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But the practice is not new.
In the 1960s and 1970s, researchers at the University of California, San Diego conducted a series of experiments in which they tried to determine the extent to which children's behavior changed over time. They found that children were more likely to play with toys that were not the same size as the ones they were used to playing with, and that they tended to do so more often than their peers who were less familiar with the toys. In other words, children | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
A planned last-ditch vote on U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May's plans to leave the European Union has been met with swift opposition from the White House, with MPs demanding answers on unemployment, rising prices and the collapsing value of the rial, which has lost more than half its value since April AFP/Getty 29/50 27 August 2018 A police officer walks by the front of a Chicago Pizza and GLHF Game Bar at the scene of fatal shooting at The Jacksonville Landing. A gunman | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
3 billion tons of solid waste in 2010, which is predicted to reach 2.2 billion tons a year by 2025 - equal to the weight of the Great Pyramid of Giza, each day, according to UN Habitat. Increasing recycling would reduce deaths from pollution, flooding and planet-heating emissions, it said, calling for waste picking to be regulated to better protect workers. Reclaimers recycle 80 to 90% of plastic and packaging in South Africa, saving authorities up to 750 million | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
The jurors deciding comedian Bill Cosby's fate at the trial of his accusers have been asked to consider a range of issues, including whether the comedian's actions were "reprehensible" and whether he should face criminal charges.
The jury is expected to hear testimony from more than 100 women who have accused Cosby of drugging and raping them in the 1970s and 1980s. Cosby has denied the allegations, and he has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges, according to The New York | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
states plus the District of Columbia have enacted legislation to reduce the number of abortions performed in the United States. In addition, the Women's Health Insurance Program (WIP) has been established to provide coverage for women who have had an unintended pregnancy.
However, there is still much work to be done. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1 in 4 women will have an abortion at some point in their life. It is estimated that there are more than 500,000 | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
A 2-1/2-year-old Guatemalan migrant boy who was detained last month at the U.S.-Mexico border but released from U.S. custody with his mother during treatment for an illness has died in hospital, authorities said on Wednesday. The death comes after three Guatemalan minors died in U.S. custody since December, during the biggest surge of migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border in a decade. More Guatemalans are crossing the border than citizens of any other nation. The deaths have spurred greater criticism of the Trump administration's | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
The slowdown was driven by declines in the number of workers in a variety of industries, such as retail and construction, according to a report released Wednesday.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found that more than half of all U.S. workers had lost their jobs over the past five years, and that the unemployment rate was at its lowest level since the mid-1990s, the last time the NLRB reported data on the jobless rate for the entire labor force. The | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
However, traces of the vaccine used against "wild" polio are excreted by people who have not been vaccinated.
The vaccine was developed by the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and is used to prevent the spread of polio in the United States. The vaccine is administered to children between the ages of 2 and 6 years of age. It has been shown to be safe and effective against a wide range of diseases, including measles, mumps, | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone industrial production fell in March for a second straight month as output declined in France and Italy but recovered in the bloc’s largest economy, Germany, data from the European Union’s statistics agency showed on Tuesday. Eurostat said output in the 19 countries sharing the euro dropped by 0.3% on the month, in line with market expectations, and by 0.6% year-on-year. The monthly fall in March followed a 0.1% decrease of the industrial production in February, which | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Older voters are proving pivotal in the topsy-turvy age of anti-establishment politics.
In the early days of the 2016 presidential campaign, the Republican National Committee (RNC) spent millions of dollars on TV ads in Iowa and New Hampshire, as well as in other battleground states, to try to convince voters that Hillary Clinton is the only candidate who can beat Donald Trump in November. The RNC also spent more than $1 million in early-voting states in New York, | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
9, when insurgents attacked police posts in northwestern Rakhine state, near the border with Bangladesh, according to the police document, dated March 7. The insurgent attacks led to the biggest crisis of leader Aung San Suu Kyi's first year in power, prompting some 75,000 Rohingya to flee the subsequent army crackdown to Bangladesh. Speaking at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Yanghee Lee, the organization's special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, said children should not be "arbitrarily deprived of their liberty" and the government | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
According to the World Health Organization, the Zika virus has been linked to an estimated 1.5 million cases of microcephaly, a birth defect in which babies born with abnormally small heads are more likely to survive.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the number of Zika cases in the United States is expected to increase by more than 1,000 per day over the next two years. The virus is transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids, | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
But the fleeing migrants of today are nothing new. For Bibb, an African American, another key moment in history was "The Great Migration" of millions of southern blacks away from America's segregated South. By some estimates, more than 6 million left the rural areas for industrial places like Detroit, New York and Chicago between 1910 and 1970. "(They were) not just looking for jobs but fleeing racial terror," Bibb said. Such a point is made in his mellifluous rendition of | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
A larger-than-expected fall in Germany's economic output in the third quarter was no catastrophe, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said, adding that growth should resume in the next quarter once the autos sector had dealt with its present difficulties. Data released on Wednesday showed the economy contracting for the first time since 2015 in the third quarter as global trade disputes swung the traditional export growth engine of Europe's largest economy into reverse, raising concerns that a near-decade-long expansion is faltering. "A 0.2 | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
L)(0005.HK) revealed it faces another potentially damaging U.S. investigation, this time related to a Russian cyberattack.
