Macy's mulling $5.8 billion buyout offer: source

The long suffering shareholders of Macy's (M) just scored an early Christmas gift. read more

Longtime Texas legislator John Whitmire will be Houston’s next mayor, CNN projects

MSNBC - Texas state Sen. John Whitmire will be the next mayor of Houston, CNN projects, after winning a runoff Saturday over US Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee to lead the country’s fourth-largest city.

Israel-Hamas war: 5 key developments on Sunday 10 December

Fighting has continued in Gaza despite international calls for a ceasefire following the end of a one-week truce in the war.

Occupied City review – Steve McQueen’s moving meditation on wartime Amsterdam

The Guardian - The monumental film which tracks day-to-day life in Amsterdam under Nazi rule asks hard questions of what we think about the gulf between past and present

Is Mark Cuban Selling the Dallas Mavericks to Run for Higher Office?

Dallas Observer - Mark Cuban is going through changes. The 65-year-old billionaire and NBA franchise owner recently announced that he’d be ditching his Shark Tank co-hosting gig after Season 16. And, as if that weren’t a big enough headline, news broke on Tuesday that Cuban is looking to sell a majority stake in our dear old Dallas Mavs.

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Mark Cuban to sell his majority stake in NBA’s Dallas Mavericks to the Adelson family read more
The Guardian: How the Mavericks went from the NBA’s final four to national punchline