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For over 100 years, Hollywood has transported audiences to worlds outside their own, from the slick streets of New York City to the yellow bricks of Oz. Hundreds of acres of land in Los Angeles are dedicated to crafting stories for the biggest and smallest screens, and movie studios are offering more ways than ever for cinema lovers to get a behind-the-scenes peek at how — and where — the magic is made.”Touring the studios, being able to go where this stuff happened, to be in the physical space of all these things that for over 100 years now people have…
Growing up, Payton Martin’s family went on a lot of cruises and she became fascinated with them. The now 23-year-old Oklahoma native says back then she’d dreamed about working and living on one.”I always wondered about what the guests don’t see and what was going on behind closed doors,” Martin tells CNBC Make It.Fast forward to the summer of 2021, Martin was getting ready to go on yet another cruise with her family. This one had been rescheduled several times because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Martin’s experience on that trip made her realize that if she was ever going to…
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Seemingly everyone agrees there’s a retirement crisis – everyone, that is, except for retirees themselves. In an April Wall Street Journal article, I noted that 86% of seniors in a Federal Reserve survey described their financial situation as either “doing okay” or “living comfortably.” Just 3% said they were “finding it difficult to get by.” That sure doesn’t look like a retirement crisis. But two well-regarded economists take issue with how to interpret these figures. In the process, they started what I think is a useful discussion about retirement security – a topic that is front of mind for millions…
Donald Trump’s legal team is asking to delay sentencing and any other substantive actions in the hush money case while a new effort to move the case to federal court plays out, according to a letter obtained by CNN. The request to New York State Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan cites special counsel Jack Smith’s move this week to secure a new indictment against Trump in the federal election interference case that tailors the allegations in light of the Supreme Court’s immunity decision. The superseding indictment, Trump’s lawyers say, helps the former president’s argument for a dismissal in the New York case. “Those prosecutors’…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Goldman Sachs is preparing to cut a few hundred employees as part of an annual review process that targets staffers who are deemed underperformers, according to a person familiar with the matter.The cuts, which are expected across the bank, could start in the next few weeks. They are anticipated to take a few months to complete, according to the person who has been briefed on Goldman’s plans.Goldman had 44,400 employees worldwide at the end of June. The annual performance reviews, which tend…
Bonterra Energy Corp. (OTCPK:BNEFF) reported results that held up rather well because oil sales dollars now dominate the results. If natural gas prices recover as expected, then this former natural gas producer will definitely benefit. But the future is becoming more and more attached to oil. This continues the discussion that began with the last article. The difference is that now a natural gas pricing recovery appears to be a certainty in the near future. That would give this company extra money to repay debt which would lower the debt ratio. An initial dividend may be in the intermediate future…
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk’s social media giant X in Brazil after the tech billionaire refused to name a legal representative in the country, according to a copy of the decision seen by The Associated Press The move further escalates the monthslong feud between the two men over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation. Justice Alexandre de Moraes had warned Musk on Wednesday night that X could be blocked in Brazil if he failed to comply with his order to name a representative, and established a 24-hour deadline. The company hasn’t had…
WASHINGTON — For nearly a decade, former president Donald Trump has rallied voters around a cry to cut the size of the federal government and “drain the swamp.”But now one Republican running in a key House race is trying to distance himself from the proposed cuts, and from Trump’s plan to move 100,000 federal workers out of the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area while firing “rogue bureaucrats” — policies that could cost the area’s economy billions of dollars.Derrick Anderson is the Republican nominee running in a competitive race to represent Virginia’s seventh congressional district in the House. The district has almost 60,000 federal employees…
Brazil’s supreme court on Friday ordered a nationwide suspension of Elon Musk’s social network X after the company vowed to defy earlier court orders concerning content moderation and the appointment of a legal representative in the country.Alexandre de Moraes, the court’s top judge, has also ordered daily fines for people or businesses in Brazil that use virtual private networks (VPNs) or other methods to access X while the site is banned in the country, G1 Globo reported.The court issued a statement via its government website in Brazil on Friday, saying that it had ordered “the immediate and complete suspension of…
