Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
BBC Journalists Held At Gunpoint By Israeli Police In Tel Aviv
deadline.comAs tensions run high in Israel, a group of BBC journalists — Muhannad Tutunji, Haitham Abudiab and their BBC Arabic team — were driving to a hotel in Tel Aviv when their car was stopped by police.
The journalists reportedly were assaulted and held at gunpoint after being dragged from the vehicle, which was marked “TV” in red tape.
They subsequently were pushed against a wall and searched, they reported. See footage that was posted on social media below.
A BBC spokesperson said journalists “must be able to report on the conflict in Israel-Gaza freely.” Tutunji and Abudiab claimed they identified themselves as BBC journalists and showed police their press ID cards.
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