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Musician Melissa Etheridge and Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce levied the same warning to Cincinnati Bengals and their fans about calling Arrowhead Stadium “Burrowhead” ahead of the AFC Championship Game.Bengals defensive back Mike Hilton called the stadium “Burrowhead” during the team’s win over the Buffalo Bills last weekend. NFL Films caught Hilton’s interaction with his teammates on the sideline, saying “We’ll see y’all in Burrowhead.”Kelce addressed the new moniker in the latest episode of his “New Heights” podcast, which he does with his brother Jason, the Philadelphia Eagles center who is also playing for a Super Bowl appearance Sunday. The…

The U.S. economy finished 2022 in solid shape even as questions persist over whether growth will turn negative in the year ahead.Fourth-quarter gross domestic product, the sum of all goods and services produced for the October-to-December period, rose at a 2.9% annualized pace, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had expected a reading of 2.8%.The growth rate was slightly slower than the 3.2% pace in the third quarter.Stock market futures rose following the report while Treasury yields were mostly higher as well.Consumer spending, which accounts for about 68% of GDP, increased 2.1% for the period, down…

Thomas Barwick | DigitalVision | Getty ImagesBig-name tech firms like Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are undergoing mass layoffs, but job prospects for applicants in the broader tech ecosystem are poised to be among the best of any industry in 2023, according to a new ranking.Eight of the top 10 “best jobs” in the U.S. this year are technology roles, according to Indeed, which conducts an annual list of the top roles for job seekers.Those tech jobs, per Indeed’s rankings, are full-stack developers, at No. 1; data engineers (No. 2); cloud engineers (No. 3); senior product managers (No. 5); back-end…

She’s back! Wolf Pack introduces a brand new supernatural mystery — with Sarah Michelle Gellar at the helm of the story. “The show focuses on two teenagers who are caught in a wildfire and are wounded by a supernatural creature. In the aftermath, they discover they’re werewolves, and develop an intense bond together,” the synopsis reads. “The two team up, and encounter two other teenagers, the adoptive children of a park ranger, who went through a similar strange wildfire sixteen years ago.” In July 2022, creator Jeff Davis opened up about getting to work with Gellar on the project. “Everyone…

“But my makeup career was quite short,” she clarifies with a laugh. It was the early ’90s when Ellis and Malka attended a Vivienne Westwood show, and everything shifted. “We were front row, and back then I always had a look, very voluptuous, big boobs. I used to wear bustiers from the ’50s and vinyl clothes, and people stared,” she says, smirking. “They had never seen anything like me before, there were no fat girls running around the runway shows in Paris back then!” One person in particular took note of her: Jean Paul Gaultier.Ellis and Gaultier were introduced after the…

Royal Mail has taken a £200mn hit from strikes as it races to restore customers’ faith in its services amid an ongoing dispute with postal workers and a damaging cyber attack.The UK delivery group’s parent company, International Distribution Services, said on Thursday that 18 days of staff walkouts pushed it to a £295mn adjusted operating loss during the nine months to December.It has also restarted deliveries of parcels overseas more than a fortnight after a cyber attack crippled its international services. The financial blow comes after bumper profits during the Covid-19 pandemic thanks to a boom in online orders. It…

California’s incredible Firefall is back.Every February, thousands of photographers and tourists flock to Yosemite National Park to glimpse a ribbon of ‘lava’ gushing down the imposing El Capitan granite rockface.This famous natural phenomenon is actually a trick of the light, generated as sunlight reflects off of a waterfall.But if you want to see the firefall, you’ll have to be quick – the first batch of reservations has already sold out.Here’s how you can catch the magnificent display.What is the firefall?The firefall is a spectacular light show.In late winter, Horsetail Falls is gushing with runoff from winter storms. For a few…

A Southwest Airlines Co. Boeing 737 passenger jet pushes back from a gate at Midway International Airport (MDW) in Chicago, Illinois.Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making the biggest moves premarket:Southwest — The airline dropped 2.1% after reporting a $220 million loss for the fourth quarter after the holiday meltdown cost the company millions in expenses and drove up expenses.Comcast — The media company reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street’s expectations, with earnings per share coming in at 82 cents, adjusted, versus the 77 cents expected from analysts surveyed by Refinitiv. Revenue was $30.55 billion…

Washington CNN  —  For the better part of 15 years, Google has seemed like an unstoppable force, powered by the strength of its online search engine and digital advertising business. But both now look increasingly vulnerable. This week, the Justice Department accused Google of running an illegal monopoly in its online advertising business and called for parts of it to be broken up. The case comes a couple of years after the Trump administration filed a similar suit going after the tech giant’s dominance in search. Google said the Justice Department is “doubling down on a flawed argument” and that…

CNN  —  A California court on Wednesday ruled that the San Francisco district attorney’s office must make public the 911 audio calls, police body camera footage and home surveillance video recorded the night of the attack at the Pelosis’ San Francisco home last year. Audio from police interviews with David DePape, the alleged attacker, must also be made public, the court ruled. The decision came following a motion by a coalition of news organizations, including CNN, seeking the release of the material. It’s not immediately clear how soon the material will be made public. DePape has pleaded not guilty to…