When Furniture Row Racing decided to fold, team owner Barney Visser enlisted an industry agency to help him sell off his assets. Visser wanted Spire Sports and Entertainment to sell the charters he owned that guaranteed entry into the top racing series in the United States. Spire scoured the garage for a buyer, searched for […]
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Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. California and New York have recently set some of the world’s most ambitious climate targets, aiming to slash their net emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases down to nearly zero in just three short decades. Now the race is on to
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There are two phenomena in business and life that are both enormous potential traps. The first is following the crowd — doing what everyone else is doing and counting likes and retweets. Then again, purposefully doing things wrong because it just seems cool — because you want to break all the rules and be a
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It’s been happening since my mid-20s: right around the second Sunday in May, I receive greetings from passersby in the street. “Happy Mother’s Day,” they say, almost reverently, as we walk past one another. At first, this startled me. I would feel tempted to stop this stranger and explain what he could not possibly know:
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Image copyright Getty Images A music festival in Detroit that was charging double fees for white attendees is reversing course after a backlash that drew national attention. Tickets for Afrofuture Fest were $40 (£32) for white people and $20 for “people of colour” – a term used in the US for racial minorities. The disparity
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Shaken residents are cleaning up from two of the biggest earthquakes to rattle California in decades as scientists warn that both should serve as a wake-up call to be ready when the long-dreaded “Big One” strikes. California is spending more than $16 million to install thousands of quake-detecting sensors statewide that officials say will give
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Megan Rapinoe, the lavender-haired icon of women’s soccer, maintains that green is the key to her sport’s sustainability. “For me, it’s about the Benjis,” she said. Women’s soccer engages the U.S. every four years, then disappears for most fans like a comet leaving the solar system. In the wake of the Americans’ record-setting fourth World
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WASHINGTON — President Trump has withdrawn the United States from the international Paris climate change accord, sought to roll back or weaken over 80 environmental regulations and is seen “around the world as a Darth Vader-like figure,” said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian who has specialized in books about environmental policy. But Monday afternoon, Mr.
The radical and painful restructuring of Germany’s Deutsche Bank, which is cutting 18,000 jobs, is the end of a long, failed attempt to compete with the global investment banking giants that left it overextended. The bank plan unveiled Sunday aims to go “back to our roots” by refocusing on traditional strengths like serving corporate customers
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Image copyright Getty Images A new Welsh Gender Service will start seeing patients in September, the Welsh Government has said. The Welsh Government has been criticised over delays to the opening of the country’s first gender identity clinic. It will be based in St David’s Hospital, near Cardiff city centre. Vaughan Gething, health minister, said
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