Image copyright Greene King Image caption Greene King said CKA shared many of its business philosophies Pub giant and brewer Greene King has agreed to be bought by Hong Kong operator CKA, the latest deal in a wave of consolidation in the sector. Suffolk-based Greene King owns roughly 2,700 pubs, restaurants and hotels in total […]
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Twitter says it has suspended more than 200,000 accounts that it believes were linked to the Chinese government and a disinformation campaign targeting the protests in Hong Kong. The company also says it will prohibit ads from state-backed media companies that have amounted to propaganda. A senior Twitter official tells The Associated Press that both
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What started as an innocuous conversation during a public event has evolved into a golf partnership between an NBA superstar Stephen Curry and Howard University. The two-time NBA MVP announced Monday that he is helping Howard re-establish a golf program. Curry is providing a donation that will allow one of the country’s most prominent historically
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WASHINGTON — The acting director of the Bureau of Prisons was reassigned on Monday, Attorney General William P. Barr announced, the latest fallout over the suicide of the financier Jeffrey Epstein at a chronically understaffed federal jail. Mr. Barr has said he was “appalled” by Mr. Epstein’s death on Aug. 10 at the Metropolitan Correctional
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Tech companies pushed stocks broadly higher on Wall Street Monday afternoon as the market added to solid gains from a rally late last week. The surge in technology stocks followed a decision by the U.S. to give Chinese telecom giant Huawei another 90 days to buy equipment from American suppliers. Chipmakers Nvidia rose 6.4%, Qualcomm
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Drug companies are still raising prices for brand-name prescription medicines, just not as often or by as much as they used to, according to an Associated Press analysis. After years of frequent list price hikes, many drugmakers are showing some restraint, according to the analysis of drug prices provided by health information firm Elsevier. In
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Dolph Lundgren starred as He-Man while Kevin Smith says he is a long-time fan By the power of Grayskull! Clerks filmmaker Kevin Smith is teaming up with Netflix to revive the He-Man and Masters of the Universe series. The early 80s animated franchise started life as a Mattel toy
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Image copyright Boresa Kotomah Image caption A model wearing clothes by Boresa Kotomah, designed by Bree Kotomah Twenty-three-year-old Bree Kotomah almost gave up on a burgeoning career in fashion design when hackers compromised her business’s Instagram account in November 2018. “Unfortunately, at the time I ran everything on Instagram, so when that was gone, that
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Star receiver Antonio Brown returned to training camp with the Oakland Raiders on Monday, a day after being given an ultimatum by general manager Mike Mayock to be “all in or all out.” Brown took part in meetings in Napa before the team broke camp, a person familiar with the situation said on condition of
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Meghan Markle may no longer be on “Suits,” but her character, Rachel Zane, lives on. On a recent episode of the legal drama series, now in its final season, Markle’s TV husband (played by actor Patrick J. Adams), was asked how Meghan’s character Rachel was doing. “Good. In fact, if I told you how good,
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