World stocks were mixed on Tuesday ahead of the release of U.S. housing data and more earnings reports. Oil prices soared to their highest level since October on supply fears, after the Trump administration said it would soon impose sanctions on all buyers of Iranian oil. Markets across Europe reopened after the Easter holiday. France’s […]
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Washington is poised to become the first state to establish an employee-paid program creating an insurance benefit to help offset the costs of long-term care, a step advocates say will help an aging population that is likely not prepared for the increasing costs needed for daily assistance. The measure creates a benefit for those who
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The star rarely spoke about his childhood or motivations for making music in his lifetime The Beautiful Ones, an unfinished memoir by the pop star Prince, is due to be released in October. Fifty handwritten pages, which Prince submitted a month before his death, will form the basis of
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Patagonia, the company that urges people not to buy its jackets ― and instead just fix the ones they already have ― is applying that message on a broad new level. The environmentally conscious outdoor retailer has pumped the brakes on its popular corporate branding program and will no longer produce co-branded garments for companies
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A United Airlines employee accused of directing racial slurs at a customer has been charged in Texas with disorderly conduct, according to court documents. The charge, a misdemeanor, was filed in Municipal Court for Houston in March, a month after the Houston Police Department issued the employee, Carmella Davano, a citation for profane and abusive
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On Sunday, March 30, U.S. Secret Service agents apprehended a 28-year-old Chinese woman by the name of Yujing Zhang attempting to sneak onto President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. On Zhang’s person at the time were four cell phones, a laptop, an external hard drive and one thumb drive, the contents of which were virulent
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A sports reporter filed a lawsuit Monday against the Sacramento Kings’ new head coach, Luke Walton, claiming he sexually assaulted her. Kelli Tennant, who used to work as a reporter for Spectrum Sportsnet LA, alleges that Walton forced himself on her after inviting her into his hotel room in Santa Monica, California. Tennant said the
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• President Trump and his businesses sued the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to quash a subpoena seeking his financial records. • Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, known for attempting to deny Ms. Pelosi the House speaker’s gavel, is running for president, becoming the 19th candidate to enter the Democratic primary
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NEW YORK, April 1 (Reuters) – Two Republican state attorneys general on Monday urged a federal appeals court to uphold the Obamacare federal healthcare law, saying that striking it down would be disruptive for patients, doctors, insurers and employers. The attorneys general of Ohio and Montana submitted “friend of the court” briefs to the 5th
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When doctors wrote a question mark instead of a sex on her child’s birth papers, Catherine filed a high court case that has prompted Kenya to start changing its approach to intersex children. The year is 2009. It’s been five days since Catherine (not her real name) gave birth to her first child at the
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