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Olivia Rodrigo will launch her 'Guts' World Tour in North America and Europe in February 2024 and it will come to an end in August. The tour will go across North America for six weeks before moving to Europe. It will return to North America in May before concluding in Rodrigo’s hometown of Los Angeles. The tour will feature opening acts, performed by young women. British dance-pop singer PinkPantheress, Los Angeles-based pop singer Chappell Roan, and California pop-rock singer Remi Wolf will produce the opening acts. Ex-Pixies singer Kim Deal will lead the Breeders band which will produce a string of radio and video hits. The American singer made her VMA debut in 2021 as she performed her Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit 'Good 4 U.'

Buddy Games, hosted by actor Josh Duhamel, is set to debut on CBS at 9 p.m. ET on Thursday, September 14, 2023. The show features six teams of four participants, competing in physical and mental challenges for a chance to win $200,000. Duhamel drew inspiration from his own annual tradition with friends to create this unique series.

By Matt Tracy

Ahsoka has taken the viewers on a galactic tour and the popularity of the live-action series is soaring. Now, Disney and Luctoin released the live-action series to selected theaters on the occasion of the Ahsoka Midseason Fan Celebration. Dave Filoni joins hands with George Lucas to narrate the story of Ahsoka Tano. It is vividly brought to life by Rosario Dawson. Ahsoka takes on a galactic journey in search of Grand Admiral Thrawn and the enigmatic Ezra Bridger.

Akon has exciting news for his fans as he announces 'The Superfan Tour' for 2023. Get ready to groove to all your favorite Akon hits from the past 20 years, from «Right Now (Na Na Na)» to «Soul Survivor.» Produced by Live Nation, this 15-city tour promises an unforgettable musical journey.

investment bankers and ratings firms in New York City. Boeing’s space leased for more than $100,000 a year, according to CoStar, an outside real-estate data firm. It’s unusual but not unheard of for a CEO to live and work remotely far from the home office.

Some food-based commodities that may not have granted their investors a fair handshake before seem to be giving them a lot more now.

An explosion and fire at an soybean processing facility in Illinois has injured eight employees and sent a tower of smoke into the air

Queen Latifah sang the national anthem ahead of the Sunday Night Football’s New York Giants vs Dallas Cowboys game on Sunday night at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium. She rendered the national anthem through a moving jazz and musical theater-informed arrangement of «The Star-Spangled Banner». She delivered a pitch-perfect performance eliciting cheers from the packed stadium by the final note. The New Jersey native is a superstar in the hip-hop genre of music and she has produced the Grammy-winning 'U.N.I.T.Y.'. Her song 'All Hail the Queen ' was selected for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress earlier this year. She has also tried jazz, film and television. Her 2004 album 'The Dana Owens' reached number 16 on the Billboard 200 and earned a Grammy nomination for best jazz vocal album. It was followed by a second jazz album Trav'lin' Light in 2008. It also earned a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. Queen Latifah was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in 2002’s 'Chicago'. She won an Emmy in 2016 for the acclaimed 'Bessie' television movie. She currently stars in the television show 'The Equalizer' on CBS.

By Karl Plume

Kialia Pinellas was mystified when her teenage daughter started acting like a giddy groupie while they were shopping at a mall outside Orlando, Fla. “She was just going crazy," says Pinellas. “I have never seen her react that way." It turned out her 14-year-old daughter Khaloni Crowell had recognized a clothing-store clerk as “Dhatboiitre," a young TikTok personality who posts prank, lip sync and comedy videos for his 1.1 million followers.

G20 summit being held in New Delhi. According to a statement on Sunday, the institute will seek to address some of the most consequential economic, environmental, and technological challenges that have the potential to affect the security, prosperity, and stability of both countries.

DATA AND FORECASTS Fresh Fed forecasts to be published at the close of this month's meeting will show how policymakers as a group expect inflation and unemployment to behave, and whether they like Logan think further tightening is likely to be needed. In June, the last time the Fed published economic projections, two-thirds of Fed policymakers indicated they thought rates would need to rise to above 5.5% by year's end in order to bring inflation down sustainably to the Fed's 2% goal. "It's still an open question as we go forward: Have we got sufficiently restrictive to achieve that," New York Fed President John Williams said on Thursday.

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan

Gold prices firmed on Friday but were set for a weekly decline as the dollar and Treasury yields held firm with strong U.S. economic data raising concerns of the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates higher for longer.FUNDAMENTALS * Spot gold was up 0.2% at $1,922.87 per ounce, as of 0116 GMT, but set for a 0.8% weekly fall.

Investing.com — It was another blowout U.S. inventory report as far as oil bulls were concerned. Yet, crude prices dipped for the first time in 10 days as traders took stock of market direction after a 10% rally in that span.

A lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses nine mobile home community management companies and a mobile home market data provider of conspiring to fix and inflate lot rental prices at more than 150 locations across the U.S. The lawsuit filed last we...

A business dispute that has pulled ESPN and other Disney-owned companies off the air for nearly 15 million cable TV subscribers continues, with both companies taking the unusual step of directing customers to look elsewhere for their favorite networks

ARK 21Share and investment manager VanEck have filed for the first-ever Ether (ETH) spot Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) in the United States. 

The race for the United States’ first spot Ethereum exchange-traded fund has officially begun after new 19b-4 filings by the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), which will "ultimately start the clock" for an SEC decision.  

Grayscale Investments on Tuesday urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to quickly approve its proposed exchange-traded fund that would track bitcoin, following the crypto asset manager's court victory against the agency. A three-judge panel of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in Washington last week ruled that the SEC was wrong to reject Grayscale's proposed bitcoin ETF without explaining its reasoning, in a case that has been closely watched by the industry and which briefly boosted the price of bitcoin nearly 7%. The ruling requires the SEC to review Grayscale's application, although the agency still has time to appeal the court's decision. The SEC said last week that it was studying the ruling. «We hope you will agree that the best use of resources now is for the (SEC) to issue an order approving» the product, Grayscale's law firm DavisPolk wrote in a letter which was filed with the SEC on Tuesday.