By Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press on December 12th, 2024
TORONTO – Retail consultants say The Body Shop Canada’s expected buyer has plenty of work to do, if it wants to reinvigorate the brand. The purchaser is an affiliate of Markham, Ont.-based Serruya Private Equity Inc., which is led by the co-founder of Yogen Früz and has invested in St. Louis Bar and Grill, Second ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press on December 12th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – RaMell Ross sometimes sends his photography students out on a unique assignment. He tells them to photograph a white person, a Black person, an Asian person and an Indian person. “And,” he adds, “I want you to ask them how they want to be represented.” Before Ross was a photographer, a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Michelle L. Price And David Bauder, The Associated Press on December 12th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – President-elect Donald Trump rang the opening bell Thursday at the New York Stock Exchange after being recognized for the second time by Time magazine as its person of the year. The honors for the businessman-turned-politician are a measure of Trump’s remarkable comeback from an ostracized former president who refused to accept ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Michelle L. Price And David Bauder, The Associated Press on December 12th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – President-elect Donald Trump will ring the opening bell Thursday at the New York Stock Exchange after being recognized for the second time by Time magazine as its person of the year. The honors for the businessman-turned-politician are a measure of Trump’s remarkable comeback from an ostracized former president who refused to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By The Associated Press on December 12th, 2024
Selena Gomez is having quite a year, and it’s being capped with an engagement to music producer and songwriter Benny Blanco. The Grammy- and Emmy-nominated performer announced she was off the market in an Instagram post Wednesday of her ring and an embrace with her fiancé, with the caption “Forever begins now.” Celebrity fans sent ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Michelle L. Price And David Bauder, The Associated Press on December 12th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – About six months ago, Donald Trump was sitting in a courtroom in lower Manhattan listening to a jury make him the first former president convicted of a crime. On Thursday, he will ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange just blocks from that courthouse and as he was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Michelle L. Price And David Bauder, The Associated Press on December 12th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – About six months ago, Donald Trump was sitting in a courtroom in lower Manhattan listening to a jury make him the first former president convicted of a crime. On Thursday, he will ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange just blocks from that courthouse and as he was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Michelle L. Price And David Bauder, The Associated Press on December 12th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – About six months ago, Donald Trump was sitting in a courtroom in lower Manhattan listening to a jury make him the first former president convicted of a crime. On Thursday, he will ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange just blocks from that courthouse and be recognized by ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Charlotte Graham-mclay, The Associated Press on December 11th, 2024
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – A New Zealand immigration official has overturned a ban on the U.S. conservative political commentator Candace Owens entering the country, citing “the importance of free speech,” a spokesperson for the official said Thursday. Owens is scheduled to speak at events in several Australian cities and in Auckland, New Zealand, in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Christopher Weber, Jae C. Hong And Gabriela Aoun Angueira, The Associated Press on December 11th, 2024
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) – Cooler temperatures, calmer winds and a chance of rainfall in Southern California this week are forecast to help firefighters as they battle a wind-driven blaze in steep, rugged terrain that’s driven thousands, including celebrities, from their homes in Malibu. The weather improved so much Wednesday that meteorologists said all red flag ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By The Associated Press on December 11th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Woody Allen ‘s former personal chef claims in a lawsuit that the filmmaker and his wife fired him because of his service in the U.S. Army Reserves and questions about his pay, then “rubbed salt on the wounds” by saying they didn’t like his cooking. Allen and Soon-Yi Previn “simply decided ... Read More »
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