‘You Are My Brother’ For all of that, Mr. Obama grew genuinely fond of his vice president, learning to appreciate Mr. Biden’s authenticity and embrace his contrary voice. “You know what has surprised me?” Mr. Obama said at one of their lunches. “How we have become such good friends.” “Surprised you?” Mr. Biden joked. “Both […]
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With the deadline for British companies to disclose their gender pay gaps just days away, thousands of firms have yet to submit their figures. Three-quarters of firms pay men more than they pay women on average, based on those who have reported so far. To find out the pay gap at your company, use the
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Facebook’s weak privacy protections exposed the personal data of millions of users, a serious failing that the company has acknowledged but refused to fix, Canadian regulators said on Thursday. An investigation by the privacy commissioner of Canada and the information and privacy commissioner for British Columbia found that Facebook violated national and local laws in
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Sergei Bobrovsky stopped Patrice Bergeron at point-blank range in overtime. He also made an acrobatic save to stop a 90-foot dump-in that took a bad hop straight toward the net. Whatever the shot, the Blue Jackets goalie was ready. “There’s not many goalies that stop that puck,” said Matt Duchene, who scored at 3:42 of
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s diplomatic darts this week flew as fast at friends as they did at foes. First, on Monday, came the end of permissions for important partner nations to buy Iranian oil without fear of American sanctions. Then, on Tuesday, American officials wrestled with allies over a United Nations measure on combating
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Russian President Vladimir Putin praised China‘s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative Friday, underscoring warming ties between the neighboring powers. Putin’s comments Friday to a forum in Beijing appeared to downplay the potential for tensions between China and Russia. They also reflect Beijing and Moscow’s shared resistance to U.S. global influence. The Belt and Road is
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Image copyright Mowgli Street Food Image caption Nisha Katona was a barrister before she became a restaurateur The BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to 48-year-old Nisha Katona, founder of Mowgli Street Food – a contemporary Indian restaurant chain in the UK. When Nisha Katona
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Liu Zixing craned his neck forward for help with fastening the goggles for his first ever taste of virtual reality. He took a break from the mining ore business to travel to a VR theme park in this Chinese provincial capital not known for high technology. “It feels like reality,” Liu said after shooting down
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Charlie Blackmon has been waiting for the Colorado Rockies to show off their power late in a game. “Just because we’re down a run or two doesn’t mean we’re going to lose the game, and I don’t see that from our team,” Blackmon said. “I always see our guys fighting really hard, having good at-bats
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GREEN BAY, Wis. — The White House Correspondents’ Dinner meant so little to the Trump administration and its boosters that thinly veiled rebukes of the First Amendment-focused event were a running theme of the president’s Saturday night campaign rally in Wisconsin. It meant little to Brad Parscale, the Trump campaign manager, who took the stage
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