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Julie Sweet to Run Accenture, Adding a Woman to the Ranks of Corporate C.E.O.s

Julie Sweet will become the new chief executive of Accenture, the consulting firm announced on Thursday, adding another female leader to the senior-most ranks of the corporate world. With Ms. Sweet’s appointment, 27 women will be leading companies in the S&P 500. That figure is up slightly from a year ago, but still means that […]

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Facts & figures for British Open, golf’s oldest championship

Sports / En Sound Media

Facts and figures for the British Open golf championship: Event: 148th Open Championship. Dates: July 18-21. Site: Royal Portrush. Length: 7,344. Par: 71. The course: The club dates to a nine-hole course in 1888, expanding to 18 holes a year later. Harry Colt designed the Dunluce Links in 1929. Royal Portrush in 1951 hosted the

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Texas Latina Emerges as House’s Voice of Passion and Reason on the Border

Politics / En Sound Media

But the bruising debate and its rancorous aftermath have made her job much more difficult. She must counter what she sees as ever-more distorted misconceptions about the border from the right while beating back angrier calls from the left to strip all funding from immigration enforcement agencies. “It’s also on my side of the aisle,

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Powell sends further signals of future rate cuts

Finance / En Sound Media

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, testifying for a second day before Congress, said Thursday that the economy is in a “very good place” despite headwinds and that the Fed is prepared to do what it can to “keep it there.” Powell’s comments before the Senate Banking Committee strengthened the message he had sent to a

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US growing largest crop of marijuana for research in 5 years

Lifestyle / En Sound Media

The U.S. government is growing the largest crop of research marijuana in five years, responding to interest in varieties with high levels of THC and CBD. The government is the only source of pot for nearly all research in the U.S., while it still considers it illegal and dangerous. Scientists have asked for weed that

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Amanda Seyfried Starts Instagram Feud With Influencer Arielle Charnas

Entertainment / En Sound Media

Amanda Seyfried couldn’t hold back from calling out an influencer over a postpartum bikini photo. The actress used social media to address Arielle Charnas ― also known as Something Navy on Instagram ― after Charnas posted a picture of herself in a swimsuit with the caption “Proud of my body after two kids” earlier this week.

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How the cash machine became a million dollar idea

Business / En Sound Media

Out of cash? That used to mean going short until your bank opened in the morning. But fifty years ago, the first automated teller machines – ATMs or cash machines – started appearing outside bank branches in Britain. Now, there are more than three million of them across the world – meaning our wallets need

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‘Miss us?’ Twitter hit with hour-long outage

Technology / En Sound Media

“Miss us?” Twitter tweeted from its official account as the Great Twitter Outage wound down. Interested in Twitter? Add Twitter as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Twitter news, video, and analysis from ABC News. We did, apparently. For nearly an hour Thursday, the service we use to keep up with

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Worcester breaks ground for minor league stadium

Sports / En Sound Media

Red Sox executives joined officials from the state and the city of Worcester on Thursday to break ground on a 10,000-seat stadium for the ballclub’s Triple-A affiliate. A crowd of about 1,000 people attended the ceremony to welcome the International League team now based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, that is scheduled to begin play about

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General Calls Rushed Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan a ‘Strategic Mistake’

Politics / En Sound Media

WASHINGTON — Withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan too soon would be a “strategic mistake,” President Trump’s nominee for Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman said Thursday, clearly outlining the Pentagon’s position as the White House wrestles with whether to pull military forces and end the 18-year war. “I think it is slow, it’s painful, it’s hard

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