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News that Lea Michele is replacing Beanie Feldstein in Broadway’s revival of Funny Girl lit up the internet on Monday. Feldstein, whose performance as Fannie Brice received mixed reviews, abruptly announced she made the “difficult decision” to depart the show two months early as “production decided to take the show in a different direction.” One day later, it was revealed Michele will take over her dream role. Funny Girl will mark Michele’s big return to the spotlight after three years. In… Source link

Struggling retailer Gap (GPS) is in crisis mode ahead of the crucial selling periods of back to school and the holidays, with the stock down nearly 6% in pre-market trading after it revealed the departure of its CEO. Gap surprised a few on the Street Monday evening after the market close by announcing CEO Sonia Syngal would be stepping down as CEO after a “brief” transition period. In her place, executive chairman Bob Martin will assume the role as interim CEO. Syngal was seen as a potential… Source link

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss, Anirban Sen and Arunima Kumar NEW YORK (Reuters) -Billionaire investor William Ackman, who had raised $4 billion in the biggest-ever special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), told investors he would be returning the sum after failing to find a suitable target company to take public through a merger. The development is a major setback for the prominent hedge fund manager who had initially planned for the SPAC to take a stake in Universal Music Group last year when… Source link

‘We’ve seen people go from six-figure incomes … to living on the streets’: Why it’s easier than ever to get addicted to gambling Noah Vineberg, a bus driver based in Ottawa, Canada, lost over $1 million to his gambling addiction. Vineberg can trace the roots of his addiction all the way back to grade school, where he avidly traded marbles and hockey cards on the schoolyard. “It wasn’t until much later — like 16 to 18, 19 — I knew that I was gambling heavier than anybody else. And I knew… Source link

Olympic silver medalist Kim Glass says that she was attacked by a random man with a pipe while walking on a Los Angeles street. Glass shared video on Instagram speaking about the attack that shows multiple facial injuries including fractures around her right eye and cuts that required stitches. (Warning, the video seen here and included above shows graphic injuries.) Glass’ right eye was swollen shut, and she had a gash on the bridge of her nose. She told her followers that the attack happened… Source link

Collin Morikawa will return to the British Open this week in a very different position than the one he was in a year ago, when he walked off the course with the Claret Jug in hand. Morikawa officially returned the iconic trophy this week, and was given a replica in return. “It sucked. It really did,” Morikawa said Monday ahead of the 150th British Open. “I woke up this morning and looked at it. The replica is beautiful, but it’s not the same. It really isn’t. It will never be. “But I… Source link

U.S. stocks fell sharply Monday to start the week, led by losses in shares of technology companies as investors braced for the start of earnings season and fresh inflation data due out Wednesday. The Nasdaq Composite shed 2.3%, and the S&P 500 slid 1.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 160 points, or 0.5%. Monday’s moves follow an up week for stocks that saw all three benchmarks log weekly gains despite closing flat after Friday’s jobs report. Meanwhile, the euro fell closer toward… Source link

The Memphis Grizzlies are a confident bunch. Just ask the Golden State Warriors. The NBA champions arguably got their toughest playoff test from a Grizzlies team that showed zero backdown or deference during their second-round series in May. None, of course, is more confident than Ja Morant. Take, for instance, his comments to Bleacher Report’s Taylor Rooks on Sunday. When asked about what he would say in a hypothetical conversation with Michael Jordan, Morant said that he would thank the NBA… Source link

Elon Musk is trying to kill his own plan to take over Twitter (TWTR) for $44 billion and mold it to his liking. The deal crumbled on Friday when the Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO announced via a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that he’s terminating the buyout. So where did the tie-up that Twitter never asked for go wrong? It depends on whom you ask. Musk says he’s walking away because Twitter refused to hand over information about how many bots and spam accounts it has on its… Source link

LAS VEGAS — The NBA transition “take foul” during games is inching closer to being penalized, starting with the 2022-23 season, league sources told Yahoo Sports. The NBA’s Competition Committee is moving forward with a proposal to grant the team on offense with one free throw and possession of the ball if the team on defense employs the take foul, sources said. The committee began meeting in Las Vegas over the weekend to discuss rule-change proposals. The committee’s rule-change… Source link