CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Annette Bening, a two-time Golden Globe winner who recently received her fifth Oscar nomination, was feted Tuesday with a raucous parade full of colorful costumes and drag performers as part of festivities honoring her as Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals 2024 Woman of the Year. A few hours later, Benning endured a […]
A pizza shop owner in Oakland, California, said she’s considering shutting down her East Bay business after it was hit by thieves four times this year, according to a report. Cybelle’s Pizza owner Elizabeth Sanchez said Friday’s break-in where employees fought off a group of robbers with hammers and a recycling bin is pushing the […]
A banner year came to a bumpy end for McDonald’s, which lost sales in many markets due to the war in Gaza. Global same-store sales – or sales at restaurants open at least a year – rose 3.4% in the October-December period, well below the 4.7% increase Wall Street was expecting, according to analysts polled […]
As the world was just beginning to wake up from the horrid nightmare that was COVID-19 (and the subsequent lockdowns), people understandably needed some catharsis in their lives. After all, that was a long time to be unconstitutionally cooped in your domicile with nothing to do but sit around and watch Netflix. Well, in an […]
The changes that railroads announced after last year’s fiery crash in East Palestine, Ohio, haven’t yet made a major difference, statistics show, and reforms have stalled in Congress. A few key measures in the latest Federal Railroad Administration statistics, including the total number of train accidents, worsened over the first 11 months of last year […]
Media mogul Jimmy Finkelstein’s centrist media outlet, The Messenger, stopped the presses Wednesday after just eight months, adding hundreds of names to the list of recent media casualties. In a memo to employees Wednesday, the founder told workers he labored until the last minute to try and keep The Messenger running. “Over the past few […]
LONDON (AP) — Oil giant Shell saw profits tumble by nearly a third in 2023 as a result of lower oil and natural gas prices, which had surged the year before in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In a statement Thursday, London-based Shell said its post-tax earnings fell 29%, to $28.3 billion from […]
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Messenger, an ambitious online news site that billed itself as a nonpartisan digital outlet and spent some $50 million ratcheting up its business effort, abruptly shut down Wednesday after only eight months in operation. Founder Jimmy Finkelstein sent an email to stunned employees announcing the immediate shutdown, with some […]
NEWS AND OPINION: Nielsen — the longtime leader in audience measurement and data — has some startling news for us. “The growing bounty of content on streaming services has forever changed TV viewing behavior, with streaming consumption now consistently accounting for the biggest driver of TV usage. And while the time we spend with TV […]
President Joe Biden must have made the decision to finally show up in East Palestine, Ohio, one year after the catastrophic train derailment and toxic chemical spill all by himself. The crafty Democrats and elites certainly didn’t make it. Unless they actually did in order to further sink his approval rating with voters, helping to […]
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