October 2019

2026 Olympics in Italy could slide over border to St Moritz

When St. Moritz hosts the sliding events at the 2020 Youth Winter Olympics, it could be an audition for a bigger event. The high-end resort’s Olympia track will stage bobsled, luge and skeleton races in January for the youth games centered in Lausanne, a 425-kilometer (265-mile) trip across to western Switzerland. Closer to St. Moritz, […]

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Britain, Struggling With Brexit, Eyes Another Retreat. This One’s From Fossil Fuels.

LONDON — In the shadow of a noisy, turbulent Brexit, another epic transformation is underway in Britain. A leading industrial power that built itself on coal and colonialism, Britain is now trying to pivot away from the fossil fuels that powered the industrial age. The government has set a legally binding target to reach net-zero

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The Latest: Sweden glad to see ‘concrete proposal’ on Brexit

The Latest on Brexit and British politics (all times local): 12:20 p.m. Sweden’s European affairs minister says he is cautiously positive about the “concrete proposal” for a Brexit deal British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has submitted. Johnson’s proposal for a compromise withdrawal agreement has received mixed reviews from the European Union’s other member nations. But

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Late Night Hosts Tackle Trump’s ‘Impeachment Meltdown’ And ‘Gatorgate’

President Donald Trump has had a rollercoaster couple of days, and there’s no way the comedians of late-night television were going to let it pass without comment. Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and Trevor Noah all had a take on what Meyers called Trump’s “impeachment meltdown” Wednesday, which saw him swearing in tweets, raging at reporters and making

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‘Safety failures’ led to death of Deadpool 2 stuntwoman

Image copyright Instagram/@sj24_sidewayz Image caption Fans paid tribute in August to Harris on social media An investigation into a stuntwoman’s death on the Vancouver set of Deadpool 2 has attributed her fatal motorcycle accident to a series of safety errors. Government agency WorkSafeBC said the film’s makers should have ensured Joi Harris was wearing a

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