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Senate Votes to Block Trump’s Arms Sales to Gulf Nations in Bipartisan Rebuke

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted to block the sale of billions of dollars of munitions to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on Thursday, in a sharp and bipartisan rebuke of the Trump administration’s attempt to circumvent Congress to allow the exports by declaring an emergency over Iran. In three back-to-back votes, Republicans joined […]

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Energy stocks swing with economic signals, Mideast tensions

Finance / En Sound Media

Energy stocks have gone along with oil prices on a wild ride this quarter. Oil prices steadily rose through April and then sank as the trade war between the U.S. and China escalated and threatened global economic growth. More recently, rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran have pushed prices higher. After hitting a high

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Slack Stock Soars, Putting Company’s Public Value at $23.1 Billion

Technology / En Sound Media

Shortly after ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, Stewart Butterfield, chief executive and co-founder of Slack, said going public had benefits. It opens the company up to a degree of scrutiny that large customers will find helpful, he said. When Slack was private, some customers asked to see its financials to

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Trump to consider inviting Raptors ‘if they’d like to do it’

Sports / En Sound Media

President Donald Trump says he’ll consider inviting the NBA champion Toronto Raptors to the White House “if they’d like to do it.” Asked whether he’d invite the Canadian team, Trump said Thursday that he hadn’t thought about it. Trump said the Raptors played “phenomenal basketball” to win the team’s first NBA title by defeating the

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Tory leadership: Johnson or Hunt to be new party leader

Politics / En Sound Media

Michael Gove was narrowly voted out of the Conservative leadership race, with Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt now facing members who will pick a new leader. Mr Johnson came top with 160 votes from Tory MPs, followed by Mr Hunt on 77, and Mr Gove on 75, and the top two going through. The result

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‘My bulimia was hidden by my normal weight’

Lifestyle / En Sound Media

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionLee Donald says fitness has changed her life Lee Donald didn’t think she would see her 21st birthday. She had struggled with an eating disorder from the age of 13 and at her lowest point made herself sick more than 10 times a day. But she successfully

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Carney gives Facebook currency cautious welcome

Business / En Sound Media

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney is expected to give Facebook’s proposed digital currency Libra a cautious welcome in a major speech on Thursday. He will say it could could substantially lower costs and increase financial inclusion, but needs regulation. Mr Carney is also expected to announce that non-banks will be able to hold Bank

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The Latest: Slack becomes latest tech company to go public

Technology / En Sound Media

The Latest on Slack’s IPO (all times local): 12:30 p.m. Shares of work messaging platform Slack have begun trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “WORK.” The San Francisco company’s shares opened trading at $38.50 and rose 4.4% in midday trading. Slack’s initial public offering is using an unusual approach known as

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Hall of Famer Brian Dawkins tackling mental wellness head on

Sports / En Sound Media

Brian Dawkins is tackling mental health issues the same aggressive way he took on anyone who dared cross the middle during his Hall of Fame career as a safety for the Philadelphia Eagles and Denver Broncos. Since revealing he suffered from depression and had suicidal thoughts early in his playing career, Dawkins has been on

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What We Know About Iran Shooting Down a U.S. Drone

Politics / En Sound Media

Iran shot down an American spy drone early Thursday. On that, the United States and Iran agree. The crucial matter, though, is whether that drone ventured into Iranian airspace, as Tehran asserts, or whether it stayed in international airspace, as the United States asserts. Here’s what we know so far. The drone was unmanned and

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