The holiday season tends to be a major moneymaker for mass retailers, and that’s understandable: You know the brands and products are reliable, and shipping is super fast. But it’s important to not overlook smaller businesses owned by people of color. The items they offer are often unique, and sometimes there’s an amazing story behind […]
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Lil Nas X continued his winning streak this week, taking home a Country Music Association Award for the seemingly unstoppable “Old Town Road.” The rapper’s chart-topping remix ― a collaboration with country’s Billy Ray Cyrus ― won for Musical Event of the Year at Wednesday’s ceremony. The track beat out Garth Brooks’ “Dive Bar” featuring Blake
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Image copyright Getty Images A group of Lloyds shareholders have lost a multimillion-pound action against the bank over its purchase of rival HBOS in 2009. The 5,803 former Lloyds TSB shareholders claim they were “mugged” when the bank took over HBOS, which was laden with bad mortgages. Lloyds was forced to accept a £20bn state
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People worry that Big Brother and Big Tech are invading their privacy. But a more immediate concern may be the guy next door or a shifty co-worker. A growing array of so-called smart surveillance products have made it easy to secretly live-stream or record what other people are saying or doing. Consumer spending on surveillance
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A new Davis Cup era will begin in Madrid next week with revamped format and new features By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer November 15, 2019, 12:27 PM 5 min read The famous face behind the biggest overhaul in Davis Cup history can’t hide his anxiety. The men’s international team tournament that begins Monday in
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Former ambassador is expected to recount a smear campaign led by Giuliani. Marie L. Yovanovitch, the former United States ambassador to Ukraine, will be the sole witness in the second day of impeachment hearings on Friday. She is expected to recount her ouster after a relentless smear campaign spearheaded by Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s
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One of the signature initiatives of Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign is a wealth tax that, she says, would pay for many of the programs she proposes, like government-paid health care and free college tuition. Bernie Sanders, one of her opponents in the Democratic race, has proposed his own version of a wealth tax that would
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Image copyright Disney Six years on from the original, Frozen 2 is almost here. Film critics have given their verdicts ahead of its cinema release on 22 November. Some had their icy hearts thawed by the sequel, but others remained cool about Anna and Elsa’s latest adventure. On the one hand, The Telegraph’s Robbie Collin
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Image copyright Getty Images The UK’s banks have disagreed on how to pay for refunds to customers who have been tricked into transferring money to sophisticated fraudsters. A temporary agreement has been in place since May, making it easier for victims of so-called authorised push payment (APP) fraud to get money back. Now it has
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After visiting the Grand Canyon with my 9-year-old daughter in August, I splurged on a two-night stay at the Enchantment Resort in Sedona, Ariz., to cap off our mother-daughter trip. Upon arrival, we were upgraded to a two-bedroom, two-bath suite with a kitchenette, a fireplace and dual balconies facing the breathtaking red rocks of Boynton
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