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June entertainment brings Ed Sheeran, John Legend, Shania Twain to DC area 06/01/2023 12:57pm • Summer is quickly approaching, meaning tons of fun events around town. Check out WTOP's June Entertainment Guide for a roundup of events in the D.C. area: June Entertainment Guide June 1: Taj Mahal and Los Lobos at Wolf Trap June 1-18: "Good Bones" at Studio Theatre June 1-24: IN 'Ted Lasso' finale proved its whole point — that those who are stuck can overcome (SPOILERS) 05/31/2023 10:08pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Roy Kent cries. Nate Shelley apologizes. Rebecca Welton lets her anger go. Trent Crimm finishes his book. Keeley Jones embraces her strength. And the kind-to-a-fault but often lost Ted Lasso finally — after three seasons, but arguably after nearly a lifetime — figures out exact CEOs got smaller raises. It would still take a typical worker two lifetimes to make their annual pay 05/31/2023 04:41pm • After ballooning for years, CEO pay growth is finally slowing. The typical compensation package for chief executives who run S&P 500 companies rose just 0.9% last year, to a median of $14.8 million, according to data analyzed for The Associated Press by Equilar. That means half the CEOs in the s Review: 'Ted Lasso' ends in heartwarming fashion with 'pitch' perfect finale 05/31/2023 02:29pm • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR9yjn7Lkdg After saying goodbye to “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" last Friday and “Succession" and "Barry" on Sunday night, it's time to bid farewell to "Ted Lasso" on Wednesday — or should we say, "So Long, Farewell." That's the title of the series fina China's commerce minister meets Tesla's Musk, promises support to foreign companies 05/31/2023 06:18am • BEIJING (AP) — China's commerce minister met Tesla Ltd. CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday and promised to support the development of foreign companies, the ministry said. Musk earlier met with China's ministers of industry and foreign affairs. He joined a series of CEOs from global companies, including 7 Best Long-Term ETFs to Buy and Hold 05/30/2023 08:00pm • In a frenetic digital world, it's hard to think about long-term investments. But most research shows that actively trading your portfolio or trying to "time" the market is a losing proposition for most of us. Besides the obvious shortfall of not being experts, most of us also don't have the resource Elizabeth Holmes enters Texas prison to begin 11-year sentence for notorious blood-testing hoax 05/30/2023 05:42pm • BRYAN, Texas (AP) — Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes entered a Texas prison Tuesday where she could spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley. Holmes, 39, could be seen from outside the prison’s gates walking into Apple-Podcasts-Top-Shows 05/30/2023 02:31pm • Top New Shows (US): 1. Scamanda, Lionsgate Sound 2. Freeway Phantom, iHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TV 3. Pretty, Not Smart with Louie and Yoatzi Castro, Louie and Yoatzi Castro & Studio71 4. The King Road Killings: An Idaho Murder Mystery, ABC News 5. The Broski Report with Brittany Broski, Brit US-Apple-Books-Top-10 05/30/2023 02:30pm • Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Identity by Nora Roberts - 9781250284327 - (St. Martin’s Publishing Group) 2. Tom Clancy Flash Point by Don Bentley - 9780593422793 - (Penguin Publishing Group) 3. Only the Dead by Jack Carr - 9781982181727 - (AtriaEmily Bestler Books) 4. It Ends with Us by Apple TV app - Top Movies 05/30/2023 02:28pm • Top Movie Purchases and Rentals (US): 1. John Wick: Chapter 4 2. The Super Mario Bros. Movie 3. Dungeons & Dragons Honor Among Thieves 4. Creed III 5. 65 6. Sisu 7. Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant 8. John Wick 4-Film Collection 9. Evil Dead Rise 10. Avatar: The Way of Water Apple App Store - Top Apps 05/30/2023 02:27pm • App Store Top Free iPhone Apps (US): 1. Max: Stream HBO, TV, & Movies, WarnerMedia Global Digital Services, LLC 2. Temu: Shop Like a Billionaire, Temu 3. ChatGPT, OpenAI 4. Instagram, Instagram, Inc. 5. TikTok, TikTok Ltd. 6. YouTube: Watch, Listen, Stream, Google LLC 7. WhatsApp Messenger, What Chipmaker Nvidia joins exclusive club of companies with a $1 trillion market capitalization 05/30/2023 11:36am • Nvidia has joined the exclusive club of companies with a $1 trillion market capitalization as the chipmaker benefits from the growing use of artificial intelligence. Nvidia Corp. joins tech titans like Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft in the $1 trillion club. Its stock rose 5% in Tuesday trading, eclip U.S. Debt-Ceiling Deadline: What Investors Should Know 05/29/2023 08:00pm • U.S. President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) reached an agreement to raise the national debt ceiling over Memorial Day weekend. The text of the legislation that reflects the agreement, following several long days of negotiation, was released on Sunday. This is a tentative dea 7 Recent and Upcoming IPOs to Watch in 2023 05/29/2023 08:00pm • It has been a tough, quiet year in the market for initial public stock offerings -- but a surprisingly good year for stocks of recent IPOs. Only 42 companies have gone public this year as of mid-May, according to Renaissance Capital, an IPO-focused research firm and exchange-traded fund, or ETF, man A new app hopes to spot counterfeit products with a single photo using AI 05/29/2023 05:28pm • Is that antique watch you have on real or fake? A new app says it will be able to suss out counterfeit products. The app, which will be available directly for businesses from the developer, reportedly uses artificial intelligence to tell if something is counterfeit using just a photo, the develop