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Target stock price falls nearly $2
today alone…
Target Corp As of November 19, 2025 • 10:56 AM CST NYQ: TGT 87.94 usD - 0.59 (0.67%) ⬇️ Target Corp As of November 19, 2025 • 11:42 AM CST NYQ: TGT 86.44 USD -2.09 (2.36%) ⬇️ Target Corp As of November 19, 2025 • 3:10 PM CST 86.08 USD -2.45 (2.77%) ⬇️
November 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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"Disclosures made by the IRS to Senator Wyden confirm that it did not follow federal law and its own policies in purchasing airline data from ARC," the letter reads. The letter says the IRS "confirmed that it did not conduct a legal review to determine if the purchase of Americans' travel data requires a warrant." The signatories on the letter are Senator Ron Wyden, Congressman Andy Biggs, Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Adriano Espaillat, and Senator Cynthia Lummis. The co-owners of ARC include United, American, Delta, Southwest, JetBlue, Alaska, Lufthansa, Air France, and Air Canada, according to the letter. Each of those airlines has a representative on ARC's board of directors.
November 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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target stock price continues to slide. Maybe the smiles need veneers?
Target Corp As of November 14, 2025 • 3:10 PM CST NYQ: TGT 89.90 USD -0.72 (0.79%) ⬇️
November 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Comedian Mike Epps revealed that Boondocks creator, Aaron McGruder, has joined Ice Cube and DJ Pooh to produce ‘Last Friday,’ the final installment of the franchise.

“I was just with Ice Cube, DJ Pooh, Aaron McGruder sitting in a room writing this movie.”
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HYPE+NEWS MIKE EPPS REVEALS THE BOONDOCKS' AARON MCGRUDER IS WRITING LAST FRIDAY' WITH ICE CUBE EPPS WOULD CONFIRM THAT THE PROJECT IS HAPPENING 313 13 hypeplustv Mike Epps has officially confirmed hypeplustv Mike Epps has officially confirmed that the writing for the last 'Last Friday' movie is underway. While speaking to Big Boy's Neighborhood, Epps would reveal that praised writer Aaron McGruder, known for creating The Boondocks has joined Ice Cube and DJ Pooh to produce the final installment of the Friday franchise. "I was just with Ice Cube, DJ Pooh, Aaron McGruder sitting in a room writing this movie.." Thoughts on the move? 3 hours ago
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Trump official suffers medical emergency, collapses during televised briefing.

Health Secretary RFK exits stage right while POTUS watches in silence as the victim is tended to.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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October 26, 2025: A U.S. Air Force Reserve crew captured a rare look INSIDE category 5 hurricane Melissa.
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October 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Dr. Corinne Cath-Speth, head of digital at ARTICLE 19, emphasized the dangers of placing too much digital infrastructure in a small number of hands: "We urgently need diversification in cloud computing. The infrastructure underpinning democratic discourse, independent journalism, and secure communications cannot be dependent on a handful of companies."
October 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Amazon says its systems have largely been restored, but the damage was done. Some experts estimate the global financial impact could reach hundreds of billions of dollars, as businesses lost sales and workers sat idle waiting to get back online. It's a stark reminder that the cloud isn't an abstract idea — it's the backbone of modern life, underpinning nearly everything we do. This wasn't a one-off event either. In fact, it's the third major outage in five years tied to this AWS data cluster (known as US-EAST-1), which powers much of the internet's traffic. And it comes just over a year after the infamous 2024 Crowdstrike malfunction, which hobbled hospitals, airports and banks around the world for days.
October 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Tessa Thompson? Nia DaCosta? 🍿
The filmmaking industry's progress being as slow and nonlinear as it is, DaCosta occupies a rare space as a Black woman filmmaker. Unlike many of her peers and forebears, she's had the opportunity to helm five features in less than a decade, and each has been a totally different vibe: her feature debut Little Woods, for one, is a quiet and very good indie about a parolee hustling to survive and support her sister in North Dakota (also starring Thompson); her next film is the zombie franchise installment 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. But Hedda suggests DaCosta's at her most creatively free, at least thus far, in this mode. For the viewer, she excavates the pleasures in watching an antiheroine meddle maniacally and unabashedly, spinning a spectacular mess that's impossible to look away from. Hedda may or may not possess any real, tangible power in her day-to-day life. But for a few hours at least, she is the boss.
October 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Giuffre was 16 when she met Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago resort, where she worked as a locker room attendant in the spa. "And up to that point, the world that had been revealed to her, was a world in which adult men had sex with young girls, children, and didn't pay the price for it," Wallace added.
October 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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"The integrity of the game is paramount to NBA players, but so is the presumption of innocence, and both are hindered when player popularity is misused to gain attention.

