EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — The Los Angeles Lakers ended practice with a few somber, almost plaintive laughs. As they left the court, they all passed under the oversized 8 and 24 outlined in white on the black wall above the door to their locker room. Anthony Davis and several other Lakers paused and looked up […]
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WASHINGTON — The White House and Senate Republicans worked aggressively on Wednesday to discount damaging revelations from John R. Bolton and line up the votes to block new witnesses that would bring President Trump’s impeachment trial to a swift close. As the Senate entered a two-day, 16-hour period of questioning from senators, Mr. Trump laced
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WASHINGTON — President Trump signed the revised North American Free Trade Agreement into law on Wednesday, fulfilling a key campaign promise and bringing more than two years of tumultuous negotiations over the continent’s trade rules to a close. The trade deal, now called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, updates the quarter-century-old NAFTA, with stronger protections for
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Role models come in many forms for children: they can be parents, teachers, older friends, or even public figures. When kids idolize a famous person who then dies, a complicated slew of emotions may follow as they deal with feelings of grief, as well as confusion about mourning someone they didn’t know personally. This has
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Image caption London-born singer Michael Kiwanuka won the BBC’s Sound of 2012 Brit Award nominee Michael Kiwanuka will be one of the headline acts at the 2020 Green Man festival. He will join fellow headliners Caribou, Mac DeMarco and Little Dragon at Glanusk Park near Crickhowell, Powys, between 20 and 23 August. Kiwanuka’s number one
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Image copyright Getty Images Facebook has recorded its first annual fall in profits in at least five years, as its efforts to respond to privacy and content concerns took a toll on firm’s bottom line. The tech giant, which owns Instagram and WhatsApp, said profits sank 16% in 2019 to $18.4bn (£14.1bn). The fall came
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Even as Facebook has grappled with one corporate embarrassment after another, it has remained a business powerhouse. But on Wednesday, the social network encountered the perils of being an aging corporation: It reported its slowest growth ever. Facebook’s revenue in the last three months of 2019 rose 25 percent from a year earlier to $21
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A person with knowledge of the negotiations tells The Associated Press that Dusty Baker has reached an agreement to be the manager of the Houston Astros By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer January 29, 2020, 10:28 PM 5 min read HOUSTON — Dusty Baker has reached an agreement to be the manager of the Houston
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JERUSALEM — For Mahmoud Abbas, the ailing octogenarian president of the Palestinian Authority, his life’s work — a viable state side-by-side with Israel — is quickly slipping away. President Trump’s Middle East plan deprives the Palestinians of nearly everything they had been fighting for: East Jerusalem as their national capital, the removal of Jewish settlements
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Attorneys for Pacific Gas & Electric are assuring a federal judge the utility will emerge from bankruptcy by a June 30 deadline as an investor-owned company By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Business Writer January 29, 2020, 10:10 PM 2 min read SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric attorneys on Wednesday assured a federal judge the
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