WINDSOR, Ontario — Bernie Sanders wanted to make a point about a crippling injustice. So he crossed the border. Well, the northern one. On Sunday, he took about a dozen people with diabetes on a bus from Detroit to Windsor to get insulin at a Canadian pharmacy, just minutes from the border. Because of traffic, […]
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In an annual rite of passage, over a million Americans will enroll in their first economics class in the fall, and as the field of economics has evolved, these introductory classes are changing, too. Many economists these days view what we are teaching not so much as a specific subject matter but as a set
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Image copyright Getty Images The chief executive of Vauxhall-owner PSA says it could move all production from its Ellesmere Port factory if Brexit makes it unprofitable. Carlos Tavares told the Financial Times that the firm has alternatives to the plant which it could use. The move would probably lead to the closure of the site,
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Cape Town is a well-known tourist hotspot, but also one of the most divided and dangerous cities in the world. It has seen an average of eight murders a day, for the first six months of this year. In one weekend in July, 43 people were killed. The South African Army has now been deployed
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An African elephant that spent a decade at San Diego Zoo Safari Park has moved across the country to a new home at Zoo Atlanta. The Union-Tribune reported Saturday that 30-year-old Msholo (mi-SHOW-low) arrived last week at the Zambezi Elephant Center. Msholo and two female African elephants, Kelly and Tara, will be the main attractions
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Early Sunday morning, Sergio Romo flew from the bottom of the NL East into a pennant race with the Minnesota Twins. Romo joined the Twins in Chicago after he was acquired in a trade with Miami on Saturday night. The AL Central-leading Twins begin a three-game series against the Marlins on Tuesday night, but the
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Mr. Trump’s White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, defended the president on the Sunday shows and insisted that there was nothing racist about his attack on Mr. Cummings’s district. “Does the president speak hyperbolically? Absolutely,” he said on “Face the Nation” on CBS. “Have we seen this type of reaction for him before? Yes,
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Brooks Koepka had three birdies in a four-hole stretch on the front nine and cruised to a three-stroke victory in the FedEx St. Jude Invitational on Sunday for his first World Golf Championships title. Playing with Rory McIlroy in their first final-group pairing, the top-ranked Koepka closed with a bogey-free 5-under 65 at TPC Southwind
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Mr. Trump’s inauguration in January 2017 was a high point for Mr. Barrack: The inaugural committee he led set records for the amount of money raised and spent to celebrate an inauguration. But critics claimed the inaugural became a hub for peddling access to foreign officials and business leaders, or people acting on their behalf.
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Last week’s report on second-quarter gross domestic product showed that the economy slowed last spring. It also came exactly 10 years since the Great Recession ended, making this officially the longest expansion in American history. (Well, probably. More on that in a second.) So perhaps it’s no surprise that forecasters, investors and ordinary people are
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