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US Open champion can’t watch tennis because of Disney’s dispute with his hotel’s cable company – CNN

  1. US Open champion can’t watch tennis because of Disney’s dispute with his hotel’s cable company CNN
  2. Daniil Medvedev watches US Open on ‘illegal’ streams due to TV blackouts Insider
  3. Hot and Humid New York Takes an Unexpected Victim in Daniil Medvedev as Discerning Signs Show His Suffering in an Intense US Open Match against Alex de Minaur EssentiallySports
  4. Daniil Medvedev turns to ‘pirate websites’ to watch US Open matches amid Disney-Charter dispute Fox News
  5. Tennis Merciless Daniil Medvedev ousts Alex de Minaur from US Open – ESPN ESPN
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US Open champion can’t watch tennis because of Disney’s dispute with his hotel’s cable company – CNN

  1. US Open champion can’t watch tennis because of Disney’s dispute with his hotel’s cable company CNN
  2. Hot and Humid New York Takes an Unexpected Victim in Daniil Medvedev as Discerning Signs Show His Suffering in an Intense US Open Match against Alex de Minaur EssentiallySports
  3. Medvedev hits tweener, backhand winner in sensational rally | 2023 US Open ESPN
  4. Daniil Medvedev tells about interesting difficulty he is experiencing at US Open Tennis World USA
  5. “I have no other choice”: Daniil Medvedev turns to pirate sites amid Spectrum-Disney dispute Tennis Magazine
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Hotels are pretty much booked up for upcoming Taylor Swift concerts in Santa Clara following record-breaking ticket sales – KGO-TV

  1. Hotels are pretty much booked up for upcoming Taylor Swift concerts in Santa Clara following record-breaking ticket sales KGO-TV
  2. Levi’s Stadium backs off ban on friendship bracelets at Taylor Swift concert KPIX | CBS NEWS BAY AREA
  3. Hotels are pretty much booked up for upcoming Taylor Swift concerts in Santa Clara ABC7 News Bay Area
  4. Calling all Taylor Swift fans: Are you taking the train from Sacramento to Santa Clara shows? Sacramento Bee
  5. BART to run late-night special service trains for Taylor Swift concert at Levi’s Stadium CBS San Francisco
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Coachella Valley Firebirds forced to change hotels ahead of Game Five of Calder Cup Finals – Russian Machine Never Breaks

  1. Coachella Valley Firebirds forced to change hotels ahead of Game Five of Calder Cup Finals Russian Machine Never Breaks
  2. AHL Calder Cup Finals Game 5 live updates: Firebirds vs. Hershey Bears Desert Sun
  3. Finals notebook: Coaches know their teams are in for long haul American Hockey League
  4. Shane Wright’s otherworldly talent on full display against Hershey in Calder Cup Finals: ‘He’s obviously a really good player’ Russian Machine Never Breaks
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Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Parc 55 owner stopping loan payments, surrendering hotels to lender, firm confirms – KGO-TV

  1. Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Parc 55 owner stopping loan payments, surrendering hotels to lender, firm confirms KGO-TV
  2. Park Hotels stops payments on $725M CMBS loan, plans to cut San Francisco exposure Seeking Alpha
  3. Park Hotels & Resorts Ceases Payments on Two San Francisco Hotels CoStar Group
  4. Owner of SF’s Largest Hotel, the Hilton Union Square, Is Walking Away, Surrendering It to Lender SFist
  5. Park Hotels & Resorts Inc. Announces Cessation of Payment on $725 Million Non-Recourse CMBS Loan Secured By Two of Its San Francisco Hotels Yahoo Finance
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It’s the land of the freebies for NYC’s ‘entitled’ migrants

Say this for the migrants demanding more free stuff from City Hall: they’re fast learners about the new American ethos of endless entitlement.

Schooled and led by far-left activists, they arrive here within days of illegally crossing the southern border and claiming asylum, then start agitating for better accommodations in pricey neighborhoods. 

Tents in The Bronx, barracks in Brooklyn or homeless shelters anywhere are not good enough. Only first-class Manhattan hotels, where the city pays upward of $500 a night per room, are acceptable.

The welcome wagon comes with free food, free cellphones, free transit passes, free school and free health care.

Unfortunately, the booty is not free for taxpayers, which brings us to the slow learners in the sad saga.

That would be the gang at City Hall that is hell-bent on proving once again that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. The open-ended promises are a prime example of how Eric Adams missed key lessons at mayoral school.

