LIV Golf reportedly looking to postpone New Orleans event | CBC Sports

LIV Golf reportedly looking to postpone New Orleans event | CBC Sports

LIV Golf reportedly looking to postpone New Orleans event

News comes 2 weeks after CEO assured staff, players the season would continue 'uninterrupted'

The Associated Press · Posted: Apr 28, 2026 5:29 AM PDT | Last Updated: April 28

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LIV Golf's inaugural tournament in New Orleans that was scheduled for the end of June is likely to be postponed until the fall, according to multiple reports.

New Orleans television station WDSU and Nola.com were among the first to report Monday the June 25-28 event at Bayou Oaks at City Park was being moved to later in the year.

An announcement by LIV Golf and the Louisiana Economic Development was expected Tuesday.

That would mean LIV Golf would not have any tournaments in the United States for a three-month period from northern Virginia on May 7-10 at Trump National until the Aug. 6-9 tournament at Trump Bedminster in New Jersey.

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The development comes two weeks LIV Golf CEO Scott O'Neil assured staff and players the season would continue "uninterrupted and at full throttle." O'Neil was responding to speculation the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia would no longer provide financial support to a league that already has spend more than $5 billion since it began in 2022.

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LIV Golf is said to be looking to move the New Orleans event to the fall to avoid peak summer temperatures, ensure the course is in championship shape and to avoid attendance and viewership conflicts with the World Cup.

New Orleans is not hosting any World Cup matches.

Louisiana officials said last August when the tournament was announced they had agreed to pay LIV Golf $5 million US and spend an additional $2.2 million on improvements to the Bayou Oaks course in City Park.

WDSU reported Louisiana will be repaid $1 million, which the state had already paid to LIV in advance of the tournament.

News orgs are raging against the Wayback Machine

 News orgs are raging against the Wayback Machine

Niv Bavarsky

What some consider to be the digital library of Alexandria is in danger of losing valuable scrolls. Major media outlets are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from saving web pages to prevent AI giants from training models on snapshots of old articles. Wired reported that 23 news organizations, including USA Today and the New York Times, are among the 241 sites denying Internet Archive’s web crawler access to their articles. It’s not personal—some outlets still use the Archive in their reporting—it’s about the looming threat of AI: Tech companies can skirt copyright laws by using the Wayback Machine as a workaround for training language models on their content (including recipes, probably). Mark Graham, the director of the Wayback Machine, emphasizes that the digital archive has controls to limit abuse of AI automation and prevent large-scale data extraction. Publishers can archive their material, but a third party maintains a more incorruptible version of stories that can hold outlets accountable when it’s revised after publication. Nothing new: Last year, Reddit barred the Wayback Machine from data scraping for similar AI concerns. The archive also lost a slew of information when federal government websites were deleted. Still working: Graham is reportedly in talks to regain access to the material, while more than 100 media workers signed a letter supporting Wayback.

Fed nominee Kevin Warsh would be the wealthiest chair ever

 Fed nominee Kevin Warsh would be the wealthiest chair ever. Warsh, President Trump’s pick to succeed Fed Chair Jerome Powell, is worth between $135 million and $226 million, according to financial disclosures released ahead of his nomination hearing next Tuesday. That would make him significantly richer than Powell, who is currently worth between $19 million and $75 million and was considered the wealthiest chair when confirmed in 2018. If Warsh becomes the next chair, he said he would divest from assets that may pose a conflict of interest and resign from other positions he holds. Warsh also disclosed millions of dollars in holdings belonging to his wife, Jane Lauder, heir to the Estée Lauder fortune. Forbes pegs her net worth at $1.9 billion.

Condom prices to spike because of…Iran war

 Condom prices to spike because of…Iran war

Niv Bavarsky

Brace yourself for a wave of babies named Sabrina and Justin. The world’s largest condom producer, Karex, plans to raise prices by 20–30% over the next few months due to supply chain disruptions from the war in Iran, the company said yesterday. Scoreboard: One out of every five condoms worldwide are made by Karex, a Malaysian company that owns ONE Condoms and supplies brands such as Durex and Trojan, as well as the UK’s national health system, and UN-run aid programs. Now, the economic shockwaves that are jolting countless goods, from oil to food, have come for the ruler of rubbers, too. According to Karex: Production costs are up 25–30% since the US and Israel first struck Iran, amid shortages of oil-derived condom materials. With global freight disrupted, Karex’s shipments to Europe and the US—which used to take one month to arrive—now take two. Looking ahead…with how uncertain the geopolitical landscape is, Karex said its outlook is hazy beyond the next two to three months, and it can’t rule out further price increases. Meanwhile…since the US slashed funding for USAID, condom stockpiles in some developing nations have dwindled, which is compounding the current crunch.

