Month: November 2023
What caused the WeWork bankruptcy, and why does it matter?
Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — WeWork, the office-sharing company that experienced a dazzling rise and sudden decline that came to symbolize the excesses of business startup culture, filed for bankruptcy on Monday. In [Read More…]
Zack Snyder’s Netflix epic ‘Rebel Moon — Part One’ getting limited theatrical run
Netflix/Clay Enos Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, the first installment of director Zack Snyder‘s two-part, Netflix-bound sci-fi epic, is headed to theaters. The movie, about the freedom fighters who take on [Read More…]
‘Reacher’ is back “bigger and badder” than before in new trailer
Prime Video/Brooke Palmer On Tuesday, Prime Video released the trailer to the second season of its hit action drama Reacher. Hulking Alan Ritchson is back as author Lee Child‘s bruising former military investigator, and the [Read More…]
Jeremy Renner discusses “will to be here” in thank you message detailing his recovery from near-fatal accident
Marvel Studios Jeremy Renner is thanking those who have been pulling for him since a near-fatal snowplow accident outside his Nevada home on January 1. Alongside a mirrored-image photo titled “Rest and Recovery” featuring an [Read More…]
Down day for corn, soybeans, wheat
Soybeans were lower on profit taking and technical selling, unable to follow through on the early gains. Crop weather remains mixed in Brazil, too dry in some areas, too wet in others. 51% of Brazil’s [Read More…]
USDA grant will help North Iowa ethanol plant expand
A north Iowa ethanol plant will use a more than $2 million federal grant to increase processing capacity. USDA Rural Development Senior Advisor Cindy Axne tells Brownfield Golden Grain Energy in Mason City is the [Read More…]
2024 Clean Fuels Conference
Brownfield’s Brent Barnett will cover the 2024 Clean Fuels Conference in Fort Worth, Texas February 5-8, 2024. …
CME milk & cash dairy closed lower Tuesday
Milk futures and the cash dairy markets were lower Tuesday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. November Class III milk was down $0.11 at $17.06. December was down $0.24 at $16.87. January was down $0.16 at $17.04. February was down $0.15 at $17.56. March through [Read More…]
FAS sees modest decline in China soybean imports
The USDA’s Foreign Ag Service expects China to import slightly fewer soybeans this marketing year. The FAS pegs 2023/24 purchases by the world’s largest buyer of beans at 100 million tons, 860,000 below the 2022/23 [Read More…]
Man arrested with gun at park near US Capitol, police say
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A man with a gun has been arrested in a park near the U.S. Capitol, according to Capitol Police. “USCP Officers just arrested a man with a gun in [Read More…]
A year out from 2024 elections, eyes turn to youth voter turnout
adamkaz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the one-year countdown to the 2024 general election begins, candidates are looking to the youth vote as a means to grow support. Building off of 2020 voter turnout, one [Read More…]
‘The Bear’ star Jeremy Allen White on the paparazzi + copping an attitude when a superhero role came calling
FX/Matt Dinerstein Jeremy Allen White was a working actor but arguably unknown before FX’s The Bear made him a Golden Globe winner. His success came with a downside, he tells the new issue of British [Read More…]
AI a main sticking point in ongoing SAG-AFTRA-studio negotiations
David Livingston/Getty Images The representatives for SAG-AFTRA and Hollywood’s top producers will reportedly return to the bargaining table Tuesday, following Monday’s session that extended into the night. The performers’ union told its members it had [Read More…]
Gwyneth Paltrow names the actor who could get her back on the big screen
Taylor Hill/FilmMagic These days, Gwyneth Paltrow has traded acting for running her lifestyle brand Goop, but she says there is one actor who would get her back on the screen. “Well, it would be very [Read More…]
Britain’s ‘loneliest’ sheep rescued from remote Scottish cliff
Nigel Hicks/Getty Images (LONDON) — Britain’s so-called “loneliest sheep” has been rescued after being stranded for at least two years at the foot of a remote cliff in the Scottish highlands. Fiona the sheep was [Read More…]
Why women, children are disproportionately impacted by the conflict in Gaza: Experts
Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Women and children in Gaza are bearing the brunt of the Israel-Hamas war, according to United Nations agencies and experts. More than 10,000 people have been killed [Read More…]
ABC’s Muir presses Netanyahu on whether he takes responsibility for Oct. 7 intelligence failures
ABC News (NEW YORK) — In an exclusive interview with ABC News’ World News Tonight anchor David Muir, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged he bears some responsibility for the intelligence failures that resulted in [Read More…]
Four charged after fully functional solid gold toilet called ‘America’ stolen from Winston Churchill’s birthplace
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (LONDON) — Four people have been charged after a fully-functional solid gold toilet worth nearly $6 million was stolen from Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, police said. [Read More…]
Netanyahu to ABC’s Muir: ‘No cease-fire’ without release of hostages
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once again rejected the idea of a cease-fire in Gaza unless hostages are released, speaking in an exclusive interview with ABC News “World News [Read More…]
SAG-AFTRA responds to studios’ “final offer”, and more
Deadline reports The Longest Yard is getting another remake at Paramount Pictures. The original 1974 film, starring Burt Reynolds as a former star quarterback serving time in prison, where he’s tasked with putting together a team of inmates to play the guards’ [Read More…]