Kansas furniture store owner on being forced to shutter due to tariffs: "We decided to liquidate everything"

Kansas furniture store owner on being forced to shutter due to tariffs: “We decided to liquidate everything”

Merriam, Kansas — Most will see just a furniture store when they visit My Home Contemporary Furniture in Merriam, Kansas, but for owner Henrik Svendsen, it’s the culmination of his life’s work. “I opened up four years ago,” Svendsen told CBS News. “I thought it would be the retirement for the kids.”  Svendsen is closing…

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Outdoor graduation ceremony becomes ‘mass casualty incident’ as over 150 people fall ill to extreme heat: ‘I couldn’t breathe’

Several high school graduations in New Jersey were postponed after excessive heat during a two-part ceremony Monday caused what the Paterson city fire chief declared a “mass casualty incident,” according to the Guardian. What’s happening? A “heat dome” began to descend on vast swaths of the Northeast and Midwest on Sunday, and over 100 million…

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Lauren Sanchez chose classic Dolce and Gabbana wedding gown to marry Jeff Bezos in Italy: It took over 900 hours to make | Fashion Trends

Lauren Sanchez chose classic Dolce and Gabbana wedding gown to marry Jeff Bezos in Italy: It took over 900 hours to make | Fashion Trends

Lauren Sanchez married Jeff Bezos on June 27, 2025, in a lavish ceremony on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy. She wore a stunning Dolce and Gabbana Alta Moda wedding gown that took over 900 hours of artisanal work to create, as per Harper’s Bazaar’s June 27 report. Jeff Bezos wore a…

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S&P 500 hits an all-time high — rebounding to its level when Trump's second term began

S&P 500 hits an all-time high — rebounding to its level when Trump’s second term began

“We’ve entered the second half of this year with a very different market than we would have thought,” Osman Ali, portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, said on a recent call with clients. Among the year’s biggest stock gainers are data firm Palantir, NRG Energy, data center supplier Super Micro Computer, gold miner Newmont…

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