Shares of Netflix are opening in negative territory for the year — the first time that’s happened since 2016 — as major media players step into the stream to fight for subscribers. The streaming service revolutionized the way people watch ...
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Read More »Britain’s biggest repatriation effort since World War II ramped up this week as questions swirled over the pay Thomas Cook executives received in the run-up to the tour operator’s collapse, which left thousands stranded globally. As uncertain Thomas Cook holidaymakers ...
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Read More »Sian Zeng, who merges her love of fine art and textile design in whimsical, magnetic wallpaper, is the grand prize winner of the first Etsy Design Awards, announced this week. And she owes it to dinosaurs and Little Red Riding ...
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Read More »Apple will continue manufacturing its Mac Pro computers in Texas after the Trump administration approved its request to waive tariffs on certain parts imported from China. The commitment clears up several months of uncertainty while Apple mulled shifting production of ...
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Read More »California’s largest utility cut power to 24,000 northern customers Monday evening as fall brings back dangerous weather conditions and the company tries to head off wildfires sparked by electrical equipment. The utility shut down power to areas of Butte, Nevada ...
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Read More »Minority women are starting firms at a pace more than double that of woman business owners overall, and nearly five times the pace of all company owners. That’s one of the findings of a report on women-owned businesses released by ...
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Read More »A former Tennessee judge says the meddling of a Republican lawmaker and his wife was the reason she resigned just nine days after being appointed to take over the court position. Gov. Bill Lee appointed Huntingdon attorney Jennifer King on ...
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Read More »Prison officials are unconstitutionally limiting public access to executions in Virginia by blocking witnesses from seeing certain steps in the process, four news organizations allege in a federal lawsuit filed this week. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in ...
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Leader after leader told the United Nations this week they will do more to prevent a warming world from reaching even more dangerous levels. But as they made their pledges at the Climate Action Summit, they and others conceded it ...
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Read More »E-cigarettes are the current drug of choice in St. Louis’ middle and high schools, students say. Locker rooms and bathrooms smell like fruit from the vapor. Principals have drawers full of confiscated vaping cartridges. Schools have stepped up their anti-vaping ...
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Read More »The St. Louis prosecutor’s office has seen more than 100 percent turnover in the past 2 ½ years following a change in leadership. Since Kimberly Gardner became circuit attorney, after campaigning to be a reformer, more than 65 prosecutors have ...
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