Lego and Nintendo team up for a new Lego set that assembles into a block model of Nintendo’s 8-bit game console, the Nintendo Entertainment System, along with an interactive TV screen Super Mario Bros. The two companies collaborated earlier this year to create interactive Super Mario-thematic sets. Designed for adult …
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This strategist says investors are in the ‘fantasy forest’ when it comes to growth stocks
We have geopolitical tensions to add to a plate of investor concern filled with COVID-19 concerns. However, US stocks point to a rally for Tuesday, after a slow start to the week. Our call of the day from Nordea’s chief macro strategist, Sebastien Galy, says it’s time to be more …
Read More »Queen Elizabeth of the UK was not counted before PM’s historic dismissal in Australia: letters on file
SYDNEY – Queen Elizabeth’s representative in Australia fired a prime minister without warning the palace, or the prime minister, because “according to the constitution, the responsibility is mine,” according to archived letters released Tuesday. In a November 11, 1975 dispatch, Governor General John Kerr told the Queen’s private secretary that …
Read More »Election Poll Updates in Alabama, Maine and Texas Primary and Second Round
Three states with very different electoral profiles will hold primary elections on Tuesday: Alabama, Maine and Texas. The contests include a Republican Senate primary in Alabama in which President Trump pursues personal revenge; a Democratic primary for the Senate in Maine, whose winner will face the only New England Republican …
Read More »Covid Party’s latest story gets a twist
Covid party insanity continues to sweep the nation, or at least the nation’s news organizations. The latest example comes from Texas, where a 30-year-old man is said to have confessed on his deathbed that he had attended one. “Just before the patient died,” announced Jane Appleby, medical director of Methodist …
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