Paramount Begins Next Round of Layoffs, Cutting Staff by 15 Percent

As the entertainment industry continues to downsize, Paramount launched its second round of layoffs on Tuesday, aiming to reduce its workforce by 15% company-wide. “We are taking these steps to ensure the continued success of Paramount, and after today, 90 percent of these reductions will be complete,” said Paramount co-CEOs George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and […]
Absentee voting begins in Maryland, Mississippi

Maryland and Mississippi join a large and growing list of states that will open up early and absentee voting on Monday. Key lower-level races in early voting states today About 20 states are voting, including Wisconsin, Minnesota and Virginia. While the states beginning early voting today are not as competitive as the presidential election, Maryland's […]
Liberty’s WNBA title quest begins with Game 1 battle vs. Dream

The Liberty and its men's practice squad held an intense, physical scrimmage on the Barclays Center practice court on Saturday in preparation for Sunday's postseason opener against Atlanta. “Obviously, there was no crappy practice,” All-Star guard Sabrina Ionescu said. “No shooting practice, we were taped up, we were practicing live. The girls were in playoff […]
Oktoberfest, the world’s largest folk festival all things beer begins after ceremonial keg-tapping

Oktoberfest has begun. Mayor Dieter Reiter officially kicked off Oktoberfest at noon Saturday by popping the tap on the first keg of beer, signalling the start of the festival's 189th edition. Thousands of beer lovers celebrated the first clinking of mugs at Munich's fairgrounds during the world's largest folk festival. Munich will open its first […]
Virginia’s in-person early voting begins as election season picks up steam

Election season kicks into high gear on Friday, with Virginia becoming the first state to allow in-person early voting for the 2024 election cycle, and six other states — Arkansas, Idaho, Minnesota, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming — also opening up absentee voting with some limitations. Minnesota and Virginia lean Democratic, but have strong […]
Boeing begins layoffs amid labor union strike, controversy over CEO’s home purchase: ‘Very difficult time’

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg traveled to Seattle while 33,000 Boeing employees stood on the picket line. (Photos by Derrick Louis, Clarity Northwest Photography, and Laura Halliday, Realogix Sotheby's International Realty and KCPQ) Boeing is launching a series of layoffs in response to a strike by the company's largest labor union, it said in a statement […]
Federal Reserve begins policy meeting with interest rate cuts on deck

Gregory Daco, chief economist at EY-Parthenon, explained why the Fed will gradually lower interest rates and not be too aggressive in “making money.” of Federal Reserve System Tuesday kicks off a highly anticipated two-day meeting in which policymakers are expected to cut interest rates for the first time in four years as persistent inflation shows […]
Amazon to employees: In-person, 5-day work week begins next year

Woodshaw Financial Group Chairman DR Barton Analyses Amazon and IBM in “Varney & Co.” Starting next year, Amazon will begin expecting many employees to come to work in person five days a week. CEO Andy Jassy told Amazon employees on Monday that starting Jan. 2, the company will “return to working in offices just like […]
PGA Tour FedEx Cup Fall begins in Napa; here’s everything you need to know, including TV, odds

Less than two weeks after Scottie Scheffler won the Tour Championship in Atlanta, the FedExCup fall tournament begins with this week's ProCure Championship at Silverado Resort in Napa, California. A series of eight events FedExCup Fall There will also be plenty of opportunities for players who finish outside the top 50 in the 2024 FedEx […]
Daniel Jones’ quest to regain his vintage Giants form begins with favorable coincidence

It's just a freak coincidence, a stroke of luck, a stroke of good fortune. Intellectually, we all know this. Intellectually, we know that the list of must-haves that NFL schedule writers considered before assembling their vast maze was not something like this: 1. They'll play the Chiefs at home on the first day of the […]