December 2019

Birmingham cancer research lab opens with bakery worker’s £1.5m legacy

Lifestyle /

Image caption This is the only picture of “quiet, unassuming” Michael Dubrowsky his friends and colleagues could find. A hospital has opened its own cancer research laboratory with a £1.5m legacy from a “quiet, unassuming” bakery worker. Michael Dubrowsky left his savings to Birmingham’s Royal Orthopaedic Hospital where he had been treated for cancer. His […]

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Jake Hoot Wins ‘The Voice’ After Quiet Start In NBC’s Singing Competition

Entertainment /

Jake Hoot won “The Voice” on Tuesday after an unassuming start on NBC’s singing competition. The country performer received just one chair turn during the blind auditions, prompting USA Today to call Hoot’s victory “something of a Cinderella story.” The coach occupying that chair, Kelly Clarkson, helped guide the 31-year-old Tennessean to victory. The finale is

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Boras’ billions: baseball agent creates free-agent flurry

Sports /

NEW YORK — Scott Boras showed up at the winter meetings with his own press conference backdrop. How appropriate, given his banner offseason. Beloved by his high-profile clients, courted by powerful owners and a polarizing figure for fans, baseball‘s most famous agent negotiated $814 million of contracts in little over three days last week. All

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Trump Impeachment Vote Updates: House to Debate Two Articles

Politics /

“Impeachment by its nature, it’s a political process.” “What people think is going to happen can turn out to be very different from what happens.” “Because it has to do with elected officials holding another elected official to account for their conduct.” When the framers of the Constitution created a process to remove a president

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Adam Driver leaves interview ‘because he can’t stand listening to himself’

Entertainment /

Image copyright Netflix Image caption Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver star in Marriage Story Many of us can’t bear to listen to or watch recordings of ourselves. But when you’re the star some of the year’s biggest films, that can get difficult. Adam Driver walked out of a US radio interview when they played a

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Internet Giants, Defied by Bitcoin, Now See Its Tech as a Remedy

Technology /

SAN FRANCISCO — Not so long ago, the technology behind Bitcoin was seen in Silicon Valley as the best hope for challenging the enormous, centralized power of companies like Twitter and Facebook. Now, in an unexpected twist, the internet giants think that technology could help them solve their many problems. The chief executive of Twitter,

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