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At long last she's finally free.

Judge ends Britney Spears conservatorship after 13 years

A Los Angeles court has ended Britney Spears’s conservatorship, bringing to a close the 13-year legal arrangement the pop star has ripped as “abusive” and securing victory for her fans' "Free Britney" movement.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny ruled Friday that the conservatorship would come to an end immediately, Spears’s attorney Matthew Rosengart told reporters after a hearing.

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Coburn retires from NHL after 16 seasons

Braydon Coburn retired from the NHL on Friday after 16 NHL seasons.

The 36-year-old defenseman last played in the 2020-21 season when he had two assists in 19 games for the Ottawa Senators and New York Islanders.

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Sixers assistant coach Dave Joerger steps away from post after cancer diagnosis

Philadelphia 76ers assistant coach Dave Joerger, previously the head coach for the Memphis Grizzlies and Sacramento Kings, announced Saturday he will step away from his position after being diagnosed with "a treatable form of cancer."

Joerger said he planned to rejoin the team after completing the treatment process.

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Trump reportedly sells ‘crown jewel’ hotel; new owners to dump his name

Donald Trump is reportedly selling his D.C. hotel, the property once billed as the “crown jewel” of his real-estate empire but has since turned into a big-time money-loser.

The Wall Street Journal says CGI Merchant Group will buy the rights to the Trump International Hotel in Washington for $375 million.

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U.S. journalist freed from Myanmar jail with ex-diplomat's aid

BANGKOK (AP) — American journalist Danny Fenster, sentenced only days ago to 11 years hard labor in Myanmar, has been freed and is on his way home, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson said Monday.

Richardson said in a statement that Fenster had been handed over to him in Myanmar and would return to the U.S. via Qatar over the next day and a half.

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Texas state lawmaker leaves Democratic Party for GOP

Texas state Rep. Ryan Guillen announced on Monday that he is departing the Democratic Party to join the GOP.

“After much consideration and prayer with my family, I feel that my fiscally conservative, pro-business, and pro-life values are no longer in-step with the Democrat Party of today, and I am proudly running as a Republican to represent House District 31,” Guillen said in a statement, according to the Texas Tribune.

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Really Smart Move A-Fraud. :roll:

Timberwolves fined $250K for reportedly violating NBA rules with offseason workout near A-Rod's Miami home

The Minnesota Timberwolves have been fined $250,000 by the NBA for violating league rules against arranging or paying for offseason workouts outside of that team's home market, the league announced Monday. The violations took place in September. The workouts took place in Miami, and according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, they were centered around the home of former baseball star Alex Rodriguez. The team reportedly ended a week of workouts with a dinner at his home.

Rodriguez and business partner Marc Lore agreed to buy the Timberwolves from longtime owner Glen Taylor in May. The two are still technically only limited partners, but will assume control of the franchise from Taylor in the coming years. Rodriguez has been spotted attending games in Minnesota this season, though, and is seemingly beginning to take a bigger role within the organization as ownership transitions to him and Lore.

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Blake James out as athletic director of Miami Hurricanes

Miami athletic director Blake James is out with the school, two days after the Hurricanes' football team lost at Florida State.

The school, which described James' departure as a mutual agreement to part ways, said in a statement that a national search for the next AD would begin immediately.

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New York sanitation workers suspended amid probe into fake vaccine cards

A group of several dozen sanitation workers in New York City has been suspended without pay as officials investigate whether the employees used counterfeit vaccine cards in order to circumvent the city's vaccine mandate, according to a report from ABC 7.

Spokesperson Diane Struzzi told the television station, "[The Department of Investigations] is aware of allegations involving the issuance of bogus vaccination cards and declines further comment."

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Cody Rhodes no longer on Twitter

AEW Executive Vice President Cody Rhodes has left Twitter.

Rhodes announced this past Friday during an appearance on Busted Open Radio that he was planning to leave Twitter due to negativity and sniping on the social media platform. He added that he would be taking his social media activities to Instagram.

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Oregon tax cheat owned millions in real estate and businesses but made himself look like a pauper to collect food stamps, sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison.
An Oregon computer consultant who owned millions of dollars worth of property and businesses has been sentenced to 3 ½ years in prison after a complex and decades-long effort to avoid paying his taxes.