Goop Kitchen’s Gluten-Free Empire State of Mind

 Goop Kitchen’s Gluten-Free Empire State of Mind

Isa Zapata

Slop bowls are out and Goop bowls are in. At least that’s what Gwyneth Paltrow is betting on. The actress-turned-entrepreneur is expanding her food takeout business, Goop Kitchen, to New York City, after a successful launch on the West Coast. We assume gluten futures are already tanking. The concept: Goop Kitchen is an offshoot of the separately run Goop, Paltrow’s multimillion-dollar lifestyle and luxury diaper company. It offers “certified clean” takeout food that was designed to travel well, like bowls, wraps, salads, soups, and pizzas that are made without gluten, seed oils, or processed ingredients. The prices are better than you might expect from the founder of a company that once featured a five-figure backgammon set, with menu items hovering in the $15 to $25 range. However, some have very questionable pun names, like Goopfellas Pizza. Recipe for success: Five years after it started, Goop Kitchen currently has 11 locations in Los Angeles and three in the San Francisco Bay Area. And they’re doing well—the company told the Wall Street Journal: Goop Kitchens serve more than 40,000 customers a week. Half of its locations make $20,000 per day on average. Year over year sales grew 48% in fiscal year 2024, and 61% in FY 2025. Ghost Space Coast to Coast: Three Manhattan locations are slated to open on Monday. Like the California outposts, they’ll use ghost kitchens to prepare food items for pickup or delivery only. Miami, Paris, and London could be next, Paltrow said.

Tonight in Your Rights: Eastman disbarred

Tonight in Your Rights: Eastman disbarred
As Trump's prosecutors play defense for Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, the brains of a "coup in search of a legal theory" loses his law license.

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Jan. 6th Committee hearing from 2022. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)


Tonight’s legal briefing includes two dramatically different Jan. 6-related tales, a blow against Trump’s ICE warehouse scheme, and an update in an under-the-radar prosecution of a politician calling out immigration-related abuses.

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On Tax Day, a little more than five years after the Jan. 6th insurrection, the mastermind of the legal prong of Donald Trump’s “coup in search of a legal theory” finally had to pay the piper.

John Eastman played an instrumental role in plotting an effort to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in 2020, leading to his appearance in Trump’s state and federal indictments.

Now, he’s been disbarred.

“The court orders that John Charles Eastman (Respondent), State Bar Number 193726, is disbarred from the practice of law in California and that Respondent's name is stricken from the roll of attorneys,” the docket entry reads.

Eastman unsuccessfully tried to persuade former Vice President Mike Pence to try to illegally reject electoral college votes and send them back to the states.

In the fallout, the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol sent Eastman a subpoena pursuing information about the legal campaign to subvert the election. That pursuit resulted in a historic ruling where a federal judge found that Eastman and Trump both likely committed federal felonies.

“Dr. Eastman and President Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history. Their campaign was not confined to the ivory tower—it was a coup in search of a legal theory,” U.S. District Judge David O. Carter wrote in 2022. “The plan spurred violent attacks on the seat of our nation’s government, led to the deaths of several law enforcement officers, and deepened public distrust in our political process.”

Carter’s ruling long predated Trump’s eventual prosecution and predicted two of the crimes to be charged against him: conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstructing an official proceeding.

In 2023, the California State Bar filed 11 disciplinary charges against Eastman, starting a years-long process that included a 35-day trial.

A trial judge recommended Eastman’s disbarment the following year, which was finalized on Wednesday following years of review.

States United Democracy Center, an advocacy group that filed a bar complaint against Eastman in late 2021, called the California Supreme Court’s decision a “reckoning for those who seek to undermine the rule of law in this country.”

“While Trump tries to consolidate power, the states and courts continue to successfully check executive overreach and the unlawful actions of his administration,” the group’s senior vice president Christine P. Sun said in a statement.

POLITICO’s Kyle Cheney reports:


“Though the decision only applies to Eastman’s license to practice law in California, disbarment decisions are typically adopted by authorities in other jurisdictions in “reciprocal” rulings. Eastman is also a member of the bar in Washington, D.C., though his license has been suspended there as well.”

Eastman is expected to appeal the decision.

Warner Bros. investors approve Paramount takeover

 Warner Bros. investors approve Paramount takeover. Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders voted overwhelmingly yesterday in favor of the acquisition, which is valued at $111 billion and would transform the film industry. It puts David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance one step closer to owning the storied studio—despite opposition from Hollywood stars—after a messy bidding process that Netflix ultimately dropped out of. But it’s not time for Porky to say “That’s all folks” yet, as antitrust regulators must still bless the deal before it can be finalized.