According to the report, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is conducting an internal review of the State Department's cyber security program and is looking into whether the department violated the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which was passed by Congress in 2013 to protect Americans from cyberattacks by foreign governments. The review is expected to be | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Karoshi, or death by overwork, has been a part of the Japanese lexicon and a legally recognized cause of death since the 1980s. Despite growing awareness, cases of overwork resulting in illness or death continue to rise at a rapid rate. The number of resulting compensation claims reached a record high in financial year 2015, when the government received 2,310 compensation claims for mental illness, brain disease, and heart disease caused by overwork. The Ministry of Health, Labour and | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “bears full responsibility” for the U.S. airstrikes against an air base in Syria. “The Syrian regime bears the full responsibility for this development,” Stoltenberg said in a statement. “Any use of chemical weapons is unacceptable, cannot go unanswered, and those responsible must be held accountable,” said Stoltenberg, who was informed by the U.S. defense minister that strikes would go ahead. Reporting by Robin Emmott; editing by Robert-Jan Bartunek | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Ukrainian coal producer DTEK Energy said on Wednesday pro-Russian separatists had seized control of a city in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, killing at least 38 people.
The attack came just hours after the US-backed government declared a "no-fly zone" over the city of Debaltseve, which is part of Russia's self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" (DPR). The move came a day after Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he would | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
This is not the first time Facebook has stepped up its efforts to combat hate speech.
In February, the social network announced that it would remove a list of hate groups from its News Feed. The list, which includes anti-Semitic, white supremacist, and racist websites, was created in response to a post by a white nationalist who called for the removal of the Confederate flag in Charlottesville, Virginia. Facebook removed the list after the post was shared more than 3,000 times, according to the | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Canadian fertilizer and farm supply dealer Nutrien Ltd, formed in a merger this year, posted a loss in the first quarter on Monday, hurt by a delayed spring season and transportation bottlenecks in Canada which shipments delays outside the country. Net loss was $1 million in the quarter ended March 31. The company formed by merger of Agrium Inc and Potash Corp of Saskatchewan in January said on a pro forma basis, it earned $149 million or 13 cents a share, a year earlier. Revenue | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
In its ongoing war against online extremism, the U.S. State Department has said it is looking for ways to combat the spread of "radical Islamic terrorism."
The Department of Homeland Security's counter-terrorism unit, known as the Countering Violent Extremism Program (CSP), is part of the effort to "counter violent extremism in the United States," according to a statement released by the department on Monday. The program, which has been in place since 2009, is one of several steps | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Investors are optimistic that a pickup in corporate acquisitions stands to support the volatile U.S. stock market, and does not represent a worrisome cyclical sign. Global mergers and acquisitions have had their strongest start to a year ever, according to data from Thomson Reuters Deals Intelligence. The $1.23 trillion in first-quarter global deal-making came in just shy of the $1.31 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2015, which on a quarterly basis marked a multi-year high. However, heightened deal-making could be an ominous signal, if it suggests companies | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
But just like the butterfly and the hurricane, the fact that Trump's ascension comes at the end of the Obama era is hardly a coincidence -- and it's hard to imagine one without the other. More specifically, Obama's election helped pave the way for Trumpism: not the idiosyncratic and often incomprehensible campaign that Donald Trump himself is running, but the anti-immigration, anti-trade, "law and order" populist sentiment that he's brought back into the American mainstream and that will probably outlast his (probable) loss in | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said on Monday that Russia would not accept any military intervention in Syria.
Kozak, who was speaking at a joint press conference with US Secretary of State John Kerry, said that the United States is ready to take military action in response to any threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other terrorist groups in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), which he called a "terrorist group" in a statement | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
", Almirall chief executive Peter Guenter said. The portfolio includes four already marketed acne products and a new brand Seysara which is pending an FDA approval. Almirall expects Seysara to generate sales up to $200 million at its peak. Almirall said it would pay $550 million in cash upfront and up to $100 million in an "earn-out" based on the brands' performance. The skin-health focused company said the purchase would add to its earnings from 2019 onwards as it expects to close | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
As Republicans lawmakers frantically tried to pass legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they were unable to come up with a way to replace it.
