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Defiance has been the fuel to everything Russell Westbrook has been and accomplished in his NBA career. It didn’t matter what his critics or opponents said, because very often his play — or rather the result of his performances — had the last word. Now, as he’s underperformed in a Los Angeles Lakers uniform, the greatest initiator of pressure in the NBA, he’s seeing and hearing everything and no longer has the game to mute all the noise. An athlete in decline is the main course here,… Source link

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Tuesday the U.S. will ban all Russian oil imports, toughening the toll on Russia’s economy in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine, but he acknowledged it will bring costs to Americans, particularly at the gas pump. The action follows pleas by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to U.S. and Western officials to cut off the imports, which had been a glaring omission in the massive sanctions put in place on Russia over the invasion…. Source link

After years of construction, a foreclosure and a bankruptcy, the Bel-Air mega-mansion known as ‘The One’ has been sold. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) The mega-mansion known as “The One” sold Thursday for $126 million at a bankruptcy auction. That’s a huge discount from its $295-million listing price, even with a 12% auction fee bringing the total to about $141 million. The Bel-Air property set a record for the costliest house sold at auction, but it fell well short of the California… Source link

Mike Cole insists that, until a few months ago, he gladly would have accepted $500 in exchange for his unused ticket to Michael Jordan’s 1984 NBA debut. Thankfully for him, nobody ever made him that low-ball offer. A ticket that Cole stashed for years in his basement alongside some other old keepsakes turned out to have more than just sentimental value. It was one of two tickets that nearly doubled the previous record for the most expensive vintage sports ticket when their auctions closed… Source link

Home price growth in the U.S. paused in the final month of 2021, but the full year logged in record gains. Standard & Poor’s said Tuesday that its S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index posted an 18.8% annual gain in December, unchanged from November. The 20-City Composite posted an 18.6% annual gain, up from 18.3% a month earlier. The 20-City results were higher than analysts’ expectations of an 18% annual gain, according to Bloomberg consensus estimates. “For the year,… Source link

Vivian Zink/Syfy/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images Spotify’s exclusivity deal with “The Joe Rogan Experience” was initially valued at $100 million. But the streamer actually paid Rogan double what was reported, sources told The New York Times. That brings the podcaster’s total payday to $200 million over three and a half years. Spotify paid $200 million for the exclusive streaming rights to “The Joe Rogan Experience,” according to a Thursday report by The New York Times. That’s double… Source link

Democrats have an inflation problem with voters. And they’ve been pointing in a range of directions to deflect the blame for consumer prices that have increased at the highest rate in 40 years. Targets include supply chain woes, the stalled Build Back Better plan, the gas tax, and lower immigration rates. Some Democrats also contend that across the economy, big corporations have spurred skyrocketing inflation — and that means you could hear the phrase “price gouging” a lot between now and… Source link

PepsiCo isn’t shying away from trying to protect its profit margins this year from surging inflation by increasing prices. “With levels of inflation and commodities as high as they are right now, we clearly are going to have to take some pricing. We have been investing heavily in our brands and heavily in product innovation. Because the world is in a bit of a stressful place, the simple pleasures of our products I think people are generally finding worth paying a few pennies more for. You… Source link

TCL’s first Google TVs were supposed to be a triumphant flex for the second most popular TV manufacturer in the US. Long known for its easy-to-use Roku TVs, TCL has been trying to push the message that it’s adopting a platform-agnostic approach and will offer sets with software from either Roku or Google. (The company has already released many Android TV models internationally.) So with the latest update to its 6-Series — model name R646 — TCL set out to blend its best TV… Source link

Progressive Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told Yahoo Finance in an exclusive interview that corporate “price gouging” has fueled inflation, placing the blame largely on dominant companies that hike prices and rake in profits without fear of competition.  She strongly rejected claims that government stimulus in response to COVID-19 has caused the price spike, warning that such a diagnosis of the problem could lead to spending cuts with dire consequences for millions of people… Source link