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Inflation ticked up to an annual 2.6% in Europe in May, according to official figures on Friday. That’s more than expected as a painful spike in consumer prices takes its time to fade away. Yet that’s unlikely to stop the European Central Bank from making a first interest rate cut next week — and moving ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve in lowering borrowing costs for businesses and consumers. The official figure for the 20 countries that use the euro currency compares to 2.4% in April, according to European Union statistics agency Eurostat. Markets had expected 2.5% for May. The ECB would be out in…

  Reuters South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) looks set to lose its parliamentary majority for the first time since Nelson Mandela led it to victory at the end of the racist system of apartheid in 1994. It would herald the end of the party’s decades-long domination of South African politics, raise questions about the leadership of President Cyril Ramaphosa and usher in an era of coalition politics. Here are three factors that explain how South Africa got here, why and what the future holds. 1) Behind the ANC’s free-fall The ANC was once a revered liberation movement etched…

Kendall (Jeremy Strong) wakes up after a rough night in Succession Season 1 Episode 10 “Nobody Is Ever Missing” (2018), HBO The Apprentice actor Jeremy Strong, perhaps best known for his role as Kendall Roy in HBO’s Succession series, has recently compared Donald Trump to dictators Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong as well as Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Furthermore, the Succession star also stood behind mainstream media outlets such as CNN, NBC, and The New York Times, amongst others. Kendall (Jeremy Strong) finds out Logan (Brian Cox) will not be stepping down as CEO of Waystar RoyCo in Succession Season…

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, slumped Thursday after former President Donald Trump was convicted in his hush money trial. A New York jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex. Trump Media’s stock was down about 9% in after-hours trading Thursday as news of the verdict emerged. The stock, which trades under the ticket symbol “DJT,” has been extraordinarily volatile since its debut in late March, joining the group of meme stocks…

Shares fall as much as 15 percent after former president is found guilty on all 34 counts. Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, Donald Trump’s social media company, have plunged following the former US president’s historic conviction in his hush-money trial. The company’s stock, which trades under the ticker “DJT”, fell as much as 15 percent in extended trading on Thursday after Trump was found guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Shares recovered during the session, but were still down about 9 percent in the early evening. Trump Media’s stock has been marked by extreme…

Robert De Niro Reflects On 13 Moments From His Life | PEOPLE via People, YouTube Far-Left actor and perpetual TDS [Trump Derangement Syndrome] sufferer Robert De Niro has baselessly claimed that Donald Trump supporters are angry and hateful individuals, also suggesting that Trump’s presidential slogan should be “F—k America.” Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck and Robert De Niro as Murray Franklin in Joker (2019), Warner Bros. Pictures RELATED: Robert De Niro Clutches Pearls Over Another Possible Trump Presidency, Says “He’ll Come Looking For Me” Because “That’s What Happens In That Kind Of A Dictatorship” During a recent appearance on ABC’s…

When Alex Ewing was a kid growing up in Purcell, Oklahoma, he knew how close he was to home based on which billboards he could see out the car window. Now, as the CEO of OneScreen.ai, he’s helping startups like fintech Ramp and technical recruiter Karat advertise on billboards and beyond. “I think billboards are cool and help bring creativity back into marketing,” Ewing told TechCrunch. “They are like canvases for marketers in a way a digital screen isn’t.” Ewing joined Boston-based OneScreen last year. The company acts as a software-enabled middleman in between startups and out-of-home (OOH) advertising slots…

Southwest Airlines has just become the latest carrier to increase its ancillary fees. The Dallas-based airline recently jacked prices for two popular optional services: EarlyBird check-in and Upgraded Boarding. This news was first reported by Danny Deal Guru and later confirmed to TPG by an airline spokesperson. Southwest’s updated fee structure for these products now ranges from: EarlyBird check-in: $15 to $99 one-way, per traveler Upgraded Boarding: $30 to $149 per segment, per traveler While Southwest didn’t change the minimum amount it charges for these services, it stealthily boosted the maximum amounts. Previously, the airline charged up to $25 and…

    The James Webb Space Telescope has smashed its own record for detecting the most distant known galaxy. Called JADES-GS-z14-0, the collection of stars was spied as it was a mere 290 million years after the Big Bang. Put another way – if the Universe is 13.8 billion years old, it means we’re observing the galaxy when the cosmos was only 2% of its current age. Webb used its huge 6.5m-wide primary mirror and sensitive infrared instruments to make the discovery. The telescope’s previous record holder was a galaxy seen at 325 million years after the Big Bang. Astronomers…

  Mr. McMahon and Donald Trump’s Battle of the Billionaires Contract Signing via WWE, YouTube Directed by Ali Abbasi and starring Marvel actor Sebastian Stan in the titular role, The Apprentice is a Donald Trump biopic that sees the former president’s early days in real estate under Roy Cohn’s wing who, according to the film’s synopsis, teaches the young businessman “how to amass wealth and power through deception, intimidation and media manipulation.” Donald Trump holds Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) in high esteem in Zoolander (2001), Paramount Pictures RELATED: Robert De Niro Believes That If Elected, Donald Trump Would Install Himself…

Tesla’s board is practically begging shareholders to approve CEO Elon Musk’s $45 billion pay package at next month’s annual meeting, but not everyone is onboard and now the EV maker is on the defensive. In a 71-page report published over the weekend, proxy adviser Glass Lewis encouraged shareholders to vote against Musk’s pay package, in part because of its “sheer size” and the dilutive effect on current shareholders that would take place if Musk exercised his stock options. The proxy adviser, which gives recommendations to institutional investors on how to vote at annual shareholder meetings, also said it was concerned…

Sanctions aim to ‘counter Russia’s destabilizing activities in Africa’, US Treasury Department says. The United States has sanctioned two firms in the Central African Republic (CAR) it says are linked to the Russian Wagner Group, as part of what the US government says is a push to “counter Russia’s destabilizing activities in Africa”. In a statement on Thursday, the US Treasury Department accused Mining Industries and Logistique Economique Etrangere of enabling Wagner security operations and “illicit mining endeavors” linked to the mercenary force. The department said Mining Industries was sanctioned for leasing aircraft from another sanctioned Emirati firm that Wagner…