times.
The presence of strong brands, patents, or regulatory barriers affords them consistent cash flows and dividend reliability, essential for passive income investors.
Invest early and consistently
It’s hardly surprising that most ISA millionaires started young, giving their money time to grow through compounding. But for those who haven’t yet started, the important takeaway is that it’s never too late to begin.
Consistency, above all, is key. Regular monthly contributions help to smooth out market volatility, and reinvesting dividends fuels portfolio growth exponentially. This patient, disciplined approach separates the winners from casual investors who seek quick gains.
A popular starter stock
For beginners looking to kickstart an ISA, Lloyds Banking Group’s (LSE: LLOY) a stock worth considering. Year to date, Lloyds shares have risen by about 57%, supported by a yield near 6%, making it attractive to income-focused investors. Over the past 11 years, it’s consistently paid dividends, showing resilience amid sector challenges.
The bank’s interim 2025 results show solid progress despite challenges. It reported profit after tax of £778m in Q3, hampered by a £800m provision relating to the motor finance mis-selling scandal. Net interest income rose steadily, and the bank remains focused on cost discipline and capital strength — crucial factors supporting dividend payouts.
One risk investors should weigh is Lloyds’ high level of debt combined with a competitive banking sector undergoing regulatory scrutiny. The investigation into motor finance practices still poses reputational and financial risk.
These risks could impact profits and dividend sustainability, but the bank’s management has stressed its commitment to maintaining a progressive and sustainable dividend policy.
The patience game
Passive income through an ISA isn’t about chasing fads or hitting quick wins. It boils down to tried-and-true habits: favouring stocks, especially those with protective moats; starting early and maintaining consistent investing discipline; and patiently reinvesting dividends to harness compounding.
Stocks like Lloyds exemplify the mix of income potential and risks investors need to balance in pursuit of long-term financial independence. While not without challenges, such companies often form the backbone of portfolios built for steady passive income.
Successful ISA investors know it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Anyone seeking to build tax-efficient, reliable passive income gains can learn plenty from these habits and the companies that support them.
For a week every October, people organizing international catch-ups and meetings on both sides of the Atlantic may be briefly confused: Did I just miss that conference call? Why is my grandmother calling me so early?
Most people quickly remember: It’s that strange time each fall when Europe and the United States are out of sync as they switch from daylight saving time to standard time.
Most countries do not observe daylight saving time. And for those that do — mostly in Europe and North America — the date of the clock change varies, partly because of how time-related laws were developed in difference places.
In countries that observe the practice, clocks are set forward one hour from standard time in March to make the most of increased summer daylight hours in the northern hemisphere.
Clocks “fall back” again in the autumn to standard time.
In the U.K. and Europe, this takes place at 2 a.m. on the last Sunday in October.
But in the U.S. and Canada, clocks go back one hour at 2 a.m on the first Sunday in November.
That in-between week means that the time difference between the two sides of the Atlantic — for example between London and New York — is one hour shorter than usual, potentially causing chaos for coordinating Zoom calls or other meetings.
The idea of daylight saving time had been floated for several hundred years, but didn’t become a standardized common practice written into law in many countries until the early 20th century.
Europe first adopted it during World War I as a wartime measure to conserve energy. Germany and Austria began moving their clocks by an hour in the summer of 1916. The U.K. and other countries involved in the war followed soon after, as did the United States and Canada.
Efforts were made over the years to coordinate time settings in Europe, and from 2002 all European Union member states adjusted their clocks twice yearly on the same days in March and October.
However, there has been no success in coordinating the time change more widely.
In the U.S., a 1966 law mandated a uniform daylight saving time nationwide, though the dates marking the twice yearly transitions have changed over the years. In 2022 the Senate unanimously approved a measure that would make daylight saving time permanent across the United States, but it did not advance.
The current dates were established by Congress in 2005.
Many do not agree on the benefits of the seasonal time changes, and lawmakers in the U.S. and Europe have previously proposed getting rid of the time change altogether. So far no changes have been finalized.
“With software being the cornerstone from design, development to management of hardware systems globally, further tighter export controls will escalate and accelerate this dichotomous trend further,” said Neil Shah, VP for research at Counterpoint Research. “Most of the major and advanced EDA design tools, compute designs, software stacks, and operating systems come from US-based companies. So, the reliance is high, but building a parallel software ecosystem is costly, unwarranted, and could create some serious challenges.”
In May, Washington had already tightened oversight of electronic design automation (EDA) software sales, requiring leading vendors such as Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens EDA to obtain export licenses before selling to Chinese firms. Earlier this month, President Trump announced on social media that he plans to double tariffs on Chinese exports to the US and introduce new export restrictions on what he called “critical software” by November 1.
Impact on supply chains
Analysts point out that the restriction will introduce further fragmentation into the tech supply chain and add additional compliance requirements to US-based enterprises. More importantly, it will severely impact the revenue of major Western tech firms that have been relying on China for growth, according to Lian Jye Su, chief analyst at Omdia.
According to a report from The Information, OpenAI is interested in developing a tool that could generate music from text and audio prompts, and has been working with students from The Juilliard School to help with creating training data. The company envisions something that could be used to generate guitar accompaniment for a vocal track, for example, or to add music to videos, sources with knowledge of the project told the publication.
