Sign on facade at shoe company Allbirds, Walnut Creek, California, August 25, 2025. Smith Collection | Archive Photos | Getty Images Retail traders stampeded into Allbirds after the troubled shoemaker slapped an artificial intelligence label on its business, a set-up that market history suggests rarely ends well once the initial hype fades. Shares of the
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Ryan Gosling’s 2026 calendar release, Project Hail Mary, has been a box office hit, cementing itself as one of the best science fiction movies of recent memory, and a lot of that comes down to his performance. But that success wasn’t exactly guaranteed, especially when you factor in what he was up against on set.
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Illuminated logo for Pepsi on a soda fountain in Walnut Creek, California, March 4, 2026. Smith Collection | Gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images PepsiCo on Thursday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that topped analysts’ expectations as its struggling North American food business reported a return to volume growth. Shares of the company rose slightly in
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Princess Aisling can think of nothing more exciting than her upcoming 18th birthday, when surely she’ll be swept away by a “charming courtier” to live a life like in her favorite storybooks. The last thing she expects is to be awakened in the middle of the night at swordpoint by a brawny, brooding teenager, who
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A Nottinghamshire baby loss charity has reopened after a skip fire damaged its centre. Forever Stars, which supports families experiencing baby loss, said the Serenity Centre in Beeston was “back and operational” on 12 April after a rubbish fire the previous Tuesday. The charity said it believed the fire was started deliberately and according to
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There was a time, pre-Beychella—as in, Beyoncé’s historic 2018 Coachella headline performance—when the emblematic California music festival was known for its freewheeling, bohemian sensibility: A sun-drenched American counterpart to England’s muddy, gritty Glastonbury. That is no longer the case. Instead, Coachella today is representative of an America transformed by the Covid-19 pandemic, Donald Trump, and
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Government proposals to widen the Charity Commission’s powers to tackle extremism could suppress advocacy and campaigning, a group of charities and voluntary sector membership bodies have warned. The government’s Protecting What Matters social cohesion strategy, published last month, says it plans to strengthen the Charity Commission’s powers to tackle extremist abuse by “extending its ability
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Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 20th, 2026. Oscar Molina | CNBC Bank of America is scheduled to report first-quarter earnings before the opening bell Wednesday. Here’s what Wall Street expects: Earnings: $1.01 a share, according to LSEG Revenue:
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