Powerball Jackpot Passes $1 Billion—Here’s What The Winner Will Take Home After Taxes

ToplineThe Powerball jackpot reached $1.04 billion—the fourth largest in the history of the game and second largest this year—after no tickets aligned with the six numbers drawn on Saturday night, but the prize a potential winner will take home is significantly…

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Writers’ Strike Is Over: ‘Jennifer Hudson Show’ Announces Return Date As These Other Shows Return To Air

ToplineThe Writers Guild of America strike is officially coming to an end after nearly six months, and shows are beginning to set their return dates, with network late-night shows and HBO talk shows eager to return to their slots within just…

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How Small Businesses Are Spending Their Marketing Dollars In 2024

It’s hard to overstate how broad the marketing strategies of small businesses have become. Before the Internet, small companies relied on print and traditional media advertisements, cold calling, and tight business networks. Even landing space in the Yellow Pages was considered…

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Big Health Insurers Expand Medicare Advantage To Even More Markets For 2024 Coverage

Health insurance companies that are the biggest players in privatized Medicare Advantage coverarge, including Cigna, CVS Health’s Aetna, Elevance Health, Humana and UnitedHealth Group are launching plans in scores of new counties for 2024. With more than half of the nation’s…

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Cleveland Cavaliers Shouldn’t Panic If Donovan Mitchell Bypasses An Extension

Donovan Mitchell is eligible to sign a three-year contract extension with the Cleveland Cavaliers until Oct. 23. If he decides against doing so, he'll still have two guaranteed years remaining on his contract before a $37.1 million player option in 2025-26…

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3 Ways Service Industry Businesses Are Leveling Up Their Client Experiences With Tech

By its very nature, the service industry is heavily geared toward creating deep, personalized customer experiences. That’s especially relevant for meeting modern consumers’ desire for customization. And make no mistake: Shoppers want to feel like they’re being treated as individuals. One…

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This Entrepreneur Did His Homework On Airport Restaurants. Next Came The Profits.

Randy Hazelton, CEO of H&H Hospitality, expects $50 million of revenue this year operating quick-serve eateries in airports. Randy Hazelton learned a simple maxim in elementary school: Do your homework. Unfortunately, he had to go bankrupt before he embraced it. Hazelton,…

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Hannity Versus Newsom: Debunking The Energy Independence Controversy

Following last week’s Republican debate, conservative Fox News host Sean Hannity and California Gov. Gavin Newsom discussed some comments Mike Pence made on energy independence. Pence said that when Donald Trump was president, "We achieved energy independence. We became a net…

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Lebanon Wins The 2023 Women’s International Friendly Tournament

The SAFF Women's International Friendly Tournament is an invitational women's football tournament held in Saudi Arabia. The tournament was initiated by the Women’s Football Department within the Saudi Arabian Football Association (SAFF) with the aim of fostering the growth of women's…

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iKON Talk Timing For First U.S. Tour, Label Change & Solo Music: ‘It Was Really Hard But A Lot Of Fun’

Under the vintage lights of Brooklyn’s gorgoeus Kings Theatre, iKON kicked off a long-awaited American leg of their Take Off World Tour earlier this month. While it marked the eight-year-old boy band’s first time properly touring the States, it was a…

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Charlie Watts’ Fine Books And Rare Jazz Memorabilia Collections Ring Up $4.6 Million At Christie’s

Charlie Watts' rare-book and jazz memorabilia collections exited their two-part sale at Christie's with impressive results on September 28-9, ringing up a total, minus fees, of $4.6 million and change for 500-plus lots, the stellar lot being an inscribed first edition…

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The Russians Knew Exactly Where To Strike Kharkiv’s Air-Defenses. The Locations Were In Soviet Archives.

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinThe bombardment that began Russia’s wider war on Ukraine in the early morning hours of Feb. 24, 2022 was ineffective. Ukrainian brigades had repositioned from their garrisons into the forests. Ukrainian warplanes dispersed to small…

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Costco’s Partnership With Sesame Is Just The Beginning For The Wholesale Retailer’s Healthcare Ambitions

Costco is one of the most celebrated brands in the world, lauded for its powerful brand recognition, loyal customer base, and incredibly commanding market position. The company has positioned itself as an icon during both good and bad economic times, given…

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A Look At Sávio, Girona’s Brazilian Helping Battle Barcelona And Real Madrid

It’s well-known that Europe is the ideal destination for most young, homegrown Brazilian soccer stars. Even so, Barcelona—and Real Madrid especially—typically enjoy the upper hand when vying for the best picks from the South American market. At least, they do in…

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Mapping Paris Fashion Week’s Front-Rows: Who’s Who At The Victoria Beckham Show

The Beckham family is nothing if not well-connected to a vast number of people, and those connections were out in force in support of fashion-maven and family matriarch Victoria's spring-summer '24 show on September 29 in Paris, as the world's most…

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