Day: January 30, 2024

LA Opera drops premiere of Mason Bates’ ‘Kavalier and Clay’

6:05 pm January 30, 2024

The Los Angeles Opera has scrapped plans for the world premiere of Mason Bates’ “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” this fall because of finances. The work will instead open with a student cast at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. Bates’ composition, based on Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is a co-commission with […]

Reporter’s Notebook: Into the heart of the Gaza war with the IDF

6:00 pm January 30, 2024

As part of a small group of journalists, Fox News embedded with the Israeli military in Gaza. I joined the IDF in Khan Younis, a current focal point of the Israeli operation. Loading into vehicles, soldiers pull on gaiters and goggles to protect themselves on the dusty drive ahead. Within a quarter of a mile […]

Sen. Joe Manchin says wife in ‘stable condition’ following car crash in Alabama

5:08 pm January 30, 2024

Sen. Joe Manchin says his wife Gayle is in “stable condition” Tuesday following her involvement in a car accident in Alabama. “On Monday, my wife Gayle and her colleague Guy Land were involved in a car accident on the way from the airport to the hotel in Birmingham, Alabama, for an Appalachian Regional Commission event […]

Kansas City Chiefs fan found dead in lawn chair on back porch, ‘paints a picture we didn’t have’: family

5:01 pm January 30, 2024

The brother of one of the Kansas City Chiefs fans found dead in a friend’s backyard says that one of the men’s frozen bodies was found sitting in a lawn chair, which he says “paints a picture we didn’t have from the beginning.” Ricky Johnson, 38; Clayton McGeeney, 36; and David Harrington, 37, were all […]

Portland leaders frustrated, say city allowed to set harsher rules for cigarettes than fentanyl: ‘It’s insane’

5:00 pm January 30, 2024

City leaders say they’ve been hamstrung when it comes to cleaning up Portland’s streets and are calling on legislators to help in the upcoming legislative session. “It is extremely frustrating for us to take the steps that we believe, and, frankly, that we know we need to take as a municipal government to address open […]