The Tokyo Olympics are caught between the proverbial rock and hard place. Tokyo organizers are trying to cut spending, under pressure from the International Olympic Committee, which has been widely criticized for pushing host cities to build “white elephant” venues — often at the taxpayer’s expense. That’s the rock. And here’s the hard place. Some […]
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When the United States said this week that American forces in Iraq faced threats from Iranian “proxies,” it was referring to the armed groups that helped fight the Islamic State and have bedeviled Iraq ever since. The Iraqi armed groups, some with ties to Iran, have a footprint in every Iraqi province. Whether they function
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Marathon Petroleum Corp. is merging two of its oil and gas pipeline, transportation and storage operations for $9 billion. MPLX and Andeavor Logistics are both master limited partnerships majority owned by Marathon, which raised the possibility that it might combine the two late last year. Andeavor unitholders will receive 1.135 MPLX common units for each
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Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has unveiled a new version of her plan to combat America’s opioid epidemic, proposing to spend $100 billion over 10 years on battling the consequences of addiction. Warren’s new opioids measure is modeled on a 1990 law passed to help fight the spread of AIDS and would be paid for
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Image caption Nina Stibbe won this year’s Wodehouse Prize for her comic novel Reasons To Be Cheerful The third and final entry in a semi-autobiographical trilogy has netted an author an annual award for the funniest book. Nina Stibbe’s ‘Reasons To Be Cheerful’ clinched the 2019 Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. The Leicester-born writer had
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Image copyright Getty Images KPMG has been fined £5m and “severely reprimanded” after admitting misconduct in its 2009 audit of Co-operative Bank. The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) said KPMG’s bad auditing came in the wake of Co-operative Bank’s merger with building society Britannia. It said the firm’s deficiencies included “failures to exercise sufficient professional scepticism”.
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A Texas historic site that has been closed for nearly two months since a fire at a Houston-area chemical plant will reopen this week. The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department says the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site in La Porte (luh-PORT’) reopens Wednesday. The complex includes the Battleship Texas, the San Jacinto Monument and
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A machine which can mimic an individual’s writing style has been developed. The device requires a sample text written by the person and then uses a machine learning algorithm to copy the writer’s style. The company behind the device uses it to produce “handwritten” letters for companies, political parties and even wedding invites. But is
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Mike Fiers of the Oakland Athletics is pitching a no-hitter through eight innings against the Cincinnati Reds. Fiers has thrown 118 pitches Tuesday night in Oakland. He has struck out five and walked two. In 2015, Fiers pitched a no-hitter for Houston against the Los Angeles Dodgers. He threw a career-high 134 pitches in that
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A political correspondent said he felt “really bad” over his infamous TV interview with a 24-year-old councillor about Lib Dem by-election successes. Michael Crick said he “hates seeing” the clip with Keith House, then favourite to be Lib Dem candidate in the 1994 Eastleigh by-election, who struggled to think of an answer. Mr Crick was
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