SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday called for improving the economy and living standards of his impoverished nation with the same urgency that scientists showed in successfully testing a long-range rocket recently.Kim's first New Year's speech, delivered on state TV, was peppered with rhetoric, with calls for boosting the military's...
Housing, jobs key to lifting S&P toward record
Label: Business NEW YORK -- With it appearing that Washington lawmakers are working their way past the “fiscal cliff,” many analysts say that the outlook for stocks in 2013 is good, as a recovering housing market and an improving jobs outlook helps the economy maintain a slow, but steady recovery. Reasonable returns in 2013 would send the S&P 500 toward, and possibly past, its record...
Dec
31
Frankel gets ready to play politics on a national stage
Label: World Her bags are packed. She’s found an apartment on Craigslist, and the utilities just got hooked up. And Lois Frankel, a Floridian for four decades, has a new and toasty winter coat, hat and boots.On Tuesday, 20 years after she first hoped to move to Washington, D.C., Frankel finally will be making that journey north. Two days later, she’ll reach the pinnacle of her political...
Kim Kardashian is Expecting!
Label: LifestyleThe rumors are true: Kim Kardashian is pregnant! The reality star's rep confirmed the news to ET after Kim's boyfriend Kanye West announced it Sunday night during his concert in Atlantic City.According to the Associated Press, Kanye told the crowd of more than 5,000 at the Ovation Hall at the Revel Resort in song form: "Now you having my baby." The crowd cheered with approval, and the rapper also...
LI families displaced by Sandy put up in luxury apartments on Upper East Side for free
Label: Health Gabriella BassErin and Jim Joyce, along with their son James, were displaced from their home by Hurricane Sandy.Hurricane Sandy moved them out — kind-hearted New Yorkers moved them on up.Three Long Island families displaced by October’s hurricane have been put up in posh Upper East Side rentals ever since — for free.The luxury 1-bedroom digs, which typically...
South Florida’s biggest business stories of 2012
Label: Business For South Florida’s economy, 2012 centered on one main question: Would the recovery continue? The answer: Yes, and slowly.Housing values continue to climb, unemployment rates shrink, hiring grows and spending strengthens. And yet 2012 ends on the same general theme as 2011: Things are getting better, but at a slow enough pace that South Florida will have to wait at least...
Dec
30
For new year, resolve to commit random acts of kindness
Label: World Well, here we are, dear Friends and Neighbors, on the eve of another new year. So much happened to us in 2012 — some good and some bad. But through it all, by the grace of God, we made it to the end of the "old" year.When I was a young woman, I made a new year’s resolution every year. The new year brings with it that kind of fresh-start magic. To many of us, the new year...
Buzzmakers: Kate Winslet's Wedding and Rider Strong's Engaged
Label: LifestyleWhat had ET readers buzzing this week?1. Kate Winslet Ties the Knot!Kate Winslet recently married her boyfriend Ned Rocknroll in a small, secret ceremony in New York.A rep for the 37-year-old Oscar winner tells ET, "I can confirm that Kate Winslet married Ned Rock'nRoll in NY earlier this month in a private ceremony attended by her two children and a very few friends and family." The rep added that...
In my library: Audra McDonald
Label: Health Audra McDonald will spend New Year’s Eve doing what comes naturally: singing. This time, the five-time Tony winner and “Live from Lincoln Center” host will perform with the New York Philharmonic at its gala tribute to Marvin Hamlisch, the late composer of “A Chorus Line,” “The Way We Were” and much more. “You’d expect that someone who’d achieved so much...
Week brings startup launches, social media advice for 2013
Label: Business Jared Kleinert, a South Florida entrepreneur, plans to soon launch Synergist, a platform that allow social entrepreneurs to meet potential co-founders online, collaborate and crowdfund their new projects. He also just launched AliveNDead, a blog about risk-taking, and he interns for a Silicon Valley startup. And when he’s not doing all that, he’s going to class — he’s a junior...
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