His predecessors learned that if you say come and get it, people will come and get it, especially when it’s free. Adams apparently believed his election had changed human ­nature. 

Many migrants have said that they refuse to move to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal.
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Mixed messages

Recall that he loudly embraced New York’s status as a sanctuary city and urged the Democratic mayor of El Paso, Texas, to send 200 migrants a day to Gotham. In one of his many mixed messages, Adams opened that door even as he denounced Texas’ Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for sending busloads of other migrants.

And he said nothing about the secret nighttime migrant flights to area airports arranged by the Biden White House. Are only migrants sent by Democrats welcome?

It was the exact wrong way to look at the problem. Abbott and other border state leaders, frustrated with being ignored by Biden as more than 5 million people have crossed the border, were legitimately trying to spread the pain in hopes of making Adams and other Dem mayors allies for securing the crossing points. 

Nonetheless, by October, some 17,000 migrants had arrived here, with most living in crowded city shelters that already housed nearly 60,000 homeless people. With a clear change in tone, Adams suddenly declared a state of emergency and said the city had no more room at the inn.

“New Yorkers are angry,” he said. “I am angry too. We have not asked for this.”

Actually, he had. But he was also banking on fellow Dems in Albany and Washington delivering financial aid. 

First he said the cost would be $1 billion, then he said $2 billion. 


Gov. Hochul snubbed the mayor’s request to send 500 migrants to upstate cities. 
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No matter — the result was the same: zero. That’s how much help Adams has gotten from his friends even as the number of known migrants approaches 45,000. 

Gov. Hochul also snubbed his modest request to scatter 500 around to upstate cities. 

Meanwhile, Adams’ supposed allies on the City Council undercut him in a different way. They demanded he take down tent cities, put migrants in hotels and give them permanent housing. 

So here we are, and the soaring cost is only part of the problem. There is an immediate impact on the city’s already-declining quality of life.

Take the mess at Midtown hotels, which The Post’s Tuesday front page smartly labeled “Inn-Sane!” The three-star Watson Hotel on West 57th Street would normally be a mecca for big-spending tourists, but instead the scene is chaotic with some migrant refuseniks pitching tents on the sidewalk in a bid to stay at the hotel instead of being shipped to a cruise ship terminal in Red Hook.

Never mind that the city filled the cavernous Brooklyn space with cots, pillows and blankets and provided large communal toilets and showers.

“The cruise ship terminal is not as good as the hotel,” a 42-year-old Venezuelan man told The Post.

There you have it — more entitlement than gratitude. In a heartbeat, that migrant’s mindset has gone from dreaming of freedom in America to demanding luxury accommodations in Manhattan — for free, of course.

The chaos is not limited to the Watson. The Post, acting on information and photos provided by a whistleblower employee, reported three weeks ago about the unfolding disaster at another Midtown hotel leased by the city for migrants, the Row Hotel on Eighth Avenue near Times Square.

“Nearly a ton of taxpayer-provided food gets tossed in the trash every day,” the paper said, because the migrants would “rather secretly cook their own meals on dangerous hot plates.” 

The photos showed garbage bags full of unopened sandwiches and a room littered with empty beer cans.

The employee, Felipe Rodriguez, said there was a “dramatic” change when the city took over the hotel in October.

“There are some nice migrants in that hotel looking for that American dream, that second chance to make it in society,” he said. “But there are a lot of migrants there that are causing chaos. We have a lot of fights, a lot of drugs, a lot of sexual harassment abuse.”

He said there was no supervision for migrants who were supposed to be quarantined for COVID, chicken pox and other infectious diseases. An NYPD source confirmed to the paper that cops have responded to numerous incidents at the Row, formerly known as the Milford Plaza.


Migrants have been encouraged to camp in front of the Watson by liberal activists.
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Obviously, the crime element is not something the city needed to import. It’s got more than enough of the home-grown variety and, while murder and shootings are down, too many streets and neighborhoods remain haunted by menace and violence. 

To be clear, the migrants didn’t invent the entitlement approach. They are taught to demand what they want by open-border activists who won’t be satisfied until New York looks and feels like Caracas. Nor do the leaders care that the lack of serious vetting provides an open door for drug smugglers, gangbangers and sex traffickers. 

Operating through lawyers and charities, and often with government funding, the activists denounce American society as racist, which is both outrageous and ironic. After all, the supposed racism doesn’t curb the desire of tens of millions of people from around the world to come here. 

That’s small comfort for taxpayers, nor is it helping Adams look like the mayor he promised to be. On election night, he vowed to be the new face of his party and show America how to run a city. 

