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Comey Pretrial Motions Highlight Patent Failure of the Indictment to State a Crime
The case should be dismissed. Source link
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Speaker Johnson pledges not to block vote to release government's Epstein files
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday said that he would not stand in the way of allowing a vote on a bill to force the Justice Department…
Politics
Vladimir Putin’s Endless Reprieve
The Russians are dragging their feet, and why wouldn’t they? Source link
Business
US Fed to trim rates twice more this year; 2026 rate path very unclear
The new forecast follows a recent shift in expectations by Fed policymakers toward additional reductions The Federal Reserve will lower…
Politics
Trump’s cane sugar push for Coca-Cola faces supply chain hurdles
The rollout of Coke made with US cane sugar is slow due to supply limits and business realities President Donald Trump pushed Coca-Cola to…
Business
Soilbuild Construction mulls spin-off, SGX listing of precast and prefab business
Potential listing will be subject to market conditions, commercial negotiations and relevant regulatory and approvals Soilbuild…
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The Towering Musical Integrity of Christoph von Dohnányi
In September, 1943, a thirteen-year-old German boy named Christoph von Dohnányi wrote an innocuous-seeming letter to his uncle Dietrich:…
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The Light of “The Brothers Karamazov”
What is the light in “The Brothers Karamazov”? It is the voices. “The Brothers Karamazov” is a novel of voices. Men, women, young, old,…
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In the Dark Releases “Blood Relatives,” an Examination of a Notorious British Crime
On an August night in 1985, five members of one family were shot dead at Whitehouse Farm, a country manor in the rural county of Essex, in…
Business
Shares of doormaker surge as it secures planning permit for student accommodation in Australia
Shares of Singapore doormaker HS Optimus surged on Tuesday (Oct 21), after it secured a permit for a 14-storey purpose-built student…
Politics
Maine Democrat running to unseat Susan Collins to stay in race after discovery of Reddit postings
Old online comments made by a U.S. Senate candidate in Maine in which the candidate appeared to endorse political violence, dismiss rape…
Business
Brazil green-lights oil drilling near mouth of Amazon River ahead of U.N. climate summit
Brazil's government approved on Monday exploratory drilling by state-run oil-giant Petrobras near the mouth of the Amazon River. The…
Business
Wilmar Indonesia unit general manager charged over sugar imports
The unlawful raw sugar imports have allegedly caused state losses amounting to 578 billion rupiah The general manager of Wilmar…
Business
Why did Amazon's AWS outage disrupt Snapchat, Ring and many other services?
People struggled to access social media app Snapchat, online game Fortnite, payments app Venmo and other popular online services on Monday…
Business
Christoph Niemann’s “Market Shift”
For the cover of the October 27, 2025, Money Issue, the artist Christoph Niemann set out to visualize how the preposterously rich pay a…
Politics
Video: How Trump Aims to Redefine the Military
new video loaded: How Trump Aims to Redefine the Military President Trump and his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, have been reshaping the…
Business
Vietnam stocks slump after state media report on alleged bond irregularities
Vietnam’s main stock index fell to its lowest closing level in a month on Monday (Oct 20) after state media reported the results of a…
Politics
Trump’s Argentina Gamble
Extending money to the South American nation is risky but could help spur reforms that would create a prosperous, powerful American ally.…
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China’s Damaging Influence on American Democracy
New York is a microcosm of these potential dangers. Source link
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How Corporate Feminism Went from “Love Me” to “Buy Me”
In retrospect, the book feels like an artifact of a fleetingly optimistic moment, and of a time when the mainstreaming of feminism—recall…
Lifestyle
Mark Bittman’s Experiment in Sliding-Scale Fine Dining
By dinnertime, the café had been convincingly transformed into a restaurant, with tea lights twinkling beside wildflower arrangements on…
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Gospel Uplifts “Oratorio for Living Things” and “Oh Happy Day!”
So why did “Oratorio” ultimately leave me feeling wistful? Repetition, Christian tells us, is the agent of both measurement and meaning,…
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What Do We Want from Our Child Stars?
Still, Master Betty ruled the little province of Parnassus devoted to underage thespians until the advent of Shirley Temple—and it’s some…
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A Dark Ecologist Warns Against Hope
The two have sparred before. In 2009, they exchanged public letters in the Guardian, circling a question that nags at many eco-minded…