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Posted by : DayaLys / On : November 5, 2018

Lowe’s is closing 51 stores in the US and Canada

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New York (CNN Business)In another sign of the times for retail, Lowe’s is closing 51 North American stores.

Lowe’s said Monday that those locations are underperforming and the decision will help the hardware chain focus on its most profitable stores.
“The store closures are a necessary step in our strategic reassessment as we focus on building a stronger business,” said CEO Marvin Ellison, in a statement.
Retail stores are struggling to adjust to the rapid rise of online shopping, particularly from Amazon (AMZN). Many successful retailers with big stores have adjusted their business strategies to make better use of their physical spaces. Others, including Sears, Kmart and Toys “R” Us, failed.
Lowe’s and its rival Home Depot have proven to be largely Amazon-proof, because Amazon does not sell lumber or other heavy, bulky home improvement products.
But Lowe’s is struggling to keep up with Home Depot. Last year, Home Depot’s revenue hit more than $100 billion, while Lowe’s sales were below $70 billion. Lowe’s stock price has also lagged behind its rival, leading to pressure from activist investors.
Earlier this year, Lowe’s gave the reins to a home improvement veteran to turn around the company. Ellison was a top executive Home Depot for more than a decade, and most recently served as JCPenney’s (JCP) CEO.
Ellison has already made some big strategic decisions, including closing all of its Orchard Supply Hardware stores and slashing inventory at its Lowe’s stores.
He believes targeting professional home builders and construction companies with higher-quality tools and equipment, additional discounts, and better customer service will improve Lowe’s. Sales to home building pros make up around 45% of Home Depot’s sales, but only around 30% of Lowe’s sales, according to analysts at Wedbush Securities.
Lowe’s (LOW) will shut down 20 stores in the United States and 31 in Canada. The company said that a “majority” of the shuttered stores are within 10 miles of another Lowe’s location.
The stores will be closed before Feb. 1, 2019. The company will try to find jobs at nearby stores for its employees affected by the closings.
Article via CNN
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Posted by : DayaLys / On : October 28, 2018

House majority leader deletes tweet saying Soros, Bloomberg, Steyer are trying to ‘buy’ election

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Washington (CNN) – House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy posted and later deleted a tweet last week that suggested three Jewish, billionaire Democratic donors were attempting to “buy” the 2018 midterm elections.

“We cannot allow Soros, Steyer, and Bloomberg to BUY this election! Get out and vote Republican November 6th. #MAGA,” McCarthy wrote in the tweet posted Tuesday and deleted a day later, a reference to top donors to Democratic causes George Soros and Tom Steyer and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Twitter users quickly condemned McCarthy’s claim, saying it was insensitive given the fact that it came just one day after authorities intercepted what appeared to be a pipe bomb sent to Soros’ New York home.
On Friday, a suspicious package addressed to Steyer, a hedge fund manager who is leading a campaign to impeach President Donald Trump, was discovered in Burlingame, California, making him one of more than a dozen prominent political figures and critics of the President who were the intended recipients of suspicious packages, some carrying pipe bombs, including former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
McCarthy’s communications director, Matt Sparks, said in a statement to CNN that he also gave to The Washington Post last week that McCarthy “has and will always condemn in the strongest possible way violence or any acts of attempted violence.”
“Understanding the particular sensitivity of the past 24 hours in the political climate today that has led to specific threats on both sides of the aisle, we will redouble our focus on our agenda of results,” he said.
Authorities believe the packages were sent by Cesar Sayoc, a 56-year-old Florida man who was charged on Friday with five federal crimes, including illegal mailing of explosives, threats against former presidents and others, and assaulting current and former federal officers.
Soros, a billionaire investor and philanthropist, is a frequent target of right-wing criticism over his support for liberal causes, and both Steyer and Bloomberg have been politically active of late.
In response to the discovery of a suspicious package addressed to him, Steyer called for Trump’s impeachment.
In a tweet, Steyer wrote: “We’re thankful that everyone we work with is safe. We are seeing a systematic attack on our democracy that extends much further than just one isolated terrorist in Florida. That’s why we are running an impeachment petition to end the culture of lawlessness in our country.”
Steyer has financed a high-profile campaign for the President’s impeachment, using a series of national ad campaigns and town halls through his “Need to Impeach” organization to push his message. He had also pledged to spend up to $120 million in the 2018 midterms.
Bloomberg, who has been flirting with a potential run for president in 2020, has been making sizable donations to Democrats in an effort to help candidates around the country.
In early October, he announced that he was donating $20 million to a PAC that aims to flip the Senate. And earlier this year, he pledged to spend $80 million on Democratic congressional candidates. Last week, he put up another $10 million for ads for Democratic candidates in a last-minute effort to support the party ahead of next week’s midterm elections.
McCarthy’s tweet came days before a man opened fire at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, killing 11 people and injuring six others, including four police officers.
The alleged shooter, 46-year-old Robert Bowers, of Baldwin, Pennsylvania, surrendered to authorities after the Saturday morning shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue. He made anti-Semitic statements during and after the shooting, and targeted Jews on social media, according to a federal law enforcement official.
Responding to the shooting on his Twitter account Saturday afternoon, McCarthy called the attack “heinous” and said that it was “perpetrated by anti-Semitism and hate.”
“May God’s grace be with the victims and their families,” he wrote.
During a Sunday interview on “Meet the Press,” host Chuck Todd asked Ohio Rep. Steve Stivers, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, about an ad that the House GOP campaign arm aired in Minnesota attempting to tie Soros to Dan Feehan, a Democratic House candidate in the state.
One ad, released before the device sent to Soros was discovered, links an employer of Feehan’s to Soros by claiming he helped fund it and therefore Feehan.
Stivers defended the ad, calling it “factual.”
“Our independent expenditure arm is independent. But that ad is factual. And it also has nothing to do with calling for violence. That ad is a factual ad,” he told host Chuck Todd.
Asked on Sunday about McCarthy’s tweet on Soros, Steyer and Bloomberg, California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, who is Jewish, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” that he wasn’t sure what to make of it, but added that he thought the attacks on Soros in particular are driven by his Jewish faith.
“There are a lot of people (who) are generous to the Democratic Party,” Schiff said. “The fact that he’s become a symbol is not an accident. The fact that they’re promulgating this falsehood that he’s funding the caravan is an effort to give rebirth to this blood libel, that Jews are bringing impurity to the country, they’re bringing other people to dilute the purity of the country.
“It’s an ancient hatred,” he continued. “And it’s no accident that they have made George Soros the symbol of this. And you do see people, from the President on down, playing on this, candidates around the country playing on this.”
Schiff added that anti-Semitic incidents rose sharply last year, citing figures from the Anti-Defamation League.
“(That) doesn’t happen of its own. It happens because it’s fed. And what will be necessary to overcome it is what the mayor was talking about,” Schiff said, referring to Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto’s plea for unity at a Sunday morning news conference on the mass shooting. “And that is, these are still a minority of repugnant voices, and they have to be drowned out by our common goodness.”
Steyer said in an interview on the same program that he interpreted McCarthy’s statement as “a straight-up anti-Semitic move. I think that that is a classic attempt to separate Americans. I think that absolutely falls into the category of what I’m describing as political violence. And I believe that what we are looking for in America is something completely different from that.”

