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Brooke Shields was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild in late May, and now leads the union of more than 51,000 actors and stage managers on Broadway and across the United States. The longtime actress is primarily known for her film roles, but has also appeared on Broadway five times, and this will be her first guild role. Now, a few months into her new role, Shields spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about why she chose to add an unpaid volunteer role to her busy life that already includes a new business venture, a new book and an acting…

Casa Gessi is a new luxury showroom located in New York City’s SoHo shopping district.Gessi Wellness is changing the way we live and design our living spaces. In fact, in an interview with Forbes, Khoi Vo, executive director of the American Society of Interior Designers, said that wellness is “the most important trend influencing single-family home design right now.” This is good news for Gessi, the luxury Italian furniture company that specialises in creating wellness-focused home and leisure environments with premium bathroom and kitchen taps and accessories. The 30-year-old brand recently opened its first U.S. showroom at 214 Lafayette Street,…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its first-ever guidelines on antibiotic contamination from manufacturing. The new guidelines on wastewater and solid waste management for antibiotic production shed light on this important yet neglected issue ahead of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) to be held on 26 September 2024. The emergence and spread of AMR caused by antibiotic contamination has the potential to globally undermine the effectiveness of antibiotics, including medicines produced at contaminated manufacturing sites. Despite the widespread documented high levels of contamination from antibiotics, the issue is largely unregulated and quality…

September 3, 2024 – High School This week marks the full start of the high school fall sports season. The “soft open” may have been delayed last week, as high school football and field hockey began. Cross country also began for some teams. But this week, all other sports are in… September 3, 2024 – Local Sports Last weekend, New England Patriots coach Jerrod Mayo announced Jacoby Brissett would be the team’s starting quarterback when the regular season begins this Sunday at Cincinnati, and then walked away with a bang. Blink and you’ll…

WASHINGTON (AP) — V.P. Kamala Harris President Trump is scheduled to propose on Wednesday to increase federal tax incentives for small business start-up costs tenfold, from $5,000 to $50,000, in hopes of spurring a record 25 million new small business applications over his four-year term if he wins the 2019 presidential election. November. She is expected to announce the plan during a campaign rally in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, area, a rare development outside the Midwest and Sun Belt battlegrounds that have been the Democratic candidate’s focus in his race against the Republican former president. Donald Trump. A Harris campaign…

Get our FREE US Election Countdown newsletterImportant news about money and politics in the race for the White HouseThere are US presidential elections that don’t matter. Even if Bill Clinton had lost to Bob Dole in 1996, or George W. Bush had lost to John Kerry on the other side of the millennium, there is no reason to believe we would live in a significantly different world now. So don’t tweet “journalists say that all the time” when I suggest that November 5, 2024, is a turning point in history.What is the special importance of this election? There is also…

US Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has warned his Republican rival, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, that history will judge him “unfairly” for paving the way for right-wing policies that are out of touch with the American people.In an interview with Punchbowl News conducted at the Democratic National Convention in August and published on Monday, Schumer blamed McConnell for enabling Donald Trump’s reshaping of American politics and the judiciary. Schumer argued that McConnell played a number of roles in helping to shift the Supreme Court sharply to the right through the former president’s appointments of three Supreme Court justices, including abolishing…

DirecTV Chief Financial Officer Ray Carpenter said the company will continue to fight “for as long as necessary” amid a streaming rights dispute with Disney that has resulted in many Disney channels, including ABC and ESPN, being unavailable to DirecTV customers. Carpenter said on a conference call with media and analysts on Tuesday that the satellite TV company is pushing “simplified, genre-based” packages that allow customers to choose the type of content they want to pay for — organized by genres like news, family and sports — as well as give them more flexibility in choosing which channels to include…

Macron met on Tuesday with conservative party leaders, including Senate President Gerard Larcher and Laurent Wauquier, speaker of the conservative lower house, and the talks appeared to solidify Bertrand’s position as the front-runner, according to people with knowledge of the meetings who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly. But by Tuesday afternoon, Beltran was already facing serious opposition to his appointment. The past 36 hours have left even veteran political commentators stumped, with the internet flooded with mocking memes and jokes: French journalist Diane de Fortanier tweeted a graph depicting the rise and…

The Tampa Bay Times has announced upcoming leadership changes within its editorial department.Carolyn Fox, editor in chief of the Tampa Bay Times, is stepping down. Fox will become editor of Maine Trust for Local News, which includes newspapers in Portland, Maine and other parts of the state. Fox’s last day with the Times will be Sept. 20.”I couldn’t be prouder of what she’s accomplished at The Times and am grateful for every day I had the opportunity to spend with her in our extraordinary newsroom,” said Editor in Chief Mark Katjes.Fox’s departure has led to several senior editor changes: Michael…