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Trump’s Fascist Game Plan: If He Can’t Tame Russia, He’ll Take Chicago
With Trump finding it impossible to play tough guy in Russia or the Middle East, he’s settled on a new target for his destructive desires:…
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BaubleBar x Peanuts Collaborate on New Accessoires Collection
BaubleBar and Peanuts are debuting their first collaboration with a limited-edition jewelry and accessories collection coinciding with the…
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Why Christopher Marlowe Is Still Making Trouble
Do you know the one about the Jewish guy and the Muslim Turk? They gang up on this Christian friar and strangle him. Then they take him…
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Bohuslav Martinů Is One of Music’s Great Chameleons
How does a singular musical personality emerge from an agglomeration of pitches? The characteristic quirks of major composers are easily…
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Donald Trump’s Incredible Shrinking Economy
But lower birthrates, combined with a rapidly-aging population (there are about 1.5 million retirements per year) mean fewer workers, and…
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Nostalgic Cravings at the Minnesota State Fair
In the lead-up to the Minnesota State Fair, a twelve-day fête of starch and fat which marks the end of every summer, the event’s…
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The War on Trans Art
In July, the artist Amy Sherald pulled out of a large-scale show at the Smithsonian after learning that she might not be able to include a…
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Singapore stocks end flat amid regional rally amid US rate cut expectations
Local stocks ended flat on Monday (Sep 8) while Asian markets rallied amid expectations that the US will cut rates in September, given a…
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Tom Phillips: New Zealand fugitive dad killed by police
Kelly Ng, Vandhna Bhan, Ayeshea Perera and Rachel HaganBBC News Watch: Possible Tom Phillips sighting released by New Zealand police A…
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‘Drive My Car’ Star Nishijima Hidetoshi’s Busan-Bound Drama ‘Dear Stranger’ Boarded by EST N8 for International Sales (EXCLUSIVE)
EST N8 has acquired global sales rights to “Dear Stranger,” a suspense drama from Tokyo production house Roji Films. The agreement covers…
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Blank Street’s rebrand is full-on matcha core
Blank Street started in 2020 as a coffee shop operated out of a single cart in Williamsburg. Just five years later, it’s a chain with more…
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The Democrats Who Refuse to Back Mamdani Are Sending a Scary Message
Many politicians have endorsed Mamdani. “The people have spoken,” Congressman Adriano Espaillat, who has represented a Bronx district…
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China can’t be counted on to absorb global crude surplus as Opec+ bumps up production: market watchers
Crude could trade at below US$60 a barrel by end-2025 as the world’s largest oil importer slows down stockpiling The crude oil market is…
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Trump Is a Weak and Failing President, and It’s Time to Say So
By the way, many other polls support those findings. Pew, Fox, Gallup, and Quinnipiac have all found approval of Trump’s tariffs and/or…
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China’s e-commerce companies are getting singed by a price war
The bitter battle among China’s major online companies to win the “instant retail” war is expected to further depress their short- to…
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London’s commuters face travel chaos as tube strike hits hard
All fleet staff walk out on Monday, causing chaos for the UK capital’s commuters Londoners face severe travel disruption as a seven-day…
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Cosco Shipping Holdings and Orient Overseas (International) could be hit by over US$2.1 billion in US port fees: HSBC
Chinese lines Cosco Shipping Holdings and Orient Overseas (International) could be hit by US port fees amounting to more than US$2.1…
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Four killed in Jerusalem shooting attack, paramedics say
At least four people have been killed and five others wounded in a shooting attack in Jerusalem, paramedics say. The Magen David Adom…
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Google’s antitrust ruling confirms AI assistants are the new gatekeepers
Predicting the future can be fun, but you get the sense Judge Amit Mehta wasn’t having much of it in his ruling that declared the…
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Bank Indonesia, government allay concerns that 'burden sharing' deal will reduce independence
The deal has “the potential to damage BI’s reputation as an independent institution” Indonesia’s government and central bank sought to…
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Alibaba is No 1 for China traders ploughing HK$13.5 billion in stock
Renewed optimism over Alibaba Group Holding’s potential in artificial intelligence has turned the stock into Chinese investors’ favourite…
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‘Normal’ Review: Ben Wheatley Is Back in ‘Free Fire’ Form, Putting Bob Odenkirk at the Center of a Small-Town Standoff
Normal is the name of a Minnesota town where things are anything but. Just 1,890 people live in the tiny Midwestern burg, but there must…
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ECB set to hold rates steady with eye on France crisis
With inflation stable, central bank seeking to support beleaguered eurozone while French PM faces confidence vote The European Central…
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Japan's Topix hits record high, yen and bonds fall on PM Ishiba exit
Japan’s Topix share gauge reached a record high, the yen weakened and longer-dated bonds slid on Monday (Sep 8) after Prime Minister…