July 2019

As 2020 Democrats Court Black Voters, Biden Faces Reckoning on Race

Politics /

A searing fight over race, inequality and history is dominating the Democratic presidential race in the days before the next high-stakes televised debates, with the two leading black candidates, Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, directly challenging former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. over his decades-long record. Speaking at the National Urban League Annual […]

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Venice Film Festival: Brad Pitt space drama Ad Astra among line-up

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Image copyright Fox Image caption Brad Pitt stars in space drama Ad Astra Brad Pitt’s space drama Ad Astra, along with Timothée Chalamet and Robert Pattinson’s Shakespearean drama The King, are among the movies which will have their world premiere at the Venice Film Festival which begins in late August. Director Steven Soderbergh’s Panama Papers

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Southwest Airlines to Leave Newark Airport as Toll of 737 Max Grounding Grows

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Southwest Airlines said on Thursday that it would shut down its operations at Newark Liberty International Airport, as the grounding of Boeing’s 737 Max continued to take a toll on carriers in the United States. Southwest, reporting second-quarter earnings, said that as a result of the troubled jet’s grounding, its passenger numbers had declined, its

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Workers return to Idaho nuke facility after fire evacuations

Technology /

Employees returned to work Thursday at a sprawling nuclear research site in southwestern Idaho after a wildfire forced two days of evacuations. The lightning-caused wildfire at the Idaho National Laboratory is one of several burning across the U.S. West. “The fire is anticipated to be 100% contained today,” said Idaho National Laboratory spokesman Mike Johnson.

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U.S. to Resume Executions of Death-Row Inmates

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WASHINGTON — The federal government will resume executions of death-row inmates after a nearly two-decade moratorium, Attorney General William P. Barr said Thursday. The announcement reverses what had been essentially a moratorium on the federal death penalty. The federal government has not executed an inmate since 2003, though prosecutors still seek the death penalty in

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