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Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of the failed blood testing start-up Theranos, who was convicted last year on charges that she defrauded investors of more than $100 million, has lost her latest bid to stay out of prison while she appeals her conviction.Ms. Holmes, whose case cast a harsh light on Silicon Valley's culture of hubris, must report to prison on May 30, a judge ruled after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected her attempt on Tuesday to remain free on bail.

A24, the independent film and television studio barreling into next weekend's Academy Awards with a boatload of Oscar nominations, is making an unexpected move into live performance, purchasing a small Off Broadway theater in New York's West Village.The studio, which until now has focused on making movies, television shows and podcasts, has purchased the Cherry Lane Theater for $10 million, and plans to present plays as well as other forms of live entertainment there, in addition to the occasional film screening.

English speakers are no stranger to using certain German words when speaking Englishschadenfreude and kindergarten being perhaps the most obvious.The process is possibly even more advanced in reverse.Many Germans are proud of being able to speak English well, and the Berlin Wall's fall in 1989 only accelerated the process, as a redefined international community with English as the main global language beckoned.

Jody Miller, a versatile singer with a rich, resonant voice who won a Grammy Award for Queen of the House, a homemaker's reply to a hobo's refrain, and had her biggest hit with a teenage anthem, Home of the Brave, died on Oct. 6 at her home in Blanchard, Okla.She was 80. Her daughter, Robin Brooks, said the cause was complications of Parkinson's disease.

A man dressed in Native American clothing paddles a canoe toward a tableau of environmental degradation: waters strewn with trash, a person throwing garbage out of a car window on a traffic-choked highway and spewing smokestacks on the horizon.A percussion-driven score dramatically resolves with a close-up shot of the man shedding a single tear.

Picture a bottle of Jack Daniel's whiskey.Now imagine someone making a poop joke about it - the whiskey is brown, after all.Not too funny, but should bad jokes be against the law?Does it make a difference if the joke teller does it for profit?That's the question coming before the U.S. Supreme Court, and a wrong answer could turn trademark law upside down.

Taylor Swift will not be in attendance at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday that will address Ticketmaster's fiasco managing her The Eras Tour' concert ticket sales.A lesser-known musician, Clyde Lawrence, will instead speak on behalf of artists.The hearing titled That's the Ticket: Promoting Competition and Protecting Consumers in Live Entertainment, comes after legions of Taylor Swift fans couldn't purchase presale tickets through Ticketmaster in November and resellers have started selling limited tickets for upwards of $45,000.

British actor Julian Sands has been identified as the hiker who went missing in the California mountains last week.The 65-year-old, known for his role in the Oscar-nominated 1985 film A Room with a View,has been missing in the Mount Baldy area since Friday 13 January, according to authorities.He was reported missing by his wife, writer Evgenia Citkowitz, on Friday evening and was thought to have been somewhere on the popular Baldy Bowl Trail in the San Gabriel Mountains.

The Duke of Sussex has said that Tyler Perry offered him his Los Angeles house to stay in because his own mother had loved Diana, Princess of Wales.Harry said that the US actor and comedian had made the generous offer as he and Meghan sought to travel to America from Canada amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in March 2020.

The game of football and its fans have never been particularly squeamish about injuries.When players tear a knee ligament or dislocate a shoulder, when they wobble away from a jarring collision, trainers help them to the sideline and play resumes.What happened to Damar Hamlin during a "Monday Night Football" game this week was different.

Americans both loathe and adore spoiled children.As much as we disdain foot-stomping brats, we seem to have an endless appetite for movies and television shows about affluent and entitled kids.Unfortunately, that tension has warped the way parents understand childhood and created a real fear that reasonable parenting and love might produce a spoiled kid.