PORTLAND, Ore. — Hemp growers and entrepreneurs who were joyous a year ago after U.S. lawmakers reclassified the plant as a legal agricultural crop now are worried their businesses could be crippled if federal policymakers move ahead with draft regulations. Licenses for hemp cultivation topped a half-million acres (200,000 hectares) last year, more than 450% […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Concerns have been raised by inspectors about the leadership at a firm at the centre of a BBC expose over allegations of abuse at a mental health hospital. The Panorama investigation – aired in May – was based on undercover filming at County Durham’s learning disabilities unit Whorlton Hall. The Care
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Penn Badgley does an exceptional job playing every single girl’s worst nightmare, Joe Goldberg, on the Netflix’s smash hit “You.” And what makes his portrayal of his character so intriguing is how swiftly and seamlessly Badgley can transition from a charming — and seemingly dateable — guy into a sociopathic murderer who will lock you
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Manchester United earned £627.1m in revenue last season Barcelona generated more money than any other club in Europe for the first time last season, a study has found. The Spanish club earned £741.1m in revenue in the 2018-19 season according to Deloitte’s Football Money League. Real Madrid swapped places with Barca and fell to second
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MUMBAI, India — Amazon’s founder and chief executive, Jeff Bezos, is visiting India this week for the first time in over five years. Instead of garlands, India’s government is welcoming him with a new antitrust case. The Competition Commission of India, the country’s antitrust regulator, opened a formal investigation on Monday into the practices of
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Clemson is on the scoreboard, although the game’s first points took longer than may have been expected January 14, 2020, 1:55 AM 4 min read NEW ORLEANS — The latest from the College Football Playoff championship game between No. 1 LSU and No. 3 Clemson in New Orleans (all times local): 7:50 p.m. Clemson is
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After that, the House managers will march from their chamber across the Capitol, through the elaborately painted Rotunda under the dome, to the Senate chamber, to deliver a bound copy of the impeachment articles to senators assembled for the occasion. Once the managers arrive, the Senate sergeant-at-arms will cry out “Hear ye! Hear ye!” and
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MUMBAI, India — Oyo, once one of India’s fastest-growing tech start-ups, is now rapidly scaling back. In recent weeks, Oyo, a budget hospitality company, has pulled out of dozens of cities, cut thousands of hotel rooms, started laying off employees and slashed other costs as it faced pressure from its biggest investor, the Japanese conglomerate
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus knows the hilarious highs and somber lows of parenthood. The “Veep” star and her husband, Brad Hall, have two adult sons, Henry and Charlie. Since becoming a mother in 1992, Louis-Dreyfus has opened up about work-life balance, mom guilt and more. Randy Shropshire via Getty ImagesBrad Hall, Charlie Hall, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Henry
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An artist who draws with typewriters says he finds it a “weird way of having fun”. James Cook, 23, started to use typography to design pictures while doing his A-levels and now receives commissions for his work from all over the world, including an album cover for a contestant on American Pop Idol. The architecture
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