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Kevin Hagen/Getty There were a lot of big movie stars making the rounds at the Cannes Film Festival, but none loomed larger than Al Gore. Attending a posh dinner for the festival’s 70th anniversary, he hobnobbed with a crowd of A-listers while receiving well-wishes from distributors and filmmakers alike. “The Beguiled” director Sofia Coppola paid […]
Paul Morigi/Getty Images MSNBC announced Monday that it has hired George F. Will as a contributor, adding yet another conservative talker to its rapidly expanding roster of them. Two weeks ago, the cable news network gave former George W. Bush adviser Nicolle Wallace a 4 p.m. show. Former Fox News star Greta Van Susteren took […]
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Banaras Khan/AFP/Getty Images Oil prices slumped below $ US45 a barrel — levels last seen in November 2016 as key OPEC producers agreed on production cuts. Concerns of a supply glut, thanks to soaring U.S. oil production, appear to have more than negated moves by OPEC members and 11 other large producers to cut output […]
A job advertisement celebrating sleep deprivation? That’s late capitalism. Free-wheeling Coachella outfits that somehow all look the same and cost thousands of dollars? Also late capitalism. Same goes for this wifi-connected $ 400 juicer that does no better than human hands, Pepsi’s advertisement featuring Kendall Jenner, United Airlines’ forcible removal of a seated passenger who […]
Bank lending to consumers and businesses is slowing down. As of last week, commercial and industrial lending had not increased since September 7, the first six-month period of declines since the aftermath of the financial crisis, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said. Consumer-loan growth has also slowed, up by 1.4% since the November election versus […]
Published time: 26 Mar, 2017 17:26 Visitors to a luxury 15-storey Hong Kong shopping mall were sent hurtling down a massive escalator when it suddenly went into reverse. At least 18 people were injured when the 40-meter escalator in the Langham Place mall in Hong Kong’s Mongkok district changed direction without warning. READ MORE: 7 […]
Tributes have flooded in for Irish footballer Ryan McBride, who has died suddenly at the age of 27. McBride was a defender and captain of League of Ireland side Derry City FC, his hometown club and for whom he had made over 100 appearances. He was found dead at his home close to the club’s […]
Rep. Kevin Brady, the Republican lawmaker who leads the House Ways and Means Committee, typically puts out a statement every month in reaction to the release of the jobs report. For the past few years, those statements have suggested a trend of weak jobs growth, the result of poor tax and economic policy under the Obama administration. […]
Kristyn Stroble/HarperCollins In the 2000 film “Memento,” the lead character Leonard, played by Guy Pearce, suffers from anterograde amnesia: He can’t form new memories, and therefore has no short-term memory. Throughout the film, Leonard tattoos instructions and directions for himself onto his body as a way of keeping track of his life. That sort of […]
