A choppy day of trading on Wall Street ended Tuesday with stocks closing lower after a technology sector-led sell-off strengthened toward the end of the day. That late-afternoon burst of selling erased modest gains for the market, which was coming off two weeks of gains. The major indexes wavered for much of the day between […]
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Image copyright Wales News Service Image caption Michael Lloyd opened the pharmacy with his brothers in 2008 A pharmacist who cheated the NHS out of more than £76,000 in a prescription scam has been jailed for 16 months. Michael Lloyd, 52, made fraudulent claims on 1,500 prescriptions from his Talbot Pharmacy at Talbot Green, Rhondda
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Meghan Markle stepped out for a solo appearance on Tuesday to attend the One Young World Summit’s opening ceremonies at Royal Albert Hall in London. Meghan previously worked with One Young World, which calls itself a global forum for young leaders, when she was still an actress. The charity’s website lists Meghan as a counselor
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The United Auto Workers union confirmed that one of its members, Roy A. McCombs, died after being hit by a vehicle on a General Motors picket line in Tennessee on Tuesday. McCombs was struck by an automobile traveling near the entrance to the GM plant in Spring Hill, south of Nashville. WKRN reports that the
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to tell Congress Wednesday that the company’s planned Libra cryptocurrency won’t launch unless all U.S. regulators approve. In prepared remarks released Tuesday ahead of a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee, Zuckerberg says that Facebook will not be part of launching the new digital currency anywhere in the world
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Hall of Fame cornerback Willie Brown, who provided the iconic play of the Oakland Raiders’ first Super Bowl title, died on Tuesday. He was 78. The Raiders and Pro Football Hall of Fame announced Brown’s death but did not reveal a cause. He had been dealing with cancer. “The entire Hall of Fame family mourns
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An anonymous Trump administration official who published a September 2018 essay in The New York Times, about the active resistance to the president’s agenda and behavior from within his own administration, will publish a book next month. The author, who has not been publicly identified, created an uproar when he or she wrote in an
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The Latest on a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service over cigarette smuggling (all times local): 2:10 p.m. New York City and California are suing the U.S. Postal Service to stop tens of thousands of cigarette packages from being mailed from foreign countries to U.S. residents. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court blames
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Former EastEnders actress Katy Jarvis says she felt “degraded” and “hurt” after a newspaper splashed pictures of her working as a shop security guard. On Sunday, the Daily Star revealed the actress, who played Hayley Slater, was now working at a B&M store in Romford. It prompted an outpouring of empathy on social media, as
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Infosys CEO Sahil Parekh has not responded to the allegations Indian software giant Infosys is investigating allegations that senior executives have been increasing profits through irregular accounting. The probe follows complaints by a group of whistleblowers against the CEO and CFO, the company said in a statement. Infosys shares
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