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Roy Jones Jr has encouraged Terence Crawford to secure one last lucrative showdown, even if it happens to be against a somewhat unconventional opponent.
Like many, the pound-for-pound legend believes that Crawford simply has nothing left to prove, and is perhaps just one fight away from calling time on his scintillating career.
Indeed, the three-division undisputed champion has already cemented his legacy, especially after jumping up two weight classes to dethrone Canelo Alvarez this past September.
Despite giving up a clear size advantage, and being widely pegged as the underdog, Crawford produced a masterful display to claim all four major titles at 168lbs.
A ninth-round finish over Errol Spence Jr, too, has only added to Crawford’s greatness, with his dominant victory back in 2023 seeing him reign supreme at 147lbs.
But now, it appears that the 38-year-old, who has recently expressed his interest in targeting a sixth weight division, could soon go one step further.
Just a few weeks ago, Crawford called out unified middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly, who will look to claim a third title against WBA belt-holder Erislandy Lara on December 6.
But while this seems to be a serious option for Crawford, Roy Jones Jr has suggested that the Nebraskan should instead turn his attention towards UFC lightweight champion Ilia Topuria.
Whether this potential crossover matchup has any legs remains to be seen, but Jones has nonetheless highlighted Topuria as a possible opponent for Crawford.
In an interview with Titanplay, the multi-weight world champion said that ‘Bud’ should face the MMA star before sailing off into the sunset.
“If he retires next, it’d be the best thing. Had I retired after I beat Antonio Tarver the first time, we wouldn’t be having conversations about the greatest of all time. And we still shouldn’t, because facts are facts.
“But if Crawford does anything more, that’s what he should do [fight Ilia Topuria]. He deserves the reward at this time.
“Look how long he waited before he got the attention he has now. He deserves one more of those. If anything, that’s what he should do.”
A fight between Crawford and Topuria does seem unlikely, and nowhere near the money-spinner that was Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor, with the potential clash against Janibek still seemingly the frontrunner.
Star Catcher Industries has set a new record for beaming power at a distance. Its Star Catcher Network technology beamed 1.1 kW of power at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida using off-the-shelf solar panel components.
In 1941, science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced the public to the concept of beamed solar power from space, decades before it became a serious engineering proposal by Peter Glaser in 1968.
The concept was very simple. Instead of using up land on Earth to collect sunlight that won’t be equally available in all parts of the world, would be drastically diminished by the atmosphere and weather, and not available at all at night, why not go for an alternative? That is, put solar collectors in an orbit in space where sunlight is always on tap unimpeded and a collector can be of any size desired. Just collect the energy, convert it to microwaves, and beam it back to power-starved Earth.
Interest in the concept has waxed and waned over the decades, however, recently there have been serious efforts to find a practical application for beamed power. The giant collector stations of Asimov’s imagination are still, at the very least, decades away, but engineers are looking to beam power on a smaller scale, not to Earth, but from one spacecraft to another.
Star Catcher
This would help to overcome a limitation of current satellite design, which is that the electricity supplied to them by solar panels is a bit limited. That means that any attempt to generate more power requires adding much larger arrays with a corresponding increase in size, mass, and launch costs.
What Star Catcher is working on is similar to DARPA, which holds the previous beaming record of 800 W set in June 2025. Instead of generating microwaves, a grid of solar panels power an optical multi-spectrum laser that can be aimed at a client satellite. These carefully controlled wavelengths are optimized to best suit the target solar panels.
Put simply, this would be like holding a huge magnifying glass on the target spacecraft, greatly increasing the efficiency of the panels without having to enlarge or even modify them. According to the company, the increase in power generation would be between two and 10 times using off-the-shelf panel components.
The latest test used a variety of solar panel designs and was a run-up to a planned orbital demonstration in 2026.
“Our existing Power Purchase Agreements confirm that the market understands both the value and scalability of our technology to revolutionize power delivery beyond Earth,” said Andrew Rush, CEO and Co-Founder of Star Catcher. “These real-world results offer definitive proof of the soundness and maturity of our approach to building a resilient orbital power grid.”
Source: Star Catcher
Here are the key events from day 1,366 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Published On 21 Nov 2025
Here is how things stand on Friday, November 21:
Singapore says Q3 GDP grows 4.2% y/y, upgrades 2025 forecast
The UN climate talks COP30 have been evacuated due to a fire breaking out inside the venue in Belém, Brazil.
BBC journalists including Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt saw flames and smoke in the pavilion area before they were rushed outside.
The UN said the fire was extinguished after six minutes and 13 people were treated for smoke inhalation. It is not yet known what caused the blaze.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released new projections showing that recent rollbacks of President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff strategy have wiped out roughly $800 billion in expected debt reduction over the next decade. This revision comes even as tariffs remain a central point of debate in U.S. fiscal policy, particularly with the national debt exceeding $38 trillion and deficit reduction an urgent concern for lawmakers and economists alike.
According to the CBO’s updated baseline budget projections, the expected impact of tariff policy on U.S. deficits has fallen sharply since its last projections on tariff revenue in August. At that point, an effective tariff rate of 20.5% implied future deficit reduction of $3.3 trillion through 2035, and about $700 billion in interest savings.
However, since June, the scope and magnitude of these tariffs have shifted significantly. The administration’s decision to pull back or soften tariffs on a range of imports—particularly with key trading partners like China and the European Union—in response to mounting trade tensions and retaliatory measures has dramatically altered the fiscal outlook. The CBO now estimates that the resulting fiscal benefits of tariffs have been substantially eroded, as an effective tariff rate of 16.5% implies $2.5 trillion in deficit reduction and $500 billion in interest savings.
