Dow Jones futures were little changed overnight, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. The major indexes rebounded strongly Wednesday as Treasury yields tumbled from 12-year highs as the Bank of England resumed bond buying. X Biogen (BIIB) and Japanese partner Eisai reported their Alzheimer’s drug reduced cognitive decline in a late-stage trial. BIIB … Read more
Welcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.” Lin-Manuel Miranda has a message to the trolls who have targeted their hate at Halle Bailey, star of the live-action adaptation of “The Little Mermaid” — watch Brandy in “Cinderella.” “I’m old enough to remember that being a game changer for my generation,” Miranda told me during a … Read more
Nearly two years after Donald Trump launched his relentless and baseless assault on the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election — a scheme that culminated in his supporters’ Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S Capitol — a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that less than half of Americans (46%) now believe that candidates “should … Read more
Aaron Rodgers follows up on Jumbotron-gate originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago Aaron Rodgers is suddenly backtracking on his mysterious postgame interview last week. Rodgers raised some eyebrows after Sunday’s win over Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers when he implied that he saw some revealing information courtesy of the Jumbotron. The Packers quarterback … Read more
A federal appeals court said a law shielding U.S. government employees from tort claims could potentially protect former President Donald Trump from a defamation lawsuit brought by a New York writer. E. Jean Carroll, a former advice columnist for Elle magazine, claimed in a 2019 book that Mr. Trump raped her in the dressing room … Read more
Netflix has removed the LGBTQ tag from its Ryan Murphy-created Jeffrey Dahmer limited series, “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.” The show, starring Evan Peters as the notorious serial killer, launched Sept. 21 on the streaming platform and was categorized under the LGBTQ tag for at least two days. A source with knowledge of … Read more
Mike McDaniel is three games into his career as an NFL head coach and already dealing with something new and perhaps unexpected. All of a sudden, his Miami Dolphins are being hyped up. That’s what a 3-0 start will do. The Dolphins are the talk of the league after beating the Buffalo Bills. They, not … Read more
Ray Dalio added his name to a growing list of critics of the U.K.’s new spending plan, unveiled last week by Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng. The billionaire investor—who founded what is now the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, in 1975—argued the plan’s aggressive tax cuts will raise … Read more
Arnold Schwarzenegger visited Auschwitz where he said it’s time to “terminate” hatred. While the message is one surely people can get behind, some seemed to be more interested in how he signed the guestbook. Schwarzenegger, who received the inaugural Award for Fighting Hatred from the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation earlier this year, gave a speech … Read more
