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A Chinese social media influencer has been kicked off the country’s most popular online platforms because internet censorship authorities disapproved of his posts showing off his luxury clothes and high-end jewelry. Wang Hongquanxing, who has earned the moniker “China’s Kim Kardashian” for his overt displays of wealth, was abruptly taken off China’s social media sites
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Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. Franklin Graham , one of Americas most well-known evangelicals, recently did what he has never done before: He offered a critical assessment of Donald Trump. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal not long ago, Graham conceded that Trumptwice impeached, thrice married, and four
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962 A few years ago, an expat friend of mine asked if I could transport some cash to her passport country, to which I was traveling. I agreed, not thinking much of it. Since we were both incredibly underpaid English teachers at that time, I expected that she would be sending only a few hundred
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Walmart promoted its new Pride apparel on social media ahead of Pride month on Saturday, writing on Instagram, “Not just a slogan. #PrideAlways is a reminder to lead with love.?” The companys promotion comes just weeks after Target said its Pride collection would only be available in “select stores” following a major backlash by conservatives last year.  Target has
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Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. Americas young voters are fired up about the war in Gazaarent they? Campus protests and the controversies around them have dominated media attention for weeks. So has the possibility that youth anger about the war will cost President Joe Biden the election. Joe
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manufacturing doubt — Deny, denounce, delay: The battle over the risk of ultra-processed foods Big Food is trying to dampen fears about the effects of industrially formulated substances. Madeleine Speed, Ella Hollowood and Sarah Neville, Financial Times – May 25, 2024 11:15 am UTC Enlargemonticelllo/Getty reader comments 391 When the Brazilian nutritional scientist Carlos Monteiro
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Closing arguments begin Tuesday in Donald Trumps criminal trial over his alleged “hush-money” payments to Stormy Daniels. Presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a $130,000 payment that his former “fixer” lawyer, Michael Cohen, made to the porn star ahead of the 2016
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Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager, defended Amazon on his X social media account over the weekend after the e-commerce giant came under criticism for its silence over an Israeli employee being held hostage by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip. Sasha Troufanov, a 28-year-old computer engineer with the Tel Aviv-based microelectronics firm Annapurna
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Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. Franklin Graham , one of Americas most well-known evangelicals, recently did what he has never done before: He offered a critical assessment of Donald Trump. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal not long ago, Graham conceded that Trumptwice impeached, thrice married, and four
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Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. Franklin Graham , one of Americas most well-known evangelicals, recently did what he has never done before: He offered a critical assessment of Donald Trump. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal not long ago, Graham conceded that Trumptwice impeached, thrice married, and four
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