One of Disney’s most successful creators took the company to task for putting an agenda ahead of good storytelling. John Musker, who wrote and directed hits such as “The Little Mermaid” and “Moana,” has retired from big-budget filmmaking, but he has some advice for his former employer. That advice is to get back to making […]
A video posted to Donald Trump’s account on his social media network Monday included references to a “unified Reich” among hypothetical news headlines if he wins the election in November. Source link
SEOUL (AP) — A South Korean deejay dressed as a Buddhist monk bounced up and down on stage while playing electronic music and shouting: “This too shall pass!” The performance brought cheers from a crowd of thousands at an annual lantern-lighting festival over the weekend to celebrate the Buddha’s birthday. Religious belief in South Korea […]
In just nine years, the oldest Gen-Xers will reach Social Security’s normal retirement age of 67. But they will have a rude awakening when they learn that the program’s trust fund is empty, leaving it able to pay out only as much in benefits as it takes from the paychecks of those then working. That’s […]
This is a conversation that comes up in Washinton every few years before it fades away without anything being done about it. The clock is ticking for the Social Security system. It’s still solvent for the moment, but at the current rate of retirement for senior citizens and the shrinking number of young people entering […]
The Social Security trustees released their annual report on Monday, and the outlook is bleak. Social Security has morphed far beyond its original intent, and absent congressional action, everyone who is of Generation X or younger will not receive a single full benefit, and even those already in retirement will experience significant benefit cuts. To […]
A friend I’ll call Tom, a gay man who is as liberal as they come in New York City, was walking along West 42nd St., approaching 10th Ave., around midnight. The bright lights of Times Square and the relative safety they offered were blocks behind him. He was in a notoriously dodgy neighborhood called […]
TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance are suing the U.S. over a law that would ban the popular video-sharing app unless it’s sold to another company. The lawsuit filed on Tuesday may be setting up what could be a protracted legal fight over TikTok’s future in the United States. The popular social video company […]
WASHINGTON — The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security have been pushed back as an improving economy has contributed to changed projected depletion dates, according to the annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report Monday. Still, officials warn that policy changes are needed lest the programs become unable to pay full benefits to retiring […]
Congress is being asked to investigate what Trump Media & Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes has called the “potential manipulation” of its stock price. Trump Media had a highly successful debut in March, but since then has taken a severe dip, going from a high of about $79 per share on its first day of […]
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