Image copyright Ian Rice When Ian Rice bought his new home two years ago, he didn’t really think about the leasehold. Now he’s angry that he was “mis-sold” an unfair contract. “We feel we’ve been caught in a leasehold trap. The developers weren’t honest with us. They told us we had to use their solicitors, […]
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SAN FRANCISCO — Two weeks ago, Facebook declined to remove a doctored video in which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemed to drunkenly slur her speech. Over the weekend, two British artists released a doctored video of Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, as a sly comment on the spread of false information online. Posted to the
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Zdeno Chara didn’t say much to his teammates when he showed up, as usual, one game after a puck bloodied his face and knocked him out of the Stanley Cup Final. And it wasn’t just because it was difficult for him to talk. “He doesn’t need to say anything, really,” forward Charlie Coyle said on
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Pete Buttigieg lashed into President Trump on Tuesday for conducting foreign policy by tantrum and by tweet, as he called for the United States to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, cease the “endless war” in Afghanistan and meet “the clear and present threat” of climate change. Outlining his foreign policy views as a 2020 Democratic
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The government is to serve a recall notice on Whirlpool over concerns about the safety of its tumble dryers. The “unprecedented step” means the company will have to recall hundreds of thousands of appliances over fears they pose a fire safety risk. It comes after 5.3 million dryers under Whirlpool’s Hotpoint, Creda and Indesit brands
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When states legalize pot for all adults, long-standing medical marijuana programs take a big hit, in some cases losing more than half their registered patients in just a few years, according to a data analysis by The Associated Press. Much of the decline comes from consumers who, ill or not, got medical cards in their
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Pelicans basketball operations chief David Griffin said Tuesday that the timing of next week’s NBA draft won’t necessarily raise urgency to deal away disgruntled six-time All-Star Anthony Davis. “I’m open-minded,” Griffin said while introducing new front office hire Swin Cash on a conference call with reporters. “If things devolve in such a way that it’s
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — When 19 presidential candidates descended on a hotel ballroom for an Iowa Democratic Party fund-raiser on Sunday, it seemed, at first glance, like a relatively collegial affair. Former Representative Beto O’Rourke wished Senator Kamala Harris and Marianne Williamson good luck. Ms. Harris shared popcorn with former Gov. John Hickenlooper. And Andrew
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption Almost 1,400 have died in a recent outbreak in neighbouring DR Congo A five-year-old boy in Uganda has been diagnosed with Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed. This is the first case confirmed in the country amid a deadly outbreak in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. More than
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Three men were jailed for life on Monday for the rape, torture and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl in Indian-administered Kashmir. The victim, who belonged to a Muslim nomadic tribe, was found in a forest near Kathua city in January 2018. Her mother told the BBC she had been willing to sell all her
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