There’s no word on how far into these efforts OpenAI is. According to one source that spoke to The Information, OpenAI enlisted the Juilliard students to annotate music scores, which could be used to train the AI. It wouldn’t be the first time the company has explored music-generating AI, and it’s something we’re seeing more and more of elsewhere with other startups, like Suno and ElevenLabs, launching their own versions. AI spam is already cluttering up streaming platforms and, lest we forget, there was the whole The Velvet Sundown debacle. It’s only the beginning.
Alex Vesia is a family man first. While the MLB player is known for being a Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher, he prioritizes his life with his wife, Kayla, above his career. The couple have been together since 2019, and they’ve shared their milestones with social media followers, including Kayla’s pregnancy journey. As fans grapple with the news of Alex’s absence from the 2025 World Series, many have asked if the couple already have children.
Below, learn more about Alex’s family and his life with Kayla.
How Did Alex Vesia & His Wife Meet?
In a January 2023 TikTok post, Kayla said that she and Alex first met at a dessert shop years prior and talked for “hours.” At some point down the road, the couple made their relationship official and celebrated their third anniversary together in April 2022, as seen in an Instagram post on Alex’s account.
That November, Alex proposed to Kayla.
When Did Alex Vesia & Kayla Get Married?
Alex and Kayla got married in January 2024. Calling it the “best day of [their] lives” in an Instagram post, the then-newlyweds thanked their guests for attending.
“We couldn’t have planned for a better day it was everything we dreamed of and more,” Alex and Kayla wrote in a joint Instagram post. “Very thankful for everyone who traveled and made time to celebrate us! LOVE YA’LL -The Vesias.”
Does Alex Vesia Have Children?
No, Alex does not have any children, but he and Kayla announced they were expecting their first baby together in 2025. Up until mid-October 2025, Kayla had been sharing Instagram photos of her growing baby bump and her supporting Alex as he and the Dodgers moved onto the World Series.
However, Alex went on hiatus right before the World Series began. The Dodgers wrote in a public statement, “It is with a heavy heart that we share that Alex Vesia is away from the team as he and his wife, Kayla, navigate a deeply personal family matter. The entire Dodgers organization is sending our thoughts to the Vesia family, and we will provide an update at a later date.”
The Dodgers’ manager, Dave Roberts, told reporters that the team was “anticipating” Alex being off the roster for the World Series “unless something unforeseen happens.”
“I think we exhausted a couple different options, but just considering obviously what he’s going through and baseball’s certainly on the backburner, so I just think that’s the right process that we as an organization [thought] was probably the best way to handle it,” Dave said, according to Dodgers Nation. “And to be quite honest, I don’t know a lot of what went into it.”
A unique Halloween radio event is being conducted by Alice Cooper. The horror-rock king will combine a list of chilling oldies for his ‘Monster Bash’ on Sonos Radio. The event will get dark according to the music that will be played and it is set to commence on October 24.
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The ultimate shock rocker, Alice Cooper, is the one who is going to set the airwaves on fire this Halloween season. He is the one who is going to be ‘darker than ever’ for his ‘Monster Bash’ radio show reviving with a new version. The rock icon will choose the assortment he calls ‘chilling classics and haunting anthems’ directly from October 24. The idea is pretty much simple to make the perfect atmosphere for the night of spooky activities. The listeners of the program can only access it through the Sonos Radio app.
This annual event has become a ritual for the fans of the artist’s horrific drama. The singer who cannot be separated from the horror-themed rock and roll through his stage persona is the best option for a Halloween special. His participation will not be restricted to a one-time guest appearance; he is once again taking the power in his hands to pick the songs. This ensures that the playlist is going to be a mirror of the artist’s nonconformist and strong musical taste that will surely not be confined to genres but will be characterized by a spooky, theatrical ambiance.
The artist’s loyal fans were quick to react with immense enthusiasm to the announcement. One user just simply wrote in his comment that the upcoming music broadcast would be an ‘epic night of music,’ and he added a large number of smiling emojis to convey their eagerness. Another fan of the singer associated the event with a line from the 1975 hit song of Cooper, “The him self Alice Cooper it’s a monster mash.”
Scottycamp8 was the one who had the funniest interaction as he joked, ‘Just saw you at the knife store!’ This style of joking and in-character comments is very common on Cooper’s social media; in such instances, the line between the man and his evil alter ego is often blurred for the audience.
Though mostly reactions were congratulatory, there was one that was questioning. ‘Isn’t there any normal radio station that we can listen to it on? I hate apps,’ was what the user wrote. This comment initiated a short but sharp dialogue. Another user immediately responded, ‘But..you write on Instagram..’, pointing out the irony of complaining about being forced to use apps while actively using one. The first user stood his ground and explained, ‘and I guess you don’t understand what I hate apps means,’ referring to a certain dislike for the prevalence of mandatory apps for a simple leisure activity.
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This small argument illustrates a more significant trend in media consumption where the digital audience sometimes feels disconnected from the traditional radio audience. Nevertheless, fans overall showed a positive reaction to Cooper’s statement and were more than happy to allow the rock star to be the one to create the atmosphere for their Halloween festivities. Alice Cooper’s Monster Bash will be hauntingly aired on the Sonos Radio app starting October 24. Fans can also look forward to his latest broadcast where he shares more musical insights. Recently, Cooper hilariously nailed a viral trend with his unique style. Additionally, he sold out a limited edition photography collection that celebrated his iconic career.
