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Democrats Win the Senate. What Might Face Businesses?

ASHFIELD, MA — With Democrats sewing up both of Georgia’s Senate seats and with them control of the upper chamber, the incoming Biden administration will have an easier path to passing the kind of tax, […]

Entertainment

Karaoke Machines: A 1970s Revolution in the Entertainment Industry

Karaoke machines are a Japanese invention, but an American show might have triggered their creation. The term karaoke comes from the Japanese words kara (empty) and okesutora (orchestra). Karaoke machines are a recent creation compared […]

Entertainment

The Long and the Short of Indian Cinema’s Anthology Trail

Karan Johar, a filmmaker whose brand of cinema has been defined by big budgets, larger than life sets, song-dance routines, family, romance and heartbreak, took a plunge into uncharted territory of short storytelling with one […]

Entertainment

When Elvis Met Nixon

MEMPHIS,  Tenn. — As they do every year, revelers are traveling to Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, to celebrate what would have been the 85th birthday of the “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” But this year, […]

Business

Peco Foods closing 3 Mississippi locations

A family-owned Mississippi poultry company said Thursday it is closing three of its locations in the state. Peco Foods’ facilities in Brooksville, Canton and the hatchery in Philadelphia will be shuttered, multiple news outlets reported. […]