What about a President de Blasio? “I don’t know,” said Mr. Rusi, who owns a contracting company. “Well, somehow I guess I’m going to have to support him,” he allowed. “He’s the mayor and everything.” (He expressed greater fondness for Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., and was seeking to organize a fund-raiser for […]
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You also can report it to the F.T.C. on a complaint website, identitytheft.gov/ssa, dedicated to Social Security scams. What if I revealed my Social Security number to a caller? Visit IdentityTheft.gov, which uses a question-and-answer format to help you protect yourself from identity theft. Steps include putting a freeze on your credit reports to prevent
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Image caption Alan Clarke is the first NHS patient to have the gel implanted A man with prostate cancer is the first NHS patient in the UK to have a device implanted which can reduce the side effects of radiotherapy by 70%. The liquid gel spacer increases the distance between the prostate and rectum to
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The show won best comedy performance at the Baftas in 2008 TV comedy series Gavin and Stacey is set to return for a one-off Christmas special, James Corden has announced. Tweeting a picture of a script, Corden said he and co-writer Ruth Jones had been “keeping this secret for
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Image copyright Getty Images New protection for individuals tricked into transferring money to fraudsters has now taken effect – but not all banks are signed up to the scheme. Some 84,000 bank customers lost money – sometimes tens of thousands of pounds – last year after being caught out. Only a fraction of the amounts
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“We strongly disagree with the judge’s conclusions, her interpretation of the facts and her application of the law,” Don Rosenberg, the company’s executive vice president and general counsel, said in a statement on Wednesday. Qualcomm’s stock fell 11 percent in trading on Wednesday. Judge Koh’s 233-page decision, which followed a 10-day trial in January, did
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A look at what’s happening around the majors today: POWER SURGE The Athletics are riding the long ball to their longest winning streak in 13 years. Oakland looks for an 11th straight victory as it continues a series against the Angels. Matt Chapman has homered in three straight games, and Oakland has multiple homers in
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TOKYO — It was just after 6 a.m. on the final day of a state visit to Japan designed to flatter and entertain him, and President Trump was in his comfort space: Twitter. Hours earlier, he had been the honored guest at an extravagant six-course dinner — turbot, steak, a Mount Fuji-shaped dessert — with
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That is below the rate at which a generation can replace itself, a deficit that has occurred every year for the last 10 years and has become almost expected in the United States since 1971. The report calculated the replacement level as 2,100 births per 1,000 women. The long-term decline in both the birth and
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Primary school pupils are being taught tai chi sessions to help them deal with the stress of school life. The students at Longmoor Primary School in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, were introduced to sessions last year during Sats tests and teachers said they found the experience very positive. Tai chi is an ancient Chinese martial art
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