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A, URBN, LB & more

Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on January 6, 2016 in New York City. Check out which companies are making headlines after the bell: Shares of Agilent Technologies shot up more than 4 percent in …

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Broadway’s ‘Groundhog Day’ Will Close Sept. 17

Photo Andy Karl as Phil Connors in “Groundhog Day.” The musical will close on Sept. 17. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times “Groundhog Day,” the ambitious stage adaptation of the popular 1993 film, will close on Sept. 17, the producers said Tuesday. The musical won some strong reviews, but was …

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Cramer’s charts reveal the chipmaker stocks that are telling the truth

The semiconductor stocks have been trading wildly of late, getting hit in July 2017 and again during last week’s sell-off before bouncing back on Monday. These dramatic moves made Jim Cramer wonder which move was really telling the truth about where the group is headed: down with the pullback or …

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Trump was not supposed to take any questions at Trump Tower

Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump answers questions about his responses to the deaths and injuries at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville as he talks to the media with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (L) at his side in the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York, …

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Regressing in London With Meat Loaf and Adrian Mole

Adapted by the Birmingham Stage Company from David Walliams’s best-selling children’s book, “Gangsta Granny” concerns an 11-year-old boy whose pet hate is having to spend Friday nights with his boring (and flatulent) old grandma. Its chief life lessons are: Never judge a granny by her housecoat; middle-aged parents are stupid …

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Picture of John Kelly during Q and A about Charlottesville

Kevin Lamarque | Reuters John Kelly, then Homeland Security Secretary, listens to U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting with cyber security experts in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., January 31, 2017. Kelly was later named White House chief of staff. White House Chief of …

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Yayoi Kusama to Open Her Own Museum in Tokyo

Photo Yayoi Kusama’s repetitive patterned imagery has made her one of Japan’s most celebrated artists. Credit Yayoi Kusama Polka dots. Mirrors. Pumpkins. Balloons. And long lines to see all of the above. Yayoi Kusama, whose obsessively patterned and repetitive imagery has made her one of Japan’s most celebrated artists, is …

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Here’s why one technical trader is picking bitcoin over gold

Tuesday’s sell-off in both bitcoin and gold has many suspecting that the two are correlated, but Todd Gordon thinks that not only is there no such relationship, bitcoin is also the better bet for a rally. The TradingAnalysis.com founder says that while a shorter-term chart of bitcoin and gold together …

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‘New People’ Riffs on Race and Love, With a Twist

“Maria is 27,” Senna writes near the start. “She is engaged to marry Khalil, who loves her unequivocally. She is the one he has been waiting for his whole life. Maria loves Khalil. She never doubts this. He is the one she needs, the one who can repair her.” Photo …

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Lawsuit claims rodent was baked into Chick-fil-A sandwich

Source: Bucks County Court A suburban Philadelphia woman claims she got an extra topping in her Chick-Fil-A sandwich last year: a dead rodent. A suburban Philadelphia woman claims she got an extra topping in her Chick-Fil-A sandwich last year: a dead rodent. Ellen Manfalouti filed a lawsuit in Bucks County …

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