The bill passed the House of Representatives on a party-line vote and was signed into law by President Barack Obama in January 2015. The bill would have required insurers to offer coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, but it was vetoed by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who said he would veto the measure if it were to become law | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
The bizarre case of Rep. Nunes and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), is just the latest in a series of high-profile revelations about Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election.
Nunes, who has been dogged by questions about his own ties to the Russian government, has denied any knowledge of any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. But he has also been accused of leaking classified information about the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
British drugmaker Vectura reported a 4 percent rise in 2017 underlying revenue on Wednesday, aided by higher demand for its asthma products Flutiform and Ultibro. The company, which bought rival SkyePharma for 441 million pounds ($617.49 million) in June 2016, said underlying revenue rose to 131.4 million pounds in the year ended Dec. 31, compared with 126.3 million pounds, on a proforma basis, a year | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
March 15 (Reuters) - Perpetual tensions between China and the United States over North Korea's nuclear weapons program have escalated, with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warning on Wednesday that Washington is prepared to take retaliatory action against Pyongyang if Pyongyang continues to test a hydrogen bomb.
"We are going to do everything we can to prevent that from happening," Tillerson told reporters at the State Department. "We're doing everything in our power to ensure that it doesn't happen." | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
President Donald Trump accused Iran on Wednesday of secretly enriching uranium for a long time and warned that U.S. sanctions will be increased soon, as the U.N. nuclear watchdog held an emergency meeting on Tehran's breach of a nuclear deal. "Iran has long been secretly 'enriching,' in total violation of the terrible 150 Billion Dollar deal made by John Kerry and the Obama Administration. Remember, that deal was to expire in a short number of years. Sanctions will soon be increased, substantially!" Trump said | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
A Turkish Airlines flight from Houston, Texas, to Istanbul, Turkey, took off from Istanbul International Airport and landed in Istanbul. The Airbus A320-200 was carrying a cargo of 1.8 million pounds of cargo.
According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the plane was en route from the Turkish capital of Ankara to San Francisco when it was hit by an improvised explosive device (IED). The device exploded, killing all 224 people on board and injuring many more. According to | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Navient Corp * Navient announces extension of its ownership interest in A&M in connection with the acquisition of the Southern California Edison Company. The merger is subject to approval by the Board of Directors.
The acquisition is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2017. As of December 31, 2017, the Company had 3.5 million units of common stock, of which 1.4 million were U.S. Units of Common Stock. In addition, approximately 1 million shares of Class | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Nuggets clamp down on Pistons DETROIT
The Detroit Pistons have agreed to terms on a five-year, $75 million contract with restricted free agent guard Reggie Jackson, according to a source with knowledge of the deal. The deal is expected to be finalized in the next few days. Jackson played for the Pistons in 2014-15 before being traded to the New York Knicks in exchange for a 2016 first-round draft pick. Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy has said he expects Jackson to remain | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
64 billion) in 2015 from C$3.18 billion in 2014, and shareholder returns limped in below the Canadian average. Figures for 2016 are not yet available. Those metrics have made it difficult to convince pension funds and other investors to put money into the sector even as Ottawa has made a string of promises designed to boost the green economy. "In short, Canada's clean-technology industry is awash in red ink" and its companies vulnerable to foreign takeover, the | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
"We own Telefonica shares, and therefore the ECB does offer more support for companies like that," said Andrea Williams, European equities fund manager at Royal London Asset Management. Rory McPherson, head of investment strategy at Psigma Investment Management, said he expected consumer staples companies with solid cash-flow, such as Unilever, to be beneficiaries as well. The ECB's actions could pave the way for more share buybacks and takeover activity, fund managers say -- both of which could indirectly lift an aggregate earnings profile | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday released its report on the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
The report, which was released in the wake of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report into Russia's meddling in last year's presidential election, found that FBI Director James Comey had told the bureau that there was "no evidence" that Clinton used a personal email account during her tenure as Secretary of State, but that "there is no evidence that | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
But hundreds of unaccompanied children were left stranded in the U.S.-Mexico border, where they have been waiting for more than two years.
The number of children crossing the border from Mexico to the United States has been on the rise in recent years, with more and more children arriving each year, according to a report released last month by the Pew Charitable Trusts. The report found that one-third of all unaccompanied minors are between the ages of 18 and 24, and that the number | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
United States Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Monday said that the Justice Department will review the FBI's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state.
Rosenstein said in an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos that he would look into the matter in the coming days. He added that it would be up to the Department of Justice to decide whether or not to pursue criminal charges against Clinton or her aides in connection with her use | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
When news of those payments came to light, it became clear that the FBI was looking for a way to gain access to the data.
