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(NEW YORK) — Apple said on Sunday that COVID-19 restrictions at an iPhone factory in China have “temporarily impacted” shipments of its flagship phone.
The world’s most valuable company said a facility in Zhengzhou run by Foxconn, one of Apple’s largest suppliers, was “currently operating at significantly reduced capacity.”
“We continue to see strong demand for iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max models,” Apple said in a statement. “However, we now expect lower iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max shipments than we previously anticipated and customers will experience longer wait times to receive their new products.”
Foxconn, as Hon Hai Precision Industry is known, turned its Zhengzhou facility into a “closed-loop” factory because of concerns about COVID-19 in the surrounding area, according to a report last week by Morgan Stanley analysts.
About 60% of Foxconn’s iPhone assembly happens in Zhengzhou, Morgan Stanley analysts wrote in the report.
“However, we do believe the impact of the COVID situation in Zhengzhou is showing up in iPhone lead times, as iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max lead times have elongated by ~7 days in the last week, to 26 days as of Tuesday, November 1st,” the analysts wrote.
Taiwan-based Foxconn issued a current-quarter outlook on Monday, saying it was originally “cautiously optimistic,” but “due to the pandemic affecting some of our operations in Zhengzhou, the company will ‘revise down’ the outlook for the fourth quarter.”
The company said the local government had “made it clear that it will, as always, fully support” Foxconn’s local production.
“Foxconn is now working with the government in concerted effort to stamp out the pandemic and resume production to its full capacity as quickly as possible,” the company said in a statement.
Apple said it’s “working closely with our supplier to return to normal production levels while ensuring the health and safety of every worker.”
Dolly Parton sings “Jolene” with Judas Priest’s Rob Halford; Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
After famously attempting — unsuccessfully — to withdraw her name for consideration, Dolly Parton was finally inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Saturday night in Los Angeles. “I’m a rock star now!” she gleefully told the crowd at the ceremony, as they cheered wildly.
Dolly was inducted by pop star Pink, who said, “Dolly, you’re amazing. You bring people together and you put so much light and joy into the world and we all love you so much.” Accepting the honor, Dolly announced her intention to do a rock album, and added, “Any of you rock stars gonna help me out on that?” When the audience cheered, she laughed, “Good, ’cause I’m gonna hold you to it!”
Pink and Brandi Carlile went on to sing “Coat of Many Colors,” while Zac Brown and Sheryl Crow duetted on “9 to 5.” Dolly, wearing an Elvis-inspired jumpsuit, debuted one of the new rock songs she said she’d written for the rock album project. She sang, “Since I heard the big beat/I ain’t never been the same/Because they’ve done put me in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.”
Dolly then called up many of her fellow inductees and performers — including Duran Duran‘s Simon Le Bon, Eurythmics‘ Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, Pink, Brandi, ’80s rocker Pat Benatar and even Rob Halford of heavy metal legends Judas Priest — to help sing “Jolene.” It just goes to show…everyone loves Dolly.
The night ended with a tribute to the recently passed rock and country legend Jerry Lee Lewis, performed by Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp.
The induction ceremony will air on Saturday, November 19, at 8 p.m. ET on HBO.
Darius Rucker is a big fan of the CMA Awards’ hosting lineup this year. With Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning at the helm of the awards show, the country superstar (and former CMA Awards co-host) thinks it’s sure to be an incredible night.
“Love it. Peyton’s hilarious,” the singer says of the decision to add the Pro Football Hall of Famer to the bill.
“He’s one of my best buddies, and he’s hilarious,” Darius goes on to say. “I think him and Luke are gonna be great at it. I mean, [the script writers for the show] must be in heaven writing that — it’s gonna be awesome.”
Darius and Peyton have had plenty of chances to get to know each other over the years — they’re both huge sports fans, and they both attended Brad Paisley’s all-star Zoom drinking parties during the COVID-19 pandemic.
And now they’ve got a couple more things in common, since not only have they both stepped into the hosting gig at the CMAs, but they’re both one half of all-star hosting duos.