We will ensure our members are protected and afforded their due process rights through this process."
Rozier's lawyer, Jim Trusty, said in a statement that his client is "not a gambler" and "looks forward to winning this fight." Trusty previously told ESPN that Rozier met with NBA and FBI officials multiple times in 2023. The NBA said it looked into the matter at the time and did not find that any league rules were broken. The National Basketball Players Association addressed Thursday's arrests, saying in a statement: "The integrity of the game is paramount to NBA players, but so is the presumption of innocence, and both are hindered when player popularity is misused to gain attention. We will ensure our members are protected and afforded their due process rights through this process." Former Cleveland Cavaliers player and assistant coach Damon Jones was also among those arrested Thursday. He was an unofficial assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers in 2022-23 when he was allegedly involved with the sports betting scheme by providing inside information about NBA games to codefendants, according to the indictment. According to Nocella, six defendants are accused of being involved in the sports betting case, while there are 31 defendants allegedly involved in the rigged poker games. Jones is one of three people allegedly involved in both cases, Nocella said.
October 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Feds have arrested multiple NBA stars and indicted dozens of tangential associates
“in a wide-ranging probe called "Operation Royal Flush"

"The indictment details specific examples where the defendants profited from illegal gambling and betting on various NBA
games."
Rozier and Billups are just two of the names arrested in a wide-ranging probe called "Operation Royal Flush" that started four years ago. The two indictments have 34 defendants listed. FBI director Kash Patel held a press conference later in the day that confirmed more information. The indictment alleges that Rozier told associates he was going to take himself out of a game during the first quarter on March 23, 2023 against the New Orleans Pelicans so others could bet on his "under" prop bets. This information was sold to others so they could also profit. There was $259K was waged on Rozier by a group of people with inside information according to the indictment. Rozier played under 10 minutes in the game. Former NBA player and ex-Cleveland Cavaliers assistant coach Damon Jones was also arrested. Jones sold inside information on a Los Angeles Lakers game so others could bet on it, according to the indictment. Jones is a close friend of LeBron James, who did not play in the game in question. The Lakers were named in the investigation during the press conference. Each defendant in the NBA gambling case has been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. "The indictment details specific examples where the defendants profited from illegal gambling and betting on various NBA games."
October 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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In the AP interview, Copeland acknowledged that it's striking that when she leaves ABT, there will no longer be a Black female principal dancer at the company. l MAGE of Misty Copeland PERFORMING ARTS Misty Copeland launches a program for kids to encourage more diversity in ballet "It's definitely concerning," Copeland said. • "I think I've just gotten to a place in my career where there's only so much I can do on a stage. There's only so much that visual representation ... can do. I feel like it's the perfect timing for me to be stepping into a new role, and hopefully still shaping and shifting the ballet world and culture." She also noted this is an especially trying moment for anyone working in the area of diversity, equity and inclusion. "It's a difficult time," she said. "And I think all we can really do is keep our heads down and keep doing the work. There's no way to stop the people that feel passionate about this work. We will continue doing
October 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Hand, foot & mouth disease…

It’s spreading through school age kids in Memphis, TN right now.

Was ANYBODY gon tell us??
Mask up. Wear gloves.
Disinfect surfaces.
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Most patients have mild symptoms for seven to 10 days, which can include fever, sore throat, painful mouth sores that blister and a rash on the hands and feet, the CDC said. HFMD is very contagious and can spread when people come into contact with droplets from a person sneezing, coughing or talking; objects and surfaces that have virus particles; fluid from blisters; and feces, according to the CDC. "While most cases of hand, foot, and mouth disease are mild, the virus spreads easily in group environments like schools and day cares," Dr. Bruce Randolph, SCHD director and health officer, said in a press release. "Parents should keep sick children home until they are fever-free, feeling well, and any mouth sores or blisters have improved."
October 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Since Eddie Murphy’s Netflix special drops soon, don’t forget to squeeze Vampire in Brooklyn into Spooky Season movie rotation 🎃
MOVIE POSTER Features Angela Bassett, head thrown back with throat exposed to a long S-curl haired Eddie Murphy smiling, hand on his chin, contemplating taking a bite. They tower above the moonlit Brooklyn, NY skyline EDDIE MURPHY ANGELA BASSETT Vampire in Brooklyn A COMIC TALE OF HORROR AND SEDUCTION.
October 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Katt Williams takes a moment on the Tom Joyner Fantastic Voyage 2025 Cruise to share love with fellow passengers
October 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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NEWSONE didn't stop at Chicago. He named the targets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, Atlanta, Baltimore, Washington, D.C.-the "enemy cities" in his political theater. And each has the same ingredients: neglected housing stock, redlined blocks, crumbling public housing, and distressed multifamily portfolios. Visible vulnerability: migrants bused in and warehoused in shelters, unhoused encampments, Black and Brown neighborhoods starved of investment for decades. Financial appetite: developers and investment funds circling like vultures, salivating over "value-add" opportunities. And political cover: an endless loop of rhetoric branding these cities as "lawless," "unsafe," and ripe for a federal "blitz." Chicago's South Shore raid shows the mechanics. In New York, it could mean targeting migrant-heavy hotels converted to shelters. In Los Angeles, encampments under freeways or motels in South Central. In Detroit or Baltimore,
October 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Pardoned J6er facing new felony charge after resuming J6 coded behavior, this time stating in writing “I will kill him for the future.” about Hakeem Jeffries.
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criminal case, Moynihan wrote, "Hakeem Jeffries makes a speech in a few days in NYC I cannot allow this terrorist to live." Moynihan also allegedly stated: "Even if I am hated, he must be eliminated!, I will kill him for the future." Moynihan faces a felony charge of making a terroristic threat, according to court filings shared by prosecutors. Moynihan's father declined to comment on the case when reached by phone by CBS News on Monday. He said Moynihan has not yet been appointed a defense attorney. Moynihan is scheduled to make a court appearance on Thursday in Dutchess County, New York.
October 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein limited theatrical release started on October 17 and will be available to stream on Netflix beginning on November 7.
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"In the world we live in now, a lot of people are scared of emotion. They find it really corny," del Toro suggests. "I don't. I think emotion is the new punk. It's the new anarchy. We've got to rebel and say, 'To all that wisdom you bring with your irony, to all that callousness you bring with your certainty, well, I give you this emotion and f**k you." Frankenstein will receive a limited theatrical release starting on October 17 and will be available to stream on Netflix beginning on November 7. OSCAR ISAAC JACOB ELORDI MIA GOTH CHRISTOPH WALTZ ONLY MONSTERS PLAY GOD A FILM BY GUILLERMO DEL TORO Frankenstein IN SELECT THEATERS OCTOBER 17 NETFLIX | NOVEMBER 7
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Over five weeks after Trey Reed’s lifeless body was found hung from a tree on the campus of Delta State University, where he studied, results of an independent, second autopsy haven't yet been revealed.
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Selfie image of Trey Reed in a red sweatshirt taken in the car during the day Dual image photo: on the left is a picture of attorney, Benjamin Crump, and a black suit standing behind a podium. On the right is an image of Trey Reid in a white button down shirt and pink bowtie with matching pocket square.
October 21, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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There IS no more ‘quiet part.’

