As Sunisa Lee heard the national anthem play for her first world championship gold medal, her thoughts were back home in Minnesota. Just two months have passed since Lee’s father John injured his spine in a fall while helping to trim a tree. He’s undergoing rehab after suffering partial paralysis. “It was amazing. I almost […]
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“I went back to graduate school and took a couple of courses in education and said, ‘I don’t think this is going to work out for me,’” Ms. Warren said in the interview. Addressing the differences in her accounts, Ms. Warren said in a statement to CBS News, “After becoming a public figure I opened
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BEIJING, Oct 8 (Reuters) – The Chinese foreign ministry said on Tuesday that China had no intention of intervening in U.S. domestic affairs when asked about U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Beijing investigate his Democratic rival Joe Biden and his son. The Republican president, the subject of an impeachment inquiry in the U.S. Congress
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Image copyright Getty Images UK doctors are being told to stop prescribing four types of a heartburn medication called Zantac or ranitidine as a “precautionary measure”. It follows concern in several countries that products may contain an impurity that has been linked to cancer. The four being recalled are Zantac 150mg/10ml Syrup, Zantac 50mg/2ml Injection,
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Image caption Lupita Nyong’o has starred in Black Panther and 12 Years A Slave Lupita Nyong’o has said she was the “victim of colourism” as a child, when she “wished to have skin that was different”. The Oscar-winning actor told BBC Newsnight that colourism “is the daughter of racism” in “a world that rewards lighter
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Image copyright AFP Scammers are suspected of making fraudulent claims on a website set up to refund Thomas Cook customers, the Civil Aviation Authority has said. The aviation regulator said it has taken “urgent action” over the suspicious online activity and will notify the police. It has added further verification checks to its refund process,
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SAN FRANCISCO — Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist at Union Square Ventures, recently published a blog post titled “The Great Public Market Reckoning.” In it, he argued that the narrative that had driven start-up hype and valuations for the last decade was now falling apart. His post quickly ricocheted across Silicon Valley. Other venture capitalists,
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By day, Juma Marzouq approves Qatar’s masterplans for the vast stadium infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup. By night, Marzouq goes into fan mode, tackling the challenge of filling soccer arenas in this tiny nation. Marzouq has seen encouraging signs since Qatar’s breakthrough on the field in February, when it won the Asian Cup for
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Justice Alito noted that Congress had had the opportunity to write sexual orientation into the country’s nondiscrimination statutes but had repeatedly failed to do so. In fact, he added, such legislation is stalled in Congress now. If the court indeed found that sexual orientation was covered under the 1964 law, he said, it would open
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The Latest on Brexit (all times local): 5:30 p.m. The European Parliament’s chief Brexit official is warning proponents of a no-deal divorce in Britain that the thorny issues that have hobbled discussions won’t miraculously go away. Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt said issues about the future relationship between Britain and the European Union will remain and
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