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London Wants Rent Controls, Tulip Tower Cancelled, Brazil BlockchainA roundup for the week of July 15, 2019 of what's been happening in London, Hong Kong and other major real estate hubs this past weekEvery week, The Real Deal rounds up the biggest real estate news from a...continued

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Chloë Sevigny To Star In Luca Guadagnino’s HBO/Sky Drama ‘We Are Who We Are’

Chloë Sevigny To Star In Luca Guadagnino’s ‘We Are Who We Are’ – DeadlineChloë Sevigny is to star in Luca Guadagnino’s forthcoming HBO/Sky drama We Are Who We Are. The actress, who recently starred in Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die and Hulu’s The Act, is one of a numbe...continued

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How Cyber Weapons Are Changing the Landscape of Modern Warfare

How Cyber Weapons Are Changing the Landscape of Modern WarfareIn the weeks before two Japanese and Norwegian oil tankers were attacked, on June 13th, in the Gulf of Oman—acts which the United States attributes to Iran—American military strategists were planning a cyberatt...continued

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Before They Failed “The Squad,” Democrats Failed Other Women Of Color

How “The Squad” Is Forcing Democrats To Confront Long-Ignored RacismSince the election of “the Squad” — a group of first-year Democrats including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar — the media, especially the right-wing media, has spe...continued

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A Climate Action for Every Type of Activist

A Climate Action for Every Type of Activist by Cathy Brown — YES! MagazineMost of us have heard about U.N. researchers warning that we need to make dramatic changes in the next 12 years to limit our risk of extreme heat, drought, floods, and poverty caused by climate chan...continued

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Analysis: John Paul Stevens: Unassuming but impactful over his 99 years

John Paul Stevens: Unassuming but impactful over his 99 yearsWashington (CNN)To the very end, John Paul Stevens was a different kind of Supreme Court justice and a distinctive individual. He died at age 99 on Tuesday, practically with pen in hand, having just finished his...continued

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One of the first women to coach in the NFL, Katie Sowers, tells us how she landed her dream job

How Katie Sowers went from coaching fifth graders to coaching in the NFLWhen Katie Sowers was growing up, she loved football and played as much as she could. She played in a women’s tackle league when she got out of college and dreamed of coaching in the NFL. But she didn...continued

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Yahoo’s story on Chris Pratt’s ‘white supremacist’ t-shirt did us all a disservice

- The Washington PostThe new European data protection law requires us to inform you of the following before you use our website:We use cookies and other technologies to customize your experience, perform analytics and deliver personalized advertising on our sites, apps an...continued

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behno Launches Nini Tote to Benefit National Down Syndrome Society

behno Launches Nini Tote to Benefit National Down Syndrome SocietyNEW YORK, July 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- behno, the NY-based luxury accessories & ready-to-wear brand launches a specialty tote bag and capsule collection to raise funds and awareness for the National Do...continued

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey donates legal maximum to single Democratic presidential candidate

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey donates legal maximum to single Democratic presidential candidateAmid national debate over the scope of power that social media companies wield, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has donated the legal maximum amount to just one single Democratic presidential...continued

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House GOP leaders defend Trump's racist attack on lawmakers

House GOP leaders defend Trump's racist attack on lawmakersLeaders of the Republican Party in Congress on Tuesday came to the defense of President Donald Trump amid an intense backlash to racist commentsfrom the President suggesting that four Democratic congresswomen of c...continued

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Four-laning SH1 to Ashburton makes sense

Four-laning SH1 to Ashburton makes senseOPINION: This time last year the Prime Minister was under the pump, seeking to defuse the growing rift between the business community and her Government.Jacinda Ardern's solution was to establish a Business Advisory Council (BAC), p...continued

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ESPN Founder Bill Rasmussen Reveals Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis

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Monday Memo No. 56 — AMAZON PRIME DAY EDITION!

NYC Fashion & Lifestyle Blog for the Working GirlIt’s Amazon Prime Day! And while a day dedicated to deals on a website that sells virtually everything certainly gets my attention (and like, all of my money), it’s also really, really overwhelming to try and attack thi...continued

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The best Prime Day deals that are under $50

The best Prime Day deals under $50— Our editors review and recommend products to help you buy the stuff you need. If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA Today’...continued

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Dog-like mentality: MP minister jabs BJP for criticising transfer of police canines

Dog-like mentality: MP minister jabs BJP for criticising transfer of police caninesMadhya Pradesh government’s decision to transfer 46 police dogs and their handlers from across the state has triggered a war of words between the ruling Congress and BJP.After facing sharp ...continued

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After Automats Died in New York, They Flourished in the Netherlands

After Automats Died in New York, They Flourished in the NetherlandsWhen envisioning culturally authentic foodexperiences, fast food chains don’t typically come to mind. But FEBO (pronounced fay-boh) is a must-see in the Netherlands. Finding one of the restaurants is easy,...continued

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WinDock 1.2.1 (Freeware)

Download WinDock 1.2.1WinDock is a desktop enhancement application that comes in handy to anyone who must work with several windows at the same time. It can help you quickly snap opened windows to specific screen sections, taking care of resizing and moving them to the ri...continued

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Jeffrey Epstein Is Exhibit A for Capitalism’s Moral Bankruptcy

Jeffrey Epstein Is Exhibit A for Capitalism’s Moral BankruptcyI was sitting just a few yards away from Jeffrey Epstein as he sat with his defense counsel in Federal Court on July 8. His demeanor was more like an American Express Black Card member frustrated by a flight ca...continued

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Fads in medicine and in personal finance

Fads in medicine and in personal financeIf my medical training taught me one thing, it was how to recognize the destructive nature of fads. They pervade our health care system. Most center around medicine, vitamins, and herbals. Though there also is no shortage of treatme...continued

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Is There a Global Future for Unions?

Is There a Global Future for Unions?Yves here. This personal account of the rise and fall (and hopeful rebirth) of unions correctly gives prominent play to the right-wing anti-labor effort whose strategy was set forth in the 1971 Powell Memo.By Leo W. Gerard, the internat...continued

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A Russell Westbrook-James Harden Team Only Works with Major Adjustments

A Russell Westbrook-James Harden Team Only Works with Major AdjustmentsIt's been seven seasons since Russell Westbrook and James Harden were teammates. Things have changed a tad since then.The 2011-12 campaign was Harden's last with the Oklahoma City Thunder. He averaged ...continued

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Megan Rapinoe's antics spell out exactly the type of civil war we are up against

Megan Rapinoe's antics spell out exactly the type of civil war we are up againstAs we drift this week in the debaucherous chaos of Megan Rapinoe — aka what would happen if Rosie O'Donnell played soccer — it is important to consider a revelatory Twitter thread earlier in t...continued

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Alabama Mayor Offers Half-Hearted Apology After Urging “Killing” of LGBTQ People

Alabama Mayor Offers Half-Hearted Apology After Urging “Killing” of LGBTQ PeopleOn the website for the small town of Carbon Hills, Alabama, Mayor Mark Chambers positions himself as a believer in “hard work, dedication, and making fair decisions for the city” who chose to ...continued

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What if We Had an Impeachment and Nobody Came?

Slate’s Use of Your DataBy clicking “Agree,” you consent to Slate’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and the use of technologies such as cookies by Slate and our partners to deliver relevant advertising on our site, in emails and across the Internet, to personalize con...continued

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