Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Fracking at Cuadrilla Resources site in Lancashire in August caused a 2.9 magnitude earth tremor The government has halted shale gas extraction – or fracking – in England and Wales amid fears about earthquakes. It comes after a report by the Oil and Gas Authority said it was not […]
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The United States government has opened a national security review of a Chinese company’s acquisition of the American company that became TikTok, the hugely popular short-form video app, according to people briefed on the inquiry. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a federal panel that reviews foreign acquisitions of American firms on
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Carlos Beltrán, two years removed from his playing career and with no managerial experience, has been picked by the New York Mets to replace Mickey Callaway. The Mets announced the move Friday. A nine-time All-Star during 20 major league seasons, Beltrán played for the Mets from 2005-11. He interviewed to become New York Yankees manager
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WASHINGTON — The stunt had all the trappings of a high school prank: cheeky if innocuous intentions, a lack of foresight and authority figures called in at the end to deal with the antics. But on Thursday, the mischief maker in question was the House Republican campaign arm, and the prank — delivering empty cardboard
These Celebrity Outfits Are So Outrageous, It’s Spooky | HuffPost Life Part of HuffPost Style & Beauty. ©2019 Verizon Media. All rights reserved. It’s already hard enough to discern whether a celebrity is dressed in a costume or if they’re trying to pass off their quirk as a normal outfit. But the week of Halloween,
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Image caption Blade Runner was set in November 2019. Harrison Ford plays the main character Rick Deckard It’s November 2019 and Los Angeles is in a state of urban decay. The population has dwindled, and humans face a new threat from manufactured biological robots gone rogue… Back in 1982, this is how Blade Runner director
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The Latest on a man sentenced for killing a whooping crane (all times local): 5 p.m. A Louisiana man has been sentenced to probation for killing one of the state’s oldest whooping cranes. In a hearing Friday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carol B. Whitehurst, Gilvin P. Aucoin Jr. changed his plea to guilty for a
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Formula One officials have dreamed of expanding in the U.S. since the day the series returned to American soil in 2012. Every step must feel like quicksand. While American television ratings are rising and the U.S. Grand Prix in Texas has developed into a durable, popular race, dreams of landing F1 in other spots such
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DES MOINES — Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are locked in a fierce competition to win over Iowa liberals. Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Kamala Harris are scrambling to avoid a humiliating fourth-place finish — or worse — in the Iowa caucuses. And Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar are angling for surprisingly strong results to
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Multiple published reports say that the U.S. government has launched a national-security review of the China-owned video app TikTok, popular with millions of U.S. teens and young adults. The reports Friday from Reuters, The New York Times and others said that the interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which reviews acquisitions by
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