The CBO points out that these substantial debt-reduction projections are highly sensitive to the fate of tariff policy—a policy area marked by political volatility and economic uncertainty. Trump initially touted tariffs as a tool to bring down the ballooning federal debt and, as recently as August, claimed that the policies would generate revenue far exceeding government projections.
The CBO calculated reduced tariffs from five separate announcements with various trading partners, announced between early September and early November. They consisted of tweaks to the agreement with Japan, with the EU, on auto vehicles and parts, with India, and with China. The CBO didn’t even include another pending tariff reduction important to Americans’ pocketbooks.
After stinging off-year election losses for Republicans in early November, when Democrats won 18 out of 18 races nationwide in which they were on the ballot, Trump moved in the middle of the month to scrap several tariffs linked to affordability concerns. “We just did a little bit of a rollback on some foods like coffee,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, hours after the tariff rollback was announced. Trump had signed an executive order hours earlier, removing tariffs on tea, fruit juice, cocoa, spices, bananas, oranges, tomatoes, and certain fertilizers.
At the same time, Trump has struggled to admit that Democrats’ affordability arguments are real. The day after his tariff rollback, he said on social media that “Affordability is a lie when used by the Dems. It is a complete CON JOB. Thanksgiving costs are 25% lower this year than last, under Crooked Joe! We are the Party of Affordability!” That seemed to be a reference to a particular Walmart meal deal that has half as many items as 2024.
The erosion of tariff-driven deficit reduction comes amid worsening Congressional gridlock over broader fiscal policy. The Treasury Department reports the U.S. national debt currently exceeds $38 trillion, a figure that continues to grow despite years of political promises to rein it in. The CBO notes that even the most ambitious tariff projections would have barely dented the debt’s steep trajectory—but now, even those incremental benefits are slipping away.
Economists caution that while tariffs can generate significant government revenue in the short term, their wider economic effects—such as higher consumer prices, supply chain disruptions, and lower growth—could ultimately offset the initial fiscal gains. Indeed, some independent analysts contend that the CBO’s calculations may not fully account for longer-term economic headwinds caused by ongoing trade disputes.
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Live Nation has filed a motion asking for a quick end to the antitrust case brought by the US Department of Justice against the company and its ticketing arm Ticketmaster.
In a memorandum supporting its motion for summary judgment, lawyers for Live Nation said the DoJ’s case against the company is based on “gerrymandered” evidence that doesn’t meet the legal criteria for monopoly power.
“Plaintiffs opened this case alleging that Live Nation had multiple, self-reinforcing monopolies and had – for fifteen years – engaged in ‘systematic’ and ‘intentional’ corruption of competition across ‘virtually every aspect of the live music ecosystem,’” lawyers wrote in the memorandum filed with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday (November 18).
“Strong words. If there was a lick of truth to them, one would expect plaintiffs to now have mountains of evidence demonstrating monopoly power and the anticompetitive effects of Live Nation’s conduct. And yet, after an 18-month investigation and a year of discovery, plaintiffs have barely a molehill.”
Live Nation’s lawyers asserted that the DoJ massaged data on Live Nation’s market share by excluding larger venues from its measure. It cited the DoJ’s own expert, whose calculations allegedly showed that Live Nation’s 86% market share in primary ticketing services drops to 49% when stadiums are included.
It cited a legal precedent where a court ruled that if an accused monopolist’s market share is less than 50%, “the plaintiff must offer additional evidence that that the defendant is able to exclude competition to avoid summary judgment.”
Using market share as a measure of monopoly power “is conceptually permissible – but only if the relevant markets are properly defined,” the memorandum stated. “Here, the alleged relevant markets are all gerrymandered in obvious and legally indefensible ways.”
The memorandum, which can be read in full here, asserted that the DoJ defined Live Nation’s market in this way “for the simple reason that if they included all major concert venues and the artists that seek to play in them, Live Nation and Ticketmaster’s market shares are too low to infer monopoly power and plaintiffs’ claims fail.”
Furthermore, Live Nation’s lawyers wrote, “Ticketmaster has lost over 30 points of market share since the merger [of Live Nation and Ticketmaster in 2010], a sure sign that it does not have monopoly power.”
“After an 18-month investigation and a year of discovery, plaintiffs have barely a molehill.”
Live Nation
The memorandum also attacked the government’s assertion that Live Nation used its market power to effectively coerce venues into signing exclusive ticketing contracts with Ticketmaster.
“To the contrary, every venue witness has testified that they seek and prefer exclusive ticketing contracts. And there is no competent evidence that exclusive contracting allows Ticketmaster to extract supracompetitive prices from venues, let alone by excluding competition from rivals.”
The memorandum asserts that the claims that Ticketmaster leveraged Live Nation-sponsored shows to secure exclusive ticketing contracts with venues is based on inadmissible hearsay.
“Plaintiffs resort to the testimony of other ticketing companies – not venues – asserting that someone told them that the reason they lost a ticketing contract negotiation to Ticketmaster was that someone else told their counterparty that choosing a different ticketing company would mean the venue would lose Live Nation shows. None of that evidence would be admissible at trial…”
The DoJ filed the antitrust suit against Live Nation and Ticketmaster in May 2024, alleging “monopolization and other unlawful conduct that thwarts competition in markets across the live entertainment industry.”
Earlier this year, federal court Judge Arun Subramanian rejected Live Nation’s attempt to dismiss parts of the DoJ’s case. The judge wasn’t swayed by the company’s arguments against prosecutors’ “tying” claim, which accused Live Nation of forcing artists to use its concert promotion services if they want to perform at Live Nation-owned venues.
Live Nation’s legal problems ramped up in September, when the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued Live Nation and Ticketmaster in a federal court in California, alleging that the company violated its own limits on batch purchases of tickets, as it profits from scalping activities.Music Business Worldwide
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