Pamela Periconi

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People in Brief

6 days ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Pamela Periconi

Robert De Niro will receive an honorary Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, a culmination for the 81-year-old actor whose history with the French film festival stretches back half a century. In 1976, De Niro starred in two films — Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver” and Bernardo Bertolucci’s “1900” — that premiered in competition at Cannes.
Business in Brief

6 days ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Pamela Periconi

Expedia Group said Friday that reduced travel demand in the United States led to its weaker-than-expected revenue in the first quarter. Expedia, which owns the lodging reservation platforms Hotels.com and VRBO as well as an eponymous online travel agency, was the latest American company to report slowing business with both international visitors and domestic travelers. Airbnb and Hilton noted the same trends last week in their quarterly earnings reports.
News in Brief

6 days ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Pamela Periconi

A half-ton Soviet spacecraft that never made it to Venus 53 years ago is expected to fall back to Earth this weekend. Built to land on the solar system’s hottest planet, the titanium-covered spacecraft may survive its fiery, uncontrolled plunge through Earth’s atmosphere, predicted to occur on Saturday. But experts said it likely would come down over water, covering most of the world, or a desolate region.
Business in Brief

1 week ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Pamela Periconi

Congress has voted to kill a Biden-era rule requiring rubber tire makers to clean up planet-warming emissions from their manufacturing processes in the U.S.The Environmental Protection Agency finalized rules for the rubber tire industry, specifically previously unregulated rubber processing, last November through amendments to the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants.
Nation in Brief

1 week ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Pamela Periconi

A federal judge expressed sympathy Tuesday for thousands of federal employees who were suddenly fired by the Trump administration earlier this year, but he also voiced skepticism about whether reinstating them to their jobs was a proper remedy and questioned what the courts could ultimately do. Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson made the comments during a hearing in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, as part of a lawsuit brought by 19 states and the District of Columbia.
Nation in Brief

2 weeks ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Pamela Periconi

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended a judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities, saying Tuesday that it is in the public interest to relieve her of her duties as she faces two federal charges. The FBI took Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan into custody Friday morning at the county courthouse. She has been charged with concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest, and obstructing or impeding a proceeding.
World in Brief

2 weeks ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Pamela Periconi

Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir have temporarily closed more than half of the tourist resorts in the scenic Himalayan region after last week’s deadly attack on tourists raised tensions between India and Pakistan and led to an intensifying security crackdown in Kashmir.
Jackson Hole Daily Letters to the Editor

3 weeks ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Pamela Periconi

Blame for tariff mess no mysteryColumnist Ben Shapiro’s headline for his op-ed in the April 10 Jackson Hole Daily reads, “On tariffs, reality sets in and Trump respects it.”Further down, Shapiro goes on to say that “Trump lives in the world of reality; he is a pragmatist, not an idealist. And that means when the stock market tanks, when the effects of his tariff regime are about to wipe out small businesses across America, when the economic pain is imminent, Trump will change course.
Business in Brief

3 weeks ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Pamela Periconi

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a Tuesday speech that the ongoing tariffs showdown against China is unsustainable and that he expects a “de-escalation” in the trade war between the world’s two largest economies. But in his private speech in Washington for JPMorgan Chase, Bessent also cautioned that talks between the U.S. and China had yet to formally start. President Trump has placed import taxes of 145% on China, which has countered with 125% tariffs on U.S. goods.
People in Brief

3 weeks ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Pamela Periconi

Hip hop superstar Drake is now complaining about rival rapper Kendrick Lamar’s performance of “Not Like Us” at this year’s Super Bowl, adding it to his defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group over the diss track and its allegations of pedophilia against Drake.