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Google Investing $1 Billion To Fix Bay Area’s Tech-Driven Housing Crisis

Google announced Tuesday that it’s investing $1 billion in developing more housing across the San Francisco Bay Area, where the rise of wealthy tech companies has helped fuel one of the country’s biggest affordability crises. The tech giant, one of the main companies targeted by Bay Area housing activists, plans to put $750 million toward […]

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Facebook’s currency Libra faces financial, privacy pushback

Technology / En Sound Media

Facebook is getting a taste of the regulatory pushback it will face as it creates a new digital currency with corporate partners. Just hours after the social media giant unveiled early plans for the Libra cryptocurrency, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire insisted that only governments can issue sovereign currencies. He said Facebook must ensure

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Michel Platini, a soccer great now mired in corruption

Sports / En Sound Media

Affectionately nicknamed Le Roi, or The King, Michel Platini bestrode the soccer field with inimitable elegance as the world’s best player of the early 1980s, helping to bridge the gap between the eras of Pele and Diego Maradona. Repeatedly voted Europe’s best player, the Frenchman instantly recognizable for his unruly mop of hair and his

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Tory leadership: Johnson, Hunt, Gove, Javid, Stewart on Brexit

Politics / En Sound Media

The first question to the five men who could be the next Tory leader and PM was about a Brexit date guarantee. Former Tory voter Lee Ward in Norwich asked Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, Sajid Javid and Rory Stewart whether they can get a Brexit plan through Parliament by the end of October.

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Measles vaccine fears cost me my children

Lifestyle / En Sound Media

As cases of measles soar globally, the Philippines in facing a major outbreak. Since a controversy over a dengue fever vaccine, confidence has fallen in the country’s immunisation programmes. Arlyn B. Calos told the BBC that misinformation on television and social media led her to ignore government advice to have her children vaccinated against measles,

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Yesterday: Inside Danny Boyle’s world without The Beatles

Entertainment / En Sound Media

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Beatles are shown the exit door in Yesetrday Imagine there’s no Beatles. It’s easy if you try. Easier still if the award-winning writer/director team of Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle do the bulk of the hypothesising for you, as they have in their new film, Yesterday. The movie,

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When is a sausage not a sausage?

Business / En Sound Media

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Vegan alternatives to meat are growing in popularity Should words like “sausage” and “burger” only be used to describe foods that contain meat? Under an EU proposal put forward in April, the answer is yes – although experts are due to raise their objections to the plan at a

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BuzzFeed News Is Part of a Union Wave at Digital Media Outlets

Technology / En Sound Media

The ranks have swelled recently at two unions representing writers and editors: the News Guild, which represents the staff at The New York Times, among other media organizations, and the Writers Guild of America East, perhaps best known for its work with television and film writers. Organizers at the two unions estimated that the digital

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Brett Favre Deletes Instagram Post Claiming He’s Coming Out Of Retirement

Sports / En Sound Media

Football great Brett Favre said he is not coming out of retirement at the age of 49, despite an Instagram post suggesting that on Tuesday. The Hall of Fame quarterback’s Instagram account featured a photo of Favre from Super Bowl XXXI with this eye-opening caption: “A true champion sticks to his or her calling. I will

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Buttigieg Facing Test of Leadership After Shooting in South Bend

Politics / En Sound Media

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Mayor Pete Buttigieg remained in South Bend, Ind., on Tuesday to confront a local crisis involving the fatal shooting of a black resident by a white police officer, skipping scheduled campaign appearances in Hollywood. The shooting of the 54-year-old robbery suspect under conditions that remain murky has presented Mr. Buttigieg, a

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