Andre De Grasse won his first two races of the season at the East Coast Relays in Jacksonville, Fla., where he lives and trains. On Friday night, de Grasse ran a wind-aided 10.11 in the 200m to clip reigning Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs of Italy in a photo finish for the fastest overall time.
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Bob Bakish will be replaced by a new Office of the CEO led by senior executives from CBS, Showtime/MTV and Paramount Pictures/Nickelodeon. The move comes as Paramount is in talks to merge with Skydance.
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Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are the latest big-name stars to invest in Club Necaxa. The celebrity duo already own the Welsh soccer team Wrexham AFC. Eva Longoria is said to have encouraged Ryan and Rob to throw their support behind the project.
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Tahra Grant has been promoted to EVP, Chief Communications Officer for Sony Pictures Entertainment. Grant succeeds Robert Lawson in a top Corp Comm post. She is moving to the conglom’s HQ in Tokyo, Japan.
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Edmonton’s Rice Howard Way could be transformed into an alcohol-licensed, pedestrian-friendly area every Saturday starting June 1. The city’s community and public services committee decided Monday to present the proposal to council in May. It’s not rocket science. You should be able to just have a glass of wine or a beer and put out seats in the street and treat it more like a plaza,” Puneeta McBryan said.
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The Energy Workforce & Technology Council elected a slate of new officers and industry leaders during their 2024 Annual Meeting. These individuals will serve one-year terms as Council co-chairs and co-vice chairs, and three years as board and Advisory Board members. The following were elected to the Board of Directors: Chair- Scott Livingston, President, Energy Products and Services Equipment, NOV Vice Chair- Sam Sledge, CEO, ProPetro Services Finance Chair- Kyle Ramachandran.
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Sensata Technologies (NYSE:ST) reported Q1 CY2024 results. It made a non-GAAP profit of $0.89 per share, down from $0.92 per share in the same quarter last year. The company expects next quarter's revenue to be around $1.04 billion. Find out by accessing our actionable full research report.
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Ottawa Catholic School Board is poised to develop its own local policy. This proactive stance acknowledges that the spectrum of distractions extends beyond cell phones to encompass wearable devices and AI-enabled accessories like watches and glasses. Beginning in the 2024-2025 school year, students in kindergarten to Grade 6 will be required to keep their phones on silent and out of sight for the entire school day.
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Tesla's shares surged after the EV maker won tentative approval to deploy its Full Self-Driving system in China. Elon Musk met high-ranking officials on a surprise visit to Beijing.
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BESTWR is made up of the heads of local chambers of commerce, the Waterloo Economic Development Corp. and Communitech. The region is pursuing 770 acres of land in Wilmot Township near the intersection of Nafziger Road and Bleams Road, south of New Hamburg.
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