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Taylor Swift has drawn criticism over a cease-and-desist letter her lawyers sent a college student who uses publicly available flight data to track her private jet usage. As Breitbart News reported, the target of the threatened law suit runs social media accounts that follow her and other celebrities’ private jets to measure their carbon pollution levels — with Swift calling the issue a matter of “life or death.” Jack Sweeney, 21, received the missive in December which declared the 14-time Grammy award winner would “have no choice but to all legal remedies” if the accused did not stop his “stalking...

The Super Bowl always draws crowds to betting windows and online sports books, but some of the most talked about action this year will leave a blank space in Las Vegas. With in-person sports books limited to action on the field, Adam Burns, the sports book manager for BetOnline.ag, found himself capitalizing on the moment by preparing odds for a flood of unusual wagers: What sort of outfit will Taylor Swift wear to the game on Sunday? Will the CBS broadcast show her holding a beverage or giving high-fives? Will she cry if the Kansas City Chiefs lose to the...

In the latest issue of Billboard, Swift offered a peek into her business acumen, sharing some advice for anyone looking to follow in her trailblazing path. “The piece of advice I would give to the other executives on this list is that the best ideas are usually ones without industry precedent,” Swift told Billboard. “The biggest crossroads moments of my career came down to sticking to my instincts when my ideas were looked at with skepticism. When someone says to me, ‘But that has never been done successfully before,’ it fires me up. We have to take strategic risks every...

Getting into the Super Bowl is one thing. Landing your private jet in Las Vegas? It’s the kind of long shot that no bookie would give you odds on. The city is officially fully booked for private jets over Super Bowl weekend — with San Francisco tech billionaires among those scrambling to beat the lock-out after the 49ers qualified Sunday night to take on the Kansas City Chiefs. Slots at Harry Reid Airport in the city for Sunday night take-offs, to let attendees get home after the match have gone. Now one percenters are freaking out. “A colleague of mine...

New York CNN — Right-wing media is burning red at Taylor Swift. With the Kansas City Chiefs headed to Super Bowl LVIII, influential MAGA Media personalities have started circulating conspiracy theories about the pop superstar, promoting the deranged notion that she is part of a sprawling psychological operations plot staged by the NFL and Democratic Party to deliver the 2024 presidential election to President Joe Biden. The attacks on Swift have been steadily building for weeks (see Fox News host Jesse Watters asking on his prime time program earlier this month if Swift is a “Pentagon asset,” for example),...

Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs have made it to the Super Bowl - meaning Taylor Swift will make a mad dash from Tokyo to Las Vegas to watch her boyfriend battle for football's ultimate prize on February 11. America's most famous couple kissed on the field at the M&T Bank Stadium in the aftermath of a magnificent victory for the Chiefs And when he got on stage and took the mic, Kelce was euphoric - channeling the Beastie Boys by shouting: 'You've got to fight for your right to party!'. Swift plays four nights of her blockbuster Eras...

The White House says it is “alarmed” over sexually explicit AI-generated images of pop star Taylor Swift circulating on social media. “We are alarmed by the reports of the circulation of the — false images,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Friday. “While social media companies make their own independent decisions about content management, we believe they have an important role to play in enforcing their own rules to prevent the spread of misinformation and non-consensual, intimate imagery of real people,” Pierre continued.

An alleged stalker from Seattle was arrested outside Taylor Swift’s home on Monday – just two days after he was detained while loitering near the mega-pop star’s Big Apple residence, police and law enforcement sources said. The suspect, identified as David Crowe, was sporting an unkempt beard and long brown hair while wandering around the “Shake It Off” singer’s home and inquiring with people whether Swift lives there, sources told The Post. A member of Swift’s security team notified police officers who were patrolling the area, according to sources and the NYPD.

A grim-faced Travis Kelce was seen leaving the Kansas City Chiefs' team hotel on Saturday amid reports that he and girlfriend Taylor Swift have had their first bust-up. After a rosy start to their fairytale romance, Kelce and Swift reportedly had their first lovers' tiff after the Chiefs' loss to the Las Vegas Raiders on Christmas Day. The celebrity super-couple have dominated headlines ever since Swift publicly confirmed their relationship by rocking up at Arrowhead to watch Kelce in action for the very first time. It has even been claimed that they are planning to get engaged in the summer,...

After a record-breaking year for Taylor Swift, the pop star attended a Gaza fundraiser with celebrity friend Selena Gomez in December. The event was hosted by Ramy Youssef on his tour “Ramy Youssef: More Feelings.” While the comedian traveled to several major cities such as Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia during the standup tour, Swift’s and Gomez’s presence at his Brooklyn, N.Y., show stirred public controversy as tensions continue to rise in the Middle East. Partway through his tour, Youssef announced on Instagram that “100 percent of the proceeds for the remainder of the ramy youssef: more feelings standup tour will...