Darius’ hosting partner was Reba McEntire, who shared those duties with him at the 2020 show. Darius says he came out of that experience admiring Reba more than ever before — and he was already a huge fan of hers to begin with.
“Reba has been nothing but awesome to me since I’ve known her,” he says. “Since I came to Nashville, she’s been one of my champions, and also, when we did the CMAs together, I’ve never seen anybody more giving than she was when we did that.”
Most recently, Darius teamed up with Reba as a guest star on ABC’s Big Sky, which features Reba as a series regular this season.
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Eminem, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis and Lionel Richie were among the artists inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Saturday night in Los Angeles.
Dr. Dre inducted Eminem, recalling that he saw something in the rapper when others didn’t.
“I knew that his gifts were undeniable,” Dre said. “Each of us was what the other one needed — and I was willing to bet my entire career on it.”
After Dre’s heartfelt introduction, Eminem performed a medley of hits, including “My Name Is,” “Sing for the Moment” with surprise guest Steven Tyler, and “Stan,” with Ed Sheeran jumping in to sing the chorus and play guitar.
In his acceptance speech, Eminem honored the hip hop genre and listed off the artists that influenced him, including Tupac, Notorious B.I.G and a whole lot more.
“I’m a high school dropout with a hip-hop education and these are my teachers,” he said. “And it’s their night just as much as it is mine.”
Legendary producing duo Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis were inducted in the Musical Excellence category by longtime collaborator Janet Jackson, who spoke about the experience of working on her 1986 album Control with them.
“We felt like we were kids in a sandbox,” she said. “We talked and laughed so much that sometimes it didn’t even feel like we were making a record.”
In their acceptance speech, Terry spoke at length of his gratitude, prompting Jimmy to reply, “That’s the most I’ve ever heard Terry talk in my whole life.”
Lionel Richie received his induction from Lenny Kravitz.
“The man doesn’t have a pretentious bone in his body,” Kravitz said. “…When Lionel shows up, everyone gets happy.”
Lionel then performed “Hello,” the Commodores‘ “Easy” with the help of rocker Dave Grohl, and “All Night Long.” In his speech, Richie spoke of being a “creative artist” in the industry and being told in the past that he wasn’t “Black enough.”
“Rock and roll is not a color; it’s a feeling, it’s a vibe,” he said.
Other inductees included Duran Duran, Eurythmics, Pat Benatar, Carly Simon and Dolly Parton. Harry Belafonte received the Early Influence Award.
The induction ceremony will air on Saturday, November 19, at 8 p.m. ET on HBO and will stream on HBO Max.
Lionel Richie sings “Easy” with Dave Grohl on guitar; Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, which took place in L.A. on Saturday, enshrined some of the biggest acts of the ’80s — Lionel Richie, Eurythmics, Duran Duran and Pat Benatar — alongside heavy metal gods Judas Priest, rap icon Eminem, singer/songwriter Carly Simon and mega-producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.
Duran Duran was inducted by a shaven-headed Robert Downey Jr., who recalled that when the band played his 50th birthday party, the wife of a “prominent Hollywood director” threw her bra onstage in the middle of the performance. The band performed “Hungry Like the Wolf,” “Girls on Film” and “Ordinary World.” At the podium, singer Simon Le Bon read a letter from original guitarist Andy Taylor, explaining that he couldn’t be there because he’s been battling stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer.
Janet Jackson then took the stage to induct Jam and Lewis, who produced her career-defining albums Control, Rhythm Nation 1914 and janet., and dozens more for other artists. “I feel like we broke through the music industry together,” she said.
Sheryl Crow inducted Pat Benatar and her husband/musical partner Neil Giraldo. She held up a copy of Rolling Stone magazine from 1980 which featured the duo on the cover, and recalled that when she was 18, she “wanted to be Pat Benatar.” Benatar and Giraldo played “All Fired Up,” “Love Is a Battlefield” and “Heartbreaker.” Referring to the fact that she’d been passed over for induction for years, Benatar told the crowd, “All is forgiven.”
