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Topline: Legendary energy tycoon and hedge fund manager T. Boone Pickens died at 91 on Wednesday after being in declining health following a major fall and a series of strokes in 2017.
Forbes ranked Pickens as a billionaire in 2013, but he soon he fell off The Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans. At the time, he tweeted to his more than 110,000 followers: “Don’t worry. At $950 million, I’m doing fine.
Daniel Johnston, the influential singer-songwriter and visual artist who painted Austin’s famous “Hi How Are You” frog mural on the Drag, died at home last night following a presumed heart attack at age 58. The news was confirmed by his former manager Jeff Tartakov.
Johnston’s physical health worsened significantly in recent years. Last year, his sister Margy Johnston told the Chronicle that Daniel had recently endured a rough go that included falling, hospitalization,
Ball, who played on the Oakland Raiders and the Florida Gators during his football career, died on Tuesday, almost a year after suffering from an aneurysm rupture caused by a rare brain condition.
The Sports and Entertainment Group, which represented Ball, confirmed his sad passing.
“We join the Ball family in thanking the numerous supporters of Neiron and his journey to recovery,” the agency said in their statement. “Neiron was a rare and special spirit with the ability to touch anyone he met.
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday fired his third national security adviser, John R. Bolton, as their positions on major foreign policy issues clashed, most recently on pursuing a peace plan with the Taliban.
The two men have regularly been at odds over how to take on major foreign policy challenges facing the United States. Mr. Bolton, a longtime national security hawk, held some views that contrasted with Mr. Trump’s, favoring sanctions and pre-emptive military action against some countries even as the president pursued diplomacy.
Google Photos is one of Google’s best online services because it offers free, unlimited photo backup and a ton of useful features to help organize photos into albums. Recently, Google rolled out the ability to search your photos by text, and they’re also testing a Photo Frames feature to show curated albums on local Chromecasts or smart displays. Earlier today, we received an update to version 4.24 of the Photos app, and we managed to activate a new feature that will let you buy Photo Prints at Walmart or CVS or large Canvas Prints to hang on your walls.
The Kelly Clarkson Show welcomed Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as its first guest
Kelly Clarkson is officially a daytime talk-show host!
On Monday, the Grammy Award-winning artist, 37, kicked off her new show, The Kelly Clarkson Show, with plenty of laughs, some big celebrity guests and a sweet surprise!
Before an incredible performance of Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” Steve Carell walked on stage to introduce Clarkson in the most epic way: mimicking the infamous moment he screamed her name in The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
CLEVELAND — Odell Beckham’s skill can change a team’s direction, but it cannot alter its history or improve its discipline.
Beckham had a few moments (7 catches, 71 yards) when he showed why he can be a difference-maker in the Cleveland Browns’ future. But the Browns, a franchise with 11 consecutive losing seasons, showed they have more to learn about winning after falling 43-13 to the Tennessee Titans in the first game of the Baker Mayfield-Beckham Era.
Quarterback Nick Foles’s debut for the Jacksonville Jaguars did not exactly go as scripted.
Foles, the former Super Bowl MVP for the Philadelphia Eagles who signed with Jacksonville as a free agent in the offseason, exited Sunday’s game against the Kansas City Chiefs after suffering a broken left clavicle.
Coach Doug Marrone told reporters after the game that he did not have an immediate timetable for Foles’s return. But the Jaguars are looking at Foles being sidelined for an extended period.
The four automakers agreed to voluntary emissions regulations with California and the DOJ wants to learn if they violated antitrust laws.
The standoff over the Trump administration’s proposed fuel economy and emissions standards rollback and California’s vow to fight any changes just became far more tense.
The Department of Justice has launched an antitrust investigation into BMW, Ford, Honda and Volkswagen over their agreement to honor voluntary emissions regulations with the state of California,
The American Airlines mechanic who was arrested and charged with sabotaging a plane this summer was fired from Alaska Airlines in 2008 after a series of missteps that led to several Federal Aviation Administration investigations, according to court documents obtained by Business Insider from an unsuccessful discrimination suit the mechanic filed against Alaska Airlines.
Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani was arrested by the FBI on Thursday morning and charged with deliberately sabotaging an American Airlines plane that was about to operate a flight from Miami to Nassau,