No, no, no, no, no. No? No. Mammoth online marketplace Amazon has customers scratching their heads over a listing that uses a white model to sell a bathing suit that reads, “hella BLACK hella PROUD.” in large font across the front. The suit is being sold on the site by the company ZBBRDD, which appears […]
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Image copyright Official Charts Company Image caption The star has both the number one single and number one album Ed Sheeran has staged another chart takeover with his star-studded No. 6 Collaborations Project. The album, which contains duets with Bruno Mars and Camila Cabello, topped the charts with sales of 125,000, more than the rest
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Image copyright Getty Images London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for the power to introduce rent controls to help lower housing costs in the city. It is an idea that has been tried in many cities worldwide, but what is rent control and how does it work? What are rent controls? There are a number
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Mr. First invoked a lyric from Buffalo Springfield’s 1966 song “For What It’s Worth” to describe the situation: “There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear.” Can Libra survive? President Trump. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. The Fed chair, Jay Powell. The International Monetary Fund’s chief economist, Gita Gopinath. The Securities and Exchange Commission.
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So now we know. Tiger Woods isn’t done, no matter what it looked like on his slog through the only two rounds he’ll play in this British Open. He’s also not in danger of being put in traction anytime soon, no matter how many times he is asked about his surgically repaired back. He’s just
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I wished for nothing more in those first months than to be able to go back home to Panama — but this was my home now. My mother was fighting alongside their fathers. Didn’t that mean we belonged here, too? — Paola Salas Paredes, Washington, D.C. I had just started a doctorate program in August
The release of a massive trove of data from lawsuits over the nation’s opioid crisis provides the most detailed accounting to date of the role played by the major pharmaceutical companies and distributors. In legal cases across the country, they have defended themselves as being little more than bystanders — dispensing government-approved drugs at the
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Image copyright Universal Image caption Taylor Swift as the flirtatious Bombalurina Universal have released the trailer for the new Cats movie and critics have been digging their claws in. The big screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical boasts a fur-midable cast including Taylor Swift, Idris Elba and Jennifer Hudson. However, many online were left
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWATCH: “It starts to look like censorship” YouTube has defended its video recommendation algorithms, amid suggestions that the technology serves up increasingly extreme videos. On Thursday, a BBC report explored how YouTube had helped the Flat Earth conspiracy theory spread. But the company’s new managing director for
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Is there life on planets outside our solar system? How did stars and galaxies form in the earliest years of the universe? How do black holes shape galaxies? Scientists are expected to explore those and other fundamental questions about the universe when they peer deep into the night sky using a new telescope planned for
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