The Sept. 11 memorial at ground zero has been evolving as the 18th anniversary of the attacks approaches. This year, when nearly 3,000 victims’ names are read aloud there Wednesday, a half-dozen stacks of stone will quietly salute an untold number of people who aren’t on that list. The granite slabs were installed on the […]
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Amazon is going on a hiring spree. The online shopping giant is looking to fill more than 30,000 vacant jobs by early next year, and is holding job fairs in across the country next week to find candidates. The jobs range from software engineers, who can earn more than $100,000 a year, to warehouse workers
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We’ve come to expect the unusual, the unpredictable, even the unfathomable on the opening weekend of the NFL season. No one can claim we didn’t get all of that to begin the league’s 100th season. Two overtime games. Three ejections. Five pick-6s. Blown big leads. Major injuries (Nick Foles, Tyreek Hill, Eric Weddle). A tie.
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The Irish Finance Minister has said that it’s up to Boris Johnson “to put forward their ideas to explain how they might be better than what currently has been agreed” on the Irish backstop. The UK prime minister has proposed an all-Ireland agri-food deal, ahead of talks with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on Monday. However, Paschal
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Ivanka Trump on Sunday night announced a trip to Alabama ― and sometimes, the jokes just write themselves. The daughter of and adviser to President Donald Trump shared an AL.com report that said she would be at the Alabama Robotics Technology Park in Decatur on Tuesday for a workforce development announcement. Last weekend, her father repeatedly warned
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The service sector helped to boost growth in July The UK’s economy grew faster than expected in July, easing fears that it could fall into recession. The economy grew 0.3% in July, the UK’s official statistics body said, helped by the dominant services sector. Growth was flat over the
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LAST MAY, THREE England-based craftspeople — the basket makers Mary Butcher and Annemarie O’Sullivan and the furniture maker and designer Gareth Neal — were sent by their London gallery, the New Craftsmen, for a weeklong residency in Orkney, a chain of about 70 small islands off the northern coast of Scotland. They explored Mainland, Orkney’s
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The pretty Swedish coastal city of Sundsvall has had a couple of quirky brushes with elite heavyweight boxing over the years. In 1965, heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali stunned the locals by visiting a newly opened boxing club as part of his promotional tour of the country. Ten years later, former champion Floyd Patterson chose Sundsvall
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Now, Ms. Harris is seeking to reclaim the mystique that catapulted her into the highest echelons of the Democratic presidential race just two years after her election to the Senate. After her performance in the first debate in June led to a surge in polling and fund-raising, her poll numbers have slipped to the mid-single
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TOKYO, Sept 9 (Reuters) ― One of the strongest typhoons to hit the Japanese capital in recent years hit just east of Tokyo on Monday, killing one woman, with record-breaking winds and stinging rain that threatened to burst river banks before heading out to sea. More than 130 flights were canceled and scores of train
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