British model Kate Moss took to the stand Wednesday morning as a witness for Johnny Depp’s legal team in the defamation case against his ex-wife, actor Amber Heard.
During her short testimony over a video call, Moss refuted a rumor that Heard had mentioned about Depp pushing Moss down a flight of stairs while they dated in the 1990s.
“[Depp] never pushed me, kicked me o…
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The COVID era has brought us many new experiences: mask-wearing, remote schooling, sheltering in place. The majority of these have been onerous and dreary. It’s amazing how energy-sapping it is to just have to wait for something to be over. But now at last we can do a new activity! An activity that will help reduce the spread of COVID! An activity that takes us places we haven’t bee…
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Many Americans will be getting a smaller tax refund this year as the tax credits offered as pandemic relief have reverted back to pre-pandemic levels, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is warning. Tax season officially began Jan. 23 and ends with the April 18 Tax Day filing deadline.
With the recent policy changes, financial planners say now is a good time for taxpayers to get a sense of…
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Federal Reserve officials raised interest rates by 75 basis points for the third consecutive time and forecast they would reach 4.6% in 2023, stepping up their fight to curb inflation that’s persisted near the highest levels since the 1980s.
In a statement Wednesday following a two-day meeting in Washington, the Federal Open Market Committee repeated that it “is highly attenti…
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When the journalist Michael Lewis announced in May that he was writing a book on Sam Bankman-Fried after spending months with the FTX crypto mogul in the Bahamas, it was anticipated to be the definitive account of an era-defining financial collapse. Lewis has a long history of deftly chronicling moments of social and economic sea change, from Liar’s Poker to Moneyball to
Salem is having a moment. This past July, Massachusetts passed a lot that officially exonerated Elizabeth Johnson, Jr., the last person accused of being a witch. On Oct. 7, an exhibit opened at the New-York Historical Society—offering details on the real history of the Salem witch trials.
And then, of course, there’s Hocus Pocus 2. The sequel to the 1993 cult classic w…
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We have centuries’ worth of stories about the ways boys relate—or don’t—to their mothers. But in the movies, reflections on how girls feel about their fathers, told from a woman’s point of view, are still relatively rare. That’s the territory of Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells’ gorgeous, resonant debut Aftersun.
The movie begins …
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The 2024 Grammy Awards took place Sunday night at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, with Trevor Noah returning to host for the fourth consecutive year. Following some recent ups and downs in the realm of awards show emceeing, the comedian stuck to his usual tone, politely poking fun at some of the night’s nominees but mostly serving as a hype man. He made jokes about Taylor Swift’s impac…
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