Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionBusinesses ‘not fully ready’ for no-deal, says Carney About 150,000 businesses still do not have the paperwork they need to keep exporting to the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit, Mark Carney has said. The Bank of England governor added that many had built up […]
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Republican senators in Oregon engaged in a high-stakes game of brinksmanship Friday with Democratic lawmakers and prepared to remain absent from the Capitol for a second day to block a vote on a landmark climate plan that would be the second of its kind nationwide. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown deployed the state police Thursday to
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Fresh off a power-packed win, the New York Yankees’ clubhouse was pumpin’ and thumpin’. Until some mysterious DJ suddenly turned down the volume. “Who’s touching that music over there?” Aaron Judge called out, playfully. Suffice to say, the bats are about to get a lot louder in the Bronx. Gary Sánchez, Gleyber Torres and DJ
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The Peace Cross, he wrote, was and is a symbol of unity, noting that it included the names of both black and white soldiers at a time when the military was segregated. “We can never know for certain what was in the minds of those responsible for the memorial,” Justice Alito wrote, “but in light
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Why is the stock market so happy and the bond market so gloomy? Just as the S&P 500 was setting a record high Thursday, bond yields were tumbling to their lowest levels since Donald Trump was elected. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which influences rates for mortgages and other loans, dropped below 2% at
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Image caption Mike Simpson says his cancer is on the run The first NHS patients with lymphoma have been given a pioneering treatment that genetically reprogrammes their immune system to fight cancer. Mike Simpson, 62, from Durham, says his cancer is now “on the run”. The therapy, called CAR-T, is a “living drug” that is
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“Sometime next year,” Elon Musk says, “you’ll be able to have the car be autonomous without supervision.” “None of us have any idea when full self-driving will happen,” counters Gill Pratt, an expert in robotics and the director of the Toyota Research Institute. Beyond Mr. Musk, who has said twice this year that Tesla could
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Cubs top pitching prospect Adbert Alzolay tossed four innings of dazzling relief in his major league debut and the offense broke through with a six-run third as Chicago beat the New York Mets 7-4 on Thursday night. Javier Báez homered and tripled, and Anthony Rizzo hit a two-run double as the NL Central leaders improved
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WASHINGTON — President Trump’s tenure as commander in chief came to a dramatic turning point on Thursday night as he found himself torn between his own competing advisers and his own competing instincts, teetering on the edge of military action that could lead to the kind of war he came to office vowing not to
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European Union leaders failed Thursday to back a plan to make the bloc’s economy carbon neutral by 2050 in spite of promises to protesters across the continent to fight harder against climate change. Ahead of a U.N. meeting in the fall, the proposal was relegated to a non-binding footnote in the final statement of Thursday’s
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