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☆ Read the email Target sent employees about changes to its Pride collection after 'challenging' last year
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

"As we all know, last year was challenging, and we've made some changes this year," the note said. On Friday, Target confirmed it will reduce the number of stores that carry its assortment of LGBTQ+ merchandise for Pride month in June. The company said it will offer a collection online and certain stores "based on historical sales performance." AdvertisementRead the email from Target to the LGBTQ+ employee group:Pride+ community,As you know, team members across Target have been working on our Pride 2024 plans for months. As we all know, last year was challenging, and we've made some changes this year based on guest insights and sales trends.

Persons: we've, —, Brand Marketing Carlos Saavedra, Saavedra, you'd, Ann, Jeff, Carlos Organizations: Service, Business, Bloomberg, Target, Brand Marketing, Pride Locations: Minneapolis , New York City

Song’s quietly romantic film, starring Greta Lee and Teo Yoo as childhood friends who reconnect later in life, earned nominations for her direction, script and for both actors. “May December,” about an actress preparing to play a Mary Kay Letourneau-like role got nods for Natalie Portman, Charles Melton and screenwriter Samy Burch. MGM’s “American Fiction,” featuring Jeffrey Wright as a frustrated novelist, got recognition for Wright, Erika Alexander and Sterling K. Brown. Josh Welsh, the president of Film Independent, said the spirit awards look for films and shows that, “demonstrate the uniqueness of vision, original, provocative subject matter, economy of means and diversity, both on screen and off.”The Spirit Awards also recognize television series. Billie Eilish was also nominated for “Swarm.”Saturday Night Live’s Aidy Bryant is hosting the show, which will take place on Feb. 25 in Santa Monica, California.

Persons: Song’s, Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, “, Mary Kay Letourneau, Natalie Portman, Charles Melton, Samy Burch, MGM’s, Jeffrey Wright, Wright, Erika Alexander, Sterling K, Brown . Jefferson, ”, ” Kelly Reichardt’s, Robert Altman, Michelle Williams, André Benjamin, Hong Chau, Judd Hirsch, Amanda Plummer, Alexander Payne's “, Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Payne, Giamatti, Andrew Haigh, Ira Sachs, William Oldroyd, Eileen, Haynes, Song, “ Oppenheimer, Maestro ”, Lee, Yoo, Portman, Jessica Chastain, Monica, Judy Reyes, Andrew Scott, Franz Rogowski, Teyana Taylor, Noah Galvin, Anne Hathaway, Glenn Howerton, Marin Ireland, Catalina Saavedra, Ben Whishaw, Brown, Alexander, Marshawn Lynch, Sandra Hüller, Justine Triet’s “, Jonathan Glazer’s, Iceland’s, Wata, Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Josh Welsh, Steven Yeun, Ali Wong, Bella Ramsey, Murray Bartlett, Nick Offerman, Billie Eilish, Live’s Aidy Bryant Organizations: NFL, ”, Film, “, YouTube Locations: Hong, Melton, Randolph, Poland, Denmark, Santa Monica , California

NEW YORK (AP) — Karin Engstrom thought she’d be paying off her federal student loans for the rest of her life. It also credits borrowers for periods before the pandemic when they were allowed to pause or reduce payments due to financial hardships. “Info: Your student loans have been forgiven,” the letter read. Borrowers who have made 20 or 25 years of qualifying payments (depending on the repayment plan) qualify, if they hold direct loans or Federal Family Education Loans with the Education Department, including borrowers with Parent PLUS loans. The official Federal Student Aid guide to the Income Driven Repayment adjustment is a good resource for updates.

