Although Mr. McMullen has now not worked for seven months and jokes with friends about being semiretired, he said he plans to work again. “The idea of retirement as sitting on a sandy beach somewhere, I don’t think is on any millennial’s mind,” he said. Instead, he added, his generation is focused on seeking fulfillment, […]
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For decades, championship teams have visited the White House in a moment of ritual and tradition. Athletic excellence is celebrated, lame jokes are told and the president is given yet another jersey bearing his name. Under President Donald Trump, though, the visits often have become politicized, featuring athlete protests and, in the case of the
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A political presenter said Labour would not debate its manifesto on-air, and voters may not see the Conservative or Brexit Party documents. Andrew Neil explained an hour after Labour launched its campaign that the party would not put up a spokesman to talk about it on Politics Live. He then asked Conservative MP Gillian Keegan
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A week ago, the United States and China looked as if they were going to reach a deal to end their trade war. Today, they are trying to salvage their many months of negotiations. Vice Premier Liu He, a senior Chinese economic policy maker, is set to begin two days of negotiations in Washington on
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionDanny Baker explains what happened when his 5 Live bosses called him The BBC has sacked Danny Baker saying he showed a “serious error of judgement” over his tweet about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s baby. The tweet, which he later deleted but which has been
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