Month: August 2023

News Martin Scorsese Remembers the Band’s Robbie Robertson: “I Could Always Go to Him as a Confidante” Robertson worked on King of Comedy, Gangs of New York, Wolf of Wall Street, and more in the decades following the director’s intimate documentary, The Last Waltz  By Madison Bloom August 9, 2023 Facebook Twitter Martin Scorsese and
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Texas’ HB 900, which will require book vendors to review books and rate them, determining if they are “sexually explicit” or “sexually relevant,” is set to go into effect September 1. And now, the country’s largest book distributor to schools, Follett School Solutions, has asked publishers to rate their books. Thing is, what constitutes as
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Rocket Lab Rocket Lab on Tuesday reported second-quarter results that largely met Wall Street’s expectations, and the company said it added contracts for 10 more launches in 2023 and 2024. “The second quarter saw strong performance across Rocket Lab’s launch and space systems businesses with three successful Electron [rocket] launches, more than 17 spacecraft featuring
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PayPal on Monday became the first major U.S. fintech company to offer its own crypto token with a dollar-pegged stablecoin known as PayPal USD, making big promises of how it can move money between millions of crypto investors.  The company is entering an extremely crowded market already dominated by stablecoins like tether and USDC, at
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EXCLUSIVE: UK film fanatics will no longer be able to watch coverage of the Oscars on Sky. The Comcast-owned pay-TV giant has foregone the rights to show the world’s biggest movie awards ceremony in the UK, following a 20-year run hosting coverage of the LA bash. Deadline understands rightsholder Disney is close to striking a
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In this article STLA GM F Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT During a Facebook Live on Aug. 8, 2023, UAW President Shawn Fain Screenshot The leader of the United Auto Workers on Tuesday adamantly defended lofty demands for the union’s members who work for the Detroit automakers, while calling recent contract proposals from Stellantis
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In this article RIVN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Production of electric Rivian R1T pickup trucks on April 11, 2022 at the company’s plant in Normal, Ill. Michael Wayland / CNBC Electric vehicle maker Rivian Automotive on Tuesday reported a loss for the second quarter that was narrower than expected and raised its production guidance for the
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Lee Anderson has refused to apologise for saying asylum seekers who don’t want to be housed on barges should “f*** off back to France”. But the Conservative deputy chairman also said there was “no doubt” the government had failed to tackle illegal immigration. Tory MP Mr Anderson made the remark about asylum seekers after it
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The Indian Space Research Organisation on Sunday said it has successfully carried out the orbit reduction manoeuvre of India’s third moon mission Chandrayaan-3, a day after inserting it into the lunar orbit. The space agency said it will carry out the next such operation on August 9. “The spacecraft successfully underwent a planned orbit reduction
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