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Bikini baristas have scored a win in Washington state after a long legal battle on acceptable attire.  The city council of Everett — a city north of Seattle — voted this week in favor of a $500,000 settlement with local business owner Jovanna Edge and her employees at the Hillbilly Hotties coffee stand.Edge and employees Natalie Bjerke, Matteson Hernandez, Leah Humphrey, Amelia Powell and Liberty Ziska filed a legal complaint that city ordinances requiring quick-service employees to wear at least a tank top and shorts violated their First Amendment rights, according to The Daily Herald. STARBUCKS CUSTOMERS SAY OLIVE OIL-INFUSED…

In 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Aspen Tucker was working as a staff nurse at a hospital in his native Spartanburg, South Carolina, making roughly $2,000 per biweekly paycheck. When he saw a posting for a travel-nursing job in Amarillo, Texas, paying $6,700 a week, he was practically on the next flight.”I hate to say this, but I didn’t give notice. I got my stuff, went to Texas, and told my manager when I got there, ‘I’m sorry, I’ve got to go. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,'” Tucker told CNBC Make It.Tucker, now 29, has been on…

I never pictured myself living in a tiny home, but now I can’t imagine my life without it.In 2018, my marriage of 18 years ended. I had been living in a four-bedroom, three-bathroom, 3,000-square-foot house near Boulder, Colorado with my now ex-husband, our two kids and dogs.I was ready for a change of scenery. But the houses for sale in my area were out of my budget, so I had to get creative. When I saw a trend of tiny houses on social media, I was immediately intrigued and decided to go for it.Today, I live in a 520-square-foot house…

Airbus announced plans Thursday for a second final-assembly line in China, the latest sign that it has a lock on the key aviation market over rival Boeing. The announcement came as part of a state visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to China. The signing of the agreement by Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury was witnessed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and by Macron. It will add another line to the final-assembly facility that Airbus opened in Tianjin, China, in 2008, which has put the final touches on 600 A320 aircraft to date. Airbus (EADSF) operates four assembly sites around the…

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XRP, the token powering Ripple’s cross-border money transfer ecosystem, exhibited exemplary performance in March alongside Bitcoin and Ethereum, as investors kept the imminent summary judgment on the lawsuit against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the sight glass.From the lowest price level in March at $0.3372, XRP price exploded 65% to trade new 2023 highs of $0.5847 before correcting to test support at $0.5. Support at $0.5 has been pivotal this week, as XRP tested $0.484 at some point before reclaiming its current position.XRP Topples Cardano, Becomes the 6th Largest CoinXRP’s market cap is up by 0.58% in…

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A man who had $40,000 cash seized by police had to wait almost three years to get it back. Jerry Johnson arrived at Phoenix Airport in August 2020 when detectives took his savings. The owner of a small trucking company had flown to Arizona to buy a new truck at an auction. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app Jerry Johnson was on his way to buy a truck in Phoenix, Arizona, when authorities apprehended him at Phoenix airport and seized the almost…

I wanted to see how ChatGPT would overhaul a dating profile, so I used my it own on Hinge and Bumble. To compare, I also enlisted the help of a human — a professional dating app writer named Lydia Kociuba. Both the app and the human writer showed me that being direct is key. Here’s what else I learned. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app Dating apps are supposed to lower the social pressures of attracting a partner — in theory. Just download…

Bank shares rose in Japan and Europe for the second consecutive week, but the KBW US bank index fell nearly 2% after increasing 4.6% in the last week of March. Emergency borrowing from the Fed remains elevated ($149 bln vs. $153 bln). Bank lending has fallen sharply (~$105 bln) in the two weeks through March 29. This appears to be a record two-week decline. Commercial and industrial loans had fallen a little in the first two months of the year (before the bank stress become apparent). At the same time, the Fed’s balance sheet continues to shrink. Over the past…