At the time, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was investigating whether the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election. The FBI's investigation was led by former FBI Director James Comey, who had been appointed by President Barack Obama to lead the bureau's counterintelligence and law enforcement activities. Comey was appointed to | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Late Thursday night, the Democratic National Committee amended its rules to make it illegal for any candidate to raise more than $10,000 from a single donor.
The move came after a series of high-profile fundraising scandals, including the 2008 presidential campaign of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who raised $1.5 million from his own campaign and another $5.4 million in donations from outside groups, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The RNC did not respond to a request | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Boeing Co said on Thursday that it had booked four orders for its 747-8 freighter, the first sales of the year for the plane. Boeing did not identify the customer for the orders, which come after the plane maker booked two net orders in 2015 and none the year before. Boeing is due to cut annual 747 production to six from 12 this year, reflecting declining demand for the jumbo jet, which first flew in 1969. Boeing has 23 current orders for the plane, including 11 freighters | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Morgan Stanley gave some wealth management clients incorrect information on taxes that caused some to underpay and others to overpay, according to a regulatory filing on Monday. The bank is setting aside $70 million to cover the costs and is in discussions with the Internal Revenue Service over the errors which occurred in tax years 2011 through 2016. "We are committed to making this right for our clients with minimal inconvenience to them," said a Morgan Stanley spokesman. Reporting by Olivia Oran; Editing by Cynthia | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
com/2D1RsFs - Elon Musk's SpaceX said it had signed up the first private-sector company to build a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Musk, the founder of SpaceX, said in a statement that the company was "very excited" to be working with SpaceX to develop the next generation of rockets for the International Space Station. "We are excited about the opportunity to partner with a company that has demonstrated its ability to deliver our astronauts to | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
As soon as the nominations for this year's Oscars were announced last week, they were met with a flurry of criticism.
Critics said that the nominees had not been given enough time to prepare for their roles, and that they had done a poor job of preparing for the Academy Awards. Critics also complained that their nominees were given too much time, given the fact that many of them were already in their early 20s, making it difficult for them to make the most of their time in the spotlight | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Britain's vote to leave the EU is not a referendum on Britain's EU membership, but rather on the future of the UK's membership AFP/Getty 17/50 14 September 2018 The Liberal Democrats party conference began in Brighton. In his conference speech, leader Vince Cable is expected to elaborate on his plans for a "Movement for Moderates" PA 18/51 13 September, 2018 Chris Evans surrounded by media as he leaves the Radio 2 studio in London after he announced he is quitting his breakfast show | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
President Obama granted 209 commutations and 64 pardons on Tuesday as one of his final acts as president.
The president also pardoned more than 1,000 people who were convicted of terrorism-related offenses in his first 100 days in office, including two former U.S. marshals and two members of the FBI's Counterterrorism Center. He also commuted the sentences of a dozen others who pleaded guilty to felonies related to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
On the theory that humans are omnivores, this means that they are more likely to eat plants and animals than other animals.
The theory also suggests that the human brain is much more complex than that of other mammals. For example, the brain of a chimpanzee is similar to the brains of many other primates, including humans and chimpanzees. However, it is not clear whether this is because of differences in brain structure or because there is a lack of brain development in humans, or both. | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
-based think tanks and non-governmental organizations, like the Center for American Progress and the Brookings Institution.
