Yosef Maaroof wanted one more Russell Westbrook memory in Oklahoma City. When he learned Thursday night the Thunder were planning to send Westbrook to the Houston Rockets for Chris Paul and draft picks, the 20-year-old Tulsa resident planned to make the two-hour drive to Oklahoma City with friends. They wanted to take videos and photos […]
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The government’s Domestic Abuse Bill will be “fruitless” without more frontline staff in hospitals and schools to help victims, a survivor has said. Rachel Williams told BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire Theresa May was passionate about the issue and she hoped her successor would be too. “I just hope that people (in government) put the victims’ voices
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Christine Lagarde is resigning as managing director of the International Monetary Fund in light of her nomination to be the next president of the European Central Bank. Lagarde has already given up her day-to-day duties as head of the IMF, and the international lending agency has named a top deputy, David Lipton, as acting managing
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Image copyright Family Handout Image caption Tafida Raqeeb’s mother said her daughter was “completely healthy” before her sudden brain injury The parents of a five-year-old girl in a coma have begun a legal challenge after doctors said it was in her best interests to be allowed to die. Royal London Hospital doctors have said there
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Killing Eve stars Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh will battle it out off-screen for the best actress award at this year’s Emmys. The comedy thriller series has nine nominations in total at the ceremony. The show’s original writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge is also up for lead actress in a comedy series for Fleabag. Her show has
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Christine Lagarde has become known as the “rock star” of international finance Christine Lagarde has said she will step down as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It comes hours before a vote on her nomination to become head of the European Central Bank (ECB). Ms Lagarde
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MIAMI — Haitian restaurants bloomed here in the 1990s and 2000s as their reputations grew for serving ambrosial rice and bean platters at cheap prices. On the weekends, barbecue smoke perfumed street corners and backyards as lines of customers formed. Many of their owners and customers had come to South Florida in the previous three
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Lawmakers grilled a top Facebook executive at a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Tuesday, heightening scrutiny of the company as it prepares to enter the world of cryptocurrency and global finance. Facebook’s cryptocurrency project, Libra, has been in the works for more than a year. It has an ambitious goal: to offer an alternative financial
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The Latest on SEC media days (all times local): 10 a.m. Kirby Smart is “well aware” of the inability of Nick Saban’s former assistants to beat him. They’re 0-16 against the Alabama coach. But Georgia and Smart have pushed the Crimson Tide to the brink in a national championship game and the Southeastern Conference championship
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Mayor Pete Buttigieg soared and Senator Elizabeth Warren surged. Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was solid. Senator Bernie Sanders held steady. Senator Kamala Harris scored late. And former Representative Beto O’Rourke stumbled. Badly. The second-quarter financial numbers that campaigns filed on Monday represent a clarifying moment for the state of the 2020 Democratic
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