His HBO show “Last Week Tonight” is on hiatus until Feb. 16, but Oliver returned to YouTube to rant about the news alerts many people sign up for without realizing just what they’re getting into. Oliver suggested a two-step test that all push notifications should have to pass before they’re sent, then offered examples of […]
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“I started doing it and then dozens and then hundreds of people signed up,” he said. In the last year, Mr. Van Ostern’s memos, distributed to a mailing list that has grown to 30,000 people, have become the quintessential Baedeker to New Hampshire presidential politics. Many of the more picturesque hotels and ski resorts are
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Gary Keith Starkweather was born on Jan. 9, 1938, in Lansing, Mich., the only son of Richard and Crystal Starkweather. His father owned a local dairy; his mother was a homemaker. Their home was near a junk shop, where Gary would bargain for old radios, washing machines and car parts that he could tinker with
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January 21, 2020, 10:46 AM 2 min read American and women’s 10th seed Madison Keys cruised into the second round of the Australian Open, but former No. 1 Maria Sharapova was a 6-3, 6-4 loser to No. 19 Donna Vekic. No. 12 Johanna Konta suffered her earliest Australian Open exit with a first-round loss to
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DAVOS, Switzerland — Before the Senate impeachment trial begins in earnest on Tuesday, President Trump was more than 4,000 miles away from Washington, in this glitzy Alpine village, planning to drive a competing narrative — one that has nothing to do with pressure on Ukraine, abuse of power or obstruction of Congress. In his first
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Image caption Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian has been a hit thanks in part to a character nicknamed Baby Yoda The new streaming service Disney+ is to launch on 24 March in the UK, a week earlier than originally planned. Pricing has also been revealed – it will cost £5.99 per month or £59.99 a
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Image copyright Getty Images A record number of women in full-time work has pushed the UK’s employment rate to a new high of 76.3%, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show. In the three months to November, 126,000 more women worked full-time compared with the previous quarter. The increase is in part
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Rafael Nadal says he’s thinking about his next opponent … and his next practice session … and trying to recreate the superb tennis he played in his straight-set victory in the Australian Open’s first round. What he insists is not on his mind is the number 20 — as in Roger Federer’s
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Senator Bernie Sanders apologized to Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Monday after a Sanders campaign surrogate wrote an opinion article accusing the former vice president of having “a big corruption problem.” Mr. Sanders distanced himself from the piece by Zephyr Teachout, an associate professor at Fordham Law School, former New York political candidate and longtime
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg has told the world’s political and business leaders that the global movement sparked by her school strike was only the very beginning in the fight against global warming and much more has to be done January 21, 2020, 8:39 AM 1 min read DAVOS, Switzerland — Climate activist Greta Thunberg told
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