In 2011, the Pew Research Center released a report that found that the number of Americans who said they had been victims of sexual assault in the past five years had increased by more than 50 percent, compared with the same period in 2009. The same year, a survey by the New York Times revealed that 42 percent of the U.S. population had experienced at least one incident of rape | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Shares in SoftBank Group Corp were untraded in Tokyo on Tuesday amid a glut of sell orders, after the heavily indebted company said it would buy Britain's ARM Holdings for $32 billion. The purchase, announced on Monday, is SoftBank's largest takeover to date and marks a departure for a group whose tech and telecoms portfolio ranges from U.S. carrier Sprint to a stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and humanoid robot 'Pepper' - but does not yet include a major presence in the semiconductor | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
The leap in subscribers marked a sharp turnaround from three months ago, when investors sent Netflix shares tumbling 14 percent after it missed Wall Street's subscriber growth targets. "The question at the end of Q2 was whether that miss was an aberration or signs of a longer-term slowdown in the business," said Forrester Research analyst Jim Nail. "The answer: an aberration, likely the results of a somewhat low volume of new content last quarter." Netflix's results sent shares of Alphabet Inc, Facebook | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
President Trump vetoed 3 bipartisan resolutions that would have blocked more than $8 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday. Why it matters: These sales would "replenish part of the Saudi arsenal that lawmakers say has been used against civilians in Yemen's civil war," per the Washington Post. Trump's relationship with Saudi Arabia has been one area of sustained bipartisan backlash, due in part to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of the Saudi government and | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Lehner was tested often in the first half of the third period and answered the bell with a trio of scintillating saves against Vladimir Sobotka, Brayden Schenn and Vladimir Tarasenko to keep it scoreless. Hutton responded when the Sabres finally gained momentum thanks to a power-play opportunity, making clutch stops on Jack Eichel and Ryan O'Reilly. In the final minute, and with the Sabres goalie on the bench for an extra attacker, Hutton kept the hosts off the board with a huge stop against Sam Reinhart. Buffalo's Rasmus | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 2,000 people have been killed in Syria's civil war since the start of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad in March, according to the latest figures from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
More than 1,500 people were killed by government forces in the conflict, the OPCW said on its website on Tuesday, with the majority of those killed being civilians. The number of people killed was the highest it had | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Australian job advertisements jumped 1.4 percent to stand at levels that would normally signal solid demand for labour, even as official figures on employment continued to be soft. A monthly survey by Australia and New Zealand Banking Group showed total job advertisements gained 1.4 percent in April, following a 0.8 percent rise in March. Ads were 10.1 percent higher than in April last year. ANZ no longer provides a breakdown between internet job ads and those in newspapers, as the latter are now | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Match Group Inc forecast current-quarter earnings of $1.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013 and $2.2 billion in the current quarter ended June 30, 2014, respectively.
In addition, the Company expects to continue to invest in new products and services, such as the development of self-driving cars and the deployment of autonomous driving technology. The Company also expects that it will be able to expand its research and development activities, including on-road testing of new | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
DE) admission in 2015 that it cheated U.S. diesel emissions tests has led to calls for the Department of Justice to investigate.
The Justice Department, which is led by former President Barack Obama, is expected to announce its findings in a letter to the EPA on Friday. The letter will be sent to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, EPA Director Scott Pruitt, and the Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, according to a copy of the letter obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
State Bank Of India: * STATE BANK OF INDIA CHAIRMAN ON RBI MONETARY POLICY-INFLATION OUTLOOK SUGGESTS MODERATION IN H2 FY2019 THAT WILL HAVE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON BOND MARKET Source text - "The RBI monetary policy announcement is pragmatic and balanced. The RBI inflation outlook suggests moderation in second half of FY2019 that will have a positive impact on bond market. Apart from the status-quo in rates that was widely anticipated, the forbearance allowed to MSME borrowers, broadening the | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Apple has agreed to buy Pullstring, a San Francisco-based startup that enables the design and publishing of voice apps, Axios has learned from multiple sources. Why it matters: This could help Siri better compete with Alexa. Background: Pullstring was founded in 2011 by a group of former Pixar executives, and originally was used to power interactive voice apps for toys (including Hello Barbie in 2015). It later broadened its approach with the introduction of such IoT products as Amazon Echo and Google Assistant. It raised around $44 million in venture capital, | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May has said the UK expects to be treated with respect Reuters 4/50 26 September 2018 Chris Evans surrounded by media as he leaves the Radio 2 studio in London after he announced he is quitting his breakfast show which he has presented since 2010 PA 5/51 25 September 2017 Sir Mo Farah winning the The Great North Run's elite men's race, claiming a record-breaking fifth consecutive victory. He completed the race in under an hour Getty/Nike 6/49 24 | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Peru is the number one producer of counterfeit US dollars in the world. In 2015, just over 16 million forged bills seized were of Peruvian origin, according to the US Secret Service. Millions of counterfeit euros and Peruvian soles have also been seized by police in Peru. The forged dollars are finished by hand, giving them an exceptional quality which has earned the country its top spot as leader of this illicit global trade. And for the criminal gangs counterfeit money is cheaper to produce than cocaine. Fernando Lucena goes undercover | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Data released by the Federal Statistics Office (Finance Ministry) shows that the number of people living in poverty in the country rose by 5.3 per cent between 2011 and 2014.
The figures are based on the latest available data from the National Household Survey on Poverty (NHSP), which was carried out by Statistics Canada in April this year. The survey is the most recent of its kind in Canada, which is also known as the Canadian Survey of Income and Program Participation (CSIP). | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Mali has become the deadliest nation for United States citizens in the world.
In the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the U.S. government has taken a number of steps to combat terrorism. The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) has been established to provide training and assistance to law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Republicans in Congress can only count on one in every five voters to vote for them, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Tuesday.