If this is what he had in mind, heaven help New York.

RX for ‘docs’

Reader Dick Gardner makes a point about classified documents, writing: 

“Classified material is signed out like library books — only stricter, and each document has a serial number. There should be a list of everything that’s missing and both Trump and Biden should have been told years ago to turn them in.”

Stop zinging the ‘blues’ 

Ruth Cohen is repelled by events in Tennessee: “If they keeping making the police profession miserable, only scoundrels and felons will apply. Then we will all have to seek protection from sadists, as we saw in Memphis.”

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SEE IT: Thanksgiving travelers faced major price increases for airfare, hotels

Thanksgiving travelers faced major price hurdles this holiday.

Decades-high inflation, coupled with a continued travel rebound stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, is leading to higher prices for just about everything travel-related, including airfare, hotels and gas. Inflation cooled slightly in October, but still hit 7.7%.

AS THANKSGIVING TRAVEL PRICES FORCE AMERICANS TO STAY HOME OR BREAK THE BANK, PEOPLE IN NEW JERSEY SOUND OFF

Domestic flights booked in early November for the week of Thanksgiving averaged 48% higher than 2021, according to Kayak.
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The average price for a domestic round-trip flight the week of Thanksgiving was $468 if it was booked in early November, with prices only increasing as the month went on, according to Kayak. That marks a 48% increase from 2021. And another headache: United Airlines expects the holiday will be its busiest period since the beginning of the pandemic. 

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Things don’t get better once travelers reach their destinations, either. The average hotel stay for Thanksgiving cost $173 per night as of early November — a 14% increase from last year, according to Hopper.

Thanksgiving hotels cost 14% more than last year if a room was booked in early November, according to Priceline.
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Car rental prices, at least, had a small drop compared to last year — down to $84 a day for Thanksgiving, reflecting a 1% drop from 2021 when demand far outpaced supply, according to Priceline. But that price is still 62% more than what a rental car cost before the pandemic.

Rental car prices for Thanksgiving increased 62% from 2019 if it was booked in early November, according to Priceline.
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Most travelers, though, are expected to travel by car, with AAA predicting that nearly 49 million will hit the road.

Gas prices have increased slightly since last year. A regular gallon cost $3.64 on average Tuesday — up about 24 cents compared to 2021, but down significantly from the summer peak of $5, according to AAA.

Overall, AAA predicts there will be nearly 55 million travelers this Thanksgiving — nearly 98% of the pre-pandemic volume, and the third busiest since 2000 when the group started tracking the data.

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Kanye West spends money ‘like it’s water,’ living in luxury hotels and rentals, friend tells TMZ

Kanye West has been like a vagabond recently as he has blown through tons of cash as he jumps from city-to-city while staying in luxury hotels and fancy rental homes.

The 45-year-old artist – who boasts an impressive an impressive portfolio – has opted to not stay in any of the homes he has purchased and instead live life as a transient who has splashed a ridiculous amount of cash.

Of his spending habits, a source – who claims to be one of Kanye’s former friends – told TMZ on Tuesday: ‘He blows through his money like it’s water.’ 

BMF: Kanye West (seen in London last month) has been like a vagabond recently as he has blown through tons of cash as he jumps from city-to-city while staying in luxury hotels and fancy rental homes

The insider told the publication that he rarely stays in the same place for more than a few days and that he spends money like it’s nothing including footing the bill for his Yeezy fashion show in Paris earlier this month.

He definitely has the capital to spend as his net worth is an estimated $4billion according to Celebrity Net Worth. 

TMZ also notes that their insider claims that the All Of The Lights hitmaker has made some bold business decisions including firing Shervin Pishevar from Yeezy in addition to other advisors and publicists. 

During a recent interview on Drink Champs, Ye said that he had recently purchased a $50million penthouse which is another addition to his already packed real estate portfolio.

Of his spending habits, a source – who claims to be one of Kanye’s former friends – told TMZ on Tuesday: ‘He blows through his money like it’s water,’ the 45-year-old artist is seen in LA on Friday

Kanye already owns many multi-million dollar properties including one notably across the street from estranged wife Kim Kardashian. 

In December 2021, the Yeezy founder – who shares four children with his 41-year-old ex – bought a 3651 square-foot, 5-bedroom home in LA’s exclusive Hidden Hills for $4.5which he still has not lived in.

Months earlier in September 2021, he dropped a whopping $57.3million on a sprawling beachside home in Malibu in an off-market deal.