Persons: — Karin Engstrom, she’d, Biden, It's, servicers, Engstrom didn't, Harris, ” Engstrom, ” Patricia Vener, Saavedra, “, ”, who's, “ He's, Vener, Charles Schwab Organizations: Department of Education, Federal, Aid, Harris Administration, Edfinancial Services, WHO, Family, Education Department, Parent, WHAT, IF, of Education, Associated Press, Charles, Charles Schwab Foundation, Inc, AP Locations: Hamden , Connecticut

☆ Underdogs Chile make four changes for Samoa game
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Lawrence White | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

TOULOUSE, France, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Chile coach Pablo Lemoine resisted the urge to make too many adjustments to the team for their Pool D Rugby World Cup match against Samoa on Saturday with four changes as they bid to bounce back from an opening defeat by Japan. Los Condores bring in Tomas Dussaillant at hooker, try a new second row pairing of Santiago Pedrero and Pablo Huete and give a start to Jose Ignacio Larenas on the left wing. The lowest ranked team at this World Cup and making their debut in the tournament, Chile notched two tries in the 42-12 loss to Japan but also suffered a pair of yellow cards and now look to the Samoa game as their best remaining chance of a win. Among the players to watch in the Chile side are full back Inaki Ayarza, a deft runner who sparked their opening score against Japan, and flyhalf Rodrigo Fernandez who finished it. The accomplished Fernandez has already caught the eye with his all-round game and will have to be at his best for Chile to beat Samoa for an unlikely first-ever win in a World Cup game.

Persons: Pablo Lemoine, Condores, Tomas Dussaillant, Santiago Pedrero, Pablo Huete, Jose Ignacio Larenas, flyhalf Rodrigo Fernandez, Fernandez, Javier Carrasco, Matias Dittus, Clemente Saavedra, Raimundo Martínez, Marcelo Torrealba, Rodrigo Fernandez, Matias Garafulic, Domingo Saavedra, Diego Escobar, Diego Escobar 17 Salvador Lues, Esteban Inostroza, Javier Eissmann, Alfonso Escobar, Ignacio Silva, Benjamin Videla, Pablo Casas, Lawrence White, Ken Ferris Organizations: Pool D, Samoa, Japan, Santiago Pedrero, Santiago Videla, Thomson Locations: TOULOUSE, France, Chile, Japan, Samoa, Diego Escobar 17

☆ In 2011, San Francisco opened savings accounts for kindergartners — now they're going to be college freshmen
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Jessica Dickler | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Even though more students feel priced out of college entirely, there are efforts to improve access to higher education that seem to be working. In 2011, San Francisco made headlines when it became the first city in the nation to kick off a college savings account with $50 for every child entering kindergarten in the public school system. Her parents saved $2,200 in a universal children's savings account, which helped change her perspective about getting a degree, she said. "My family has always pushed me to go to college, but I felt bad," Saavedra added. "I didn't really know how much college cost; I just knew it was a lot of money."

Persons: Yadira Saavedra, Saavedra Organizations: Finance, San, College, University of California Locations: San Francisco, Davis

☆ World Bank's Malpass: debt assessments should reflect growing share of domestic debt
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Andrea Shalal | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) - Debt sustainability analyses carried out by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund should reflect the growing share of domestic debt in many developing countries' overall debt levels, World Bank President David Malpass said on Wednesday. Malpass called for urgent measures to jump-start sovereign debt restructuring efforts for the many countries that are in or near debt distress, after years of glacial progress under the Group of 20 Common Framework. Speaking at a World Bank event entitled "Breaking the Impasse in Global Debt Restructuring," Malpass said it was critical to get a better understanding of countries' total debt levels, including both domestic and external debt. Carmen Reinhart, the World Bank's previous chief economist, told the event that there were ongoing concerns about "hidden debt" and the transparency of external debt levels, including "severely underreported debt levels" owed to China, now the world's largest bilateral creditor. She said there were no publicly available data on net reserves, and questions about contingent liabilities also compounded the problem of accurately analyzing debt levels.

☆ Marijuana legalization has stalled in Mexico, but farmers and cartels are still making big plans to profit off a new market
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Luis Chaparro | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

An effort to legalize marijuana in Mexico has stalled after several years of debate by lawmakers. But Mexican cartels and independent growers are still preparing to cater to a new domestic market. The Sinaloa Cartel in particular is drawing business lessons from marijuana dispensaries in the US. At the current price for weed, Margarita gets roughly $25 a kilo. A marijuana legalization activist smokes marijuana in front of the San Lazaro Legislative Palace in Mexico City in October 2022.