Taylor Swift’s performative activism is getting tiresome — and transparently hypocritical. Now that she is the Democrats’ official cultural vector for promoting their left-wing agenda, the mega pop star has become more than ubiquitous. She is being forcibly crammed down everyone’s throats. Her media saturation level is somewhere near Hurricane Katrina. Even NFL fans who just want to enjoy the game have no choice but to watch Clockwork Orange-style as she cheers on her Kansas City Chiefs boyfriend in cringeworthy style. The good news is that the more overexposed Swift gets, the greater her political hypocrisy shines through her media-crafted...

Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy said Thursday that the State of Israel would welcome a visit by singer Taylor Swift and any other celebrities who wished to educate themselves about what Hamas terrorists did to Israelis in the October 7 terror attack. “We welcome visits by all leaders and influential figures” who want to see the extent of the atrocities, said Levy, when asked about whether Israel would welcome a visit by Swift. Swift, who won Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” award for 2023, and who turned 34 on Wednesday, attended a fundraiser for a charity aiding Gaza this...

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Taylor Swift is already making a major mark in Brazil. One day before the 33-year-old singer is set to start her three-night stint at Rio De Janeiro's Estádio Nilton Santos as part of her Eras Tour, her famous "Junior Jewels" T-shirt was projected onto the Christ the Redeemer statue. The T-shirt became a popular recreation for fans after Swift wore it in her music video for "You Belong With Me," which appeared on her album, Fearless. The album was released in 2008, and Swift put out her version of it in 2021. While the shirt reads "Junior Jewels" in the...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) reportedly spent taxpayer funds at stadium events that included a Taylor Swift concert. Public records Politico obtained apparently show he dipped into his taxpayer-funded expense account to buy approximately $12,000 worth of food and beverages during the outings, the outlet reported Monday. His office claims it has requested the state Democrat Party reimburse taxpayers, the outlet continued: Murphy’s office said the Democratic State Committee was initially expected to cover the stadium costs but didn’t. The state was left with the bill, which was paid via Murphy’s $95,000-a-year expense account — a longstanding line item...

A security guard who protected Taylor Swift during her Eras Tour this summer is now back home in Israel to fight for his country against Hamas. Variety has confirmed that the security guard, who wishes to keep his name anonymous, made the choice to leave the United States to join the IDF reserves as he saw the deadly attacks by Hamas on Israeli citizens. Eran Swisa, an Israeli journalist from “Israel Today,” broke the news that the security guard who worked with Swift had left America to fight in the IDF. Swisa tells Variety that he was born at a...

Advance ticket sales to the Taylor Swift concert film debuting in theaters globally next week have exceeded $100 million. AMC Theaters Distribution and AMC Entertainment said today that milestone was reached as of Wednesday, Oct. 4, for “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.” The film will debut on Oct. 13 in 8,500 theaters in 100 countries. AMC said audience demand “has been incredible from the moment it was first announced.” The film, AMC, said break its United States record “for highest single-day ticket sales” in its 103-year history. “Advance ticket sales are strong across the United States, from the largest cities...

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is indicating he’s against any motion to vacate Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s reportedly budding relationship, saying the public is “excited” by it. Asked during a Monday appearance on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends” if he watched the previous night’s football game between the New York Jets and the Kansas City Chiefs — which “Karma” singer Swift attended as she cheered on Chiefs tight end Kelce — McCarthy replied that his inner circle was happy about the matchup and the coupling.

The same day Taylor Swift posted a message encouraging her followers to register to vote, over 35,000 people reportedly made a “Run (Taylor’s Version)” to do so on Vote.org. “Vote.org saw record-breaking traffic to our site this week as we celebrated National Voter Registration Day, a highly encouraging sign of voter enthusiasm especially among newly eligible voters. Time and time again young people are showing up and demonstrating they care about their rights and access to the ballot box,” Andrea Hailey, CEO of Vote.org said in a release.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday that U.S. bank JPMorgan had this week stopped processing payments for the Russian Agricultural Bank as Moscow demanded action, not promises, from Washington to help Russian grain and fertilizer reach global markets.Moscow has a list of demands it wants met before it will return to a deal, which it quit on July 17, that had allowed the safe Black Sea exports of Ukraine grain for the past year. Under a related pact - also brokered in July 2022 - U.N. officials agreed to help facilitate Russian food and fertilizer exports."As soon as...