“Ingrassia, who has a Senate confirmation hearing scheduled Thursday, made the remarks in a chain with a half-dozen Republican operatives and influencers, according to the chat.” #BlackskyNews
POLITICO IMAGE: Paul Ingrassia stands outside the D.C. Central Detention Facility in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025. | Julio Cortez/AP Using an Italian slur for Black people, Ingrassia wrote a month earlier in the group chat seen by POLITICO: "No moulignon holidays ... From kwanza [sic] to mik jr day to black history month to Juneteenth," then added: "Every single one needs to be eviscerated."
October 21, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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List of companies and services affected by the Amazon Web Services outage:
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Internet access monitor Downdetector has provided a list of companies and services familiar to many of you which have been affected by the outage: • Snapchat • Amazon • Amazon Web Services • Roblox • Amazon Alexa • Ring • Max • Chime • Robinhood Spectrum Venmo Blink Security McDonald's App • Reddit Canvas by Instructure Fortnite • Epic Games Store Amazon Prime Video VRChat • Life360 • Hulu • Lyft • Xfinity by Comcast • Roku • United Airlines • Signal • Dead By Daylight • Fanduel • Clash Royale • Peloton • CharacterAI Disney+ • SimpliSafe • T-Mobile • New York Times • Verizon Internet Movie Database (IMDb) • Whatnot • AT&T • Amazon Music • My Fitness Pal Rocket League • Playstation Network • Steam • Canva • Rainbow Six Siege • Ubisoft Connect • Pokemon Go
October 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Today, Sherald's paintings sell at auction for as much as $4 million. They're often compared to work by some of the masters of American Realism, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and Norman Rockwell. "It's technically what I wanted, as a Black woman artist, American, for people to be like, 'Yeah, Amy Sherald, Norman Rockwell, Edward Hopper, like, I'm in the room with the guys. And so, I think I'm OK with it. Yeah, I think I'm OK with it."
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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An anonymous tip led police to the area they'd previously searched, according to Stanford. He said the remains, believed to be the body of a woman, were found in a shallow grave. He added that it appeared the person had been dead for several days. "We are not going to confirm, at this point, that it is Kada Scott because that has to be done by the medical examiner's office," he said. "There's still a lot of work to be done." Stanford said investigators were in touch with Scott's family on the developments but he declined to answer specific questions, citing an active investigation.
October 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Authorities have charged Keon King with kidnapping, stalking and other charges in the disappearance of Kada Scott, 23, who was last seen stepping outside at her nursing home job on Oct. 4. King, 21, is being held on $2.5 million bail while police continue to search for Scott. They found a damaged car they believe King was driving at the time and other evidence linking him to the missing woman. Authorities also say King was the last person in contact with Scott. "All roads at this point lead to him," Assistant District Attorney Ashley Taczylowski said at a news conference Wednesday. King is also facing charges in what officials call a similar case from earlier this year in which a woman was allegedly kidnapped and strangled, but survived. Those charges were dropped when the accuser failed to appear in court, but will now be refiled, Taczylowski
October 20, 2025 at 3:27 AM