September 2019

Jennifer Lopez stripper film Hustlers banned in Malaysia

Image copyright STX Films Image caption Lili Reinhart, Jennifer Lopez, Keke Palmer and Constance Wu star in Hustlers A film about scheming strippers starring Jennifer Lopez has been banned in Malaysia because of its “excessive obscene content”. The country’s film censorship board said Hustlers’ naked breasts, erotic dances and scenes featuring drugs made it “not

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Who Do Americans Trust? The Police More Than Congress, Study Finds

Americans trust police officers, military leaders and local public officials more than members of Congress, tech leaders and journalists, according to a study published by the Pew Research Center on Thursday. Researchers also found that the majority of Americans think that most people in positions of power behave unethically at least occasionally. The study adds

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Rogue oil trader hits Mitsubishi unit for $320 million

One of Japan’s most storied trading houses says it’s lost $320 million in a series of unauthorized transactions by a rogue trader. Mitsubishi Corp. said Friday that the employee in its Petro-Diamond unit in Singapore disguised the trades to look like legitimate hedges. Derivatives are contracts that give a fixed price to hedge against volatility

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Philippines confirms 2nd polio case after declaring outbreak

Philippine health officials on Friday confirmed a second case of polio in a 5-year-old child a day after declaring the country’s first outbreak in nearly two decades, and announced plans for a massive immunization program. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said authorities confirmed the new case in a boy from Laguna province south of Manila

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Geena Davis Tech Tool Totes Up Female Parity On Children’s Programming

Actor Geena Davis has been working for years to settle debates about fair representation of women and girls on screen — particularly in children’s programming — using simple math. Early this summer it paid off. An analysis of the numbers collected by computer software using the “GD-IQ” — Geena Davis Inclusion Quotient — revealed that women

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Jimmy Carter Invokes Idea of ‘Age Limit’ for Presidential Candidates

In widely circulated remarks this week, Jimmy Carter, the longest-living president in United States history, weighed in on a range of issues, including the appropriate age for a commander in chief, Democrats’ 2020 prospects and the relative merits of various nut products. Perhaps most memorably, Mr. Carter, 94, speaking on Tuesday at the Carter Center

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