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CBS turns to comedy to compete with cable and streaming

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

TV upfronts: ABC doubles down on funny, ESPN travels at the 'Speed of Live' and more news about the 2016-17 season May 18, 2016, 3:04 p.m. Let's be upfront about this: it's that time of year again. The networks are in the midst of the annual upfront frenzy. This is a series of events, mostly in...

Looking for a US President Not Bogged Down by Corruption? Good Luck

Sputnik International 

As the US presidential races pushes on, presumptive nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have both tried to highlight their differences. But Kevin Akin, Secretary of the California Peace and Freedom Party, and DC-based activist Eugene Puryear, say widespread corruption may reveal the two to be more alike than they may seem at first glance.

Lawsuit claims ad agency CEO 'pressured' female employee to get him free Viagra

BusinessInsider.com 

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The former president of Omnicom ad agency RAPP USA, Greg Andersen, has filed a lawsuit against the company's global CEO Alexei Orlov that claims complaints he made about his former boss's "harassment" of employees were a "substantial motivating factor" in the termination of his employment.

The suit, filed on Monday in a Los Angeles court claims Orlov, who became global CEO of RAPP in 2014, "was immediately a destructive force within the company."  (Adweek... Читать дальше...

Market Extra: Could this post-Fed bond selloff be a repeat of ‘taper tantrum’?

MarketWatch.com 

A spike in Treasury yields Wednesday, which posted their largest daily jump in five months after the Federal Reserve said it is open to hiking interest rates in June, fueled fears of a repeat of the 2013 “taper tantrum,” during which yields skyrocketed in a mere four months as government bonds got hammered.

Market Extra: Could this post-Fed bond selloff be a repeat of ‘taper tantrum’?

MarketWatch.com 

A spike in Treasury yields Wednesday, which posted their largest daily jump in five months after the Federal Reserve said it is open to hiking interest rates in June, fueled fears of a repeat of the 2013 “taper tantrum,” during which yields skyrocketed in a mere four months as government bonds got hammered.



Lowe's, inContact and Andersons jump, while Target skids

«Seattle Post-Intelligencer» (seattlepi.com) 

The home improvement retailer posted strong results in the first quarter as the housing market boomed. HC2 Holdings went public with an offer to buy the agribusiness company, but Andersons rejected the bid. The Spam maker reported strong results and guidance, but investors worried about some of its profit margins.

Bolivia police, workers clash at protest over plant shutdown

«Gazette Times» (gazettetimes.com) 

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Anti-riot police and workers clashed in Bolivia's capital during a protest against the government's decision to close the country's largest state-run textile company.

Barca fume at Catalan flag ban

Goal.com 

After the government's decision ahead of the Copa del Rey final, Barcelona labelled it a breach of freedom of speech

A novice's lucky find in a remote Montana badlands just turned out to be a new dinosaur

BusinessInsider.com 

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Who’s Who on Trump’s Supreme Court Wish List

WSJ.com 

Donald Trump on Wednesday disclosed the names of 11 candidates he would consider to fill the current vacancy at the U.S. Supreme Court. The list includes six federal appeals court judges appointed by former Republican President George W. Bush, as well as five state Supreme Court justices with conservative credentials.

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The world's most powerful military alliance just reached its arm out to another nation

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Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic will travel to Brussels on Wednesday to meet with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and sign an accession agreement, the AFP reports.

The agreement will be the first step towards making Montenegro the 29th member of NATO.

"It is an historic day for the alliance, for Montenegro and for the stability of the Western Balkans," Stoltenberg told reporters in Brussels, the AFP notes.

"The enlargement of... Читать дальше...

Touring Pittsburgh, One Pierogi At a Time

WSJ.com 

Pittsburgh didn’t invent the pierogi, but there’s no place as devoted to this Old World comfort food. Here are 5 essential places to find it.

3 big-name commencement speakers with wildly different views made the same point about political correctness this year

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Barack Obama, Clarence Thomas, and Michael Bloomberg all walked on to a college campus.

No, that's not the start of a bad joke. Rutgers University, Hillsdale College, and the University of Michigan chose the three men as their respective commencement speakers.

While the liberal two-term President, conservative Supreme Court justice, and Independent former New York City mayor may hold conflicting opinions about the world, their addresses... Читать дальше...

How the Dow Jones industrial average fared on Wednesday

«TDN» (tdn.com) 

NEW YORK (AP) — New signs that interest rates may be heading higher sent stocks flitting between gains and losses Wednesday, but the major indexes ended up closing pretty much where they started. Investors dumped utilities and other high dividend…

How the Dow Jones industrial average fared on Wednesday

«Seattle Post-Intelligencer» (seattlepi.com) 

NEW YORK (AP) — New signs that interest rates may be heading higher sent stocks flitting between gains and losses Wednesday, but the major indexes ended up closing pretty much where they started. Investors dumped utilities and other high dividend payers, but bank stocks rose. Bond prices fell, sending long-term interest rates sharply higher.


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