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Hudson’s Bay Co. to purchase U.S. department store Neiman Marcus
By The Canadian Press on July 3rd, 2024
TORONTO – Hudson’s Bay Co.has reached a deal to buy luxury department store chain Neiman Marcus, according to media reports. Citing multiple sources, both the Wall Street Journal and New York Times reported the deal will see Toronto-based HBC pay US$2.65 billion for the U.S. retailer. News of the deal follows months of speculation that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Italian Air Force precision team flies over Vegas Strip, headed to July 4 in Los Angeles area
By The Associated Press on July 3rd, 2024
LAS VEGAS (AP) – An Italian Air force precision demonstration team made a colorful green, white and red flight over the Las Vegas Strip on Wednesday as part of a North American tour headed to Los Angeles and Huntington Beach, California, for the U.S. Independence Day holiday. Italy’s Aeronautica Militare team is called Frecce Tricolori, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Money issues may sink proposed New Jersey branch of acclaimed Paris museum. Mayor blames politics
By The Associated Press on July 3rd, 2024
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) – New Jersey officials say financial concerns spurred state lawmakers to rescind $24 million in funding for a planned outpost of Paris’ acclaimed Pompidou Center in Jersey City. But the city’s mayor said he believes his deteriorating relationship with Gov. Phil Murphy led to the decision. Centre Pompidou x Jersey City ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Why was it a surprise? Biden’s debate problems leave some wondering if the press missed the story
By David Bauder, The Associated Press on July 3rd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – President Joe Biden’s fitness to serve a second term in office has been a top story since his halting performance in last week’s debate against Donald Trump, where the president at times appeared unable to complete or articulate some thoughts in the pressure of the moment. To some press critics who ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!For ‘Love Island USA’ superfan Ariana Madix, hosting the show ‘does not feel like work’
By Alicia Rancilio, The Associated Press on July 3rd, 2024
There was a scene in Season 10 of Bravo’s “Vanderpump Rules” – before the real-life cheating fiasco dubbed Scandoval was revealed – where Ariana Madix and her then-boyfriend Tom Sandoval acknowledged they weren’t spending enough quality time together. Sandoval wanted to party like a rock star while Madix wanted him to stay in with her, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Fourth shooting in two months hits Richmond Hill, Ont., theatre, police release video
By The Canadian Press on July 3rd, 2024
Police have released video of what they say is the fourth shooting since mid-May to target a Richmond Hill, Ont., cinema, as investigators appeal for more information. Yet, York Regional Police say the latest movie theatre attacks are not believed to be linked to a similar spate of shootings in January that targeted the same ... Read More »
1 response‘Seven Samurai’ at 70: Kurosawa’s epic still moves like nothing else
By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press on July 3rd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. But despite its age, the vitality and fleet-footed movement of Kurosawa’s epic is still breathtaking. To watch it again is to be swept along, all over again, by its flowing action and breadth of vision. Just as swiftly as Kambei ... Read More »
1 responseTony-winning musical ‘Suffs’ disrupted by chanting protesters with a banner
By The Associated Press on July 3rd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – A performance of the Broadway musical “Suffs,” a Tony Award-winning musical about the suffragist movement, was briefly disrupted Tuesday when protesters unfurled a banner with the slogan “Suffs Is a White Wash” and chants of “Cancel “˜Suffs!'” The protest lasted no more than 20 seconds before several demonstrators were ushered out ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!It’s considered the first American novel, but this 1789 book isn’t quite summer beach reading
By Hillel Italie, The Associated Press on July 3rd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – In the winter of 1789, around the time George Washington was elected the country’s first president, a Boston-based printer quietly launched another American institution. William Hill Brown’s “The Power of Sympathy,” published anonymously by Isaiah Thomas & Company, is widely cited as something momentous: the first American novel. Around 100 pages ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Massive makos, Queen Bosses and a baby angel shark on Discovery ‘Shark Week,’ where women shine
By Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press on July 3rd, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Imagine stepping into a life-sized whale carcass decoy and steering it into deep water. You’re looking – yes, looking – for a group of hungry sharks to spark a feeding frenzy. To attract them, you shoot out hundreds of gallons of synthetic blood and chum. Then watch them lose it. That’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!One way to get real-life legal experience? A free trip to the Paris Olympics
By Jonathan Landrum Jr., The Associated Press on July 3rd, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Once a year, law professor Moraima “Mo” Ivory usually brings celebrities like Steve Harvey, Ludacris and Rick Ross into her Georgia State University classroom for some entertainment legal talk. But this time, she’s taking her next lesson across the Atlantic Ocean, from Atlanta to the Paris Olympics. Ivory and her law ... Read More »
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