Beyond Meat announced that it would be launching retail sales of its burger patties in Mainland China through Freshippo Markets, a company under Alibaba Group Holding. The deal will begin out of 50 stores in Shanghai with plans to expand to another 48 stores in Beijing and Hangzhou by September. Yahoo Finance’s Heidi Chung joins The Final Round panel breaks down the details.
After its midnight deadline, the Senate voted early Saturday to reauthorize a key U.S. surveillance law after divisions over whether the FBI should be restricted from using the program to search for Americans’ data nearly forced the statute to lapse. The legislation approved 60-34 with bipartisan support would extend for two years the program known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It now goes to President Joe Biden’s desk to become law.
Civil liberties and privacy advocates said the renewal did not do enough to protect Americans from being spied upon.
Brandon Ingram scored 24 points, Jonas Valanciunas added 19 points and 12 rebounds, and the New Orleans Pelicans booked a spot in the NBA playoffs with a 105-98 victory over the Sacramento Kings in a play-in tournament elimination game on Friday night. The Pelicans won without leading-scorer Zion Williamson, who strained his left hamstring right as he reached the 40-point mark in a play-in loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night. Undaunted, New Orleans used a balanced approach to improved to 8-5 this season without Williamson in the lineup.
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When Washington state opened some of the nation's first legal marijuana stores in 2014, Sam Ward Jr. was on electronic home detention in Spokane, where he had been indicted on federal drug charges. A decade later, Ward, who is Black, recently posed in a blue-and-gold throne used for photo ops at his new cannabis store, Cloud 9 Cannabis.
Special LP releases, live performances and at least one giant block party are scheduled around the U.S. Saturday as hundreds of shops celebrate Record Store Day during a surge of interest in vinyl and the day after the release of Taylor Swift's latest album. There were no announced Record Store Day specials for the arrival of Swift's “The Tortured Poets Department” on Friday, but her fans always anxiously look forward to the new albums and accompanying collectible LPs. In suburban strip malls and big city downtowns, indie record stores are often the first to recognize and promote emerging artists.
As a child, Dau Mabil escaped war-torn Sudan and built a new life in Mississippi. Mabil, who lived in Jackson with his wife, went missing in broad daylight on March 25 after going for a walk on a trail connecting the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum with other city landmarks. Bul Mabil said he is dissatisfied with the way authorities have handled the case.
Tesla chief Elon Musk has postponed a planned trip to India where he was to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday and announce plans to enter the South Asian market, four people familiar with the matter said on Saturday. Reuters could not immediately determine why Musk postponed the trip. Tesla and Modi's office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Tesla chief Elon Musk has postponed a planned trip to India where he was to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday and announce plans to enter the South Asian market, four people familiar with the matter said on Saturday. Reuters could not immediately determine why Musk postponed the trip. Tesla and Modi's office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The Pelicans grabbed the NBA's final playoff spot.
To casual sports fans and people outside northern Utah, it may look like an NHL team fell into Salt Lake City’s lap in the span of two weeks. The move announced Thursday marks a coming-of-age moment for Salt Lake City as a pro sports hub in the Mountain West, giving the midsize market its second major professional sports franchise in the 45 years since it welcomed the NBA's Utah Jazz. Now it remains to be seen if the city can generate the same enthusiasm for hockey that it has for basketball — and whether it can provide the stability required for a team that has bounced from place to place over the past few years, observers say.
A costumed skier races down a slope, hits a pond and hydroplanes halfway across. Among the resorts holding pond skimming events this weekend are Snowbasin in Utah and Winter Park in Colorado. The idea is that skiers and snowboarders try to gain enough downhill momentum to skim clear across a pond.
SPOILER ALERT: Do Not Read If You Haven’t Seen Tonight’s Show Season 16 of MTV reality series RuPaul’s Drag Race is over, and America’s Next Drag Superstar has been crowned. This edition of RuPaul’s Drag Race featured 14 queens from across the country battling it out for the win. Contestants besides the final three included …
Swift previously gushed about being "a huge fan of Post because of the writer he is" and "his musical experimentation"
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April on Broadway, to mangle a phrase from a showtune classic, is bustin’ out all over with no fewer than 14 new plays and musicals set to open before the April 25 Tony Award eligibility cutoff date. So crowded are the final weeks of the 2023-24 theater season that three days each will see the …
2nd UPDATE, 8:59 PM: Approximately 10 hours after Max Azzarello set himself on fire across the street from Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan, the 37-year-old man has died. Azzarello passed away about an hour ago from his burns and other wounds, law enforcement sources confirmed Friday night to Deadline. The Florida resident’s “extreme act …
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