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Brexit On A Knife Edge As Boris Johnson Stakes All On ‘Super Saturday’ Vote

Finance /

LONDON, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Britain’s exit from the European Union hung on a knife-edge on Friday as Prime Minister Boris Johnson scrambled to persuade doubters to rally behind his last-minute European Union divorce deal in an extraordinary vote in parliament. In one of the most striking flourishes of the three-year Brexit drama, Johnson confounded […]

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Sacha Baron Cohen Nails The Problem With Zuckerberg’s Freedom Of Expression Defense

Entertainment /

Sacha Baron Cohen used a metaphor involving a restaurant owner and neo-Nazis to tear into Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s claim that the social media platform champions freedom of expression. The British actor and comedian posted a scathing thread on Twitter in which he dubbed Zuckerberg’s speech at Georgetown University on Thursday “disingenuous” and reminded the billionaire that “he

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State Dept. Inquiry Into Clinton Emails Finds No Deliberate Mishandling of Classified Information

Politics /

WASHINGTON — A yearslong State Department investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server found that while the use of the system for official business increased the risk of compromising classified information, there was no systemic or deliberate mishandling of classified information. The inquiry, started more than three years ago, found that

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Messages from former Boeing test pilot reveal Max concerns

Finance /

A former senior Boeing test pilot told a co-worker that he unknowingly misled safety regulators about problems with a flight-control system that would later be implicated in two deadly crashes of the company’s 737 Max. The pilot, Mark Forkner, told another Boeing employee in 2016 that the flight system, called MCAS, was “egregious” and “running

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Foals on why they ‘relish the potency of a knuckle-dragging riff’

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Image copyright Warner Music Image caption Foals (L-R): Jack Bevan, Yannis Philippakis, Jimmy Smith, Edwin Congreave Double albums are a notoriously risky prospect. For every classic like Sign O’ The Times or Exile On Main Street, there’s a skip-load of failed experiments and self-indulgent nonsense. Even The Beatles’ White Album could have done with a

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Nurse’s Sister Captures Aftermath Of An Emotional Shift In One Photo

Lifestyle /

Nurses are getting some much-deserved praise right now, thanks to one woman’s viral Facebook post. On Oct. 10, Laura McIntyre posted a photo she took of twin sister Caty Nixon, a labor and delivery nurse, who was exhausted and in tears after a particularly grueling string of shifts. The emotional photo and the accompanying caption

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Randy Rainbow’s ‘Mamma Mia’ Parody Of Rudy Giuliani Is A Showstopper

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He was already raising eyebrows for trying to get Trump to use the presidency to pressure Ukraine and for refusing to comply with subpoenas related to the impeachment inquiry into Trump. And the guy just can’t keep a lid on the crazy in his cable news show appearances. Leave it to Rainbow (with the help

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