Robert Andrew Lund, 63, of Lebanon, Ore., had gone to such lengths to hide his income from his computer company, rental properties, health food store, bookstore and scuba diving business, that he even collected food stamps and Medicaid benefits, prosecutors said.

Lund, who worked at Hewlett Packard in the 1970s and later built a successful computer programming consultancy, pleaded guilty in July to charges of tax evasion, failure to file personal income taxes and stealing government benefits. He was sentenced this week to 41 months in federal prison.

On one food stamp application, Lund claimed he was a party-time handyman who made just $810 a month. Prosecutors said while this occurred, Lund really owned property and businesses worth millions.
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Goodbye Staples Center, hello Crypto.com. The iconic Staples Center, where the L.A. Lakers play, has sold its naming rights to Crypto.com for $700 million.
The iconic arena in downtown Los Angeles, which has been home to both the Lakers and Clippers since 1999, will be renamed on Christmas Day.

It will now be Crypto.com Arena, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania and confirmed by AEG and the cryptocurrency exchange, the L.A. Times reported. The deal is believed to be the largest venue naming rights deal in United States history.

Crypto.com paid more than $700 million for the 20-year naming rights, according to the Times.
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I wonder if the payment was made in dollars or cryptocurrency.
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DaniLeigh charged with assault after altercation with DaBaby

The clash between the singer and the MC, with whom she has a baby daughter, has played out on social media as a real-time breakup.

The clash between rapper DaBaby and singer DaniLeigh, who have a 3-month-old daughter, played out on social media this week, with fans and critics alike choosing sides in their apparent real-time breakup. The episode has resulted in two counts of simple assault for DaniLeigh.

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Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello Break Up After More Than 2 Years

Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello's friendship is "stronger than ever" but the same cannot be said of their relationship.

On Wednesday, Nov. 17, the pop stars announced that they have broken up after dating for more than two years. Camila and Shawn wrote on their respective Instagram Stories, "Hey guys, we've decided to end our romantic relationship but our love for one another as humans is stronger than ever."

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Donald Trump Jr. event canceled after Chase bank ends deal with Missouri conservative group - Missouri Independent
The Defense of Liberty PAC hired WePay, a payment processor owned by JPMorgan Chase, for the Dec. 3 event at the St. Charles Convention Center, the group’s founder, former state Rep. Paul Curtman, said Wednesday.

On Nov. 9, the company notified Curtman that it had canceled the contract, refunded the $30,000 already paid for tickets and would not do business with the group in the future.

“It seems you’re using WePay Payments for one or more of the activities prohibited by our terms of service,” a copy of the message, forwarded to The Independent, states. “More specifically: Per our terms of service, we are unable to process for hate, violence, racial intolerance, terrorism, the financial exploitation of a crime, or items or activities that encourage, promote, facilitate, or instruct others regarding the same.”

Those terms are in an entry under the general heading of “Illegal” in the WePay list of prohibited activities.

Curtman said he is puzzled by the decision. WePay has not responded to his messages seeking more information, he said.

“My personal sense of why they did this is kind of along the same lines we have been seeing in our culture in recent years,” Curtman said. “If someone has a different idea politically, there is an attempt to silence them or shut them down.”

Neither JPMorgan Chase or its WePay subsidiary has responded to an inquiry from The Independent seeking comment.

“It threw a wrench right into the middle of everything,” Curtman said. “We had vendors and small businesses and other people who were relying on this as part of their business. We are going to get back on track.”

Curtman founded the Defense of Liberty group. He used that name for annual dinners while he was in office and has worked with Sen. Bill Eigel and former Sen. Jim Lembke to expand the organization and give it a higher profile.

The political action committee was organized in July and it held a fundraiser in August with conservative media personality Candace Owens.
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CVS to close 900 drugstores in the next three years.
CVS Health Corp will shut about 900 stores over the next three years, it said on Thursday as the company tries to adapt to changing consumer preferences by pivoting to new store formats that offer more health services.

As part of the new strategy, the company also created a new position of chief pharmacy officer and appointed executive vice president of specialty pharmacy and product innovation Prem Shah to the role.

