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☆ A look at Taylor Swift’s economic power ahead of ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ release
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Bryan Mena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

The commercially successful ‘Eras’ tourThe Eras tour was massively successful in 2023 and it’ll stretch through the end of this year. John Shearer/TAS23/Getty Images Swift performs in Glendale, Arizona, during the opening weekend of "The Eras Tour" in March 2023. John Shearer/TAS23/Getty Images Swift performs during the "Evermore" section of the show in Sydney in February 2024. John Shearer/TAS23/Getty Images Fans apply jewels on their way to Swift's show in Foxborough, Massachusetts, in May 2023. John Shearer/TAS23/Getty Images In pictures: Taylor Swift's 'Eras Tour' Prev NextShe is a generous boss, too, awarding $100,000 bonuses to Eras Tour truck drivers during the summer.

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And the DeSantis campaign made many of them, his advisers, allies and supporters have acknowledged to CNN in interviews. Republican presidential candidate and Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis, speaks during a campaign event in Hampton, New Hampshire, on January 17, 2024. Michael Reaves/Getty Images DeSantis and his wife, Casey, have three children: from left, daughters Mamie and Madison and son Mason. But that approach was rejected by the woman who would be announced as DeSantis’ campaign manager, Generra Peck. And yet, in the face of this overwhelming rejection of his pitch to Make America Florida, DeSantis refused to change gears.

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☆ DeSantis ends 2024 presidential campaign
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Steve Contorno | Kit Maher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

Accordingly, I am today suspending my campaign,” DeSantis said. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio (the latter two of whom he bested in the 2016 Republican presidential primary). Patrick Farrell/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service/Getty Images DeSantis shakes hands with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum after a CNN debate in October 2018. Joe Raedle/Getty Images DeSantis speaks at the opening of the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2021. Joe Raedle/Getty Images DeSantis helps hold a python as he kicks off the 2021 Python Challenge in Miami.

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☆ How Ron DeSantis learned to embrace mainstream media and turn off Fox News
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Steve Contorno | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +21 min

“I came in not really doing as much media,” DeSantis told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday. After keeping the mainstream press at arm’s length early in his presidential campaign, DeSantis now will seemingly talk into any camera that is rolling. But ignoring it was worse.”A spokesman for the DeSantis campaign did not respond to questions from CNN about this story. Ron DeSantis Prev NextInstead, after launching, DeSantis engaged in a lengthy tour of the conservative media ecosystem – radio, TV and influential podcasters. “But conservative media is reactionary to what the mainstream media covers.

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☆ Gen Z and Millennial Tourists Are Flocking to Tampa
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Alexander Lobrano | Photographs Zack Wittman For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

That would be Tampa, perhaps unexpectedly, given the city ranked fourth on U.S. News & World Report’s “2022-2023 Best Places to Retire in the United States.” The city is booming, and energy attracts. The rooftop bar at the Edition Hotel

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☆ Tampa: Why Gen Z and Millennial Tourists Are Flocking to This Retirement Mecca
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Alexander Lobrano | Photographs Zack Wittman For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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One day at the gym, she stumbled upon a group of people using the pool. They were running in place and pivoting in chest-deep water, and the instructor sounded more like a drill sergeant than a water aerobics teacher. Ms. López began taking water exercise classes and found that running in deep water helped her develop more upper body strength than running on land. Now 68, she’s incorporated pool exercises into her workout routine ever since. In addition, “it’s 360 degrees of resistance in every direction,” said Laurie Denomme, a fitness instructor from Bradenton, Fla., who has been teaching aquatic exercise for 30 years.

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☆ Disney World Ditches Reservations for Some Tickets
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Joseph Pisani | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Disney had said the reservation system keeps lines shorter. Photo: Zack Wittman for The Wall Street JournalWalt Disney Co. is doing away with some of its Covid-19 pandemic ticketing policies at its Orlando theme parks. Starting Jan. 9, 2024, visitors who buy a dated ticket to Walt Disney World won’t also have to make a reservation to one of its four theme parks, Magic Kingdom, Epcot Center, Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios. The company has been requiring ticket holders to make reservations since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic as a way to control crowds.

The rollout of long-awaited Alzheimer’s treatments looks set to start as a case of the haves and the have-nots. Clinics and academic hospitals in large cities are recruiting neurologists and buying screening equipment on a bet that Biogen and Eisai’s drug Leqembi will win full approval this summer and draw a flood of new patients. Eli Lilly’s treatment donanemab could also be up for approval this year or next and could draw even more patients seeking care.

☆ Ron DeSantis’s Oversight Board Moves to Sue Disney
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Arian Campo-Flores | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Chairman Martin Garcia, third from left, said the board aims to enforce its declaration that development approvals Disney struck with a previous board were null and void. Photo: Zack Wittman for The Wall Street JournalThe board overseeing the district covering Walt Disney Co.’s Orlando-area theme parks authorized its lawyers to sue the entertainment giant in state court, without explaining what the suit would allege. The lawsuit, expected in a central Florida court, would mark the latest salvo in the escalating battle between the company and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis .

☆ More Parents Are Moving In With Adult Children—at Younger Ages
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Oyin Adedoyin | Photographs Zack Wittman For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

More parents are moving in with their young adult children, and they are doing it while they are younger, healthier and often still working. One in four Americans aged 25 to 34 lived with parents or older relatives as of 2021, the fastest-growing segment in multigenerational households, according to data from Pew Research Center. Most of this group is adult children moving back in with their parents, but a significant number of older adults are moving in with millennials, said Richard Fry , a senior researcher at Pew. In 2021, 9% of multigenerational households were headed by a 25- to 34-year-old, up from 6% in 2001.

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