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Now that Jamie Spears has formally moved to end his pop star daughter’s controversial 13-year conservatorship, it raises the question of when the arrangement will actually expire — and whether Britney Spears’ searing claims of abuse will be formally addressed.  At least for now, the conservatorship, which has received enormous public scrutiny since it was first set up over a decade ago, is still in effect.  Yet the elder Spears filed a motion this week, stating that Britney Spears’… Source link

August 28, 2020. Piracicaba, SP, Brazil. Preparations to fly a hot air balloon at sunrise. Prices of everything; a house in Phoenix, a Ford F-150, a plane ticket to New York, have all gone up. That much is true. Unfortunately pretty much everything else about inflation—a red hot topic these days—is conjecture. And that’s vexing, not just for the dismal scientists (aka economists), but for all of us, because whether or not prices are really rising, by how much and for how long, has… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Friday, June 4, 2021 Is the labor market loose or tight? Friday’s jobs report is a big one.  After April’s disappointing hiring data and some hotter-than-expected inflation data, price pressures and labor competition are the dominant economic stories as we enter an expected summer boom.  And the biggest question investors and economists hope to… Source link

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Reuters). WASHINGTON — Young children should continue to wear face masks, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said in congressional testimony on Wednesday, citing studies she says demonstrate that grade-school-age children can contract and spread the coronavirus. “There’s still transmissions associated with young children,” Walensky said. “They have been vectors of transmission for older people.”… Source link

A panel of U.S. Senators questioned officials from Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Wednesday about the dominance of their mobile app stores and whether the companies abuse their power at the expense of smaller competitors. Amy Klobuchar, the top Senate Democrat on antitrust issues, said Apple and Google can use their power to “exclude or suppress apps that compete with their own products” and “charge excessive fees that affect competition.” App makers like music… Source link

While new jobless claims fell to a pandemic-era low of 576,000 for the week ended April 10, roughly 8 million jobs that were lost since the pandemic began have still not been recovered. In spite of that, many hiring experts still view this as an opportune time for job seekers to negotiate their salaries. “You have more leverage than you think,” says Michael Neece, CEO of InterviewMastery.com, a company that provides video-based apps to hiring teams, job seekers, and recruiters. “You… Source link

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MARCH 20: Traders, some in medical masks, work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 20, 2020 in New York City. Trading on the floor will temporarily become fully electronic starting on Monday to protect employees from spreading the coronavirus. The Dow fell over 500 points on Friday as investors continue to show concerns over COVID-19. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) A year ago last week, March 23, 2020 to be exact, as COVID-19 was beginning… Source link

The New York Times The Coronavirus Is Plotting a Comeback. Here’s Our Chance to Stop It for Good. Across the United States, and the world, the coronavirus seems to be loosening its stranglehold. The deadly curve of cases, hospitalizations and deaths has yo-yoed before, but never has it plunged so steeply and so fast. Is this it, then? Is this the beginning of the end? After a year of being pummeled by grim statistics and scolded for wanting human contact, many Americans feel a long-promised… Source link

We are two years removed from Zion Williamson entering the NBA draft as the surest bet for superstardom since LeBron James, and yet the performance of the No. 2 pick leaves open a debate over who was the real prize in 2019. I am not ready to declare second-year Memphis Grizzlies point guard Ja Morant better than Williamson, largely because the 20-year-old New Orleans Pelicans forward still carries so much untapped potential, but the fact that Morant has even made that a real conversation is a… Source link

MOUNTAIN VIEW — The 20-year timeline to build a Google village that would transform suburban office parks of the East Whisman neighborhood as well as the tech giant’s plan for meeting the city’s affordable housing requirements raised eyebrows this week among city commissioners who are eager to build housing more quickly. As part of several other massive housing projects across the South Bay, Google’s Middlefield Park project would create a new neighborhood of 1,900 homes, about 1.2… Source link