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A key question looms as former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg weighs his options in 2020: whether a centrist and a billionaire Democrat has room in a party that has veered sharply to the left.

The company says 2,200 white-collar employees took buyouts, while another 1,500 contract workers were let go.

The jury, which ended the first day of deliberations Monday without reaching a verdict, has heard months of testimony about Joaquin Guzman's rise to power as the head of the Sinaloa cartel. He faces criminal conspiracy and drug trafficking counts.

Lawyers for President Donald Trumps inaugural committee on Monday received a subpoena for documents from the Manhattan U.S. attorneys office, which has been investigating the fund, according to people

Josie McCoy is headed to New York City. “Riverdale” star Ashleigh Murray has joined the cast of The CW’s spinoff pilot “Katy Keene,” playing an older version of her character from the Archie Comics high school drama. Read the full article on The Wrap

Edmonton is currently mired in a deep freeze and as Fletcher Kent reports, drivers say the weather is making it a challenge to navigate the city’s roads.

Chris notes a new ABC Washington Post poll that 56% of adults say they “definitely would not” vote to re-elect the President. The main question is who’s going to be the Democratic nominee.

A young Indian man has decided to sue his parents for giving birth to him without his consent. It may sound like satire, but “anti-natalist” Raphael Samuel is at the forefront of a social movement so new it barely has a name.
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Video marking start of Chinese Year of the Pig shows what life is like for factory-farm animal

The Herald reports: New Zealand First MP and Cabinet Minister Tracey Martin says she personally witnessed a National Party MP instructing online “trolls” to attack a political opponent.Martin will not name the MP, but says she watched him direct a group of supporters on Facebook to personally attack then-Labour leader Andrew Little while they were […]

SB11, a Medicaid dental coverage amendments bill, would add the University of Utah School of Dentistry to the list of Medicaid adult dental service providers.

Two leading Indian-American women have led the Democratic party's move to oppose the nomination of fellow community legal luminary Neomi Rao for the prestigious and powerful US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. US President Donald Trump had announced Rao's nomination in November while celebrating Diwali at the White House. Trump had nominated her in place of Justice Brett Kavanaugh who in October was sworn in as the Supreme Court judge. If confirmed by the United States Senate... Читать дальше...

Women visiting Iran for international sports and game tournaments should not have to wear an Islamic headcover to be eligible to compete. US athletes should not have to wear a political symbol to play soccer. Everyone should have the freedom to compete without garment coercion.

A webcast of Global News Hour at 6 Edmonton with Nancy Carlson from Monday, Feb. 4, 2019.

Google marks Year of the Pig with ancient art of shadow puppetry.

Jane Bremmer, co-founder of the Australian Alliance for a Clean Environment, on what should and what should not be be done

The Afghan Air Force (AAF) and Afghan Special Mission Wing (SMW) risk not having enough trained pilots and maintenance crew by the time the United States completes deliveries of 159 Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk multirole helicopters in 2023, the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan

Key Points Afghanistan’s presidential election is due to take place on 20 July 2019 after being delayed by the Election Commission by two months to allow for further preparations. President Ashraf Ghani appears best-placed among the candidates to win the election, particularly because of his

Singapore and France have held a Defence Policy Dialogue (DPD), committing to collaborating further on joint requirements that the two nations share. These include cybersecurity, counter-terrorism, defence technology, and inter-military exchanges, and the DPD held in Singapore between 31 January

Rohde & Schwarz (R&S) has established the R&S Marinesysteme GmbH subsidiary, aimed at consolidating its naval work under one entity to distinguish it from the company’s other business areas. While the German company has been providing naval technologies for a number of years, it

The Estonian government has released a defence development plan for 2020–23, focused on improving the readiness of forces and increasing investment across several technology areas. The plan outlines the resources required to meet Estonia’s national responsibilities as well as its

Today, China is leading a revolution in the new retail area around the world. The online e-commerce giants represented by Alibaba and Tencent are actively expanding the offline retail sector. On the contrary, the traditional offline retail industry is also seeking for the online model. The new resource-integrated retail approach formed by online and offline integration has become the hottest topic of this era.

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