In “Wicked,” Elphaba and Glinda travel from Shiz University to the Emerald City on a glistening green train to meet the wizard. In real life, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande have traveled much farther and wider and longer — and on airplanes — to promote their hotly anticipated film. The Oscars. The Met Gala. CinemaCon…
“Barbenheimer” was a phenomenon impossible to manufacture. But, more than a year later, that hasn’t stopped people from trying to make “Glicked” — or even “Babyratu” — happen. The counterprogramming of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” in July 2023 hit a nerve culturally and had the receipts to back it up. Unlike so many things that begin…
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Drug reform advocates hailed Oregon as a progressive leader when it became the first in the nation to legalize the therapeutic use of psilocybin, the compound found in psychedelic mushrooms. But four years later, voters in a growing list of its cities have banned the substance. Four cities, spanning Portland suburbs…
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Activists and experts who are pushing world leaders to save an overheating planet learned it’s not so easy, even in a simulated world. The Associated Press brought the board game Daybreak to the United Nations climate negotiations in Baku, Azerbaijan. Experts from three countries were asked to play the game, which…
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Pragnya Mohan has been a professional triathlete for nearly a decade, but summers in her native India are now so hot that she can’t train there anymore. She escaped the heat to train in the United Kingdom, but worries about a day when a warming world kills her sport entirely. American…
Investing.com — Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) US-listed shares fell nearly 3% in premarket trading Friday after Barclays (LON:BARC) analysts downgraded the stock to Equal Weight from Overweight and cut the price target from to $83 from $115. The revision comes amid pressures from the Chinese internet giant’s growing focus on generative AI, which “exacerbates pressure” on advertising…
Investing.com — Barclays analysts are bullish on Novo Nordisk (NYSE:NVO) stock ahead of the December release of pivotal clinical trial data for its next-generation obesity treatment, CagriSema. The results of the REDEFINE-1 Phase 3 trial could, according to Barclays (LON:BARC), “redefine the obesity landscape” and provide a much-needed boost to the company’s stock, which has faced…
By Scott Murdoch and Tom Westbrook (Reuters) -Gautam Adani’s conglomerate could find it harder to get funding following a U.S. arrest warrant for its billionaire founder, with some banks considering halting fresh credit to the Indian group due to an alleged $265 million bribery scheme. Some global banks are considering temporarily halting fresh credit to…
By Jonathan Cable LONDON (Reuters) -Euro zone business activity took a surprisingly sharp turn for the worse this month as the bloc’s dominant services industry contracted and manufacturing sank deeper into recession, a survey showed on Friday. HCOB’s preliminary composite euro zone Purchasing Managers’ Index, compiled by S&P Global, sank to a 10-month low of…
By Johann M Cherian and Purvi Agarwal (Reuters) -U.S. stocks were poised for a subdued start on Friday as investors awaited a business activity survey and monitored geopolitical tensions between Ukraine and Russia. The benchmark S&P 500 and blue-chip Dow closed Thursday at one-week highs, with AI bellwether Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) managing modest gains after its…
