Women are often faced with the less-than-ideal choice of buying a bra that doesn’t fit or taking out a second mortgage to pay for one that does. Even worse: Shelling out big bucks doesn’t seem to guarantee you’ll be wearing the right size. I know because I recently visited two high-end retailers and a Victoria’s […]
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As Halloween approaches, Rudy Giuliani is looking scarier than ever, according to a new cartoon by Jim Carrey in New York Magazine. (See it below.) The former New York City mayor has already been in hot water for trying to get Trump to use his office to pressure Ukraine and for refusing to comply with
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By Justin Elliott and Paul Kiel ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. Last fall, Intuit’s longtime CEO Brad Smith embarked on a farewell tour of the company’s offices around the world. Smith
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A yellow organism which looks like fungus but acts like an animal has gone on display at the Paris Zoological Park. The slim mould – Physarum polycephalum – has almost 720 sexes and has been described as one of “nature’s mysteries” by scientists. It can heal itself in two minutes if cut in half, and
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Yokohama resides in the perpetual shadow of its more prominent neighbor. Less than half an hour by train from Tokyo, the sprawling port city is the second-largest in Japan, yet registers as barely a blip among most tourists to the region. But that may soon change, at least among sports fans. This fall, Yokohama is
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Ever felt like you’ve been queuing forever? Scientists say fossils found in Morocco suggest the practice of forming orderly lines may date back 480 million years and could have had evolutionary advantages. Their study, published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports, describes groups of blind trilobites — known as Ampyx — all facing in the
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Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde says his team wants to play its Spanish league “clásico” match against Real Madrid at home despite a planned separatist rally in the Catalan capital on the same day. The Spanish soccer league wants the Oct. 26 game to be moved from Barcelona to Madrid because of security concerns, with the
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The death of an impeachment leader raises questions going forward. The passing of Representative Elijah E. Cummings, chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, cast a pall over the impeachment inquiry. Mr. Cummings’ signature was one of three on the letters seeking witnesses and information, along with the names of Adam B. Schiff, the
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European producers of specialty agricultural products like French wine, Italian Parmesan and Spanish olives are facing a U.S. tariff hike due Friday with a mix of trepidation and indignation at being dragged into a trade war they feel they have little to do with. The tariffs on $7.5 billion worth of European goods were approved
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The Latest on a federal trial over the toll of opioids (all times local): 10:40 a.m. Jury selection for a federal trial on the toll of opioids has resumed even as major drug distributors and manufacturers press for a settlement of the lawsuit and more than 2,000 others. For the second day in a row
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