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3 days ago
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Jennifer Lopez to bring her ‘Up All Night Live' to Las Vegas
(NewsNation) — Jennifer Lopez has announced she will be bringing 'Up All Night Live' to Las Vegas for a monthslong residency. The residency will take place at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. It will kick off Dec. 30 of this year and will last through March 28. Lopez wrote on Instagram: 'SURPRISE JLOVERS! We're back! I'm doing a residency in Las Vegas! Join me for Up All Night Live In Las Vegas At The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.' This year, not only does she have the Vegas residency, but she will be starting her tour overseas in July. Her 17-stop tour will include places like: Antalya, Turkey Astana, Kazakhstan Abu Dhabi Yerevan, Armenia LA law enforcement agents to take the stand in Diddy trial She is set to travel throughout Spain, Egypt, Poland, Romania, Armenia and Kazakhstan. One music industry insider told NewsNation's Paula Froelich, 'What is she thinking? Does her ego need a packed stadium so bad she will go where no other musician goes, for a reason, just to do her tired old dance moves and lip-sync? This is crazy.' The dates for her 'Up All Night' residency are Dec. 30 to Dec. 31, 2025; Jan. 2, 2026, to Jan. 3, 2026; March 6 to March 7; March 13 to March 14; March 20 to March 21; and March 27 to March 28. 'Tiger King' Joe Exotic rips Trump for pardoning Chrisleys but not him This will be her first time performing since the 121 shows she performed during the 'All I Have' residency from January 2016 to September 2018. Tickets are set to go on sale on Friday, June 6 at 10 a.m. PST. In 2024, Lopez dealt with her Las Vegas show being canceled and her marriage to Ben Affleck ending. Her biopic, 'The Greatest Love Story Never Told,' and her accompanying documentary, 'This Is Me… Now' also didn't do well. Froelich reported earlier this year that Lopez and her ex-husband Affleck haven't been able to sell their mansion, despite it being in a prime real estate area in the Los Angeles area since the fires. One source said in 2024 that the property taxes are $762,000 per year on the pair's mansion. They also said, 'Another $750,000 to insure it and maintain it. So, whoever buys it, they're out at least $1.5 million per year just to keep the lights on.' The home is still on the market for $68 million. Froelich spoke to one insider who said, 'That house is actually worth between $40 and $50 million. It's in a terrible location. Wallingford Estates is a gated community with no guard. Most homes in the area are from the 1970s and are worth between $5 million and $10 million. This is just a huge white elephant.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Chicago Tribune
03-04-2025
- Business
- Chicago Tribune
Sean Decker, president of the new ownership group, on Kane County Cougars: ‘This is the class of the league.'
Every summer, Sean Decker does what many other fathers do with their children. He takes them on a trip to watch baseball. Decker — the president of Dallas-based REV Entertainment, the new owners of the Kane County Cougars — did that again last July. REV also owns the Cleburne Railroaders, fellow members of the American Association with the Cougars. Decker and his 7-year-old son came up for three games between the two teams. That was right when talks of acquiring the Cougars were just starting. 'The place was amazing,' Decker said of Northwestern Medicine Field. 'It was an afternoon game. The place was slammed with kids, people who loved being here. I was like, 'These guys get it.' 'This is the class of the league.' Heading up a business that continues to add assets, mostly in baseball, one thing dawned on him. 'At its basic root, that's what we do,' Decker said of his father-son moment. 'We create places that families come to. If nothing else, I can prove that I practice what I preach with my kids. 'I didn't come here on a fact-finding mission to buy a team. I came here with my son to watch one of the teams we own play. We started sitting around saying, 'Gosh, wouldn't it be cool if we could someday own that team?'' That day came in March, and on Wednesday, REV Entertainment was formally introduced as the successor to Dr. Bob Froelich as the owners of the Cougars. Froelich, the owner since 2014, said he was approached in early 2024 by a group of former minor league owners about acquiring the team. Word travels fast in baseball circles, and at the American Association All-Star Game, Froelich talked to Tom Vander Veen, a senior advisor at REV that oversees Cleburne's operations. 'He said, 'Dr. Bob, I'm hearing through the grapevine that you're having discussions with someone,'' Froelich said. 'He said, 'If you're having discussions about selling the team, we want to take a run on it.' From that to here, it just worked.' Froelich hosted members of REV Entertainment for a five-game series shortly after the All-Star Game. What started as a conversation between two owners and a father-son trip turned into more. 'I really think the fans sold the team for me,' Froelich said. 'I didn't sell the team. 'Sean was having a father-son outing and they picked here to do it. His son fell in love with the team. Sean fell in love with the team. Literally, it was that home stand. I'm not sure the deal would have happened if Sean's son wanted to go somewhere else. Who knows?' Decker was quick to point out his company didn't buy the Cougars as a line item in their portfolio. 'The Kane County Cougars aren't going anywhere,' Decker said. 'We love this place. We invested in this place and we want to be here until the end of time.' He even said discussions about extending the lease with the Forest Preserve District of Kane County, owners of Northwestern Medicine Field, would be explored. 'REV Entertainment coming in here is the very best option for the Kane County Cougars,' said Bill Lenert, Forest Preserve District of Kane County president. 'We are thrilled they are the new owners.' Decker said he doesn't want to come in and make wholesale changes. He said REV Entertainment just wants to enhance what is already a successful and well-respected operation, which he saw firsthand last summer. 'For the first year, you're not going to see any meaningful difference,' Decker said. 'As we get into 2026 and beyond, this has to be a community asset for more than just the 50 home games. 'We're hoping to bring a group in that kind of pours gasoline on a small fire and makes a big one.'
