Stanford moves up to No. 1 in women’s AP Top 25 for the first time in seven years; Louisville jumps to No. 2 By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer December 2, 2019, 6:02 PM 2 min read Stanford moved up to No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s college basketball poll for the first time […]
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The Food and Drug Administration will review whether R.J. Reynolds can claim that its electronic cigarette poses less risk than tobacco December 2, 2019, 4:16 PM 1 min read The Food and Drug Administration will review whether R.J. Reynolds can claim that its electronic cigarette poses less risk than tobacco. The Winston-Salem Journal reported Sunday
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The prize is announced in the building which houses the Alfred Nobel Museum in Stockholm Two external members of the Nobel literature prize committee have quit after criticising the Swedish Academy. Gun-Britt Sundstrom said the choice of Peter Handke as this year’s winner had been interpreted as if literature
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LONDON — Facebook is trying to make it easier for users to move photos from the social network to rival online services, reacting to European privacy laws and criticism from regulators that its size and control over data hinders competition. On Monday, Facebook said it would begin testing a “data portability” tool in Ireland that
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Two-time Olympic judo champion Peter Seisenbacher of Austria has been sentenced to five years in prison for sexually assaulting two young girls he was coaching in the early 2000s December 2, 2019, 4:55 PM 2 min read Two-time Olympic judo champion Peter Seisenbacher was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday for sexually assaulting
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United Auto Workers union bolsters financial controls after being rocked by embezzlement scandal By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer December 2, 2019, 4:33 PM 2 min read The United Auto Workers union has replaced its auditing firm, added four internal auditors and has hired a big accounting firm to study its financial controls in an
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Image copyright Getty Images Years have been knocked off official projections of children’s life expectancies in the UK, an Office for National Statistics (ONS) report shows. A baby girl born in 2019 is now expected to celebrate three fewer birthdays on average, than under previous calculations. Official 2014 data thought that girl would make it
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It seems Kanye West has more than a few words for us. “Kanye always wants people to be more positive so he came up with this little dictionary game,” Kim says. “We pick a page in the dictionary and everyone has to underline the positive words.” The segment of the show features the sisters and
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Image copyright Getty Images The UK’s first major mass litigation has begun, with about 100,000 motorists seeking redress from Volkswagen over the “dieselgate” emissions scandal. Lawyers representing owners of VW, Audi, Seat and Skoda cars told the High Court the German firm misled consumers. In 2015, VW admitted 11 million cars worldwide – including 1.2
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As world leaders gather in Spain to discuss how to slow the warming of the planet, a spotlight falls on China — the top emitter of greenhouse gases. China burns about half the coal used globally each year. Between 2000 and 2018, its annual carbon emissions nearly tripled, and it now accounts for about 30%
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