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Weedmaps to stop advertising unlicensed pot businesses

The major online pot shop directory and cannabis marketplace Weedmaps announced Wednesday that it will no longer allow black-market businesses to advertise on its site, a decision that could boost California’s efforts to rein in its vast illegal market. State regulators and licensed businesses had been pressuring the company to ban unlicensed businesses. Allowing untaxed, […]

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Harper, Dickerson help Phillies beat Boston 5-2

Sports / En Sound Media

Bryce Harper homered to give Philadelphia a fifth-inning lead, and Corey Dickerson drove in two runs with a triple and a single on Wednesday night to help the Phillies beat the Boston Red Sox 5-2 and sweep the two-game series. Boston started the first inning with back-to-back doubles, and Jackie Bradley Jr. homered for the

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The Toxic Back Story to the Charge That Jews Have a Dual Loyalty

Politics / En Sound Media

WASHINGTON — When President Trump said this week that American Jews who chose to vote for Democrats were being disloyal, he was flirting with a notion that has fueled anti-Semitism for generations and has been at the root of some of the most brutal violence inflicted upon Jews in their history. The accusation that Jews

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Vitamin D: Add ‘sunshine vitamin’ to flour, study says

Lifestyle / En Sound Media

Image copyright Getty Images Putting vitamin D into the flour we buy could help stop tiredness, muscle aches and even heart failure, according to a study. The UK weather means not all of us get enough of the “sunshine vitamin” between October and April. Vitamin D’s important for growing and strengthening our bones. Researchers say

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Taylor Swift To Rerecord All Her Old Songs After Scooter Braun Drama

Entertainment / En Sound Media

Taylor Swift isn’t backing down in her clash with Scooter Braun, revealing plans to rerecord her music catalog that fell into his hands. CBS revealed on Wednesday that the “Lover” singer intends to go back into the studio and rerecord songs from her first six albums after the megaproducer and entrepreneur acquired her masters in

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UK and South Korea to sign “continuity” trade agreement

Business / En Sound Media

Image copyright Getty Images The UK will sign a “continuity” trade agreement with South Korea on Thursday, allowing businesses to keep trading freely after Brexit. International Trade Secretary Liz Truss will sign the deal with her South Korean counterpart Yoo Myung-hee in London. The agreement is roughly in line with the terms of the existing

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The Collective Memory of American Shoppers

Technology / En Sound Media

Changes in retail spaces — say, new cash registers at the nearest big-box store — are met by most shoppers with a “huh,” if anything. But for some, even the most seemingly minor tweaks are noticed and documented online as part of modern American history. On Facebook and Reddit, private groups and public forums like

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Corbin pitches 8 scoreless, Nationals beat Pirates 11-1

Sports / En Sound Media

Patrick Corbin pitched eight scoreless innings to remain unbeaten in more than two months, and Asdrubal Cabrera’s three-run home run capped a six-run third as the Washington Nationals rolled to an 11-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday night. Corbin (10-5) struck out four and walked two while throwing 93 pitches to help the

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A Former Congressman and Tea Party Republican Considers a Challenge to Trump

Politics / En Sound Media

Mr. Kristol said Mr. Walsh’s comfort with the in-your-face format of conservative talk radio makes him a potentially more effective combatant against Mr. Trump than someone like William Weld, the genteel former governor of Massachusetts, whose own primary challenge to the president has gained little traction. “He has a different appeal than Bill Weld,” Mr.

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US has 501,000 fewer jobs than first reported

Finance / En Sound Media

The U.S. job market isn’t quite as strong as originally believed — with revised figures showing that the economy had 501,000 fewer total jobs this March than initially reported. The Labor Department said Wednesday that nearly two-thirds of the downward revision came from the retail and leisure and hospitality sectors, the industries most associated with

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