Elena Delle Donne and the Washington Mystics capped an eventful WNBA season with the team’s first championship. A year that began with the league missing some of its top players because of injuries and rest ended with a compelling five-game championship series. Delle Donne battled through injuries all season, a broken nose early on and […]
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Chinese officials have expressed willingness to update some intellectual property protections, open their automotive and financial markets to American companies, increase their purchases of American agricultural products, and take other steps. However, they have resisted the Trump administration’s demands to make more significant changes to structural issues they say are key to managing their economy
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President Donald Trump sounded upbeat ahead of a meeting he plans to hold later Friday with China’s top trade negotiator, offering renewed hope that the world’s two biggest economies will deescalate a conflict that has weighed on the world economy. As the first of two days of trade talks were ending Thursday, Trump said the
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Parents want to raise kids who care about other people’s feelings and who have an inner moral compass. Of course, that’s much easier said than done. From a young age, children should learn to value what others are feeling. “Our kids need to appreciate other people’s feelings ― they’ll be better friends, romantic partners and
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Rudy Giuliani, the personal attorney of President Donald Trump, has received plenty of TV airtime in the last few weeks, following the launch of the impeachment investigation into his client. On Thursday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Late Night,” host Seth Meyers rounded up some of the former New York mayor’s wildest moments. Including this bizarre clip:
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Image copyright Getty Images The government has awarded £86.6m of contracts to ferry companies to transport medicines in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Brittany Ferries, DFDS, P&O and Stena Line will be able to deliver those supplies from 31 October, it said. The contracts are aimed at making sure deliveries of vital products continue,
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Each week, we review the week’s news, offering analysis about the most important developments in the tech industry. Hello, Bits readers, I’m Erin Griffith, a tech reporter filling in from New York. Here’s what happened this past week in tech: The Chinese government has increased pressure on foreign companies that don’t toe the party line
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The kid’s a little Knute Rockne. Video of 10-year-old Lane Bridges went viral this week for the pep talk he delivered to his Mavericks youth football team of Eastland, Texas, before the big game. (See the clip below.) Lane weighs just 66 pounds, but his words packed an inspirational wallop. The team won, 6-0, the
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“Throughout our history, Congress, the President, and the courts have insisted upon maintaining the separation between the legislative and impeachment powers of the House and recognized the gravity and accountability that follow impeachment,” she argued, echoing House Judiciary Committee Democrats who have said an impeachment inquiry would have legal powers unavailable to other investigations. As
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When you are pregnant, employers, colleagues and clients may start making judgments about your ability to work ― even today in the supposedly enlightened year of 2019. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s story of being “shown the door” at a teaching job in 1971 for being visibly pregnant has prompted a flood of people to come forward
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