 The stunning property which looks like a piece of art was designed by Japanese Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando and was built by Marmol Radziner.

Big spender: During a recent interview on Drink Champs, Ye said that he had recently purchased a $50million penthouse which is another addition to his already packed real estate portfolio

Closer to family: In December 2021, the Yeezy founder – who shares four children with his 41-year-old ex – bought a 3651 square-foot, 5-bedroom home in LA’s exclusive Hidden Hills for $4.5which he still has not lived in

Stunning: Months earlier in September 2021, he dropped a whopping $57.3million on a sprawling beachside home designed by Japanese Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando and was built by Marmol Radziner in Malibu in an off-market deal

Earlier this week, Kanye launched into another anti-Semitic rant as he discussed a sex story involving his estranged wife Kim and her ex-boyfriend Pete Davidson.

The rapper shocked fans last week when he tweeted that he was going to ‘go death con 3 on Jewish people…’ which resulted in him being banned from the microblogging app. 

Yet he doubled down on his view during an interview on Drink Champs as he claimed that Kim discussing her sex life with Pete alluded to Jewish Zionist practice.

West was referring to a scene on the The Kardashians, in which Kim, 41, spoke about how she slept with Pete, 28, in front of a fireplace in tribute to her grandmother.

Rant: Kanye claimed Kim’s recent sex confession with Pete Davidson was spurred on by ‘Jewish Zionists’ as he doubled down on anti-Semitic claims in an interview on Drink Champs

In his rant, West told hosts N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN: ‘We Jew so I can’t be anti-Semite. First of all, I need my stadiums back. The 78 media outlets that called me an “abuser” when I was trying to get… Pete Davidson away from my kids that was tattooing my kids’ names on him, Skete. 

‘Kim is a Christian – on TMZ, I just saw it yesterday, it said, “Pete Davidson and Kim had sex by the fireplace to honor they grandmother,”‘ he said. 

‘It’s Jewish Zionists that’s about that life, that’s telling this Christian woman that has four black children to put that out as a message in the media.’ 

He continued: ‘So when I drive by and I see the Hulu ads and I see the JP [Morgan Chase] ads, I’m gonna let y’all know right now, the devil is a defeated foe – you can’t poison me.’

Kardashian filed from divorce from West in February of 2021, and the former couple are parents of four children: North, nine, Saint, six, Chicago, four, and Psalm, three. 

Former flames: Kardashian was romantically-involved with Saturday Night Live star Davidson from October last year to August 

Kardashian was romantically-involved with Saturday Night Live star Davidson from October last year to August. 

Prior to their split, Kim opened up about one of their sexual encounters while speaking with her grandmother on her reality show.

She said: ‘You know what’s so crazy? Pete and I were staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel last weekend and we were sitting in front of the fireplace just talking for hours. 

‘I was like, “My grandma told me that you really live life when you have sex in front of the fireplace. And so, we had sex in front of the fireplace in honor of you. I know that’s probably creepy.”‘ 

Claims: West said that ‘it’s Jewish Zionists that’s about that life, that’s telling this Christian woman that has four Black children to put that out as a message in the media’

West’s vitriolic message against Jewish people was his second in as many weeks, as last week he tweeted: ‘I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE … The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also … you guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.’

In the controversial interview, West also said ‘the Jewish media blocked me out’ after a previous interview with a separate outlet was not aired; and that ‘Jewish people control the Black voice.’

West said he spoke without fear of harming his professional or personal life, as he said he has already been subject to numerous consequences.

‘Y’all already f****d with me so much you already Black Mirrored me; you already made people think I’m crazy, you already took my family away, you already separated all my friends. I don’t got no celebrity friends.’

West also took aim at talk show host Trevor Noah, who has past been critical of his behavior amid a public series of outbursts aimed at Kardashian and Davidson earlier this year.

‘Trevor Noah, not even from America, he just looks Black right?’ West said. ‘Gonna say, yo, Kim it’s gonna get dangerous, he putting all that “He so crazy, he’s so OJ.” Nori just wants the family back together, I just want the family back together.’ 

Elsewhere during the interview, West said: ‘Jewish people have owned the black voice. Whether it’s through us wearing a Ralph Lauren shirt, or it’s all of us being signed to a record label, or having a Jewish manager, or being signed to a Jewish basketball team, or doing a movie on a Jewish platform like Disney.’