CNN’s Ashley Killough and Steve Brusk contributed to this report.

Article via CNN Politics

Posted by : DayaLys / On : October 15, 2018

Dave Chappelle stands behind ‘brother’ Kanye West amid Trump endorsement controversy

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Kanye West’s highly public endorsement of President Donald Trump has sparked considerable debate, with many perplexed by the rapper’s unyielding support for the polarizing leader — most recently demonstrated during a surreal Oval Office sit-down Thursday.

Despite the controversy, comedian Dave Chappelle is standing behind West, insisting that he “loves” the hip-hop star regardless of his political leanings.

“Kanye’s an artist, and he’s a genius,” Chappelle said during a recent interview on CNN’s The Van Jones Show (which was taped before West’s White House visit). “I think the angle he’s seeing things from is about the division. And he’s not inconsistent with what he’s saying. For instance, a decade ago he was saying he wanted to take the Confederate flag and re-appropriate it.”

He continued, “I’m not mad at Kanye West, that’s my brother. I love him, I support him, I buy his albums. I don’t have to agree with everything that he says, I just trust him as a person of intent.”

But the comedian acknowledged that the “Stronger” performer could do with a bit more restraint, adding, “But yeah, he shouldn’t say all that s—.”

Chappelle’s declaration of support was met with an uncomfortable silence from the audience that had gathered for the taping of the segment.

Chappelle, who can currently be seen in a small but key role in A Star is Born, also shared his experience of living in rural southern Ohio, which is heavily populated by Trump supporters.

“In the name of safety, I don’t tell them anything about that guy,” he explained. “I don’t think I can change anybody’s mind.”

When it comes to his own shocking statements, Chappelle, 45, expressed remorse for comments he made while appearing on Saturday Night Live following Trump’s presidential win — a time when many were expecting some form of comedic reprieve from the entertainer.

“I said we should give Trump a chance because he’s the president of the United States,” he said, “I shouldn’t have said that s—.”

Chappelle’s appearance on the show was part of his endorsement for longtime friend and Governor of Maryland candidate Ben Jealous.

Article via EW

Posted by : DayaLys / On : November 6, 2017

26 Teenage Girls Found Dead At Sea

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Italian authorities have launched an investigation into the cause of death of 26 teenage girls whose bodies were recovered in the Mediterranean Sea on Sunday.

The girls, aged 14-18, are believed to have been migrants from Niger and Nigeria who had embarked on the treacherous route to Europe from Libya over the weekend.
Lorena Ciccotti, Salerno’s head of police, told CNN that autopsies would be carried out on Tuesday and that coroners would be investigating whether the girls had been tortured or sexually abused.
Their bodies were found close to a flimsy rubber dinghy that had all but sunk when rescuers arrived, Ciccotti said. Aid workers had described a grim scene: survivors hanging onto the remains of the vessel as the girls’ bodies floated nearby.
Their rescue was one of four separate rescue operations carried out in the Mediterranean over the weekend. In total, 400 people were brought aboard the Spanish vessel Cantabria before disembarking at the Italian port town of Salerno.
Posted by : lovelyti / On : November 25, 2016

CNN Programming error?

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Accident my ASS! In Boston CNN views got a nice thanksgiving early Christmas treat CNN “accidentally” aired a whole hour of hardcore PORN YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT Hardcore Porn! You folks in Boston are freaks! LOOL Of course CNN came out with a statement in 5,4,3,2,1….

 

NOPE.

 

CNN denied airing 30 minutes of hardcore porn yumminess they blamed it on the cable operator RCN in Boston for they freakish ways. Sips tea while eating buttered popcorn DAYUM I WISH I LIVED IN BOSTON!

 

READ MORE: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/cnn-accidentally-airs-30-minutes-of-non-stop-hardcore-porn-a7439371.html

 

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