The poll found that 63 percent of registered voters said they would cast a ballot for Trump in the 2016 election, compared with 58 percent for Clinton. The margin of error was plus or minus 3.5 percentage points, or 1 percentage point, for the survey of 1,000 likely voters conducted by Public Policy Polling, an independent polling firm. | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
British engineering company GKN GKN.L, fighting off a hostile takeover bid from Melrose (MRON.L), said on Tuesday it had a plan in place to protect its pension scheme as the two sides locked horns over the latest issue to emerge. Melrose had said on Monday it would inject about 1 billion pounds ($1.4 billion) into GKN's pension scheme as part of efforts to convince shareholders to back its 7.8 billion pound takeover bid and win over political opponents of | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Dow Chemical (DOW.N) and DuPont (DD.N) have provided key data allowing European Union antitrust regulators to resume scrutiny of their $130 billion merger, the European Commission said on Wednesday. The EU competition enforcer stopped its investigation last month after the companies failed to submit crucial information. "We have received the missing information and the clock has been re-started. The new deadline for the Commission to take a decision is 28 February 2017," a Commission spokesman said in an email. The | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
A number of CBC members, including me, have been asked to step down from their posts because of allegations of sexual harassment.
The CBC has also been accused of failing to protect women's rights. In October 2015, the CBC published a series of articles in which it said it was "deeply concerned" by allegations that it failed to provide women with the information they needed to report sexual misconduct to the police. And in March 2016, CBC News published an interview with a former CBC employee who | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Organovo Holdings Inc * Organovo announces fiscal 2016 results for fiscal 2015 and 2016, as well as the results of its ongoing operations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
* This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward looking statements. The Company undertakes no | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Hackers dropped a secret backdoor in Asus' update software The bombshell claims, first reported by Ars Technica, that the company had been hacked by a group known as Hacking Team.
According to the report, the hackers took control of the system and used it to hack into the Linux operating system. The hacking team claimed to have been paid by the US government, but was later revealed to be based in Russia, where it is believed the group has been operating for the past two years. | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
On Sunday morning, while most of the country was still reeling from Hurricane Irma, the United States declared a state of emergency in Puerto Rico.
In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city was "deeply concerned" about the situation and urged residents to stay away from the area. He added, "We are working with the federal government and the state and local governments to make sure that we do everything we can to ensure that all of our residents are safe and that the people | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Simonds said she would not seek a second recount in her race with Republican incumbent David Yancey but would run again in 2019. Yancey won the tied Newport News-area race when election officials drew his name from a bowl. "We've had an amazing civics lesson in the power of every vote, and I hope the legacy of this campaign will be record high turnout in Newport News forever more," she said in a statement. Simonds said the race underscored the need for election reforms in Virginia. She urged making | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Bekir Kaya, re-elected to a second term in 2014, had spent part of his time in detention in the United States. He was released on bail on Monday.
Kaya had been charged with conspiracy to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a terrorist group that has claimed responsibility for the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens and four other Americans. | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention reiterated its finding published in February 2016 that Assange's detention was unlawful under international law and that the government had failed to comply with its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (UNICEF) has called for an independent investigation into the detention of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since April 2016 | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Lawson paced South Carolina with 15 points and nine rebounds, while Chris Silva contributed 11 points and eight rebounds. Shooting struggles plagued the Gamecocks, whose 33.3 percent showing from the field included a 3-for-21 effort from 3-point range. The Cowboys took command with a 14-0 run over a 4:30 stretch early in the second half, turning a 41-36 deficit into a 50-41 advantage. The surge included two treys from Hendricks and an alley-oop dunk by James. South Carolina missed six shots and committed six turnovers during the | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is out, and President Donald Trump has named Matthew Whitaker as his attorney general.
