Facebook announced a change to its News Feed algorithm that will keep posts from news publishers and brands out of your feed. The move will likely cut off traffic to many news sites that rely on Facebook users to stay alive. Facebook has repeatedly refused to admit it’s a media company. Now that stance is […]
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Celebrity Big Brother 2018: Wayne Sleep feared DROPPING Princess Diana during dance act
Asked about his OBE, 69-year-old Wayne announced that he had received it just after Diana died. Quizzed about dancing with Diana in December 1985, Wayne gushed with fond memories, but admitted his fears of dropping her, and forcing her to bow to Prince Charles. Wayne explained: “Yes! She’d seen a lot of my work in […]
Nashville Season 6 Premiere Recap: Dropping the Ball
Need to catch up? Check out the Nashville Season 5 finale post mortem here. It’s New Year’s Eve in Nashville, yet not a single one of our Music City denizens has someone to kiss at midnight. And if that isn’t fodder for the saddest country song ever, I don’t know what is. Scratch that: Nothing is […]
Amazon is dropping major hints it’s ready to dominate the fresh grocery business
Jason Redmond/Reuters The head of Amazon‘s Prime Now division is now also leading its AmazonFresh grocery business. AmazonFresh has scaled back while Prime Now expands to new cities. Synergies with Whole Foods and Prime Now may prove a winning combination. Amazon could be about to make some big changes to its grocery business, which […]
Black Friday off to a strong start with US shoppers already dropping $1.5 billion
The US is set for its strongest Black Friday in years, with more than $ 1.52 billion already spent on Thursday night. Retailers around the country need consumers to spend big around the holidays. Deep discounts in shops around the country hope to attract a crowd that can reverse the trend of shrinking sales on […]
Dropping A Dime
The Justice Department announced on Monday it will award more than $ 98 million to local police departments, giving preferential treatment to 80% of the recipients because they’d agreed to let federal immigration officers inside local jails and notify federal authorities about undocumented immigrants in local custody. The grants are part of a broader effort […]
Airlines’ Involuntary Bump Rates Are Dropping
Airlines’ Involuntary Bump Rates Are Dropping Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does not include all credit […]
Citi Is Dropping Hilton as a Transfer Partner Later This Year
Citi Is Dropping Hilton as a Transfer Partner This Year Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does […]
Dropping the dollar: Venezuela lists oil price in Chinese yuan
Published time: 16 Sep, 2017 19:11 In response to sanctions from Washington, Venezuela has started reporting its oil prices in Chinese yuan, going against the international trend of listing prices in US dollars. On Friday, the weekly Oil Ministry bulletin published its prices for September in yuan, rather than the US dollar. The price-per-barrel posted […]
Trump reportedly asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions about dropping the criminal case against Joe Arpaio
Associated Press/Mary Altaffer President Donald Trump reportedly asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions whether it would be possible to drop the federal criminal case against Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff who last month was convicted of criminal contempt for violating a court order to stop racially profiling Latinos. Sessions told Trump that such a move […]