JCPenney shoppers are snapping up amazing deals as iconic department store prepares to shutter across the US

Stores may be closing, but the savings are just getting started. Dubbed the retail apocalypse, over the past few years, brick-and-mortar stores have seen significant shutters. Shoppers have lost some major players in the retail game due to low foot traffic, high lease prices, and the pivot toward digital. For JCPenney, as the decline of shopping malls took a hit, the writing was on the wall. The once-booming department store and anchor to malls across America has been quietly closing down locations since 2020. After a bankruptcy filing at the height of the pandemic in 2020, the chain announced it…

LeBron James’ wild Lakers timeline from title glory to final curtain

LeBron James’ Lakers career can now be viewed as a timeline, with each stop telling a different part of the story: the arrival, the injury, the Anthony Davis trade, the bubble championship, the Kobe Bryant grief, the scoring record, the NBA Cup, the Bronny James moment and, finally, the Luka…

The reasons to be optimistic about these Giants

It is the start of July. That means your favorite Giants players and coaches are somewhere other than the team facility, probably on vacation. The early weeks of summer are upon us, and if you cannot muster up some level of optimism about your favorite team, you are either a…

Aaron Judge ‘starting to feel better’ but is weeks away from scan on rib

Aaron Judge is “starting to feel better,” Aaron Boone said, though that feeling has not yet translated into concrete progress toward a return. Thursday will mark four weeks since the Yankees announced their captain had suffered a stress fracture of a rib and would undergo additional medical imaging in “approximately…

Another brutal offensive showing leads to another Dodgers loss

After a lackluster offensive performance Tuesday night, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts implored his team to “to have a better plan” at the plate. An afternoon later, however, the club was still searching. In a 3-2 loss to the Miami Marlins on Wednesday, the Dodgers not only dropped a three-game series…

Disney makes major decision on the future of ESPN

Disney has decided to keep ESPN — shelving years of speculation about a potential spinoff — in one of the first major strategic calls by newly installed CEO Josh D’Amaro, according to a report. The move signals that the media giant is doubling down on sports as it navigates a…

California’s Prop 50 plans thrown into chaos after bombshell Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana: experts

A bombshell Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that struck down Louisiana’s congressional map and gutted the Voting Rights Act will have major ramifications for California’s gerrymandering fight over its own maps, multiple experts said in interviews with the California Post. It’s not just California’s newly gerrymandered, anti-Trump congressional maps that could…

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square plunges 18% in NYSE debut

Bill Ackman‘s long-anticipated Wall Street debut flopped on Wednesday, as shares of his new closed-end fund tumbled 18% on the New York Stock Exchange despite the hedge-fund billionaire’s rampant following on social media. Pershing Square USA Ltd. (PSUS) — the flagship vehicle pitched as a way to hand hedge-fund-style returns…

Can NASA and SpaceX really build a moon base in the next 10 years?

Mars is out; the moon is in. And this time, we may be going there to stay.On March 24, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman announced new plans to build a “sustained human presence” on the moon, complete with a permanent lunar base. Construction of humanity’s new home away from Earth could…

Billionaire’s cryptic back of hand message decoded after CA governor debate

California governor hopeful Tom Steyer sported some strange ink on his hand during Tuesday night’s debate. The billionaire Democrat was seen with a crudely drawn, tic-tac-toe-like symbol on his left hand as he sparred with rivals on the debate stage. The curious scrawls fueled plenty of speculation and jokes online.…

Elon Musk gets an apology from California regulators as a SpaceX lawsuit is settled

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California regulators apologized to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk this week as they settled a lawsuit that claimed a state agency showed political bias against the rocket company and its chief executive. As part of the settlement, the California Coastal Commission acknowledged its members made “improper” statements about Musk’s…

Father, 41, is ‘in love with life’ following bowel cancer diagnosis

There aren’t many people who can find the bright side of being diagnosed with cancer. But winemaker Nick Dugmore has found it. “Cancer’s been phenomenal for me, because I’ve never lived so f—ing purely and happy, and just in love with life in all my life,” Dugmore told news.com.au. It’s…

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