Image copyright Handout/BBC Image caption High housing costs are hurting San Franciscans like Leon Sultan History teacher Leon Sultan was raised in a San Francisco that working class families could call home. That place has, for the most part, vanished. The city is now the centre of America’s thriving tech industry, with some of the […]
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In securing a spot in the Pac-12 title game, Justin Herbert marveled at how far Oregon had come since his freshman year. Herbert threw for 333 yards and four touchdowns and No. 6 Oregon won its ninth straight game and clinched the Pac-12 North with a 34-6 victory over Arizona on Saturday night. The senior
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WASHINGTON — In the 2017 fiscal year, FedEx owed more than $1.5 billion in taxes. The next year, it owed nothing. What changed was the Trump administration’s tax cut — for which the company had lobbied hard. The public face of its lobbying effort, which included a tax proposal of its own, was FedEx’s founder
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A first-time drag performer has spoken about how life as a queen has helped her overcome bullying. Pure said she “didn’t fit the stereotype of a gay person”, but has found a way to express herself through makeup, wigs and corsets. “I was very much suppressed by school bullies and stuff,” the 23-year-old Northampton queen
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Image copyright Reuters Saudi Arabia has placed a preliminary valuation on state oil company Aramco of between $1.6tn (£1.22tn) and $1.7tn. The company has published an updated prospectus for its initial public offering (IPO), seeking more than $25bn for the sale of 1.5% of its shares. That would make it potentially the world’s biggest IPO,
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Nathan MacKinnon scored his second goal of the game 27 seconds into overtime, lifting the Colorado Avalanche to a 5-4 victory over the Vancouver Canucks November 17, 2019, 8:16 AM 5 min read Frustrated that a game that looked like a sure win was pushed into overtime, Nathan MacKinnon took matters into his own hands.
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Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday backed the government’s decision to raise gasoline prices and called angry protesters who have been setting fire to public property over the hike “thugs,” signaling a potential crackdown on the demonstrations. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s comments came as authorities apparently shut down the internet across Iran to smother the protests in
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The House impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump is definitely not “The Masked Singer.” So “Saturday Night Live” decided to juice up the hearings and turn them into the soap opera “Days of Our Impeachment” — where “the only thing at stake is our democracy.” Jon Hamm popped up to play Ukraine’s acting Ambassador William
Earlier this fall Dr. Scott Solomon presented the results of a huge heart drug study to an audience of fellow cardiologists in Paris. The results Solomon was describing looked promising: Patients who took the medication had a lower rate of hospitalization and death than patients on a different drug. Then he showed his audience another
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Jaylon Henderson threw for 292 yards and three touchdowns, Sonatane Lui had two fumble recoveries, including one for a score, and No. 21 Boise State beat New Mexico 42-9 By JASON CHATRAW Associated Press November 17, 2019, 7:18 AM 3 min read Jaylon Henderson threw for 292 yards and three touchdowns, Sonatane Lui had two
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