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Over the past several years, fashion brands big and small have enjoyed huge spikes in search, sales and social media followers whenever the Duchess of Sussex wears their designs. But for the star’s wedding dress designer Clare Waight Keller, who left her role as Givenchy’s artistic director in April after just three years at the …
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday announced that assault-style firearms would be banned in the country. The announcement follows Trudeau’s vow to push for stricter gun control after a mass shooting in Nova Scotia ended with 23 dead on April 19. Beginning on Friday, around 1,500 makes and models of military-grade firearm weapons would …
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The European Union’s foreign policy chief admitted Thursday that China “expressed their concerns” over an EU report on Chinese disinformation regarding coronavirus, after allegations that his team had watered down their initial findings “to appease the Chinese Communist Party.” Speaking to the European Parliament in Brussels, Josep Borrell denied that Beijing had coerced him to …
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Cleveland-born rapper Machine Gun Kelly is giving back to his community during the pandemic. Kelly, born Colson Baker, says he will buy lunch for diners at 12 Cleveland-area restaurants on Friday, May 1, beginning at noon — while supplies last. He’ll be buying one meal, which will be take-out only, per person at B&M BBQ, …
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The US Federal Reserve on Thursday widened a key program to nurse the “Main Street” economy through the coronavirus pandemic, agreeing to lend to even larger firms, taking on more risk in participation with banks, and hinting at some form of dedicated help for nonprofits. The central bank said it would expand its “Main Street …
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Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting will be nothing like the extravaganzas of years past, but will give Warren Buffett a chance to show how resilient his cash-rich conglomerate may be to the coronavirus pandemic, and the investment opportunities it offers. The meeting and surrounding festivities that Buffett calls “Woodstock for Capitalists” normally draw more than 40,000 …
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Olivia Munn says filming the 2016 movie “X-Men: Apocalypse” was far from a “normal” experience. In an interview with Variety, the 39-year-old actress said that the film’s director, Bryan Singer, abruptly departed the Montreal set to deal with a “thyroid issue” — leaving the cast and crew bewildered. “When we shot ‘X-Men,’ I never shot …
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The Dixie Chicks have postponed their comeback album “Gaslighter,” originally slated for a May 1st release, but they’re still sharing new music from the LP. On Thursday, the group quietly posted a new track, “Julianna Calm Down,” to IGTV. Produced with Jack Antonoff, the song is a message to young women (it’s named after Emily …
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Global smartphone production is seeing its biggest-ever slump as the coronavirus pandemic has smothered global demand. Industry firm TrendForce said it expects production to dip 16.5 percent year-over-year to 287 million phones in the June quarter, continuing a slide that saw output drop 10 percent in the March quarter, when the outbreak spread and peaked …
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Americans are getting married at the lowest rate ever recorded, according to a report by the National Center for Health Statistics, with the lead author for the report calling the moment “historic.” The U.S. marriage rate fell 6 percent in 2018 to only 6.5 new unions formed for every 1,000 people, the lowest number since …
Over the past several years, fashion brands big and small have enjoyed huge spikes in search, sales and social media followers whenever the Duchess of Sussex wears their designs. But for the star’s wedding dress designer Clare Waight Keller, who left her role as Givenchy’s artistic director in April after just three years at the …