The Sundance Film Festival has long been known for premiering some of the most original — and ultimately the most award-winning — indie titles of the year. As the most notable international film festivals increasingly feature queer titles in their lineups, it’s no surprise that much of the exciting content premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival comes from LGBTQ filmmakers or features queer themes. The Premieres sectionAs usual, many of the year’s most high-profile films, including those from queer creators and featuring queer storylines, are coming out of the festival’s Premieres section. Courtesy of Sundance InstituteEnglert’s film will screen in the world cinema dramatic section alongside queer films “Girl,” from U.K. filmmaker Adura Onashile, and “Mamacruz,” from Spanish director Patricia Ortega. The list of LGBTQ creators and titles doesn’t end there, making this perhaps the most significant Sundance Film Festival for queer cinema yet.

☆ Trump ally Mike Lindell baselessly questioned whether Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis legitimately won his 2022 election
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell baselessly questioned whether Ron DeSantis legitimately won his 2022 election. He said that DeSantis winning Miami-Dade County, a typically blue county, was "a deviation from norm." Lindell is a fervent Trump ally, and DeSantis is emerging as his fiercest political rival. Lindell questioned DeSantis' win in Miami-Dade County, which has historically mostly voted Democratic, while appearing on his show "The Lindell Report." Lindell has been among the most vocal proponents of Trump's election fraud conspiracy theories.

The prosecutor assigned to investigate the killing of gay Puerto Rican rapper Kevin Fret in 2019 said this week that she was instructed to stop her probe and was never given an explanation. Betzaida Quiñones Rodríguez made the allegations in multiple local media outlets in Puerto Rico. She said the investigation was shut down just three months after Fret's death by order of Olga Castellón, who was the chief prosecutor at the Puerto Rico Justice Department at the time. Vázquez was Puerto Rico’s secretary of justice from 2017 to 2019, but later became the governor of Puerto Rico after embattled Gov. Quiñones Rodríguez is still the prosecutor in charge of investigating Fret's death as of Friday.

☆ Lionel Messi a marcat 2 goluri și a reușit o pasă decisivă în meciul cu reprezentativa Boliviei
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-29 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Vedeta Barcelonei a înscris de două ori în prima repriză și graţie acestora a ajuns la 75 de goluri în tricoul primei reprezentative. Totodată, Messi a jucat meciul cu numărul 148 pentru echipa națională, devenind fotbalistul cu cele mai multe partide jucate la selecționata "albiceleste".Argentina s-a impus cu 4-1, iar celelalte goluri au fost marcat de Alejandro Gomez şi Lautaro Martinez, iar Bolivia a înscris prin Erwin Saavedra.Pumele, care a ajuns la zece meciuri consecutive fără înfrângere, erau deja calificate în sferturile de finală ale competiției înaintea acestei partideÎn celălalt meci al grupei, Uruguayul a învins Paraguayul cu scorul de 1-0, printr-un gol marcat de Edinson Cavani din penalty.Așadar, după ultimele 2 meciuri din faza grupelor s-au stabilit confruntările din sferturile de finală.Capul de afiș este Brazilia - Chile, ultimele două campioane ale turneului. Argentina se va duela cu Ecuador, Peru cu Paraguay, iar Columbia cu Uruguay.

Persons: Messi, Alejandro Gomez, Lautaro Martinez, Erwin Saavedra.Pumele, Uruguayul Organizations: Barcelonei Locations: Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguayul, penalty.Așadar, Brazilia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, Columbia, Uruguay

Confortul și încântarea de a fi parte din centrul ChișinăuluiA locui în centrul orașului înseamnă a fi mereu în mișcare. Ansamblul Avram Iancu este amplasat în apropiere de principalele artere ale orașului și la doar două minute distanță de bulevardul Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt. Strada Avram Iancu 32 este una liniștită și retrasă, în același timp, oferă acces convenabil la transport. Locuințe confortabile pentru persoanele care apreciază confortul și linișteaTrebuie să recunoaștem că este un proiect construit cu responsabilitate și accent pe prestigiu. Alege Avram Iancu și obține confortul și încântarea din inima Chișinăului!

Persons: Avram Iancu, Ștefan cel Mare, Miguel de Cervantes, Baby, avram, iancu Organizations: Hall Locations: Chișinăului, Spania

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