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Time of India
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
GOT7's Park Jin Young to join ‘Shining' as train driver, a role previously rejected by Rowoon and Chae Jong Hyeop
GOT7 's Park Jin Young , known to show his prowess on stage as a singer as well as an actor on screen, is all set for his next role. The singer and actor is going to be joining the cast of the K-drama 'Shining'. The role, however, was previously rejected by the likes of Rowoon and Chae Jong Hyeop. Jin Young joins 'Shining' alongside Kim Min Ju Park Jin Young, better known as the singer of K-pop boy group GOT7, is going to be starring in the role of a train driver in the new K-drama 'Shining', as reported and confirmed by Sports Chosun. Previously, before Jin Young joined the project, this role was offered to other actors. Reportedly, Chae Jong Hyeop and Rowoon both had previously been chosen for the role, but somehow both had to step away from the responsibility. About the drama 'Shining' 'Shining' is a Korean drama that is based on themes of loneliness and loss. The puts focus on two people as they help and guide one another through the pain. GOT7's Jin Young is set to take on the role of one of the main leads in the drama, Yeon Tae Oh. The drama revolves around Tae Oh, who loses his parents at just 19 after they suffer from a tragic and major accident, while his brother is left severely injured. The story then follows him as he navigates his life after this tragedy. It also puts focus on him reconnecting with his past love, Mo Eun Ah, with whom he broke up when he was in his 20s. Previously Jin Young was serving his mandatory military duty and was officially discharged in November 2024. The singer and actor has been active in the media industry ever since and has been dedicating his time to different kinds of projects. Currently, the idol and actor is on set filming for another project titled ' Unknown Seoul '. He is working alongside Park Bo Young for this project. GOT7
Boston Globe
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Tesla's first-quarter profit falls sharply as it fights backlash tied to Musk's role in Trump administration
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up MEDIA Advertisement Jury rules against Palin in libel case against The New York Times Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and onetime Republican vice-presidential nominee, leaves the court after a day of the retrial of her defamation lawsuit against The New York Times in Manhattan on April 21. ANDRES KUDACKI/NYT A federal jury on Tuesday ruled against Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and Republican vice-presidential nominee, in her yearslong defamation lawsuit against The New York Times. The jury reached the verdict after two hours of deliberations. Palin sued the Times in 2017 after the newspaper published — and then swiftly corrected and apologized for — an editorial that wrongly suggested that she had incited a deadly shooting in Arizona years earlier. The case became a bellwether for battles over press freedoms and media bias in the Trump era, with Palin's lawyers saying they hoped to use it to attack a decades-old Supreme Court precedent that makes it harder for public figures to sue news outlets for defamation. This is the second time a federal jury has concluded that the Times was not liable for defaming Palin in its editorial. The case first went to trial in 2022, and both the jury and the judge ruled in favor of the Times. But last year, a federal appeals court invalidated those decisions, setting the stage for this month's retrial. It is unclear whether the verdict will be the end of the lawsuit's eight-year run or whether Palin's lawyers will again appeal. Outside the court after the verdict, Palin said she was going to 'go home to a beautiful family' and 'get on with life.' She declined to say whether she would appeal the verdict. 'We haven't talked about what we'll do next legally,' she told reporters. Danielle Rhoades Ha, a spokesperson for the Times, said in a statement: 'The decision reaffirms an important tenet of American law: Publishers are not liable for honest mistakes.' — NEW YORK TIMES Advertisement REAL ESTATE 'Shining' hotel borrows $300 million to cater to horror fans Stephen King attends the premiere of "The Life of Chuck" during the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 6, 2024. Chris Pizzello/Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP The hotel that inspired Stephen King to write his bestseller The Shining is turning to the municipal-bond market to pay for a sweeping overhaul in a bid to cement its status in the film industry, particularly among horror aficionados. The new owners of the Stanley Hotel, which is in Estes Park, Colo., roughly 40 miles from Boulder, plan to borrow nearly $300 million this month to expand its facilities, bond documents show. The majority of the offering, which will be issued through a state authority, is tax-exempt and will be backed by revenue generated by the hotel as well as other streams. The project, which includes a new event center, is the result of a decade's worth of planning by the state and the hotel owner along with cultural and film organizations around how to attract more regional tourism. Part of the goal is to tap into the Sundance Film Festival's planned move to Boulder in 2027 from Utah. King and his wife stayed in the hotel for one night in 1974, and had the unusual experience of being the only guests as it was closing the next day for the winter, the author recalls on his website. — BLOOMBERG NEWS Advertisement CRYPTOCURRENCY Trump Media enters deal with crypto trading platform President Trump's social media company has moved one step closer to transforming itself into a financial services firm that intends to market investment products, including cryptocurrency, to retail investors. Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, which has become Trump's main online megaphone, said Tuesday that it had signed a binding agreement with a cryptocurrency trading platform and a newly created Florida investment firm to launch a series of exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, by the end of the year. The move to market ETFs to investors is part of a strategy by Trump Media to generate a more reliable source of revenues after failing to attract sufficient advertising dollars to Truth Social. In the deal, Trump Media will team up with a digital asset trading platform with more than 140 million customers, and Yorkville America Digital, a company with ties to the founders of Yorkville Advisors, an investment firm based in Mountainside, New Jersey. — NEW YORK TIMES TECH At trial, Instagram cofounder says Meta denied his company resources Kevin Systrom, a co-founder of Instagram, in San Francisco on Feb. 2, 2023. JASON HENRY/NYT Kevin Systrom, the cofounder of Instagram, testified Tuesday in a landmark federal antitrust trial that his startup was starved of resources after Meta bought it because Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO, was afraid of the success of the photo-sharing app. 'Mark was not investing in Instagram because he believed we were a threat to their growth,' Systrom said. Systrom's testimony was among the most pointed for the government's case that Meta had purchased Instagram in 2012 as part of a 'buy-or-bury strategy' to illegally cement its social media monopoly by killing off its rivals. The Instagram cofounder made millions when Zuckerberg bought his company, but Systrom sharply contradicted Meta's defense during hours on the stand in US District Court for the District of Columbia. Last week, Zuckerberg testified that the social media giant, formerly known as Facebook, used its deep pockets to invest in Instagram after its purchase. Systrom countered Tuesday that he left Meta in 2018 because of Zuckerberg's lack of investment. At that time, Instagram had grown to 1 billion users, about 40 percent of Facebook's size, yet the photo-sharing app had only 1,000 employees compared with 35,000 employees at Facebook, he said. 'We were by far the fastest growing team. We produced the most revenue, and relative to what we should have been at the time, I felt like we should have been much larger,' Systrom said. — NEW YORK TIMES Advertisement PHARMACEUTICALS Roche to invest $50 billion in pharma, diagnostics in US The logo of the pharmaceutical company Roche pictured in Basel, Switzerland, on Feb. 1, 2017. Alexandra Wey/Associated Press Roche Holding AG said it will invest $50 billion in the United States in the next five years, joining rival drug makers in trumpeting American expansion plans as President Trump prepares to slap tariffs on pharmaceutical imports. The Swiss firm will expand and upgrade manufacturing and distribution capabilities in Kentucky, Indiana, New Jersey, Oregon, and California. Roche will also build a manufacturing plant to support the expansion of next-generation weight-loss drugs, though it didn't disclose the location. The pledge echoes a move by Swiss rival Novartis AG, which earlier this month laid out plans to invest $23 billion in the United States to ensure its key drugs for Americans are made in the country. Roche said that its investments will create more than 12,000 new jobs in the United States, mostly in construction and manufacturing. Roche already has long and deep ties with the United States, including its ownership of San Francisco-based Genentech, a pioneer in modern cancer medicine and other therapies. Roche currently has more than 25,000 workers in the country. The drugmaker also reiterated previously announced plans to build a gene therapy manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania and a research and development center in Massachusetts. 'Construction is either ongoing or just getting started' on those sites, the company said. Once all the new and expanded manufacturing capacity comes online, Roche will export more medicines from the United States than it imports, the company said. Currently, its diagnostics division has an export surplus from the United States. — BLOOMBERG NEWS Advertisement
USA Today
17-04-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Strands hints today: Clues and answers on Thursday, April 17 2025
Strands hints today: Clues and answers on Thursday, April 17 2025 WARNING: THERE ARE STRANDS SPOILERS AHEAD! DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT THE APRIL 17, 2025 STRANDS ANSWER SPOILED FOR YOU. Ready? OK! Have you been playing Strands, the super fun game from the New York Times, the makers of Connections and other brain-teasers like Wordle in which you have to do a search in a jumble of letters and find words based on a theme? It's pretty fun and sometimes very challenging, so we're here to help you out with some clues and the answers, including the "Spangram" that connects all the words. Let's start with the clue: THE movies If you want our help? Think about films! As for the answers, scroll below the photo below: Shining, Goonies, Ring, Godfather, Graduate, Aviator The Spangram is ... TITLES. Play more word games Looking for more word games?
Washington Post
20-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
This 25-year-old horror novel captured the terrors of the internet
History is rarely kind to the horror genre. For every work that manages to worm its way into the cultural unconscious — for every 'Alien,' 'Exorcist' or 'Shining,' say — there are a heap of films and novels left to languish unseen or unread. So, when a work of horror stands the test of time, it's worth pausing and paying attention. Released 25 years ago this month, Mark Z. Danielewski's novel 'House of Leaves' is as hauntingly alive today as it was when it first appeared. The novel's continued success is as improbable as it was inevitable. Improbable because 'House of Leaves' is no straightforward horror story. A work of excellent avant-garde pulp, Danielewski's book delights in metafictional experiments and odd typography. Inevitable because the horror it conveys is still with us. At the heart of 'House of Leaves' are the peculiar terrors and agonies of the internet age.
Yahoo
22-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
NEWS OF THE WEEK: Jack Nicholson makes rare public appearance at SNL50
The show celebrated 50 years on the air with a three-hour special called SNL50: The Anniversary Special. Nicholson was one of the many celebs in the crowd. He was sitting in the audience near Will Ferrell, Robert De Niro, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. The Shining star, who turns 88 in April, was briefly on camera to introduce a musical act from Adam Sandler. "Ladies and gentleman, Adam Sandler," Nicholson announced from his place in the crowd, where he was sitting with daughter Lorraine. The camera cut back to Sandler, who cried, "Let's hear it for Jack, baby! Jack baby out tonight!".