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Health
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Opposition delays committee vote for Colorado IVF protection bill
A doctor analyzes cell samples in a clinical fertility laboratory. (Getty Images) A bill in Colorado that would remove some administrative requirements for fertility clinics that help with in vitro fertilization faced pushback on Tuesday from people who were conceived through assisted reproduction. They claimed that the bill would roll back protections Colorado lawmakers passed in 2022. The House Health and Human Services Committee heard witness testimony on House Bill 25-1259 but, at the sponsors' request, did not take a vote on it. The bill would put protections for IVF into statute, one year after the Alabama Supreme Court decision that briefly halted IVF services in that state. 'When the Alabama Supreme Court came down with its decision, I reached out to some of the same people that I've done previous work with to talk about if we needed to do anything in Colorado to protect assisted reproduction and IVF,' bill sponsor Rep. Meg Froelich, an Englewood Democrat, said. 'I was hearing consistently that there were implementation problems with an earlier Senate bill on gamete and donor regulations.' Froelich is running the bill with Rep. Kyle Brown, a Louisville Democrat. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX She characterized HB-1259 as a 'slight course correction' on the bipartisan 2022 bill by removing some of the enacted requirements that people in the industry say could have a dampening effect on donor participation, and ultimately the success of IVF, in Colorado. That bill went into effect this year. The goal is to balance donor privacy with the interest of parents and children involved with assisted reproduction to know about genetic and medical history. Betsy Cairo, the founder of CryoGam Colorado, said donor applications numbered about half what they did last year. The new bill would eliminate the requirement that fertility clinics and donor banks request updated contact information and medical history from donors every three years. They would only need to get that information at the time of donation. The bill would also eliminate requirements about record retention and live birth reporting from gamete recipients, allow donor banks to create educational materials for donors instead of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, and change a licensure requirement to every five years instead of annually. The 2022 bill ensured that Coloradans conceived through egg or sperm donation would be able to learn the identity of that donor when they turned 18 and specifically allows the person to talk about the donor's identity with family, friends and third parties. This year's bill would remove that guarantee for family and friend communication and allow clinics to prohibit it. 'We can honor donors' desire for privacy, while also compelling information to be shared,' Froelich said. 'We're not going back to anonymous donations. We're not going back to a place where we don't share critical medical information.' She said it's an effort to curb harassment or doxxing — sharing someone's private information online — of donors, especially with the rise of genetic testing services and ubiquity of social media. 'There are instances of Facebook posts saying 'This guy is my dad. He's a dirtbag because he won't have a relationship with me,'' Froelich said. 'We're trying to swing the pendulum back a little bit to honor some donor privacy.' But opponents see that provision as a pathway for clinics to require non-disclosure agreements or other communication barriers before telling a person the identity of their biological parent. 'One day after my children turn 18, if they would like to obtain the identity of the donor that I chose, the sperm bank will make them sign a non-disclosure agreement. Essentially, the bank is saying 'We'll give you this information about where half your DNA comes from, but you can't talk about it,'' said Laura Runnels, who has two children conceived through IVF. Required education materials are supposed to inform donors of the risk, and increasing likelihood, of people conceived through their gamete contacting them when they turn 18. Former state Sen. Steve Fenberg, who sponsored the 2022 bill, characterized the legislation as a 'hot mess' to lawmakers in committee. He said there has not been enough time to know if his bill actually reduced donor participation or clinic operation in the state because it has been in effect for two months and the licensure requirement does not kick in until July. He also argued that IVF is already protected in Colorado's Reproductive Health Equity Act. 'I believe (IVF protection) is put into this bill, as some of the witnesses have said, because no Democrat in America today would vote against a bill that is pro IVF. That is political suicide,' he said. 'The only parts of this bill that actually have an impact policy-wise are the rollbacks of the Donor Conceived Protection Act that was put into law in 2022.' He said that a 'reasonable relaxation' of regulations should include input from people conceived through IVF. Froelich told Colorado Newsline that she and Brown plan to offer some amendments, which could include a softening of the third-party communication piece and guidance for donors to report to banks significant medical issues that could be genetic. 'Since we have rolled this bill out, I have had hours of conversations with folks who are donor-conceived, and I have really appreciated their feedback,' Brown said in committee. 'We have been working diligently on ways that we can improve this bill to strike the right balance.' The committee will consider amendments and vote on the bill at a later meeting. SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
