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‘Dune: Part Two’ delivers on box-office promise, surpassing $178 million in global debut: ‘A cinematic event’
Movie theaters were looking for a savior and “ Dune: Part Two ” is delivering on the promise. Armed with sandworms, big screen spectacle and the star power of Timothée Chalamet, Denis Villeneuve ’s science fiction epic stormed the North American box office this weekend earning $81.5 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Internationally, it earned $97 million, bringing
March 3, 2024
New ruling in SEC’s Coinbase insider trading lawsuit comes as a blow to the crypto industry as judge finds secondary token sales were securities
As the legal debate continues over whether sales of cryptocurrencies constitute securities, all eyes have been on a court case involving a Coinbase employee sharing insider information with his brother and a friend. While the main defendant, former Coinbase employee Ishan Wahi, and his brother have reached settlements with both the Department of Justice and
March 3, 2024
Swiss voters back boosting pensions—something they hadn’t done in 176 years—as high cost of living takes toll
Swiss voters backed a plan to raise pensions, the first time in the country’s history that social benefits got an increase via plebiscite. The proposal to introduce a 13th annual payout to pensioners was supported by 58.2% of the electorate and also met the additional requirement of being passed in the majority of Switzerland’s cantons. A second initiative to raise
March 3, 2024
America’s 4th-densest city has wiped out traffic fatalities by taking a page from Sweden and eliminating parking spots
Street parking was already scarce in Hoboken, New Jersey, when the death of an elderly pedestrian spurred city leaders to remove even more spaces in a bid to end traffic fatalities. For seven years now, the city of nearly 60,000 people has reported resounding success: Not a single automobile occupant, bicyclist or pedestrian has died in
March 2, 2024
DeSantis vetoes social media ban for kids, saying it’s actually too invasive of privacy
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed what would have been one of the most far-reaching social media bans for minors on Friday, and lawmakers are proposing new language that seeks to keep children under under 14 off of addictive platforms. The bill sent to the governor last week would have banned minors under 16 from popular social media
March 2, 2024
With thousands of Gazans facing starvation, U.S. military begins making emergency food drops
U.S. military C-130 cargo planes dropped food in pallets over Gaza on Saturday in the opening stage of an emergency humanitarian assistance authorized by President Joe Biden after more than 100 Palestinians who had surged to pull goods off an aid convoy were killed during a chaotic encounter with Israeli troops. Three planes from Air Forces Central dropped
March 2, 2024
Gaza cease-fire is up to Hamas now, Whie House says
March 2, 2024
Israel has essentially endorsed a framework of a proposed Gaza cease-fire and hostage release deal, and it is now up to Hamas to agree to it, a senior U.S. administration official said Saturday, a day before talks to reach an agreement were to resume in Egypt. International mediators have been working for weeks to broker a deal
Pay us $5.6 billion, say lawyers who led case against Musk’s pay package: ‘We are prepared to ‘eat our cooking”
The lawyers who successfully argued that a massive pay package for Tesla CEO Elon Musk was illegal and should be voided have asked the presiding judge to award them company stock worth $5.6 billion as legal fees. The attorneys, who represented Tesla shareholders in the case decided in January, made the request of the Delaware
March 2, 2024
Five Things to Know in Crypto This Week: BTC Strikes $64k While MSTR Surges 57%
MSTR Weekly Chart 020324 SEC v Ripple: SEC Extension Request Fuels Investor Optimism SEC v Ripple case-related updates garnered investor attention this week. On Tuesday (February 27), the SEC filed a request to extend the deadline to submit its remedy-related brief by one week to March 22. The filing also requested extensions to the deadlines
March 2, 2024
Apple got snubbed by Goldman Sachs and fell behind Microsoft after a turbulent week
Apple was removed from Goldman Sachs’ list of top stocks Friday after a turbulent week. Goldman’s “Conviction List” focuses on stocks that analysts expect to deliver strong returns.Is the Apple Heart the next great innovation? | What’s next for Apple?Goldman swapped Apple and pharmaceutical companies Merck and Vertex for biotech giant Amgen, crushed-stone producer Vulcan
March 1, 2024