News on the move: Brad Parscale steps away from Trump campaign, NFL Postpones Steelers-Titans Game Until Later in Season
Yahoo Finance's On The Move covers today's top headlines in the news.
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ADAM SHAPIRO: "News on the Move." Former Trump campaign manager and digital strategist Brad Parscale took a leave of absence from his role in Trump's re-election campaign. Police tackled and took Parscale into custody last weekend, which ended with Parscale being involuntarily hospitalized. In a statement to the website Politico, he said he was stepping down to seek help for, quote, overwhelming stress on both him and his family.
JULIE HYMAN: The heiress to the Seagram Liquor fortune is the first member of NXIVM, a cult-like self-help group, to be sentenced. Clare Bronfman, 41, is set to serve almost seven years in prison. That's more than the five-year sentence the prosecutors had recommended. Bronfman had pleaded guilty to charges of harboring a woman who was in the US illegally and fraudulent use of a deceased person's identity-- those charges connected to the sex trafficking case brought against NXIVM founder, Keith Raniere.
ADAM SHAPIRO: The NFL is seeing its first coronavirus disruption to the 2020 season. The Pittsburgh Steelers and Tennessee Titans game, that's going to be officially postponed until later this season after multiple players tested positive for coronavirus. The Titans have a total of 11 positive COVID-19 cases, five players and six personnel. The NFL said the new game date will be announced soon.
JULIE HYMAN: And the King has a new castle. LeBron James has closed on the purchase of a $36.8 million Mediterranean-style villa that once housed film star Katharine Hepburn at the height of her career in the 1940s. The home was most recently owned by Lee Phillip Bell, who died earlier this year and was one of the creators of soap operas "The Bold and the Beautiful" and "The Young and the Restless." King James and the LA Lakers are currently playing the Miami Heat for the NBA championship.
