January 2020

Buttigieg Attacks Biden and Sanders by Name in Bid to Make Up Ground

DECORAH, Iowa — Pete Buttigieg escalated his attacks on Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont on Thursday, taking direct aim at the two leading presidential candidates as he tries to gain ground before the Iowa caucuses. Mr. Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., dismissed disputes between the

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Artificial intelligence-created medicine to be used on humans for first time

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The drug was much quicker to market than ones developed in more traditional ways A drug molecule “invented” by artificial intelligence (AI) will be used in human trials in a world first for machine learning in medicine. It was created by British start-up Exscientia and Japanese pharmaceutical firm Sumitomo

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Prince Harry Has ‘Suffered A Lot’ And Wants A ‘Normal Life,’ Friend Says

Nacho Figueras, an Argentinian model, professional polo player and longtime friend of the royal, said in an ABC news special on Wednesday that he touched base with Harry a few days ago.  “He has suffered a lot from all of the things that have happened to him. He suffers a lot from people judging him,”

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Groucho Mask, Man In Wedding Veil And Cockroach Among Year’s Newest Emojis

It’s an emotional time of year for people who love emojis. The Unicode Consortium, which maintains a standardized collection of characters used on smartphones around the world, has announced 117 new emojis that will be rolled out to various platforms later this year. The new emojis for 2020 include a Groucho Marx mask, a smiling

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Is South Bend a Prosperous College Town or a Struggling Rust Belt City?

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — This city, according to Americans with only a vague notion of it, is a down-home, run-down, industrial, beautiful, Catholic kind of place. It is progressive and conservative, country and urban, dangerous and quaint. A college town, really, but with high poverty. And corn. South Bend has proved oddly illegible to the

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I’m A Funeral Director, And This Is What I Wear To Work

When describing her career, Stephanie Castro prefers the term funeral director. Mortician isn’t exactly wrong, but funeral director “has less of a creepy air to it,” the New York-based professional told HuffPost. The preference in titles is more than just branding, it’s part of a movement to make the industry seem more transparent and bring

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