Carly Simon missed the ceremony because two weeks ago, according to Rolling Stone, her two sisters died of cancer just one day apart. Sara Bareilles inducted Simon, and then performed her smash “Nobody Does It Better,” from the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me.Olivia Rodrigo then took the stage to perform Carly’s famed kiss-off anthem, “You’re So Vain.”
U2‘s The Edge inducted Eurythmics, who reunited for their first performance since 2019, doing “Would I Lie to You,” “Sweet Dreams” and “Missionary Man.” “After 45 years, we still rock,” said Dave Stewart. Annie Lennox, who got a standing ovation, told the crowd, “We musicians are a diverse and peaceful people. We spread love, not hatred and division.”
Lenny Kravitz inducted Lionel Richie, saying that the crooner “happens to be the funniest person I’ve ever met.” Lionel performed “Hello,” and then brought out Foo Fighters‘ Dave Grohl to play with him on “Easy.” Of course, he concluded with “All Night Long.”
The night ended with Pink inducting Dolly Parton. She and Sheryl Crow also helped perform some of Parton’s songs, and joined Dolly to sing her classic “Jolene,” along with Benatar, Lennox, Simon LeBon and Judas Priest‘s Rob Halford.
The night’s final jam session included a tribute to the recently departed Jerry Lee Lewis, featuring Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp.
Amy Schumer on Sunday revealed that her 3-year-old son Gene was hospitalized with respiratory syncytial virus, two days before hosting Saturday Night Live over the weekend.
“This was the hardest week of my life. I missed Thursday rehearsals when my son was rushed to ER and admitted for RSV. Shout out to all the parents going though this right now. I got to be with him the whole day at the hospital and the beautiful humans at @nbcsnl couldn’t have been more supportive,” the Life and Beth and Inside Amy Schumer star shared Sunday on Instagram, adding, “My son is home and better.”
Schumer, who marked her third SNL hosting gig on Saturday, also gave a shout out to the show’s staff, writing, “The reason this show is so fun to do isn’t actually the performance or the show itself. It’s getting to spend time with the people there. The cast and the writers of course but the people who are behind the scenes making it run smooth are my favorite.”
“Thank you everyone there and to the doctors and nurses who helped us,” she concluded.
Chicago P.D. actress Sophia Bush replied, “So glad the little guy is alright, and that your people held you through it.”
Singer/songwriter Vanessa Carlton wrote, “Wow Amy that is intense beyond. So happy he’s out and doing well!”
“I’m so glad he’s okay and you were beyond brilliant,” added comedian Judy Gold.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that most people recover from RSV in a week or two but the virus can be serious for infants and older adults. The CDC reports an increase in RSV detections and RSV-associated emergency department visits and hospitalizations in multiple U.S. regions, with some regions nearing seasonal peak levels.
(NEW YORK) — An estimated $1.9 billion is up for grabs in Powerball’s drawing on Monday night, lottery officials said.
Monday’s jackpot is the world’s largest lottery prize ever offered, according to a press release from Powerball. The cash value is $929.1 million.
The jackpot grows based on game sales and interest. But the odds of winning the big prize stays the same — 1 in 292.2 million, Powerball said.
Monday’s Powerball drawing will be the 41st since the jackpot was last won on Aug. 3, tying the game record for the number of consecutive drawings without a grand prize winner, according to Powerball.
Despite there being no jackpot winner, more than 10.9 million tickets won cash prizes totaling $102.2 million in the latest drawing on Saturday night. The overall odds of winning a prize are 1 in 24.9, Powerball said.
Jackpot winners can either take the money as an immediate cash lump sum or in 30 annual payments over 29 years. Both advertised prize options do not include federal and jurisdictional taxes, according to Powerball.
Tickets cost $2 and are sold in 45 U.S. states as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. More than half of all proceeds remain in the jurisdiction where the ticket was purchased, Powerball said.
