In this articleFFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTMARSHALL, MICH. – On a gusty morning in a quaint central Michigan town, the sun’s glow hits the brightly colored mural on the side of a brick building. It reads, in bold letters, “GREETINGS FROM MARSHALL.”The sidewalk is lined with attractive shops like Living MI, where owner Caryn Drenth arranges a stack of graphic tees amid rows of gift-worthy trinkets. Across the street at Marshall Hardware, store manager, David Miltenberger places two flags — the American flag and one for Marshall High School’s Red Hawks — in flag pole holders adjoined to an…
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NewsJimmy Buffett Dies at 76The singer-songwriter and successful businessman was known for “Margaritaville,” “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” and more escapist hitsBy Allison HusseySeptember 2, 2023FacebookXJimmy Buffett, August 1996 (John Atashian/Getty Images)FacebookXJimmy Buffett, the singer-songwriter who built an empire off his catalog of escapist listening tunes, has died. “Jimmy passed away peacefully on the night of September 1st surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs,” reads a message posted on his website and social media pages. “He lived his life like a song till the very last breath and will be missed beyond measure by so many.” Buffett was 76 years…
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo arrives for a meeting with her Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao, at the Ministry of Commerce in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 28, 2023.Andy Wong | Pool | via ReutersU.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo met with Chinese officials in a high-stakes visit to Beijing and Shanghai this week, and she said Sunday that the trip helped establish open lines of communication between the two nations.Raimondo is the fourth high-level U.S. official to visit China this summer, but she is the first U.S. Commerce secretary to travel to the country in five years — a period where the bilateral…
The finale of Special Ops: Lioness Season 1 is a fast-paced, high-intensity hour that leaves us both satisfied and curious about what’s to come. With a successful mission behind them, Joe and Cruz wound up in deeply difficult and vastly different emotional spaces, grappling with what’s next. The episode opens with the team at a frantic pace, touching down in their jet and giving Cruz her final pieces of advice before she’s sent off with Kyle to get to Mallorca on time. The nerves for Joe and Cruz are palpable as they have a final discussion, though they don’t recognize…
Physicists at Stevens Institute of Technology used Christiaan Huygens’ 350-year-old theorem, which explains the workings of pendulums and planets, to reveal new properties of light waves. (Courtesy: Stevens Institute of Technology) Physicists at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, US have found a new and surprising link between the wave properties of light and the mechanical properties of point masses. Their finding bridges the gap between classical mechanics and the optics of coherent waves via theories put forward 350 years ago by the Dutch mathematical physicist Christiaan Huygens. Huygens’s biggest discoveries came in the two most prominent fields of…
Actor Karen Brown walks the picket line with fellow SAG-AFRA actors and Writers Guild of America (WGA) writers in front of Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, California, July 17, 2023.Mike Blake | ReutersHollywood’s labor pool is taking a hit as the dual strikes by actors and writers drag on. The film, TV and music sectors shed a combined 17,000 jobs in August, “reflecting strike activity,” the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday morning.In contrast, the U.S. economy added 187,000 jobs during the month, spurred by growth in the health care, leisure and construction industries. It topped the 170,000 jobs…
For thousands of years, women have been on the fringes of history and mythology. From “The Serpent Queen” Catherine De Medici, evil stepmother Kaikeyi in the Ramayana, and the seductive, church-destroying Anne Boleyn, the few women who have a place in our histories and mythologies are weak, bad, or evil. Recently though, many have started to interrogate and investigate the truth behind these stories, giving a new and modern perspective on the women we’ve been taught to hate. My novel, Jezebel, is a feminist reimagining of one of these ancient stories, that of the reviled and misunderstood queen, Jezebel. A…
Antoine Fuqua’s The Equalizer 3 will not let this summer go out quietly in what’s expected to be a $30M-$40M 4-day opening weekend; poised to be the second-best ever for the holiday after Shang-Chi ($94.6M). Last night from showtimes that began at 3PM, the Sony threequel clocked $3.8M at 3,241 locations. While 76% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes, Equalizer 3 is 92% with audiences currently. Sony has extra bullets at the box office with Imax and PLFs this weekend for Equalizer 3. Last night’s previews best those of Equalizer 2 which took in $3.1M at 2,934 theaters from Thursday showtimes…
LONDON — Globalstar has contracted SpaceX to launch Apple-backed satellites in 2025 to replenish its low Earth orbit (LEO) connectivity constellation. The operator said in an Aug. 30 regulatory filing it will pay a total $64 million to launch the first set of satellites ordered last year from MDA, which is using Rocket Lab to supply chassis for the spacecraft. While the company did not give further details about the launch agreement, its $327 million contract with MDA covered 17 satellites for deliveries anticipated in 2025. The manufacturing contract also includes an option for up to nine additional satellites at…
