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A year has passed since George Floyd’s murder, half of the adults in the United States have gotten a COVID-19 vaccine, and a man lost in the wilderness has been found. ? Hey, hey, hey! It’s Laura. Happy Tuesday. I’ve got more news than you can shake a stick at. But first, coming to a sky near you! ? A super-blood-flower-corn-planting-milk […]

Nordstrom said its first-quarter net sales were down 13% relative to the same period in fiscal 2019. The retailer reported a wider-than-expected loss for the period, too. The department store chain reaffirmed its fiscal 2021 outlook, despite retail rivals Macy's and Kohl's hiking their annual forecasts in recent days. In this article JWN Nordstrom reported Tuesday better-than-expected first-quarter sales, as […]

San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly told CNBC on Tuesday that she's optimistic about the economy but not ready to change policy. She described herself as "firmly in the transitory camp" when it comes to her views on inflation. "I think of it as really good news, but it's way too early to declare victory," she said of the […]

WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia has sued Amazon, accusing the online retail giant of anticompetitive practices in its treatment of sellers on its platform. The practices have raised prices for consumers and stifled innovation and choice in the online retail market, the district’s attorney general alleges in an antitrust suit. The suit filed Tuesday in the District of Columbia court […]

Domino’s Pizza Inc. (NYSE: DPZ) has been a huge beneficiary of the reopening trade as one of the top restaurant stocks. Offering a food delivery service over the course of the pandemic was great insulation for the business and maintaining its revenue stream, but with reopening underway comparable sales might not be favorable, at least according to Goldman Sachs. Goldman […]

Coronavirus drives demand for swimming pools Jeff Flock on coronavirus, swimming pools The life of the pool party may be in short supply this year.  A chlorine shortage is hitting the swimming pool industry as prices skyrocket from the demand as summer kicks off next month.  "We do a lot of trichlor tablets and they’re just impossible to get," Michael […]

As outrage boiled across the country one year ago following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, I spent an afternoon reaching out to people across college football with one question: Where were the coaches?  It had become clear pretty quickly that athletes were going to play a lead role in demanding […]

LE PECQ, France — Social media influencers in France with hundreds of thousands of followers say a mysterious advertising agency offered to pay them if they agreed to smear Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine with negative fake stories. French YouTuber Léo Grasset was among those contacted. He said Tuesday that he was offered a potentially lucrative but also hush-hush deal to make […]