December 2019

90,000 Packages Disappear Daily in N.Y.C. Is Help on the Way?

Online deliveries to an apartment building in northern Manhattan are left with a retired woman in 2H who watches over her neighbors’ packages to make sure nothing gets stolen. Corporate mailrooms in New York and other cities are overwhelmed by employees shipping personal packages to work for safekeeping, leading companies to ban packages and issue […]

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Report: Lobbyists aided lawmakers with health care columns

A newspaper says lobbyists were involved in drafting or revising opinion columns about health care written by state lawmakers in Montana and Ohio December 2, 2019, 9:15 PM 2 min read Lobbyists were involved in drafting or revising opinion columns about health care written by state lawmakers in Montana and Ohio, officials said. Lobbyists were

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Chicken Shop Date: ‘People who aren’t white have to work harder to enter this space’

Amelia Dimoldenberg is used to awkwardly interviewing rappers in chicken shops, for her YouTube series Chicken Shop Date. After entering the Homespun Yarns short films competition with her comedy film, Amelia spoke to Radio 1 Newsbeat’s Kirsty Grant about building a career in the media, confronting privilege and how it all began. Follow Newsbeat on

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Conference Planners Seek Food Truck Experience (Actual Truck Optional)

Food trucks, once a novelty, are now seemingly on every city street corner. Lately, they’ve even been showing up at hotels and business meetings as conference organizers aim to give a group an “authentic” experience and a taste of the local culinary scene. “It’s intriguing to corporate planners who are thinking outside the box,” said

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Sanctions May Have Fueled Iran Protests, but Have Yet to Further U.S. Goals

The key question is whether economic conditions deteriorate. Mr. Hook noted in an interview on Monday that as the country cuts back further on subsidies, there will be more protests of the kind spurred by the 50 percent surge in gasoline prices. “The regime is running out of money after wasting billions on proxy wars

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Tiffany Haddish Would Stage A Bonkers Stunt If She Were Oscars Host

We’re thinking that assembling two of America’s greatest actors — Streep and Sarandon have 26 nominations and four victories between them — for a nationally televised shaking of the booty might not be the route to go, but the ceremony could use a new twist. “It would be so much fun,” the “Black Mitzvah” comedian

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