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Hip-hop star J. Cole is taking his basketball dreams overseas β again. When ESPN reported Wednesday that the two-time Grammy winner has signed to play for the Nanjing Monkey Kings in the Chinese Basketball Assn., it might have sounded like an April Foolβs Day prank. But itβs no joke. Coleβs longtime manager and business partner…
Sir Keir Starmer could be forced into a decision over Angela Rayner’s future as early as today, as the prime minister’s ethics adviser prepares his verdict on the Labour deputy’s tax affairs. Ms Rayner, who is also the housing secretary, has been under mounting pressure since she admitted not paying the correct amount of stamp…
Gavin McNamara has abandoned his keyboard and spends all day talking rather than typing. He speaks for hours with his computer and phone, sending emails, writing presentations, posting on LinkedIn and even coding through conversations using an AI dictation app from San Francisco startup, Wispr Flow. The AI punctuates, formats and adapts his rambling into…
The world’s biggest packaged food company, Nestle, is to cut 16,000 jobs in the next two years, it announced on Thursday. The cuts around the world come as the company said it was “automating” its processes and increasing focus on “operational efficiency”. Losses will primarily be in white-collar, professional parts of the business, with 12,000…
For Bella Ramsey, real pressure came with stepping into the leading role for the second season of βThe Last of Us.β But it wasnβt entirely mental. The difficulty came from performing nearly every scene without the solidarity of co-star Pedro Pascal, whose character Joel was brutally killed off in Episode 2. βI did feel the…
The successor to Bob Costas as play-by-play voice on TNTβs Major League Baseball postseason games will be the same broadcaster who replaced the legendary Bob Miller in 2017 after Miller retired following a 44-year Hall of Fame career with the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL. Yes, Alex Faust has experience replacing a titan of…
Former President Obama and Michelle Obama called on Americans to recognize the dangers of the increasingly violent Immigration and Customs Enforcement crack-downs in the wake of the deadly shooting of an ICU nurse in Minneapolis. βThe killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy,β the Obamas wrote in a lengthy statement posted on social media….
WASHINGTON Β βΒ The Supreme Court announced Friday it will hear Monsantoβs claim that it should be shielded from tens of thousands of lawsuits over its weed killer Roundup because the Environmental Protection Agency has not required a warning label that it may cause cancer. The justices will not resolve the decades-long dispute over whether Roundupβs key…
Judy Reyes is making every moment count. Earlier this year, the Bronx-born Dominican actor reprised her breakthrough TV role as Carla Espinosa on the reboot of the beloved ABC medical sitcom, βScrubs.β For just four episodes, she returned to Sacred Heart Hospital as head nurse and an exhausted mother of four daughters, whom she parents…
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon revealed that his bank is considering offering prediction market services to its customers. “It’s possible one day we’ll do something like that,” Dimon said in an interview with “CBS Evening News” anchor Tony Dokoupil, speaking about services such as Kalshi and Polymarket, which allow people to make bets on everything…
