CARROLL, Iowa — When I asked Rob Sand, the Iowa state auditor, if he could recommend fascinating Iowans to profile, he suggested himself. Then he suggested we go deer hunting. “We can get you in a tree stand this week to spice it up,” he said in a text. Mr. Sand’s fondness for hunting — […]
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There Are A LOT Of Men On This Week’s Must-See Celebrity Outfit List | HuffPost Life Part of HuffPost Style & Beauty. ©2019 Verizon Media. All rights reserved. Men don’t typically dominate best-dressed lists, or any fashion-focused lists for that matter. But that isn’t the case for this list. At least, not this list this
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It looks like Prince Charles will have to continue his wait to succeed his mother on the throne. Queen Elizabeth II, who is currently 93, will not be stepping down when she turns 95, Charles’ office confirmed to People this week, following a flurry of headlines suggesting her departure. “There are no plans for any
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Image copyright Getty Images Eddie Stobart shareholders have approved a rescue plan for the truck company, staving off possible collapse. One of the firm’s largest shareholders, DBay Advisors, will lend it £55m through high-interest bonds and assume control of the haulier. Shareholders voted “overwhelmingly” for the deal, the company said. It means the company will
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The recent color change of the Mekong River may be a sign of trouble; experts say an upstream dam is blocking sediment from flowing downstream, which may lessen nutrients in water and cause erosion downstream By BUSABA SIVASOMBOON Associated Press December 6, 2019, 1:01 AM 3 min read The Mekong River has recently acquired an
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Donovan Mitchell scored 22 points and Jeff Green matched his season high with 19 points off the bench, leading the Utah Jazz to a 126-112 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies By JOHN COON Associated Press December 8, 2019, 5:36 AM 3 min read Donovan Mitchell scored 22 points and Jeff Green matched his season high
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Nigel Farage said three of the MEPs who have left his Brexit Party have links to the Conservative party. He said they were wrong to back the Conservatives and “don’t understand” what is happening in the Labour seats being contested by the Brexit Party. The BBC’s Andrew Neil told Mr Farage that links that the
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French police have fired tear gas on some rowdy protesters amid marches in Paris against the government’s retirement reforms By NADINE ACHOUI-LESAGE and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press December 7, 2019, 8:57 PM 4 min read Paris police skirmished Saturday with yellow vest activists who joined a wave of protests against the government’s overhaul of France’s
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is setting a showdown vote next week on her bill empowering Medicare to negotiate drug prices By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press December 5, 2019, 10:02 PM 3 min read The House will hold a showdown vote next week on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s bill empowering Medicare to negotiate drug prices, expanded Thursday
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Image copyright Wiener Staatsoper/Michael Pöhn Image caption Kate Lindsey will play the title role of Orlando For the first time in its 150-year history, the Vienna State Opera is staging an opera by a woman. Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has written a new opera based on Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando which deals with themes
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