As Bernie Sanders became one of the front-runners in the presidential race, journalists in the Moscow bureau of The New York Times began thinking about the days he spent in the Soviet Union in 1988, when he was the mayor of Burlington, Vt. His visit to a Russian sauna with Soviet officials, singing “This Land […]
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North Korea says it has released about 220 foreigners from a quarantine imposed as part of its vigilant prevention efforts to avoid an outbreak of the coronavirus that has spread around the world By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press March 6, 2020, 6:39 AM 4 min read SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Friday it
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The comedians of late night TV were a little more serious than usual on Thursday night as they recapped the events of the day. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced she was ending her bid for the White House Thursday, after she failed to gain enough support in the first round of primary contests, finishing Super Tuesday
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Jordan Griffin scored 18 points, all in the second half, Joshua Morgan threw down an alley-oop dunk that gave Long Beach State the lead for good deep in overtime and the 49ers held on to defeat Cal Poly 80-73 March 6, 2020, 5:54 AM 2 min read LONG BEACH, Calif. — Jordan Griffin scored 18
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The New York Times reviewed 89 pages of letters, telegrams and internal Soviet government documents revealing in new detail the extent of Bernie Sanders’s effort in the late 1980s to establish sister-city ties between Burlington, Vt., and a city in the Soviet Union. The documents are part of a government archive in Yaroslavl, Russia, which
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Gap has named an executive at its Old Navy brand as its new CEO in the hopes that she can turn the struggling company around By JOSEPH PISANI AP Retail Writer March 5, 2020, 10:42 PM 1 min read NEW YORK — Gap on Thursday named an executive at its Old Navy brand as its
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption‘We accidentally posted a video about diabetes, and it went viral’ When best friends Ellen Watson and Beth McDaniel posted a TikTok video of themselves getting glammed up for a night out, they had no idea they were about to become a viral sensation. Overnight, a video
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Image copyright Mariele Neudecker Image caption Mariele Neudecker’s And Then the World Changed Colour: Breathing Yellow The director of London’s Hayward Gallery has been wanting to organise an art exhibition about trees for 25 years. But it’s all come together at a time when they’re in the news in ways he could never have expected.
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption This Budget is the first of two during 2020 Our finances, as a nation and individually, are affected significantly by what is said during an hour in Parliament and what is published immediately afterwards. The Budget updates us on the financial state of the nation and outlines the government’s
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy likely added jobs at a solid pace in February before an escalation of the coronavirus outbreak disrupted factory supply chains, slowed business travel and heightened economic fears. Economists estimate that employers added 170,000 jobs and that the unemployment rate held at a very low 3.6%, according to data provider FactSet.
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