Image copyright Hell Pizza Image caption The “Burger Pizza” that contains no actual meat A New Zealand pizza chain that covertly served “fake meat” on pizzas has denied misleading customers, saying it was raising awareness. Hell Pizza launched its Burger Pizza last Friday featuring a “medium rare burger patty” as a pizza topping. About 3,000 […]
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Well: “On Sunday, Ravelry, a popular website for knitters and crocheters, took a political stand when it announced that it was banning content that supports President Trump, in what it said was a resolution against white supremacy.” Some users were … displeased? “Kill yourselves,” one said. “Boycott Ravelry,” said another. As a private social media
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Venezuela coach Rafael Dudamel almost left his job for political reasons after his team beat Argentina 3-1 in March in a friendly game in Madrid. One day before he faces Lionel Messi again — this time in the quarterfinals of the Copa América — Dudamel was more relaxed Thursday about his own future despite his
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This was the moment Joseph R. Biden Jr. had to know would be coming. He did not seem entirely prepared. About an hour into the debate on Thursday, Senator Kamala Harris, the African-American former prosecutor from California, had edged into the cross-talk with a request: “I would like to speak on the issue of race.”
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Consumer spending increased 0.4% in May, a modest gain that suggests Americans remain confident enough about the economy’s outlook to keep shopping. The Commerce Department said Friday that incomes rose 0.5% and inflation remained tame, increasing just 1.5% in the past year. That’s far below the Federal Reserve’s target of 2%. Consumer confidence slipped this
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An Alabama district attorney’s office hasn’t decided whether to prosecute a woman indicted for manslaughter after she lost her fetus when she was shot during a fight. Marshae Jones was five months pregnant when 23-year-old Ebony Jemison shot her in the stomach during a December altercation over the fetus’s father, authorities said. Jemison was initially
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Lewis Capaldi’s Someone You Love is one of the year’s biggest singles Lewis Capaldi packed out the BBC Music Introducing Stage as he played an unannounced set on the opening day of Glastonbury. The star took to the stage at 13:30, playing Grace accompanied just by a piano, and
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Image copyright AFP Image caption Artisanal mining is common in DR Congo as people do it as a means to make a living At least 36 people have been killed after a copper and cobalt mine collapsed in Lualaba province in south-east DR Congo, authorities say. The provincial governor Richard Muyej blamed the accident on
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Joey Gallo nearly backed up his manager’s big prediction. Gallo hit two solo homers, Ariel Jurado threw seven shutout innings and the Rangers completed a three-game sweep of Detroit with a 3-1 win over the Tigers on Thursday. “I actually made a bold prediction that he was going to hit three homers today to get
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“The secretary,” he wrote, “was determined to reinstate a citizenship question from the time he entered office; instructed his staff to make it happen; waited while commerce officials explored whether another agency would request census-based citizenship data; subsequently contacted the attorney general himself to ask if D.O.J. would make the request; and adopted the Voting
