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Joseph Sanberg, a 46-year-old Jewish-American fintech entrepreneur long celebrated as a “social justice warrior” and a philanthropist who gave to Jewish and Israeli causes, has admitted in a plea deal to two counts of fraud totaling more than $248 million. The man once seen on stages alongside President Barack Obama and Vice President Kamala Harris, who drew Hollywood investors such …

Nearly four years later, Kumail Nanjiani‘s MCU future doesn’t look bright after the critical and commercial flop that was Eternals (2021). The Oscar nominee, who previously underwent a major physical transformation for the part of Kingo, noted that he “signed on for six movies,” thinking the Chloé Zhao-helmed movie would lead to more work with Marvel. “It came out, it …

The last sugar beet factory in California is closing after almost 80 years in business.  The Spreckels Sugar Company factory in Brawley in the Imperial Valley has already begun the closure process that will soon lead to the loss of 700 local jobs.  The Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative, which owns and runs the factory, said it could no longer …

Kumail Nanjiani says that he signed on for six Marvel movies when he was cast as the superhero Kingo in Marvel Studios’ “Eternals,” but that the film’s critical and commercial disappointment “shattered” him and led him to seek out therapy. The topic came up in Nanjiani’s appearance on fellow stand-up comedian Mike Birbiglia’s “Working It Out” podcast. Nanjiani revealed that …

Courtney Kidd was just 19 when she learned she’d eventually die if she didn’t get a new liver. The New York teen had been diagnosed five years earlier with Crohn’s disease, which causes inflammation in the digestive tract.   During a round of routine bloodwork, doctors noticed Kidd had elevated liver enzymes, proteins that help produce substances like bile to filter …

50 Years After ‘Born to Run,’ We Took a Trip to Springsteen Country  The Wall Street Journal Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ still speaks to a nation vacillating between hope and despair  The Conversation SONY MUSIC CELEBRATES 50 YEARS OF BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN’S ‘BORN TO RUN’ WITH FIRST OFFICIAL RELEASE OF ‘LONELY NIGHT IN THE PARK’  Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen Thrills Fans With 50-Year-Old …

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. It’s one of the deepest mysteries of the human mind: Do we all see the world the same way? In 1956, three social scientists set out to answer this question. From their offices at Northwestern University, Donald Campbell and …

The Minnesota State Fair has released its attendance numbers for the first two days of the fair, showing steady attendance but no broken records yet. Thursday’s opening day saw 137,148 people attend the fair, just under last year’s record-breaking opener, which saw 138,875 people attend in 2024. Friday saw the usual increase in fairgoers, with 153,988 fairgoers on the second …

Sandy Rosenthal, founder of Levees.org, stands in the Flooded House Museum where one of the levees breached in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The house was flooded, though the interior now is a recreation made by local artists. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR NEW ORLEANS — On a quiet street in the Gentilly neighborhood, a …

South Park is currently working its way through a different kind of season than fans have seen play out in years, but the newest episode of the animated series has made good with fans with one highly requested change to Randy Marsh after seven years. South Park Season 27 has been shifted over to a biweekly schedule with Comedy Central …