Heather Gay is standing on the beach, her long blonde hair and pale yellow-caped dress blowing gingerly in the wind with the green-tinted waves behind her. The sky in Bermuda—or, perhaps, the filter chosen by editors to emulate the look of a Christopher Nolan film—is gray, an indicator of the storm about to crash down onto the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. Lisa Barlow, Meredit…
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On Thursday, trades handled by the world’s largest bank in the globe’s biggest market traversed Manhattan on a USB stick.
Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd.’s U.S. unit had been hit by a cyberattack, rendering it unable to clear swathes of U.S. Treasury trades after entities responsible for settling the transactions swiftly disconnected from the stricken systems. That fo…
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When Chinese home-buyer Zhiwei decided to purchase a luxury apartment at a development named Australia Villas back in 1997, it was billed as the apex of affluence.
Located outside China’s southern megacity Guangzhou, the sprawling complex was to have 292 buildings, including a gymnasium, spa, cinemas, and a private school. Boutiques and restaurants would dot its 2,000 acres, sales s…
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Xi Jinping renewed calls for China to step up the development of technology critical to national security, issuing a forceful reminder just as escalating U.S. sanctions threaten Beijing’s efforts to become self-reliant in semiconductors.
Invoking the so-called “whole nation system” that propelled China’s space and nuclear weapons programs, Xi exhorted top officials…
Read moreLas Vegas police have arrested a man in the deadly 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur, a long-awaited break in a case that has frustrated investigators and fascinated the public ever since the hip-hop icon was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip 27 years ago.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis was arrested early Friday morning, although the exact charge or charges were not immediately clear, accord…
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Spoilers for Welcome to Chippendales ahead
Before there was Magic Mike, there was Chippendales. Hulu’s limited series Welcome to Chippendales, premiering Nov. 22, tells the true story behind the revolutionary all-male revue founded by Somen “Steve” Banerjee in 1980s Los Angeles. But this tale of male stripper…
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2023 is shaping up to be a huge year for gaming, with almost wall-to-wall releases coming out at least once a month, though in some instances more like once a week. The new year could potentially bring on record-breaking sales, although delays of some of the year’s biggest games are always on the table, given the crowded release schedule.
It’s always difficult to predict where…
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After a shooting takes place outside New York City’s Rockefeller Center, the investigation that follows unearths secrets buried deep inside the mind of the young man accused of the violent crime, Danny Sullivan (Tom Holland), in Apple TV+’s new limited series The Crowded Room.
Set in 1979, the 10-episode psychological thriller is told through a series of interviews wi…
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The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City viewers got a taste of a different type of drama when Jen Shah, one of the cast members of the Bravo reality TV series, was arrested on March 30, 2021 in Salt Lake City for her alleged involvement in a national telemarketing fraud scheme. She was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with telemarketing and conspiracy to commit …
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Alex Burriss and Roi Fabito, known online as Alex and Roi Wassabi, have been making videos for 17 years. As “O.G. YouTubers” who have amassed over 10 million subscribers since the platform’s early days, they’ve been attending VidCon, an annual convention for fans to connect with their favorite online personalities, for nearly a decade. Back in the day, they used to know the vast majorit…
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