Stocks moved broadly higher in early trading on Wall Street Thursday as investors pushed to break a four-day losing streak. The broader market has been having a wobbly week so far, often starting strong and then running out of steam toward the end of trading. Investors have been mostly pulling back ahead of a key […]
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LONDON — Ford Motor Company said on Thursday it would cut about a fifth of its European work force and shut down five plants as the company deals with weak demand for its cars. The automaker, which has struggled to turn a profit in Europe, said that about 12,000 of its 65,000 workers across Europe
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This rookie came swooping into Yankee Stadium out of nowhere. Another slugger? A defensive whiz? Naw, this newcomer is known for a great wing. Two of them, actually. A red-tailed hawk has become a sensation in the Bronx, showing up in the last week or so and picking out perches all over the ballpark. “I
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Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, the Republican chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, who has called for changes to asylum law to stem the influx of migrants, spoke through tears that were captured on video widely shared on Twitter. “I realize tragedies happen all over this country — all over this world,”
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Image caption Jess Glynne has cancelled all her shows up to 14 July Jess Glynne has become the second act in a week to pull out of the TRNSMT music festival in Glasgow for health reasons. The singer said she had been ordered to rest her voice completely for the next 10 days because of
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Amazon will add more than 1,500 package pickup locations in a partnership with the national pharmacy chain Rite Aid. Starting Thursday, customers will be able to pick up orders at more than 100 Rite Aid stores and that will jump to more than 1,500 by the end of the year. Major retailers broadsided by the
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J.P. Crawford has relied on a simple approach that has him in quite a groove. Crawford had three hits and three RBIs, and Wade LeBlanc struck out six in five innings to help the Seattle Mariners beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-2 Wednesday night for their third straight win. “I’m just trying to be on time,
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Speaking at a Liberal Democrat leadership debate hosted by the Victoria Derbyshire programme, Sir Ed Davey said MI6 once tried to recruit him as a spy to work overseas. The former energy secretary added: “I’d just been appointed to be the economic adviser to Paddy Ashdown, so I never became Double O Davey”. He said
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The U.S. economy grew at a healthy 3.1% rate in the first three months of this year, but signs are mounting that growth has slowed sharply in the current quarter amid slower global growth and a confidence-shaking trade battle between the United States and China. The Commerce Department reports that the gain in the gross
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Image caption Taliah Drayak was wrongly suspected of Fabricated or Induced Illness Taliah Drayak’s world was “turned inside out” when she was suspected of causing her daughter’s illness. Two-year-old Beatrix had a complex medical history and had been placed on anti-epilepsy medicine but she was struggling to feed and kept vomiting. Her mother claims to
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