Powerball drawings are broadcast live every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. ET from the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee. The drawings are also livestreamed online at Powerball.com.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Cleveland 114, LA Lakers 100
Toronto 113, Chicago 104
Memphis 103, Washington 97
Utah 110, LA Clippers 102
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Toronto 3, Carolina 1
Detroit 3, NY Rangers 2 (OT)
Florida 5, Anaheim 3
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 42, Carolina 21
Detroit 15, Green Bay 9
Jacksonville 27, Las Vegas 20
LA Chargers 20, Atlanta 17
Miami 35, Chicago 32
Minnesota 20, Washington 17
NY Jets 20, Buffalo 17
New England 26, Indianapolis 3
Seattle 31, Arizona 21
Tampa Bay 16, LA Rams 13
Kansas City 20, Tennessee 17 (OT)
(WASHINGTON) — Former Cranston, Rhode Island Mayor Allen Fung, a Republican, is running a strong campaign in a House district President Joe Biden won by 13 points in 2020, threatening an upset with a message of moderation.
“I’m not into divisiveness. I’m not into spreading any type of election denials. I’m my own person. I’m going to be that voice of moderation down there. And I believe that I will bring that voice of centrism,” Fung told ABC News. “Hopefully, it’s not just myself.”
However, it’s becoming increasingly unclear who would fit the mold of the type of moderate Fung hopes will join him in Congress.
What counts as moderation in a Republican Party transformed under Donald Trump is unclear, as strategists say ideological labels are getting increasingly scrambled by emphasis on personality and attitudes toward the former president.
Some lawmakers, like Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, tout their moderate bona fides, noting their centrist policies on social issues and fiscal conservatism. Candidates like Fung and Colorado GOP Senate nominee Joe O’Dea are deploying similar playbooks as they seek to follow them to Washington.
Yet, the term “moderate” is getting bandied about more broadly, both in the media and among party operators and leaders, though in reality, party members say those cast as moderates are those who have lower key personalities and keep some distance with Trump, the GOP’s de facto leader.
“We’ve redefined conservatism, or I think the media largely has kind of in collusion with Trumpworld, redefined conservatism as Trumpism, and they’re not the same thing,” said former House GOP leadership aide Doug Heye. “And then if you’ve realtered what that term means, well, then moderate has to mean something different as well.”
“I don’t think there are many moderates, if any, in the Republican party today,” added Republican National Committee member Bill Palatucci. “It’s kind of an extinct breed. These days, the fight is between what I consider true conservatives and Trump apologists.”
Among those who have gotten slapped with the label of “moderate” include lawmakers like retiring Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and outgoing Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who lost her primary to a Trump-backed challenger this year. Both supporting Trump’s impeachment after last year’s Capitol riot, but Toomey boasts a 92% rating from the American Conservative Union, and Cheney has a 77% rating, based on their voting records.
Another Republican touted as a modern moderate is Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who won his seat in 2021 with a laser focus on education while refusing to bear hug Trump.
Yet Youngkin has pushed for bans on the teaching of “divisive concepts” in schools, called for requiring transgender students to have formal parental permission to identify with their gender identity and has looked to pull out of an agreement with other states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Rumored to have an eye on a White House run in 2024, he’s also been campaigning with people like Arizona GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake, who has spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
Strategists say the misidentification of moderates is on the rise as voters become less attuned with policy priorities.
“If you’re not raising your voice with pithy one liners on cable news, you’re a moderate. In our politics it’s become tone over substance. We do focus groups, raise your hand if you’ve been to the candidate’s website, no one ever raises their hand,” said one GOP strategist working on House races.
“So, how could Pat Toomey be a moderate? Well, because he doesn’t come across as an asshole. That’s it, period, end of discussion. We are living in a cable news, social media political time.”
And even for voters who remain invested in conservative policies, Trump thoroughly revamped what counts as Republican orthodoxy.
On domestic issues, Trump threw fiscal conservatism out the window, favoring heavy government spending that increased the debt. And on the global stage, he overhauled the GOP’s preference for free trade for one focused on “fair trade” forwarded by tariffs. And militarily, Trump shunned foreign interventions, a reversal for a party that historically advocated for a muscular armed presence overseas.
