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GOP, Democrats team up to address surprise medical bills

Plunging ahead despite paralyzing partisanship in the nation’s capital, senior lawmakers of both parties Thursday proposed legislation to tackle surprise medical bills and other concerns, from prescription drug costs to uneven vaccination rates. The draft bill from Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., echoes a time when health care issues often led to […]

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Blackpink: Meet the K-pop superstars backstage at their first UK tour

Entertainment / En Sound Media

They’re one of the world’s biggest K-pop superstars, and their YouTube views currently stack up to more than 6 billion. Recently, Blackpink played at Coachella where they continued to break records as the first ever female K-pop stars to take to the stage. They were even spotted by Will Smith when they were “K-pop trainees”

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Markets dip as US-China trade war spooks investors

Business / En Sound Media

Image copyright Getty Images Global markets dipped on Thursday as investors grew concerned about the possibility of a technology cold war between the US and China. China warned Washington that it needed to “correct” its “wrong actions”, after the US put Huawei on a list that curbs the ability of US firms to trade with

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Quentin Tarantino ‘rejects hypothesis’ on Margot Robbie

World / En Sound Media

Director Quentin Tarantino rejected a question from a reporter at the Cannes press conference for his latest movie Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood. The reporter asked why he had not given Margot Robbie more lines in the film. She defended the director by saying, “to show those wonderful sides of her [the character Sharon]

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Louis Osteen, Chef Who Championed Southern Food, Dies at 77

Travel / En Sound Media

Louis Osteen, a gregarious chef whose influential South Carolina restaurants helped elevate Southern cuisine to a new respectability in the 1980s and ’90s, died on Sunday at his home in Highlands, N.C. He was 77. His wife, Marlene Osteen, said the cause was liver cancer. In 1980, in the coastal vacation town of Pawleys Island,

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Facebook: Fake account removal doubles in 6 months to 3B

Technology / En Sound Media

Facebook removed more than 3 billion fake accounts from October to March, twice as many as the previous six months, the company said Thursday. Interested in Facebook? Add Facebook as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Facebook news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Nearly all of them were caught before

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Seeking more respect, superstar Hegerberg out of World Cup

Sports / En Sound Media

With a no-nonsense look etched on her face, Ada Hegerberg stares straight into the camera and says: “Now it’s time for action.” It’s fitting the Norwegian superstar was chosen as the face of a recently launched campaign aimed at improving the profile and standards in women’s soccer. Not just because, as the first ever female

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Peterborough by-election candidates debate – BBC News

Politics / En Sound Media

A number of candidates battling to win the vacant MP’s seat in Peterborough have taken part in a radio debate to discuss the city’s main issues. The seat was vacated earlier this month following a successful recall petition to remove MP Fiona Onasanya. Among the issues discussed were housing, homelessness, education, a proposed university for

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Trump Administration to Announce Farm Aid to Ease Pain of Trade War

Finance / En Sound Media

He reached out to Canadian and Mexican officials, offering a deal in which the United States would lift its tariffs if the countries would agree to prevent future surges of metal into the United States market, these people said. If those surges happened, the United States could reimpose tariffs of 10 percent on aluminum and

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Care minister Caroline Dinenage ‘deeply sorry’ over hospital abuse

Lifestyle / En Sound Media

The abuse of patients at Whorlton Hall hospital in County Durham has been condemned as “appalling” by a government minister. Undercover BBC Panorama filming showed adults with learning disabilities and autism being mocked, intimidated and restrained. Care minister Caroline Dinenage told the House of Commons she was “deeply sorry that this has happened”. More on

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