LONDON — Britain’s competition regulator said on Friday that it had begun an investigation into a $575 million investment led by Amazon in the London-based food-delivery service Deliveroo, the latest effort by a government to potentially check the reach of a technology giant. In an order, the country’s Competition and Markets Authority said it had […]
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One of England’s longest-serving players will make her last appearance Saturday. Karen Carney announced her retirement Friday, on the eve of England’s third-place playoff against Sweden at the Women’s World Cup. “My mind still wants to do everything and it still can but I don’t think my body can anymore,” said the 31-year-old Carney, who
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Toward the end of his Independence Day speech on Thursday, President Trump appeared to rewrite history. “The Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown,” he said. “Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over
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The best news to be found in the June jobs numbers, released Friday morning, is in what they don’t show. After the May numbers showed a steep pullback in the rate of job creation, there was reason to worry that a turning point for the economy had arrived, and that a major slowdown or even
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HuffPost may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page. Of A KindHere’s what to buy from Of A Kind’s annual summer sale. Of A Kind is retailer that focuses on curating one-of-a-kind, aesthetically pleasing products from emerging artists and designers. It’s basically a design-y person’s dream place to shop. Oxidized Oak
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A teaser for actress Shay Mitchell’s new YouTube show “Almost Ready” published on Thursday revealed that the pregnant “Pretty Little Liars” star learned of her baby’s sex in quite a weird way — one that involved Power Rangers. In the very odd clip, the 32-year-old actress, her dog and her boyfriend, Matte Babel, sit alone
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FIFA will seek to expand the Women’s World Cup from 24 to 32 teams and double the prize money while maintaining a significant financial gulf with funding for the men’s tournament. FIFA President Gianni Infantino will need quick approval from ruling bodies to enlarge the Women’s World Cup, with bidding already underway for the 2023
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WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve officials worry that the uncertainty caused by the trade war between the United States and China could be constraining business spending and may be contributing to a manufacturing slowdown that is dragging on growth. The concerns were outlined in the Fed’s semiannual Monetary Policy Report, released on Friday as Jerome H.
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President Donald Trump is promising an executive order that he says is intended to enable the U.S. government to pay lower prices for prescription drugs. Trump says his administration soon would announce a “favored-nations clause,” where the amount paid by the government for a particular drug would not exceed the lowest amount paid by other
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption Spacey last appeared in court in January A man who says Kevin Spacey groped him in 2016 has dropped the civil action he filed against the actor last week. The alleged victim’s lawyer said his client had filed papers on 3 July to dismiss the suit voluntarily. The civil case
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