Apple is testing the use of 3D printers to produce the steel chassis used by some of its upcoming smartwatches, according to people with knowledge of the matter, heralding a major change to how the company manufactures products.The technique would obviate the need to cut large slabs of metal into the product’s shape. That would reduce the time it takes to build devices while also helping the environment by using less material, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the plan is private.The new approach has the potential to streamline Apple’s supply chain and kick off…
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the August U.S. jobs and employment report numbers in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., Sept. 1, 2023.Jonathan Ernst | ReutersWASHINGTON — President Joe Biden lauded new jobs data out Friday that showed robust growth in the past month.”As we head into Labor Day, we ought to take a step back and take note of the fact that America’s now in one of the strongest job-creating periods in our history,” Biden said in the White House Rose Garden. “It wasn’t that long ago that America was losing jobs.”Friday’s jobs report…
Erica Mena apparently wasn’t just kicking and screaming during her arrest last weekend in Atlanta — she was allegedly biting too … not to mention dropping some fake baby news, so say cops and her lawyer. The ‘Love & Hip Hop’ star was one of four people arrested Friday at a lounge there in town after police say all hell broke loose when they were asked to leave by the security — and according to the police report, obtained by TMZ, it was a lot uglier than what we all saw. Play video content 8/25/23 TMZ.com The doc lays out…
A Cruise self-driving car, which is owned by General Motors Corp, is seen outside the company’s headquarters in San Francisco.Heather Somerville | ReutersThe company Cruise is pushing back against an accusation from the San Francisco Fire Department, which claims that one of the company’s autonomous vehicles delayed an ambulance after a deadly accident. According to SF Fire, on Aug. 14, a driver hit a pedestrian in the city at around 11 p.m. The department said emergency medical service crews faced a problem getting to the collision: two Cruise taxis blocking the road. That blockage, according to SF Fire, caused a delay in…
Well, this sucks. Hulu has canceled How I Met Your Father after two seasons. The news broke Friday night, just months after the conclusion of the sophomore season. The controversial decision means we’ll be left on a cliffhanger because the show never got close to unmasking the identity of Sophie’s baby daddy. The series hinted at it with the second season’s conclusion, with Sophie moving on with Jesse. However, there were more key players in the mix, and there was the potential the show could pull the rug from under us to switch things up entirely. How I Met Your…
In this articleVALE-BRLULUMDBDELLFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTA Dell Technologies flag outside the company headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, US, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023.Jordan Vonderhaar | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making headlines before the bell:Dell Technologies — Dell Technologies surged 10.5% after exceeding analysts’ second-quarter expectations. The computer company reported adjusted per-share earnings of $1.74 and revenue of $22.93 billion. Analysts polled by Refinitiv anticipated per-share earnings of $1.14 and $20.85 billion. Morgan Stanley named Dell a top pick in IT hardware.MongoDB — MongoDB advanced 5% after topping Wall Street expectations in its latest quarter. The…
In this articleSTLAGMFFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTMembers of the United Auto Workers union hold a rally and practice picket near a Stellantis plant in Detroit, Aug. 23, 2023.Michael Wayland / CNBCDETROIT – United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain appears ready to fire up the picket lines.The union’s bulldog new leader has repeatedly vowed to drive a hard bargain with Detroit automakers General Motors, Ford Motor and Stellantis in contract negotiations ahead of an expiration at 11:59 p.m. on Sept 14.He’s maintained it’s a hard deadline that his leadership team does not plan to extend, like the union has in…
by Regina Avalos, August 31, 2023(Photo: Hulu) The Great has been cancelled after three seasons on Hulu, per Deadline. The 10-episode third season arrived on the streaming service in May. Created by Tony McNamara, the period dramedy series follows the life of Catherine the Great, who ruled during the late 1700s in Russia. Starring Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox, Adam Godley, Gwilym Lee, Charity Wakefield, Douglas Hodge, Sacha Dhawan, Bayo Gbadamosi, and Belinda Bromilow, the series’ third season follows Catherine (Fanning) and her husband (Hoult) as they try to repair their troubled marriage. Hulu gave no reason for the…
Just days after Ariana Grande’s separation from her husband of two years, Dalton Gomez, was widely reported, news broke that Grande found love again…on the set of Wicked.Grande and her co-star Ethan Slater, who is also separated from his wife, started dating recently, as People, Entertainment Tonight, and TMZ reported on July 20, 2023. Slater and Grande’s commonalities go beyond their work in Wicked, though: Both are Broadway alumni (Grande for her work in 13: The Musical, Slater for his in the Spongebob musical).Here’s what to know about Slater and his history with Grande.CBS Photo Archive//Getty ImagesSlater is a 31-year-old…