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The Law Q&A | Legal clock continues to tick, tock
TikTok started restoring service in the U.S. on Sunday after a whipsaw of events that saw the video app make good on a threat to go dark, only to have President-elect Donald Trump halt enforcement ...
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'A huge relief': Kentucky lawmakers celebrate release of Ryan Corbett
WASHINGTON — After being wrongfully detained by the Taliban for nearly 900 days, Ryan Corbett is coming home. The Taliban exchanged Corbett and another American for a Taliban figure imprisoned in ...
NBC News18d
Two Americans released from Afghanistan in deal struck in Biden’s final hours in office
Though the agreement with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers was reached while Biden was in the White House, Americans Ryan Corbett and William McKenty were not released until early Tuesday local ...
CBS News18d
Taliban says 2 Americans freed in prisoner swap with U.S., and Ryan Corbett's family says he's one of them
In a statement, the family of Ryan Corbett, an American man held by the Taliban since the summer of 2022, said he was released as part of the deal. The Taliban-run Afghan Foreign Ministry ...
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TikTok, Trump and the pendulum’s tick tock
In 2014, a social media entity called Musical.ly was launched which dealt with short lip-sync videos. While that doesn’t seem much and most haven’t even heard of it, it had a brilliant ...
Democrat and Chronicle19d
NY man freed by Taliban in prisoner exchange
One of the Americans released was named Ryan Corbett, according to a statement on a site run by his family. Corbett, of New York, had been in Taliban detention since 2022, the family site said.
USA Today19d
Two Americans freed in prisoner exchange with Taliban just before Trump takes office
One of the Americans was Ryan Corbett, 42. He was arrested in Afghanistan in August 2022. The U.S. State Department had classified him as "wrongfully detained." His family confirmed his release ...
The Independent19d
Two Americans released by Taliban in final deal of Biden administration
The two Americans – Ryan Corbett and William McKenty – were exchanged for a member of the Afghan Taliban named Khan Mohammed who was convicted in 2008 on narco-terrorism charges. In a ...
ABC News19d
2 Americans freed from Afghanistan in prisoner swap, family and Taliban say
Ryan Corbett, an American held in Afghanistan since 2022, has been released. Ryan Corbett, an American held in Afghanistan since 2022, has been released from Taliban custody in a prisoner swap ...
BBC19d
US trades Taliban prisoner for two American detainees
The news emerged after Ryan Corbett and William Wallace McKenty were freed. The Afghan, Khan Mohmmad, had been serving a life sentence in a federal prison in California on drug trafficking and ...
The Hollywood Reporter20d
Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Choreographer for ‘Footloose’ and Broadway’s ‘Swing!,’ Dies at 78
By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Taylor-Corbett died Jan. 12 of breast cancer in Rockville Centre, New York, her son, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, told The New York Times. Swing!, a celebration of dance in ...
Deadline.com20d
Lynne Taylor-Corbett Dies: Choreographer For Hollywood’s ‘Footloose’, Broadway’s ‘Titanic’ Was 78
Lynne Taylor-Corbett, the Tony Award-nominated choreographer of Broadway‘s Swing and Titanic who also left an indelible mark on Hollywood by guiding Kevin Bacon through his famed solo dance in ...