Image copyright Getty Images Chinese billionaire Liu Zhongtian has been indicted in the US over allegations he evaded $1.8bn (£1.5bn) in tariffs on aluminium imports. Prosecutors accuse Mr Liu of using the aluminium company he founded to smuggle huge amounts of the metal into the US. The firm, China Zhongwang Holdings, did not immediately respond […]
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Scientists are back from measuring the Gulf of Mexico “dead zone” where there’s too little oxygen to sustain marine life in a large underwater area starting at the sea floor. One big question is whether Hurricane Barry reduced the size from a predicted near-record 7,800 square miles (20,200 square kilometers). That June forecast was based
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Mike Minor was tired of talking about all the speculation over the last few weeks that he was going to be traded by the Rangers. With that distraction over and the All-Star lefty still in Texas, he can focus on fixing some mechanical issues. Minor won for the first time in more than a month,
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Hi, and welcome to a special post-debate edition of On Politics. I’m Lisa Lerer, your host. Where did our love go? All you need is love. It must have been love … but it’s over now. Senator Cory Booker entered the 2020 race preaching the gospel of “radical love.” He talked about restoring “grace and
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Image caption Fraser Lister says he struggled with the “hyper-masculine sense that I needed to be going out all the time” Far fewer male students than female ones have accessed university counselling and wellbeing services this year, figures suggest. Despite 44% of students in the UK being male, responses from 100 universities to a Freedom
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Image copyright Polydor Records Image caption The Kaiser Chiefs are swaggering towards their seventh top 10 album Ricky Wilson is having a bad day. He’s smashed a picture frame, cracked his phone screen, and been given a parking ticket after driving to the post office to collect a parcel… without any ID. The only sliver
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionGary Cohn, Trump’s former US chief economic adviser, weighs in on US-China trade war US President Donald Trump’s trade war with China is failing to hit the Chinese economy, according to his former chief economic adviser. The tit-for-tat tariff battle was “a very convenient excuse” for China
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Chicago Cubs pitcher Kyle Hendricks has no logical explanation for his success against the St. Louis Cardinals. “Nothing in particular, I think I’ve just been making good pitches,” Hendricks said. That mastery continued Wednesday. Hendricks struck out seven in seven innings and Ian Happ hit an RBI single in the sixth inning to break a
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Ronald Reagan was the governor of California in 1971 when he phoned the White House to vent his political frustration to President Richard M. Nixon and, according to a newly released audio recording, called African people “monkeys” in a slur that sparked laughter from the president of the United States. The previously undisclosed exchange took
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The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate Wednesday for the first time in a decade to try to counter the impact of President Donald Trump’s trade wars, stubbornly low inflation and global weakness. It left open the possibility of future rate cuts, but perhaps not as many as Wall Street had been hoping for.
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