"We see this as consistent with our expected LT (long-term) strategy for CVS, moving to grow managed care and care delivery, while shrinking legacy bricks-and-mortar retail business," said Bernstein analyst Lance Wilkes in a note.
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I hope their closing of 300 drugstores doesn't created pharmacy deserts where people in the inner cities and rural areas no longer have access to a nearby pharmacy.
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This process is more about creating deserts for the digitally left behind. The most negative impact is on the very poor, the displaced, and other such groups that this culture simply no longer wants to bother with.
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Number6 wrote: Thu Nov 18, 2021 11:23 am CVS to close 900 drugstores in the next three years.


I hope their closing of 300 drugstores doesn't created pharmacy deserts where people in the inner cities and rural areas no longer have access to a nearby pharmacy.
You may be right. From this CNN story:
Neil Saunders, retail industry analyst and managing director of GlobalData, said in a note to investors that the closures are the result of CVS having "too many overlapping locations" and the dilapidated state of its stores that has "pushed some of them into the downward spiral of irrelevance."

"Too many stores are stuck in the past with bad lighting, depressing interiors, messy merchandising, and a weak assortment of products. They are not destinations or places where people go out of anything other than necessity," Saunders said.
Get rid of the older stores serving poor areas.
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gounion wrote: Thu Nov 18, 2021 12:05 pm You may be right. From this CNN story:



Get rid of the older stores serving poor areas.
Of course they will abandon non profitable areas just like FED EX will abandon mailing your letter to the far out places once USPS is destroyed by righty.

Cant blame a corp for doing that which is why you NEVER let them control the market...no matter what it is.
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Harris's communications director to depart next month

Vice President Harris' communications director, Ashley Etienne, will be leaving her White House role next month, an official confirmed to The Hill on Thursday.

"Ashley is valued member of the Vice President’s team, who has worked tirelessly to advance the goals of this administration," a White House official said in a statement. "She is leaving the office in December to pursue other opportunities."

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DiDi Louzada Suspended 25 Games For Testing Positive For Drostanolone, Testosterone

DiDi Louzada of the New Orleans Pelicans has been suspended without pay for twenty-five games for violating the terms of the NBA/NBPA Anti-Drug Program by testing positive for Drostanolone and Testosterone, it was announced today by the NBA.

Louzada’s suspension will begin with tonight’s game between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Pelicans at Smoothie King Center.

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Neo-Nazis Who Plotted to Kill Antifa Activist Sentenced to Prison

One of the most disturbing and bizarre sagas involving an infamous American neo-Nazi terror group came to an end in a Georgia court today. Luke Austin Lane, 23, and Jacob Kaderli, 21, two members of The Base, were sentenced to six and 13 years in prison, respectively, for their role in an assassination plot against an antifascist activist and his wife.

“This case is a tragedy on many levels,” said Judge John Niedrach of the Floyd County Court, where the crimes were tried, noting the particularly gruesome nature of the planned killings.

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Texas Democrat Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson announces retirement at end of term

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (Texas) announced on Saturday that she will be retiring once she finishes her current term, becoming the latest Democrat to announce she is forgoing reelection, according to The Dallas Morning News.

Johnson, who has served in Congress for close to three decades and has broken barriers in both Texas politics and the House, said she decided against running again despite receiving support for a reelection bid.

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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer out as Manchester United manager after string of poor results

London (CNN) Manchester United have confirmed the departure of manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, one day after the club suffered a humiliating 4-1 Premier League defeat at Watford.

Solskjaer has overseen a disappointing start to the season, with the club sitting in seventh place in the Premier League. They have lost four of their past five league matches, including a 5-0 home thumping at the hands of rivals Liverpool.

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Luke Walton fired as Kings’ coach after slow 6-11 start to season

There is pressure from Kings’ owner Vivek Ranadive in Sacramento to make the playoffs and end the team’s 15-year postseason drought (tied for the longest in NBA history).

Luke Walton paid the price for that pressure — Walton has been fired as head coach of the Kings, according to multiple reports. The move came after the team dropped 7-of-8 and fell to 6-11 on the season. Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN broke the news (other reporters have confirmed it).

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