JPMorgan Chase had a champagne-worthy Q1

 JPMorgan Chase had a champagne-worthy Q1. Revenue for the biggest bank in the US grew 10% to hit nearly $50 billion for the first three months of the year, smashing Wall Street’s expectations as market volatility and elevated dealmaking generated record hauls for big banks. JPMorgan’s trading fees hit a record high, investment banking fees rose more than those of any other global bank, and M&A advising fees surged by a whopping 82%. Still, the firm slightly revised down its full-year guidance for net-interest income, a central earnings driver. CEO Jamie Dimon said that the US economy is resilient, but “an increasingly complex set of risks” lies ahead, including “geopolitical tensions and wars” and “energy price volatility.” Elsewhere on Wall Street, strong trading also propelled Citigroup to an earnings beat, but Wells Fargo fell short of expectations.

Guess who bought ~1 in 5 Cybertrucks

 Guess who bought ~1 in 5 Cybertrucks

Mario Tama/Getty Images

This is a bit like when your own parents had to buy your brownies at the bake sale because the other kids were unsurprisingly not into the weird-looking walnuts. According to Bloomberg, Elon Musk’s SpaceX bought nearly 1 in 5 of the Cybertrucks that were sold by Elon Musk’s Tesla in Q4: SpaceX’s purchases were likely worth more than $100 million in total. Cybertruck sales would have plummeted by 51% in the quarter if not for the purchases by Musk’s other companies. Bloomberg reported that the Musk-to-Musk Cybertruck sales pipeline has continued into this year. One auto expert told the outlet that Tesla is “running out of buyers” for the electric pickup truck that critics say looks like a toolbox.

Dolly reigns

 Dolly reigns

Shannon May

Jolene may have won the battle, but Dolly has won the war. According to a survey by UMass Lowell and YouGov, Dolly Parton is by far the most popular person among a group of 20 major global figures: 70% of Americans have a favorable opinion of the 11-time Grammy winner, while only 5% have an unfavorable impression, giving Parton a net favorability of 65%. Barack Obama and Volodymyr Zelensky placed a distant second and third, with 14% and 12% net favorability, respectively. The Guardian attributes Parton’s popularity in part to staying out of politics. “I’ve got as many Republican fans as Democrats, and I don’t want to make any of them mad at me,” she said in 2017.

Tree-ting the Earth right

 Tree-ting the Earth right

Shout-out to Mother Earth. She carries a lot of precious cargo, and she carries it well. So does a Subaru. And in appreciation of our beautiful planet, Subaru and its retailers partner with the Arbor Day Foundation to provide and distribute trees in communities across the country. Every year, the US loses 36 million trees to age, disease, infestation, and extreme weather. To do your part, remember this: Proper tree care begins with selecting the right tree and space. Consider your climate to identify water or pruning needs. And if you’re ever concerned about your tree’s health, contact an arborist. To date, Subaru Loves the Earth has provided 1.1 million trees and counting. Learn more.

Europe’s planes are about to run out of fuel

 Europe’s planes are about to run out of fuel

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Mac Miller lyrics that European airlines cannot relate to right now: “I never run out of jet fuel.” The Strait of Hormuz’s closure has disrupted oil supplies so drastically that Europe has “maybe six weeks” of jet fuel left, with flight cancellations coming “soon” unless the waterway reopens, the head of the International Energy Agency told the Associated Press yesterday. This is “the largest energy crisis we have ever faced,” IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said. His comments follow an even bleaker warning from the trade group that represents European airports, ACI Europe, which said last week that fuel shortages could commence in as little as three weeks. European airlines are fastening their oxygen masks: Europe’s largest carrier, Ryanair, suggested this week that it’s on track for fuel shortages by June, while the region’s second-largest airline, easyJet, said it currently has 70% of its summertime jet fuel covered. To counter elevated jet fuel costs, which have roughly doubled since the Iran war began, German carrier Lufthansa will cut some long-haul flights and take up to 40 planes out of rotation. Around the world, airlines are clawing back cash by raising ticket prices. All major US airlines have hiked baggage fees in recent weeks. US travel may be better protected (for now) Europe’s oil refineries have been dwindling for decades, and the continent is the biggest recipient of jet fuel that passes through the Strait of Hormuz. Across the pond, however, the US reigns as the world’s largest net exporter of jet fuel, and it produces most of the juice its airlines need in-house. Still, major US airlines (even Delta, which has its own oil refinery) project billions of dollars in added costs if fuel prices don’t return to normal. The price spike could reportedly sink Spirit Airlines entirely. Looking ahead…if the US and Iran reach an agreement to reopen the strait, it could take “up to two years to come back where we were before the war,” Birol said of global oil flow.

AI chatbots offer problematic medical advice half the time

 

AI chatbots offer problematic medical advice half the time, say scientists

 

We are increasingly turning to AI chatbots for help. From basic research to emotional support, people are talking to AI friends in a lot of ways. But as per a damning research, you don’t want to trust AI with medical tips. Scientists tested Google's Gemini, DeepSeek, Meta AI, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and xAI’s Grok to test their accuracy. They discovered that half (50%) of the responses were problematic. “They do not reason or weigh evidence, nor are they able to make ethical or value-based judgments,” the researchers said about AI chatbots and their medical skills.