The Daily Star’s FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inbox A mum plundered £136,000 from a dementia-suffering client's bank account and used the money to pay for her wedding, holidays and designer shopping, a court has heard. Sarah Aikenhead, 37, has been jailed following her crime after she stole the money from […]
Read moreNext has pulled out of the bidding for TopShop as the auction of Sir Philip Green’s former high street empire enters its closing stages. Sky News has learnt that a consortium comprising Next and Davidson Kempner Capital Management, a US investment firm, have withdrawn from a process being run by Arcadia Group’s administrator. The surprise move comes days after Next […]
Read moreWASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury nominee Janet Yellen underscored on Thursday the Biden administration’s intent to remake tax and trade policy after making domestic investments on workers and infrastructure in written answers to senators’ questions. The Senate Finance Committee plans to consider her nomination for Treasury Secretary for 10 a.m. EST on Friday, potentially paving the way for confirmation by […]
Read moreDrinking outdoors in the winter, thanks to Covid, can be painful, but bar owners are trying to make it feel like fun — or at least less frigid. By Robert Simonson In winters past, Del Pedro, an owner of Tooker Alley in Brooklyn, responded to snowfall by inviting a group of friends to drink martinis in the bar’s frigid backyard. […]
Read moreIt’s developing something with gullwing doors and a DMC badge. Few cars were flashes in a pan like the DeLorean DMC-12. The futuristic stainless steel body was stunning in the early 1980s, and 40 years later, it still turns heads wherever they go. There has never been a car like it since then, though a mysterious teaser posted to Italdesign’s […]
Read moreTony Stewart and NASCAR aren’t seeing eye-to-eye right now. In fact, they’re not seeing each other at all, because it appears the sanctioning body has forgotten how to reach its three-time champion. It’s either that, or NASCAR just isn’t particularly interested in interacting with him right now. According to the Associated Press, Stewart was incensed last year when he realized […]
Read moreUS President Joe Biden’s new press secretary Jen Psaki has discovered new-found fame as she greeted media on her first day on the job, pledging to share “accurate information” with America and the world. Publications and insiders across the globe, including Donald’s Trump’s niece, praised the 42-year-old’s “impressive” debut address to the media, where she pledged to restore “truth” and […]
Read moreVice President Kamala Harris’ outfit for the inauguration ceremony — a Christopher John Rogers purple coat and dress — garnered $8.2 million in Media Impact Value in the first 24 hours, according to a study by Launchmetrics. Harris’ outfit generated $7 million in online impact and $1.2 million in social media. (Online would be considered websites, media sites and blogs, […]
Read moreMany younger attendees at Wednesday’s historic inauguration stole the spotlight for their fashion, including President Joe Biden’s four granddaughters. Naomi, Finnegan, Maisy and Natalie Biden attended their grandfather’s presidential inauguration fitting in with the sartorial monochromatic theme seen on the likes of their grandmother, First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and former First Lady Michelle Obama, among others. […]
Read moreSometimes life is sympatico, as was the case with Vice President Kamala Harris’ decision to wear a dress and coat designed by Prabal Gurung to Thursday’s virtual national prayer service. The fact that the garnet-colored, double-faced wool crepe tailored ensemble was made in New York City was one of the footnotes in the Harris-Gurung connection. Born in Singapore and growing […]
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