Month: January 2021

President Trump’s Seven Springs estate in Mount Kisco, New York, seen here Sept. 30, 2020. Johnny Milano | The Washington Post | Getty Images The Manhattan district attorney’s office has expanded its criminal probe of President Donald Trump’s company to include a sprawling property in Westchester County, New York. A lawyer for the town of
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On January 4, Dr. Dre was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after suffering a brain aneurysm. Dre, who updated fans on his well-being shortly after news of his hospitalization surfaced, was kept at Cedars-Sinai’s intensive care unit for 11 number of days. Now, Dre has been released from the hospital to return
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Jeff Housenbold, managing partner at SoftBank’s Vision Fund SoftBank SoftBank’s Jeff Housenbold, who led the Vision Fund’s investments in companies including DoorDash, OpenDoor and Wag, is leaving the firm later this year. SoftBank shook up the Silicon Valley investment world with the first Vision Fund in 2017, ultimately raising $100 billion, funded in large part
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Scream 5 will officially hit theaters one year from today, on January 14th, 2022. The official Twitter account for the highly anticipated sequel just made the announcement with an ominous tweet featuring the iconic Ghostface. “In ONE YEAR, I’ll know where to find you,” reads the caption. Ghostface is back, and he will definitely be
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Hot stuff: scientists have shown that a chemical in chilli peppers can boost the performance of solar cell. (Courtesy: © Tomas Castelazo, www.tomascastelazo.com / Wikimedia Commons) Researchers at the Skoltech Institute of Science and Technology in Russia have used chemical sensors and imaging software to determine – in a contactless way – when a chicken
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WASHINGTON — NASA officials expressed confidence that a key test of the Space Launch System scheduled for Jan. 16 will go well, keeping open the chances that the vehicle will make its long-delayed debut before the end of the year. NASA has scheduled a full-duration static-fire test of the SLS core stage at the Stennis
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Members of the National Guard arrive at the U.S. Capitol as Democratic members of the House prepare an article of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, U.S., January 12, 2021. Joshua Roberts | Reuters The Pentagon’s internal watchdog on Thursday announced an investigation into whether the military is doing enough to root out
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Los Angeles local Hope Sandoval burst onto the scene in the mid-’90s as the melancholy singer and founder of the indie dream pop band Mazzy Star … they released their sophomore album So Tonight That I Might See on Capitol Records in 1993 and their track “Fade Into You” landed on the Billboard Hot 100
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Jane Fraser, chief executive officer for Latin American at Citigroup Inc., speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Monday, April 29, 2019. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg via Getty Images Citigroup is scheduled to report fourth-quarter earnings before the opening bell Friday. Here’s what Wall Street expects: Earnings: $1.34 a
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