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Amazon Investors Reject Proposals on Climate Change and Facial Recognition

SEATTLE — Amazon said on Wednesday that its shareholders had voted down proposals that would have pushed the company to reconsider its societal impact in two key areas: facial recognition and climate change. The proposals asked Amazon to develop a more comprehensive approach to reducing its carbon footprint and put the brakes on how the […]

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Raiders agree to 1-year deal with troubled guard Incognito

Sports / En Sound Media

The Oakland Raiders agreed to a one-year deal with troubled guard Richie Incognito on Tuesday. Incognito’s agent, Ken Sarnoff, tweeted confirmation of the deal , congratulating his client for his return to the NFL after sitting out last season in retirement. The 35-year-old Incognito has played 11 years in the NFL, making the Pro Bowl

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Brexit: ‘Best option’ is to leave with a deal, says May

Politics / En Sound Media

Theresa May has said she will not comment on the views of those trying to succeed her as prime minister, but “the best option for the UK is to leave the European Union with a deal.” Asked about the Conservatives’ dismal European election performance, Mrs May said “the Labour Party also saw significant losses”, which

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Savior of G.M. Lordstown Plant, Hailed by Trump, Is a Corporate Cipher

Finance / En Sound Media

For months, President Trump had been putting pressure on the chief executive of General Motors, Mary T. Barra, because she had decided to idle an Ohio factory and lay off 1,600 workers. “I am not happy that it is closed when everything else in our Country is BOOMING,” he said on Twitter. “I asked her

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Venezuelan children with cancer die, and accusations fly

Lifestyle / En Sound Media

The deaths of several cancer-stricken Venezuelan children who were awaiting bone marrow transplants have ignited a bitter dispute between the government and opponents over who is to blame. Several dozen people protested this week outside the J. M. de los Ríos pediatric hospital after the reported deaths there of four children on a transplant waiting

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BBC accused of plagiarising ‘Slay in Your Lane’ slogan

Entertainment / En Sound Media

Image copyright Yomi Adegoke Image caption The BBC said the poster was “sufficiently far removed” from the Slay in Your Lane brand The BBC has been accused of plagiarism for using the slogan “Slay In Your Lane” in a women’s sport promotion. Yomi Adegoke, co-author of Slay in Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible, accused

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Boots review puts 200 stores at risk of closure

Business / En Sound Media

Image copyright Getty Images More than 200 Boots stores across the UK could be closed by its American owners Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) in a bid to cut costs. The shops – which are in areas where Boots has more than one store – are under review for possible closure. It is understood the review

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Don’t Call It Darjeeling, It’s Nepali Tea

Travel / En Sound Media

In 1848, the British East India Company gave the botanist Robert Fortune a mission: smuggle live tea bushes out of China against the emperor’s strict edicts and plant them in the Himalayan foothills of West Bengal, to propagate a new tea industry under British control. The heist took years. The plants struggled to flourish in

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MacKenzie Bezos pledges half her fortune to charity

Technology / En Sound Media

MacKenzie Bezos, who finalized her divorce from Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos earlier this year, is pledging to give away half her fortune to charity. The novelist said Tuesday that she signed The Giving Pledge, a campaign to get the ultra-wealthy to pledge at least half their fortune to charitable causes. It was created

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Watch A Kid Challenge LeBron James In A 3-Point-Shooting Contest

Sports / En Sound Media

NBA great LeBron James has certainly faced higher stakes when it comes to making clutch baskets ― but getting challenged by a kid to a 3-point-shooting contest still left him open to ridicule if he lost. Gabe Cupps, an Amateur Athletic Union teammate of James’ 14-year-old son, LeBron James Jr., called out King James for

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