Candid: Prior to their split, Kim opened up about her sexual encounter with Davidson while speaking with her grandmother Mary Jo ‘MJ’ Campbell in a segment on the show 

He continued: ‘I respect what the Jewish people have done and how they brought their people together. You know they came into money through the lawyers. After Wall Street, when all of the Catholics, they wouldn’t divorce people, so the Jewish people came in they were willing to divorce people and that’s when they came into their money.’

West said that he and other black people are the ‘darker Jews’ as they are part of the 12 lost tribes of Israel. ‘We’re Jewish also. We’re from Africa also. We’re the blood of Christ. We’re not just black,’ he went on.

The rapper said that venture capitalist Ben Horowitz once called him to complain that Jay-Z was giving away ‘Jewish business secrets.’

Blocked: In the controversial interview, West also said ‘the Jewish media blocked me out’ after a previous interview with a separate outlet was not aired

Last week , the Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles invited the Chicago rapper to visit their exhibitions. The museum said in an Instagram post: ‘Words matter and words have consequences Ye. We urge you to come visit us at Holocaust Museum LA to understand just how words can incite horrific violence and genocides.

The post continued: ‘The Holocaust started with only words that sadly begat stereotypes, racial and religious tropes and blaming others and led to the murder of six million Jews.’

According to the American Jewish Council, Jewish people are the targets of 60 percent of religious hate crimes in America despite making up two percent of the population.

Shocking: West’s vitriolic message against Jewish people was his second in as many weeks, as last week, as he posted an antisemitic message October 7 after he faced restrictions on Instagram 

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Before, after images show Hurricane Ian storm surge completely destroyed some Sanibel Island, Florida hotels



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Many beach cottages that lined the shores of Sanibel Island were wiped away by Hurricane Ian’s storm surge, new aerial imagery from NOAA shows.

Most homes on Sanibel and Captiva islands are still standing, but appear to have sustained some form of roof damage, in addition to certain storm surge and flooding damage.

Near the Casa Ybel Beach Resort, large scars in the sands are seen – the surge eroded much of the beach and dunes.

An aerial view of beach erosion near Casa Ybel Beach Resort on Sanibel Island, Florida, before and after Hurricane Ian.

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Shalimar Cottages & Motel is gone, too. Its 14 cottages and entire motel building were wiped away by the storm. At least four cottages – or what remains of them – are sitting in the street.

An aerial view of the Shalimar Cottages & Motel on Sanibel Island, Florida, before and after Hurricane Ian.

Mitchell’s SandCastles has also been completely destroyed. There are no buildings left and the property is covered in sand.

An aerial view of Mitchell’s SandCastles on Sanibel Island, Florida, before and after Hurricane Ian.

Only one building remains of the Waterside Inn on the Beach. The only thing remaining of the eight buildings on the property, which encircle the swimming pool, is debris.

An aerial view of the Waterside Inn on Sanibel Island, Florida, before and after Hurricane Ian.

The roofs of the four buildings that comprise Ocean’s Reach have sustained significant damage. It’s unclear how things fared inside the buildings, but a significant debris field is seen behind the buildings. The covered parking structure behind the buildings has been destroyed as well.

An aerial view of the Ocean’s Reach on Sanibel Island, Florida, before and after Hurricane Ian.

Near the Casa Ybel Beach Resort, large scars in the sands are seen – the surge eroded much of the beach and dunes.

An aerial view of beach erosion near Casa Ybel Beach Resort on Sanibel Island, Florida, before and after Hurricane Ian.

Even though storm surge is no longer covering Sanibel, a number of homes remain underwater located on the Sanibel Island Golf Club.

An aerial view of Sanibel Island Golf Club, Florida, before and after Hurricane Ian.

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Lavinia Trematerra, 7, crushed by statue in Munich hotel

A 7-year-old Italian girl was crushed to death by a 440-pound marble statue while playing in a hotel courtyard in Munich last week. 

Lavinia Trematerra, from Naples, was on holiday with her parents when the accident occurred Friday evening. 

According to local reports, Trematerra was playing with an 8-year-old boy when the unfixed statue toppled on top of her. 

Bystanders – including her father, Michele Trematerra – rushed to her aid and lifted the statue off of her, according to Italian media.

Paramedics arrived on the scene and attempted to resuscitate her before taking her to the hospital where she died a couple of hours later. 

“You are and will always be our angel. Rest in peace, love of our lives,” wrote her lawyer mother, Valentina Poggi on social media, just hours after her daughter’s death. 

The girl’s father, also a lawyer, wrote: “Our life has changed forever.” 

Munich police have opened an investigation, including claims that the girl was possibly climbing the statue before it fell on her.

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