Whitaker, who was appointed by President George W. Bush to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, is a former prosecutor who served as an assistant district attorney in New Jersey from 2003 to 2007. He is also the author of the book, "The Innocence of Michael Brown: The Untold Story of a Racial Racketeering Scheme | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Rugby Australia (RA) has scheduled a code of conduct hearing for May 4 over Israel Folau's controversial social media comments, the governing body has said. The 30-year-old Folau, a devout Christian, sparked controversy for the second time in 12 months after posting comments on social media that gay people were destined for "hell" if they did not "repent". Both RA and the New South Wales Waratahs had said they intended to terminate his contract over the posts. Folau asked last week for | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Ireland's second-largest bank by assets, whose 21 billion euro taxpayer bailout was the biggest for any Irish bank still trading, reported a full year pre-tax profit of 1.7 billion euros, down from 1.9 billion a year ago. But that was primarily as a result of writing back far fewer of its remaining and shrinking 9.1 billion euros in provisions racked up during Ireland's financial crisis. Its writebacks totalled 294 million last year versus almost 1 billion in 2015. The bank's core | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Cohen & Steers Inc: * Cohen & Steers Inc reports first quarter 2017 financial results
* First quarter 2016 results and second quarter 2015 results are based on information provided by the Company and are subject to change without notice. Forward-looking statements included in this press release include statements with respect to our future financial performance. These statements are not guarantees of future performance, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise these statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
POLITICS (*) Italy's EU Affairs Minister, Federica Mogherini, speaks during a news conference at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, northern France Getty Images 11/50 23 September 2018 Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has stated that he will support a second referendum on Brexit if the Labour membership votes for one at this week's party conference. Speaking with the Sunday Mirror, Mr Corbyn said "if conference makes a decision, I will not walk away from it and will act accordingly" Reuters 12/ | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
LONDON (Reuters) - Egypt has deported a British journalist working for The Times, the newspaper said on Saturday, describing an “increasingly oppressive environment” for media in the country ahead of next week’s presidential election. The Times said its correspondent, 33-year-old Bel Trew who had been based in Cairo for several years, was arrested while reporting and “forced to leave Egypt”. “The Times deplores this attempt by the Egyptian authorities to intimidate the media and suppress our coverage,” a statement | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
4 U.S. wireless carrier, estimated quarterly operating revenue above analysts' expectations as heavy promotions helped attract more postpaid customers. The company, majority owned by Japan's Softbank Group Corp, said on Tuesday that postpaid phone subscriber additions doubled to 347,000 in the second quarter from the prior quarter. But the company's shares, which touched more than two-year high earlier, reversed course to trade down 3.3 percent at $6.68. The stock had nearly doubled this year through Monday's close. CFRA Research analyst Angelo Zino attributed the | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
N, the parent of Jefferies Group LLC, said on Monday it would sell stakes in two non-financial companies for about $1.33 billion and reorganize its operations to focus on investment banking and advisory services. Shares of Leucadia, which will rename itself Jefferies Financial Group Inc, rose 12.8 percent to $24.56 at mid-afternoon. Leucadia National, which models itself on Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) and owns companies ranging from real estate to mining, bought reut.rs/2H8D4vX Jefferies Group Inc in 2012 for $2.76 billion. Jefferies Financial | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
China's stock markets fell on Thursday as fragile investor sentiment shattered earlier gains, and as trading volumes remained lighter than average ahead of a widely anticipated meeting between the U.S. and Chinese presidents this weekend. ** At the close, the Shanghai Composite index was 1.4 percent lower at 2,567.44 points. ** The blue-chip CSI300 index was down 1.3 percent, with its financial sector sub-index lower by 1.37 percent, the consumer staples sector down 0.36 percent, | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
"As soon as RUSADA has been approved again by WADA, there's no problem having competition there," Samuelsson said. "I believe it's possible, but they have to look at themselves, realize what they have done and really want to solve the problem. My understanding at the moment is that they don't believe that they have done much wrong." RUSADA was declared non-compliant by WADA amid allegations of state-sponsored doping, which Moscow denies, and the systematic violation of anti-doping rules. Russia's Olympic Committee was banned from sending a | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Chuck Wirtz voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election, inspired by the then-political director of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Donna Brazile.
In a statement, the DNC said, "We are pleased to announce that former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will be joining the board of directors of The Hillary Victory Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to electing Hillary Clinton as the next U.S. Secretary of State. She will serve as an integral part of our | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
The yen fell broadly after the Bank of Japan stuck to its dovish policy stance. BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda sounded optimistic on growth, yet stressed there would be no plan to change monetary policy before reaching a 2 percent inflation target. The U.S. Labor Department said nonfarm payrolls grew by 313,000 in February, the largest monthly increase since July 2016, but average hourly earnings rose only 0.1 percent, slower than the 0.3 percent | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
1. The additional tariffs, threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump, are part of an eight-month trade war between the United States and China affecting $250 billion worth of Chinese products and $113 billion in U.S. goods. The duties could disrupt supply lines for U.S. companies that sell chemicals and fertilizers, part of a $28-billion U.S. farm chemical industry. The sector relies on Chinese imports for 40 percent of the ingredients and materials needed to make crop chemicals, according to consultancy | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
The arrival of former Fox News co-president Roger Ailes in the White House has made it harder for the network to bring in new employees.