“I remember conservatives complaining about Ronald Reagan and big spending and some of his nominees and so forth. They held his feet to the fire. No one helped Donald Trump’s feet to a matchstick,” Heye said. “Donald Trump loves spending government money. And part of what that did is it exploded our deficit and our debt. And Republicans were put in the position of going along with Donald Trump on pretty much everything.”
To be sure, Democrats are facing an identity schism of their own. Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., have thwarted marquee Democratic policies in the 50-50 Senate and kept alive an ongoing ideological tug-of-war.
Republicans’ divides, meanwhile, are largely driven less by policy and more by Trump’s vice-like grip on the GOP grassroots.
“If anyone has ever discussed publicly, Donald Trump, as an existential threat to the Republican Party, they are outside the tent and will find no flap to bring them back in,” said one former Trump administration official.
“Those of us who are around Trump, I wouldn’t cross the street to put Liz Cheney out if she was on fire. And it’s almost entirely because she just couldn’t find it in her devotion to the Republican Party to support the Republican president of the United States. I mean, she did for quite some time and then she just fell off the wagon. From our perspective, it’s because when she walked away from Trump, she walked away from the Republican Party,” the former official said.
However, some party strategists and members express concern that such rigidity could leave races in some parts of the country off the table.
O’Dea, the GOP Senate nominee in Colorado, has voiced repeated opposition to Trump and taken moderate stances on issues like abortion and healthcare. That tact has made the race against Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet, in a blue-leaning state surprisingly competitive, while GOP gubernatorial nominee Heidi Ganahl, who early in her campaign flirted with election conspiracies, is anticipated to lose her challenge to Democratic Gov. Jared Polis by double digits.
“I do think that to Joe represents a kind of Republican that will need to be nominated in future elections if Republicans are ever going to come back,” said former Colorado GOP Chair Dick Wadhams. “Heidi got in trouble early on because she threw in with the election conspiracy crowd. She has been paying a price for that ever since.”
“If he pulls an upset, which I still think could happen, I think that there could be a lot of lessons drawn from Joe’s campaign in other states,” Wadhams said.
However, the label “moderate” is increasingly associated with the derogatory moniker “RINO,” or Republican in name only, Wadhams said, threatening ideologically moderate candidates like O’Dea in primaries and making it harder to ultimately win office.
“I think the traditional conservative or moderate labels don’t really apply in today’s Republican Party because I don’t think there’s an ideological difference on issues of the day. A conservative Republican and a moderate Republican are still going to be, nine times out of 10, about the same on every issue facing the country,” GOP pollster Robert Blizzard said.
That’s firmly shifting the ideological spectrum of lawmakers still in the party further to the right.
When asked who would be considered a moderate in today’s GOP, the former Trump administration official pointed to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
McConnell has a lifetime 87% rating from the American Conservative Union.
(ORLANDO, Fla.) — While a distinctive “H” tattooed on his neck may not stand for happiness, a fugitive on the run for a year was captured in the “Happiest Place on Earth,” according to authorities.
The wanted man, Quashon Burton, 32, of Brooklyn, New York, charged with scamming the government out of COVID-19 relief funds, was on a family vacation at Disney World when he caught the eye of another park visitor — the federal agent who signed his arrest warrant, officials said.
While strolling around the park’s Animal Kingdom, U.S. Postal inspector Jeff Andre spotted the familiar inked letter on Burton’s neck and alerted Disney World security and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, who arrested Burton, according to the sheriff’s office.
Andre was involved in the investigation of Burton and had signed Burton’s arrest warrant, officials said.
The stroke of luck at the Orlando, Florida, park occurred on Oct. 20, according to the sheriff’s office. After Burton left the park, sheriff’s deputies confronted him at a bus stop with two family members and took him into custody when he allegedly tried to resist arrest and gave them a fake name, the sheriff’s office said.
Burton was charged last year with stealing the identities of at least four people to fraudulently obtain almost $150,000 in coronavirus relief loan applications, according to federal authorities.
An arrest warrant was issued for Burton last November after federal agents went to his home in Brooklyn several times and his mother told them he was not planning to surrender, officials said.
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