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Rep. Jim Renacci is projected to win the Ohio GOP Senate primary, setting him up to take on Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in November, according to NBC News. Renacci, 59, is projected to defeat businessman Mike Gibbons. He has Trump’s backing and has at times had to go against his […]

Wolfgang Puck has been a celebrity chef for more than two decades and is a mainstay on cooking and television shows like Masterchef and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. His restaurant Spago in West Hollywood, which he opened in 1982, is considered a pioneer of California-style cooking, and is still a […]

A rare Picasso painting owned by the Rockefellers sold for $115 million including fees on Tuesday night, highlighting the continued strength of the art market and the enduring power of the Rockefeller name. Works by Henri Matisse and Claude Monet also went for eye-popping prices at the Christie’s evening auction […]

Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels, said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, within three months after the 2016 presidential election, received about $500,000 from a Russian oligarch who since has been interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller’s team. Avenatti also suggested in a […]

Asian stocks were narrowly mixed in early Wednesday trade following President Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. Japan’s Nikkei 225 declined 0.38 percent, with financials and tech weighing on the index despite gains seen in the oil and mining sectors. Elsewhere, South […]

Businessman and former state Rep. Mike Braun is projected to win Indiana’s Republican Senate primary and will get a crack at Sen. Joe Donnelly, one of the chamber’s most vulnerable Democrats, according to NBC News. He is projected to emerge from a bitter three-way GOP primary that featured personal attacks […]

More “Avengers” movies could be on their way, Disney said on Tuesday, following the globalsuccess of “Avengers: Infinity War”, which has smashed box office records since its release last month. Walt Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger told analysts on an earnings call that the fourth, already announced “Avengers” movie in […]

The stock market’s reaction to news that President Donald Trump would withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal showed just how irrational this market is, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday. “There are some markets where it pays to be smart, to really think things through,” he said. “This market is not […]

Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: TripAdvisor stock soared 19 percent after hours. The travel and restaurant website company reported first-quarter earnings and revenue that surpassed Wall Street expectations. CFO Ernst Teunissen gave positive remarks regarding 2018 guidance. The company’s earnings are being driven by its non-hotel […]

Warren Buffett made waves in 2016 when Berkshire Hathaway purchased Apple shares for the first time, snapping up 9.8 million of them. It was a break from his past because Buffett had long been hesitant to jump into tech stocks except for a stake in International Business Machines. But Buffett […]