Image copyright Getty Images Business groups have urged Boris Johnson to begin work negotiating the terms of the UK’s future relationship with the EU after Brexit. Following Mr Johnson’s victory in the election, which he won on a promise to “get Brexit done”, businesses have called on him to avoid no-deal. They are concerned the […]
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That has created pressure on lawmakers to take action. Democrats campaigned aggressively last year on their promise to lower drug prices, which helped them regain the majority in the House. On Thursday morning, Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared on the Capitol steps with members of the freshman class to drive home that message. Although the bill
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I distinctly remember my mother getting home from work every evening around 4 p.m. She would hustle to her bedroom before properly greeting us — a one-inch kitten heel flying in one direction, a tweed brown blazer in the other. I always found it peculiar that the first thing she wanted to do when she
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Swift was presented with her award by actress and broadcaster Jameela Jamil Taylor Swift was named Billboard’s woman of the decade on Thursday night – but her speech contained none of the usual award show platitudes. Instead, the star criticised “toxic male privilege” in the music industry, championed fellow
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption Neil Woodford has been removed as the fund’s investment manager Stricken investors in Neil Woodford’s former flagship fund will receive their first payments on 20 January as the fund is wound up by its administrators. Individuals and institutional investors will be told by letter on 13 January how much they
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Kenya’s media and entertainment industry was worth $1.8bn in 2015 and is expected to reach $3.3bn in 2019, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Content creators, such as satirical comedians, are producing video content and monetising it on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. “Can people really survive on this craft and on these platforms? Yes, people are making
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Members of Generation Z — people born after 1996 — are about to play a major role in an American presidential election for the first time. But there has been little discussion of how their opinions, priorities and needs differ from those of older generations. I’m a political reporter for The New York Times, and
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GERVAIS, Ore. — It was nighttime when Pedro Lucas came home, clutching receipts showing he had paid a funeral home to have the bodies of three immigrant laborers returned to Guatemala from Oregon. The three, including two of Lucas’ cousins, were killed when a pickup truck slammed into a van carrying them and 10 other
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It starts out with those same all-too-familiar 13 notes, but it’s not long before this version of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” takes an unexpected turn. YouTuber William Maranci worked Radiohead’s “Creep” into the mix in this new mashup and it almost sounds like it was meant to be: Combining Carey’s Christmas classic
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Vancouver, with its snowcapped mountains and sleek, squeaky-clean downtown can seem to a new visitor to be lacking in urban grit. Which is exactly why for Sara Harowitz, a Vancouver native, the once blue-collar district of Hastings-Sunrise has so much appeal. Today, the area is a mix of on-trend eateries and boutiques as well as
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