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Billionaire investor Bill Ackman has made a hefty investment in Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), pouring in more than $1.27 billion within a span of three months.What Happened: Ackman’s firm, Pershing Square Capital Management, accumulated 5,823,316 shares of Amazon, which accounts for nearly 10% of the firm’s $13.7 billion total assets under management, as revealed in the […]
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The Phillies announced Saturday that pitcher Zack Wheeler will be out for the rest of the season.A statement from the team said: Wheeler was diagnosed with venous thoracic outlet syndrome, and the recommendation is to undergo thoracic outlet decompression surgery in the coming weeks. Details of the surgery are forthcoming. The timeline of recovery from […]
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Interior designer Bobby Berk was one of the original five hosts of Netflix’s reality show “Queer Eye” — aka the Fab Five — but left after the Season 8 in 2023 and is now set to host his own HGTV show. There was some awkward timing earlier this summer with Berk’s HGTV announcement and the […]
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Screenshot: MSNBC/YouTubeMSNBC hosts Jonathan Capehart and Eugene Daniels had a field day roasting MAGA “snowflakes” for their outrage over Cracker Barrel’s rebrand.On Saturday’s broadcast of The Weekend, the hosts delved into why changing the popular Southern restaurant’s logo has caused such an uproar, and skewered the anger as “manufactured BS.”“Hold on to your biscuits, folks,” […]
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A divided New York appeals court on Thursday unanimously struck down a nearly half-billion-dollar financial penalty against US President Donald Trump as unconstitutionally excessive, while issuing a fractured ruling on the underlying fraud allegations that produced no clear majority. The five-justice panel of the Appellate Division vacated the entire $464.6 million disgorgement award, ruling it […]
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JTA Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Jewish Democrat in Maryland, has joined a growing list of Democrats backing a bill that would withhold the transfer of offensive weapons to Israel from the United States, JTA reported. Raskin’s backing of the Block the Bombs Act last week comes amid a marked decline in Democratic support for Israel, […]
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Hulu’s Are You My First is all about virgins looking for love — but did any season 1 contestants sleep with each other on screen? The reality show, which premiered on Monday, August 18, was described as a new dating experiment “where virgins navigate love, lust and losing it.” “In this groundbreaking new dating experiment, […]
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News Analysis Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre, known for his packed rallies and plainspoken, pragmatic-style public addresses, used his Aug. 18 byelection victory speech in Alberta to outline his party’s agenda in the aftermath of the recent federal election that returned the Liberals to power with a minority government. Poilievre, whose party’s defeat in the […]
Read MoreFormer British No. 1 tennis player Kyle Edmund has announced his retirement from the sport at the age of 30. Edmund won two ATP titles and, in 2018, became only the second British man after Andy Murray to reach the semifinals of the Australian Open. He was part of the Britain team that won the […]
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As President Donald Trump declared Washington, D.C., a crime-ridden wasteland in need of federal intervention and threatened similar federal interventions in other Black-led cities, several mayors compared notes.The president’s characterization of their cities contradicts what they began noticing last year: that they were seeing a drop in violent crime after a pandemic-era spike. In some […]
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