SAN FRANCISCO — Last year, Apple announced that it had created tools to help people limit the time they and their children spent on their iPhones. Around the same time, Apple began purging from its App Store a number of apps that offered similar services. Now 17 companies affected by that purge say they have […]
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The NBA is closely monitoring the ongoing trade dispute and tariff rift between the U.S. and China, though the league is not yet worried that it will interfere with any business happening with the world’s most populous nation. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver even went as far Thursday night to suggest that the sport could provide
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That opinion prompted an anguished middle-of-the-night dissent from Justice Breyer, whose request that the justices discuss the case the next morning was refused. “To proceed in this way calls into question the basic principles of fairness that should underlie our criminal justice system,” Justice Breyer wrote. “To proceed in this matter in the middle of
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The union for Los Angeles police officers is demanding the city clean up homeless encampments after a detective was diagnosed with typhoid fever and two others showed similar symptoms. The Police Department reported two of the illnesses Wednesday and says it disinfected any work areas that were exposed at its Central Division. Robert Harris of
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Image copyright Getty Images You have to hand it to Strictly Come Dancing professionals Neil and Katya Jones, they’re resilient. Just a few months ago the married couple were caught up in a media storm after Katya was snapped kissing her celebrity partner Seann Walsh on a night out. Weeks of headlines and online debate
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They’re either the funniest inventions of modern times, or the most annoying. They’re practical joke toys, like sneezing powder, exploding cigars and the squirting lapel flower. The man who came up with almost all of them was the American prankster Sam Adams. Aaron Heslehurst explains how they became a million dollar idea. Video journalist: Jeremy
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Six months after a Chinese scientist was widely scorned for helping to make the world’s first gene-edited babies, he remains out of public view, and new information suggests that others may be interested in pursuing the same kind of work outside the United States. A fertility clinic in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai
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Japan’s Mamiko Higa shot a bogey-free 6-under 65 for the lowest round in a U.S. Women’s Open debut Thursday and took a one-shot lead over American amateur Gina Kim and Germany’s Esther Henseleit. Kim, a sophomore on Duke’s golf team, holed out for eagle from a fairway bunker on her next-to-last hole, the eighth at
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WASHINGTON — President Trump said Thursday that he planned to impose a 5 percent tariff on all imported goods from Mexico beginning June 10, a tax that he said would “gradually increase” until Mexico stopped the flow of undocumented immigrants across the border. The announcement, which Mr. Trump hinted at on Thursday morning and announced
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Gap Inc. reported fiscal first-quarter results on Thursday that fell well short of analysts’ expectations, sending the company’s stock tumbling more than 10% in after-market trading. The downbeat performance comes three months after the retailer said it was creating two independent publicly traded companies — low-priced juggernaut Old Navy and a yet-to-be named company that
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