Beyoncé has officially reached billionaire status, Forbes reports. Beyoncé, the most decorated artist in Grammys history, has had major success in recent years. In 2023, her 39-city, 56-show Renaissance tour made more than $500 million and drew more than 2.7 million concertgoers. In 2003, she released her first solo album, "Dangerously in Love," which dominated charts worldwide. Beyoncé founded Parkwood Entertainment in 2010, which gives her control over almost every aspect of her music career in-house, according to Forbes.

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(CNN) - Forbes has determined Beyoncé has joined the billionaire club. The others are her husband Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen and Rihanna. Those five are among 22 billionaire entertainers Forbes has identified. Beyoncé’s recent successes include her 2023 Renaissance World Tour, which grossed nearly $600 million. The following year, she reinvented herself with her country album “Cowboy Carter.”The tour of that album was the world’s highest-grossing concert tour of 2025.

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Cydcor CEO Vera Quinn Named 2025 Honoree of LA Times Studios Inspirational Women Forum & Leadership AwardsAgoura Hills, California–(Newsfile Corp. – December 29, 2025) – Vera Quinn, Chief Executive Officer of Cydcor, has been named a 2025 honoree of the LA Times Studios Inspirational Women Forum & Leadership Awards, an annual recognition program honoring women leaders for professional achievement, leadership, and organizational impact. The Inspirational Women Forum & Leadership Awards recognize women leaders across industries selected for professional achievement, leadership, and organizational impact. Under her leadership, Cydcor has emphasized operational discipline, quality, revenue growth, and leadership development within an entrepreneurial environment designed to create advancement opportunities at every level of the organization. Under her leadership, Cydcor was also named to the 2025 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing privately held companies, reflecting the company’s sustained growth and performance. Headquartered in Agoura Hills, California, Cydcor supports clients across the United States and Canada through a network of independently owned sales companies.

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Twelve months later, recovery has been many things: plodding and painful, hard and hopeful, confusing and chaotic. I don’t want to commit to building something if I don’t understand what they’ll allow to be built next to me. Six in 10 Altadena homeowners whose houses were destroyed or severely damaged have neither sold nor applied for a rebuilding permit. Parcel sales data: Parcel sales data was provided by the Los Angeles County Assessor’s Office on Dec. 1. The data categorized buyers and sellers as “corp” and “non-corp.” That data showed more than half of buyers as corporations.

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President Donald Trump said the United States took out a “big facility” last week as part of a pressure campaign against Venezuela but provided few additional details on the action. “We just knocked out — I don’t know if you read or you saw — they have a big plant, or a big facility, where the ships come from. One US official said the president was describing a drug facility, but declined to provide further detail about the action. There have been no reports from Venezuela of a major facility like the one the president described being destroyed. The president has also authorized covert CIA action inside Venezuela as part of the campaign to increase pressure on Maduro.

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If they are aligned in the modern period (when the differences between the methods/data are minimal), there is clearly a variation in both inferred interannual variability and mean change in the ‘pre-industrial’ period (see fig. Adding an offset so that the WMO average was zero over the baseline takes you back to 1.54ºC. Baselined so that the average of the four longest records are zero over the 1850-1900 ‘pre-industrial’ period. On a monthly basis we have been exceeding 1.5ºC in the individual records (briefly) since the El Niño event of 2016 (maybe 2017 and 2019, and then again in 2020). Monthly anomalies from 2010 with a modern baseline and offset to have a zero average over 1850-1900.

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Volunteer Heather Tran, 16, helps decorate a float for the Rose Parade at the Rosemont Pavilion in Pasadena. If you’re planning to camp out along Colorado Boulevard to grab a prime viewing spot for the Rose Parade, you’ll want to pack a good poncho. Before you gather your umbrellas and rain boots, let’s take a look at the history of the Rose Parade and what to expect for the 2026 production. A carriage is decorated in flowers for an early Rose Parade in a postcard from the collection of Times staff writer Patt Morrison. The parade’s evolutionDiversity among floral patterns has been on display at the Rose Parade since 1890.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled for an expected meeting on Monday with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida about the second phase of the ceasefire. The first phase that took effect on Oct. 10 was meant to bring a surge in humanitarian aid for Gaza, including shelter. ““Puddles formed, and there was a bad smell,” said Majdoleen Tarabein, displaced from Rafah in southern Gaza. AdvertisementSince the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began, 414 people have been killed and 1,142 wounded in Gaza, according to the Health Ministry. ___A previous version of this story was corrected to say that the ceasefire came into effect on Oct. 10, not Oct. 11.

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Gallup and USA Today called up 1,055 Americans on those landlines and asked them for their best predictions about a year in the distant future: 2025. Most people in 1998 correctly doubted that space travel would be common for ordinary Americans or that alien life forms would have made contact. About two-thirds of Americans thought the country would have elected a female president by now. Nearly 8 in 10 expected Americans in the future to have less personal privacy, and 57% thought that they’d experience less personal freedom. In fall 1998, about 60% of Americans said they were satisfied with the way things were going in the US.

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By The Washington Post’s latest tally, at least 18 former members of Congress — 11 Democrats and seven Republicans — are asking voters to send them back to D.C. next year. The reaction from current members who hear former colleagues want to come back? If Brown wins the special election, he’d serve alongside Republican Bernie Moreno, who defeated him for Ohio’s other Senate seat last year. Allred served in the House earlier this year. During a recent visit to Washington, Flores was struck by how much some of her former colleagues had aged.

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“CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen” will air live from New York City’s Time Square beginning at 8 p.m. Cooper and Cohen will be joined by a multitude of stars, including beloved singer Robyn released her first single in seven years last month. This year’s multi-platform coverage of New Year’s Eve will span television, digital and social platforms. The show will air live on ABC starting at 8 p.m. The look back at the year will include several network stars including Howie Mandel of “America’s Got Talent,” Kristin Chenoweth and Jenn Lyon from “Stumble” and David Alan Grier of “St.

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As the officer shouts at Parias to turn off the car, Parias raises his hands in the air and asks why he is being detained. At the time, Parias’ car did not appear to be moving and other agents were positioned beside the driver’s side door. After the Oct. 21 shooting, prosecutors charged Parias, who authorities say is living in the country illegally, with assault on a federal officer. “Kill me.”In the video, the ICE officer can be seen firing shortly afterward and Parias begins to scream: “Mi mano” (“My hand”). Within minutes of the shooting, the ICE officer opens his phone and sends a message.

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