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Big Lots, a prominent discount retailer, is facing significant struggles as nearly 500 of its store leases across 47 states are listed for sale, raising the likelihood of closures, according to 9 News. This announcement comes amid the company's turbulent financial saga, which began with a bankruptcy filing last year and culminated in its acquisition by Gordon Brothers Retail Partners.

(CNN)Presidential candidate Donald Trump is heard on tape discussing with his attorney Michael Cohen how they would buy the rights to a Playboy model's story about an alleged affair Trump had with her years earlier, according to the audio recording of the conversation aired exclusively on CNN's "Cuomo Prime Time." The recording offers the public a glimpse at the confidential discussions between Trump and Cohen, and it confirms the man who now occupies the Oval Office had contemporaneous knowledge of a proposal to buy the rights to the story of Karen McDougal, a woman who has alleged she had an...