Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Friday that a global call to curb the spread of hate and extremism on internet platforms was an “effective” response to the New Zealand mosque attacks, but stopped short of endorsing it. The “Christchurch Call” set of guidelines for world leaders and tech companies was drafted by France […]
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The Latest on the PGA Championship on Sunday (all times local): 2:50 p.m. The beast came out at Bethpage Black in the final round of the PGA Championship. Before runaway leader Brooks Koepka had teed off in the afternoon, there were 26 double bogeys or higher. In the third round, when conditions got tougher as
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President Trump has generally bucked the #MeToo movement, siding instead with the men who deny accusations of sexual assault or misconduct. Now, the Republican National Committee appears to be following his lead. Steve Wynn, the billionaire former casino mogul who resigned as chairman of Wynn Resorts and as finance chairman of the R.N.C. last year
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A rare mix of geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and China is tugging oil prices in opposite directions and creating uncertainty over where they might land. Deteriorating trade talks between the United States and China, the world’s two largest economies, are posing a serious threat to global economic growth and whenever that growth sputters,
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She alights from a black Ferrari convertible, her Christian Louboutin stilettos glinting in the sunlight. The lid of her black lacquer grand piano is propped open in the living room of her plush Beverly Hills home. “I own a chain of elderly care facilities,” she says into the camera on Bravo’s reality television show “The
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption McGrath has worked on fashion runways as well as for editorial shoots, and now has her own product range Multi-millionaire make-up artist Pat McGrath says she used to use cocoa powder on her face because of the lack of beauty products for black skin. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s
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Boeing disclosed in a Saturday statement that it had “made corrections” to its 737 Max flight simulator software following the two deadly crashes involving the jet during the past several months As AFP noted, the statement marked the first time the embattled plane maker acknowledged design flaws in the simulator software used to train some
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With one magical video, Justin Bieber has made a pristine Icelandic canyon famous around the world. And that’s the problem. Icelandic environmental officials have had to close off the Fjadrárgljúfur canyon to protect it from the hordes of Bieber fans who are determined to visit the site. And these fans are not letting a few
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It’s interesting that the decision went against Apple at all. Liberal jurists often favor antitrust action, and conservatives avoid it. So you’d have expected the verdict to be 5-to-4 in the other direction, along the conservative-liberal line of the Supreme Court. But the new justice, Brett M. Kavanaugh, tipped the other way. You could read
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Cubs manager Joe Maddon said he was seeking fairness when he questioned the legality of Washington Nationals closer Sean Doolittle’s delivery in the ninth inning Saturday night and ultimately protested the game. That wasn’t Doolittle’s interpretation. “He’s not trying to do anything other than rattle me,” Doolittle said. “And it was kind of tired.” After
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