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Imagine moving into a Chinese high-rise so skyscraperlike, it resembles a mall. I’ve never heard of such a building. But one is being built in Shanghai: a gold-colored complex with a brand-new, eye-popping glass-and-concrete…
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SAO PAULO – Considered one of the pioneers of Brazilian jazz, Vivian Alley, director of the Smithsonian’s Latin American Folklife Center, which gathers art, music and writings from the region, described one of its…
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Baltimore QB Lamar Jackson and the Ravens take on the Bears in Chicago Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson was forced to miss their NFL game against the Chicago…
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Mike Pence, who helped Ted Cruz come from behind in the 2016 Republican primary campaign, will likely do the same for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in 2020. That’s because Pence, widely viewed as the…
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The 130-year-old automotive company Audi started out as a supplier to the automaker. But then, in the late 1970s, Audi decided to launch its own car production facility. And by the time that happened,…
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Moments after watching a military demonstration on South Carolina’s Main Street, it became clear this was no ordinary shopping trip. While at Walmart, a woman banged on a garage door and frightened someone inside,…
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Watch the full interview with Ray Dalio on Friday, 29 February on Bloomberg Television. Dr. Ray Dalio is the founder and co-CEO of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund. The firm was founded…
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A deadly Zika virus outbreak began in Brazil last year. Thousands of babies are growing up with birth defects resulting from their mothers’ exposure to Zika while pregnant. And hundreds of thousands of pregnant…
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After the Taliban won the parliamentary election in the summer of 2015, Khalida Popal appeared on the Afghan presidential election campaign trail in her home district of Herat in the south. “Everyone was so…
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‘If someone called you a sex pest, you should call them out: That’s not what you want to be called’ Once a week for a whole year I use the (shame-free) Just Ask platform,…
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