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George Wendt, who played Norm on 'Cheers,' dies at 76 Actor George Wendt, best known for playing Norm on the television show "Cheers," has died. He was 76.

RIP, Normie!
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UPS to cut 20,000 jobs as it prepares to halve Amazon shipments Delivery group also expects to close 73 leased and owned buildings this year in effort to cut costs

UPS to cut 20,000 jobs as it prepares to halve Amazon shipments

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US consumer confidence plunges to lowest in 5 years on tariff worries Americans’ confidence in the economy slumped for the fifth straight month to the lowest level since the onset of COIVD-19 as worries about the impact of tariffs take a heavy toll on consumer expectati...

US consumer confidence plunges to lowest in 5 years, and this Friday the US Labor Department will release the latest hiring and the unemployment rate report...

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Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

Ocasio-Cortez raised $9.6 million in three months, smashing her own record It’s a massive haul for the progressive lawmaker who has been barnstorming the country with Bernie Sanders.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pulled in a massive fundraising haul amid progressive calls for her to launch a 2028 primary challenge against Sen. Chuck Schumer

Major storm front over Belle Isle Marsh in East Boston!

Never Change, Newcastle Fans 😂🖤🤍

[Via X/ketchell]

DOGE Claims Credit for Killing Contracts That Were Already Dead (Gift Article) Elon Musk’s group claimed credit for canceling procurement agreements that had been completed years earlier, the latest in a string of public errors on its site.

The New York Times has found that it had added new mistakes — claiming credit for “canceling” contracts that had actually ended under previous presidents.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

Tabby and I have been married 54 years today. It's all good.

Happy Wednesday morning. Here are the Five Things You Need to Know today in Boston-area business news: Commercial fusion, 'bubble butt syndrome' and why 1984 was the best year for music bizjournals.com/boston/news/... via
@bosbizjournal.bsky.social

To Eli Chavez of @bosbizjournal.bsky.social: Thx for your reporting on District Hall. What the owner would like everyone to forget is that DH was permitted as a TEMPORARY building on land zoned as public park space (Block F, Seaport Common). That info was recently withheld from the Licensing Board.

A Mexican American animator made "A Charlie Brown Christmas" a holiday classic Bill Melendez directed the CBS special when few Hispanics worked in the entertainment business.

Tens of millions have watched "A Charlie Brown Christmas" every year since it first aired in 1965, but few realize the beloved special has a Mexican American godfather who transformed the popular newspaper comic strip "Peanuts" into a holiday classic www.axios.com/2021/12/16/m...

We’ve Remodeled Our Bathroom, So Now You Have to Take a Dump Behind a Sliding Barn Door Welcome, come on in. Let me give you a tour of our new bathroom. We’ve painted the walls a beautiful sage green, installed a double sink vanity, an...

"We’ve painted the walls a beautiful sage green, installed a double sink vanity, and replaced our perfectly fine, functioning bathroom door with a sliding barn door. It’s exactly like a regular door, except it never closes."

NEWS: When it became clear Wash Post managing editor Matea Gold was heading to the NYT, a veteran WaPo reporter prepared a story.

Acting Executive Editor Matt Murray killed it, saying the paper shouldn't be covering itself. "Pin it on me," he said.

My story:
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#MLS Cup Chart

Each year I remind folks how worthy the great Rodney Harrison is for the Pro Football HOF
It's NEVER just about numbers but for those that like to consider stats I'm including John Lynch & the great/dominant Kenny Easley
Rodney is one of only 2 players in #NFL history w/ 30 sacks & 30 INTs
#NFL

The Newport Mansions say starting Saturday, The Elms will be open for the holiday season again. The mansion was closed to the public for the past several weeks as HBO filmed Season 3 of "The Gilded Age" there.

Fireworks go off around a large Christmas tree brightly decorated with lights and ornaments. A crowd of people, including Santa Clause and a large reindeer mascot, are standing in front of the tree cheering.

The Boston Common Christmas Tree is lit! 🎄🌟

Happy Friday, everyone. Here are today’s five things you need to know, including ugly sweaters, South Station's first tenant, and an obscure body-part injury. [no paywall]

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The Iberian peninsula seen from the ISS at night

How to cope with an increasingly turbulent world?

Currently, I'm cuddling with Mabel & avoiding reality entirely.

Report: ‘La Liga’ Probably Means ‘The League’

Report: ‘La Liga’ Probably Means ‘The League’
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Happy National Cake Day, everyone. The Five Things You Need to Know today include a biotech ban up in the air, a distillery looking to brew coffee, some Pixar history and an iRobot co-founder's new job — plus a call for innovators, and cakes. 🍰
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a man with blue paint on his face is standing in front of a flag in a field . ALT: a man with blue paint on his face is standing in front of a flag in a field .

Truer words were never spoken.

At Short Path Distillery in Everett for its “Gatherfest” and sampling a little product. It’s going on all day through this evening if you’re looking for something to warm you up on a chilly day

That is one heckuva deal

Rare first edition of Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ goes up for auction | CNN An extremely rare first edition of Niccolò Machiavelli’s famous political manual “The Prince” is going up for auction, with an expected sale price of up to $375,000.

An extremely rare first edition of Niccolò Machiavelli's most famous work, the political manual “The Prince,” is going up for auction

What a great event last night — the Immigrant Learning Center's Barry M. Portnoy Immigrant Entrepreneur Awards. You can watch the videos and hear the amazing stories of three local CEOs/company founders here:

www.ilctr.org/events/barry...