Stocks edged higher on Wall Street Tuesday, a day after their worst loss of the year, as China eased some of the pressure in its trade war with the U.S. by stabilizing its currency. Technology stocks led the gains in a reversal of Monday’s slump, when they bore the brunt of the market sell-off that […]
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As the tragic news of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, dominates the news cycle, Americans confront a rising sense of unease. Sources of the anxiety include issues like white supremacy, gun control, terrorism and the way our society views mental illness. But there’s also a personal mental health component. Whenever I’m
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Image copyright PA Media Image caption Mark Jordon said he was “looking forward to getting back to” his career and engagement to Laura Norton An Emmerdale actor who bit a man’s face after an argument outside a pub has been cleared of assault. Mark Jordon, 54, who plays Daz Spencer in the soap, was accused
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Image copyright Gareth Fuller/ PA Image caption An estimated 240,000 UK businesses trade with the EU Government funding to help UK companies cope with a possible no-deal Brexit customs system has had a “concerningly low” take-up, BBC News has learned. In December, the Treasury and Revenue & Customs unveiled an £8m training fund companies and
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Amazon’s self-driving robots will be roaming the streets of another neighborhood. The online shopping giant says the six-wheeled robots, about the size of a Labrador, will begin delivering packages to customers in Irvine, California. It comes after Amazon began testing them in a suburb of Seattle at the beginning of the year. Amazon says the
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American basketball player DJ Cooper has received one of the more astounding suspensions in recent memory. Cooper stepped away from AS Monaco late in 2018 for “family reasons,” though he attempted to join the Bosnian national team as a naturalised player later that year. The former Ohio University standout never made it, however, and was
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On Saturday, a gunman opened fired in a Walmart store in El Paso, killing 22 people and injuring more than two dozen others. The authorities said the suspect, Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old white man, wrote a hate-filled, anti-immigrant manifesto that appeared online minutes before the massacre. Echoing the man accused of fatally shooting dozens of
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“Game of Thrones” actor Gwendoline Christie submitted herself for an Emmy nomination because she likes to be in charge of her own destiny ― just like her character, Brienne of Tarth. The actor recently told The Los Angeles Times that she submitted herself for the Emmy nomination as a “testament” to Brienne, an all-around badass who is one
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Philadelphia 76ers guard Ben Simmons has explained a social media post that seemed to imply he’d been racially profiled by security staff at a Melbourne casino by saying he and his friends felt “singled out.” Simmons posted a video on Instagram in which he asked why he and two black friends were asked for identification
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The test, Mr. Cutz said on Monday night, is whether the new sanctions prevent Russia and China from receiving Venezuelan oil as part of a debt repayment program. If so, he said, “that’s a pretty significant thing, and then the question is how Russia and China will respond, more than anything else.” He said that
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