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Washington, DC CNN — Spending at US retailers fell in March as consumers pulled back after the banking crisis fueled recession fears. Retail sales, which are adjusted for seasonality but not for inflation, fell by 1% in March from the prior month, the Commerce Department reported on Friday. That was steeper than an expected 0.4%…
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20th Century Studios Ryan Reynolds may cultivate an air of impishness and irreverence, but now that he’s taken greater control of his career by developing and producing many of his projects, you can be certain that he is, at a certain level, very serious about the buffoonery he…
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PARIS — From a small, fluorescent lit gym just north of Paris, Team USA coach Cheryl Reeve was asked about her team’s biggest advantage in the Olympics. Depth, she paused. No, size. “1A, 1B,” she decided. Reeve isn’t wrong. With three players taller than 6-4 and a bevy of guards in the 6-foot range, Team…
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A German lingerie boss whose hunting dog mauled to death 20 lambs in a savage attack has been fined – just days after police warned her about the hound. Product development boss Ann-Kathrin Meyer’s hunting dog ‘violently’ killed the sheep just four days after she got a formal warning from police demanding she keep the…
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Stocks slid Friday after a slate of earnings beats from big banks fueled concerns that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at its next two meetings. Still, the major indices gained for the week. The Dow rose 400 points, or 1.2%. The S&P 500 gained 0.8% and the Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.3%. JPMorgan Chase…
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Netflix It’s been just over four years since Gina Prince-Bythewood’s action-packed film adaptation of Greg Rucka’s “The Old Guard” comic was released on Netflix, and there have been rumblings about a potential sequel — and maybe even a third entry in the franchise — almost since the first movie debuted. That film,…
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Winning an Olympic gold medal is considered a crowning achievement for an athlete, so it’s only fitting that the physical medal represents the significance. What’s on each gold medal is special for every Olympic Games, but Paris 2024 is particularly notable because, when athletes win gold, they will take home a piece of the Eiffel…
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The BBC has brought in new anti-grooming guidelines warning its stars not to abuse their ‘celebrity status’ after the cooperation was hit by a series of high-profile scandals. Staff have been handed a dossier full of guidelines about how to report ‘potential grooming’ and ‘rumours or evidence of a potential relationship involving an imbalance of…
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New York CNN — So far this tax season, the IRS has received more than 100 million income tax returns for 2022. That means tens of millions of households have yet to file their returns. If yours is among them, here are some last-minute tax-filing tips to keep in mind as the Tuesday, April 18…
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Marvel Studios This post contains massive spoilers for “Deadpool & Wolverine.” Read at your own risk. One of the biggest movies of the year is finally upon us as “Deadpool & Wolverine” has made its way to theaters. It’s been a long journey for this one dating back…