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Blake Lively seems to be making headlines every now and then due to one reason or the other amid the Justin Baldoni lawsuit controversy. Blake Lively's recent visit to a Connecticut donut shop was intended to be a casual gesture of support for a friend. Instead, it sparked an online controversy. Given her ongoing lawsuit against Justin Baldoni, some believe the move was an untimely PR distraction. Although her supporters are rallying behind her intentions, the timing has caused further controversy.

“The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”—All the President’s MenAmerican Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, a Democrat and member of the Foreign Relations Committee, took to social media Tuesday night to share takeaways from a classified briefing the White House shared with him and other legislators about the Iran war.“I obviously can’t disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are,” he noted, emphasizing that regime change in Iran is no longer in the cards. “They are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime—probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime—will still be in charge.”Murphy also said US President Donald Trump’s administration no longer intends to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons programme.

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Apple, Tesla and Ford Motor are among companies contributing the most to recently lowered estimates for the quarter, along with some insurers, whose projections have been hurt by fires in California early this year, according to Tajinder Dhillon, senior research analyst at LSEG. S&P 500 forecasts for the first quarter of 2025 have fallen by 4.5 percentage points since January 1, the largest downward revision since the fourth quarter of 2023, he said. Earnings growth for S&P 500 companies is now seen at 7.7% year-over-year, which would be the lowest since 2023's third quarter and a big decline from 17.1% in the fourth quarter of 2024, based on Friday's LSEG data. While a handful of companies have already reported on the quarter, the unofficial start of the first-quarter season is still weeks away.

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Walmart dampened investor risk appetite. A broad selloff pulled all three major U.S. stock indexes into negative territory, with the blue-chip Dow suffering the steepest loss. The S&P 500 snapped its two-day string of all-time closing highs.

Trump's executive order seeking to force so-called sanctuary jurisdictions to cooperate with his immigration crackdown and mass deportations.

With the price of eggs soaring, more people are looking into keeping backyard chickens

Fay Vincent, who became baseball commissioner in 1989 and then was forced out three years later by owners intent on a labor confrontation with players, has died

When you imagine your dream job in banking, you might imagine it on Wall Street, or in the City of London. It might actually be in Washington DC – or in Westminster.

cold temperatures that will take hold in much of the country from the Northern Plains to the tip of Maine. Winter storm warnings issued by the National Weather Service have already gone into effect for parts of the Mid-Atlantic through Monday morning, with the forecast projecting up to a half-foot (15 centimeters) of snow.

Hindenburg Research, whose reports resulted in wiping out billions of dollars of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his companies, has been shut down, its founder Nate Anderson announced Wednesday.

The tax deadline for some small businesses affected by severe weather in 2024 is drawing near, the IRS is reminding owners

Consumers in a handful of states are paying to help make the mattress industry more eco-friendly — and more states may follow suit?

Starz canceled Shining Vale and removed it from its platform, the show is now available for streaming on Max. The horror-comedy series, starring Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear, can be watched once again.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Companies worldwide are expected to spend 50% more on adopting generative AI (GenAI) technologies in 2025 compared to last year, according to a report from an American technology research and IT advisory firm. This, even as analysts and management are divided on how the technology’s rise will impact India’s $254-billion IT services industry.

Regional supermarket chain Stop & Shop is installing kiosks in all of its stores in the Northeast U.S. to make digital-only coupons more accessible