A modest rally faded in the last few minutes of trading on Wall Street, leaving stocks slightly lower Wednesday ahead of the latest round of trade talks between the U.S. and China. The late-afternoon reversal added to the market’s losses following a steep sell-off a day earlier as investors worry that the costly trade dispute […]
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Attorneys general from 33 states on Wednesday urged Congress to approve a proposal intended to fully open the doors of the U.S. banking system to the legal marijuana industry. Most Americans live in states where marijuana is legally available in some form. But most banks don’t want anything to do with money from the cannabis
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla was appointed musical director of the CBSO when she was just 29 In the booklet for Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s new CD, she is credited not just as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s conductor (which she is) but as a soprano. It’s not a huge surprise – in
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Image copyright AFP Image caption Iran insists its latest actions are within the deal US President Donald Trump has raised the pressure on Iran on the day Tehran said it was suspending some commitments to a landmark nuclear agreement. Mr Trump signed an executive order imposing sanctions on Iran’s metals industry – its second biggest
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One of the most exclusive and dramatic hiking spots in the southwestern United States could see bigger crowds under a new proposal unveiled Wednesday. The Bureau of Land Management is weighing increasing its daily visitor limits from 20 to 96 people a day at The Wave, a popular rock formation near the Utah-Arizona border. A
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The organizers behind last year’s mass walkout at Google are calling for an investigation into the company’s human resources department, building on claims they made last month that Google is retaliating against them for their roles in the protest. In a blog published on Medium Wednesday, organizers published a list of four demands. In addition to reiterating
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The Chicago Cubs vowed Wednesday to indefinitely ban the fan who used what appeared to be a racist hand gesture behind an African American television reporter who was on the air. “The individual responsible will not be welcome back at Wrigley Field,” Cubs spokesman Julian Green said. The Cubs were still working to identify the
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Sir Graham Brady has told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg that there is not yet “public clarity” on when the prime minister will leave office. The chairman of the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee said the prime minister will meet with the group’s executive next week. The executive will then have a further discussion and “reach whatever
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General Motors is aiming to sell a recently shuttered car factory in Ohio to a maker of electric trucks, news that President Trump touted on Twitter on Wednesday. G.M. said in a statement that it was in discussions to sell the plant in Lordstown to a new business partly owned by the electric-truck maker, the
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Image copyright Jo Carnell Holdaway Image caption Isabelle Carnell-Holdaway is now 17 and learning to drive An experimental cocktail of viruses has saved the life of a teenager who had a deadly and seemingly untreatable infection. Isabelle’s body was being attacked by bacteria and she was given less than a 1% chance of survival. But
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