The new hire will be Steve Bannon, the former Breitbart News chief executive who also served as Breitbart's president and chief operating officer. The move comes at a time when the Republican National Committee (RNC) and other conservative groups are trying to find ways to attract new members to the party, and it comes as a surprise to some that the RNC | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Liberal, pro-European coalition Progressive Slovakia/Together won the EU election in Slovakia with 20.1 % of the vote, followed by the ruling leftist Smer party at 15.7 %, official results showed on Sunday. The non-parliamentary coalition was set up two years ago and has already beaten Smer in presidential election in March this year when its candidate, lawyer Zuzana Caputova, defeated EU Commissioner Maros Sefcovic. The far-right People's Party-Our Slovakia was third | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
SAO PAULO, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Michel Temer is expected to veto a bill under which the central government bails out indebted states, according to the Wednesday editions of newspapers Valor Econômico and Folha de S.Paulo. The main reason for the move, which may be announced today, is a decision by the chamber of deputies to scrap adjustments the states were expected to make in order to get some debt relief. “It makes no sense allowing states to defer debt payments without making any adjustments,” | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
The big picture: Based on reporting by the Associated Press and The New York Times.
What's new: The report finds that more than half of the 1.2 million people who signed up for Medicaid under the program were not eligible for coverage because they were unable to pay their premiums. The number of people with pre-existing conditions, including those with conditions that prevent them from getting health insurance, rose from 6.5 million in 2010 to 9.1 million last year, according to the | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Diebold Inc : * Planned acquisition of Wincor Nixdorf AG has recently cleared antitrust requirements from authorities in Portugal , Russia , Slovakia and Spain * Takeover offer remains subject to antitrust approval in other countries and is targeted to close in summer of 2016 * Diebold's planned acquisition of Wincor Nixdorf attains multiple antitrust clearances in Europe Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: (Bengaluru Newsroom: +1-646-223-8780) | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Following are five facts about the 2016 presidential election.
1. Donald Trump won the popular vote by a wide margin over Hillary Clinton in 2016. In fact, he lost by more than 1 million votes in the Electoral College, which means he won by about 1.5 million more votes than Clinton did in 2008. Trump's margin of victory over Clinton was even larger than that of Barack Obama, who won about 2.3 million fewer votes, according to the latest RealClearPolitics average of the | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
-led sanctions. Commerce Department data on Thursday showed that while the U.S. and Russia traded crude oil at a record low of $50 a barrel in the fourth quarter of 2016, they traded less than half as much as they did in 2013.
The sanctions are part of a broader effort by the Obama administration and the European Union to punish Russia over its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014. The United States has also imposed sanctions on Russia in response to its actions in Ukraine. | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
In 1933, the Saudi monarchy granted the American company Standard Oil exclusive rights to look for oil in the country's eastern province. In 1938, the joint US-Saudi venture, eventually called ARAMCO, found truly staggering reserves. The US government wanted to protect its companies' investment, especially when America was in dire need of crude during World War II. In 1943, FDR declared the security of Saudi Arabia a "vital interest" of the United States -- despite the Saudis' official neutrality in the Axis-Allies conflict. After the war, the Saudis | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Facing yet another cash crunch, Tesla will likely be forced to head to Wall Street for more capital, analysts said. Shares tumbled 5.8 percent on Thursday, their biggest intraday percentage fall in eight months. Musk told investors after the company released its fourth-quarter results on Wednesday that the upcoming Model 3 sedan, the $35,000 mass-market vehicle on which the company's future profitability hinges, requires no additional outside funding as it readies for production this year. "But we get very close to the edge," Musk said. "So | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Six House Democrats are sending a letter to FBI Director James Comey urging him to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
The letter, sent to Comey by Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, states, "It is important that the FBI continue to conduct its own independent review of this matter to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to bring charges against Mrs. Clinton." | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
By Saturday, 11 days after Hurricane Maria crippled the Caribbean island of St. Kitts and Nevis, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that it had shut down the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Hurricane Center in Puerto Rico.
The closure of the NOAA hurricane center was announced in a statement released by the agency on Friday. The agency said that the closure was necessary to protect the public from the threat of Hurricane Irma, which was expected to hit the | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Mandalay Resources Corp- * Mandalay Resources Corporation announces second quarter financial results for 2017 * Morgan Stanley & Co. announces third quarter earnings for 2016 * Bank of America Merrill Lynch Inc. & Credit Suisse Group AG announces fourth quarter results * Federal Reserve Board of Governors issues new monetary policy guidance for fiscal year 2017* U.S. Department of the Treasury announces new fiscal outlook for the year ending March 31, 2018* Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) adopts new guidelines for issuing | 1 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Previously the U.N. agency had advised pregnant women to consider deferring non-essential travel to areas with ongoing transmission of the mosquito-borne virus, which is spreading through Latin America, including Olympics host Brazil. The link between Zika and microcephaly, where babies are born with small heads and developmental problems, as well as Guillain-Barre syndrome, which can cause paralysis, has not been proven but studies point in that direction, it said. "Microcephaly is now only one of several documented birth abnormalities associated with Zika | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |
Repligen Corp * Repligen extends long term supply agreement with Purolite for Protein A ligands * Repligen Corp - Pursuant to agreement, co will supply Protein A ligands to purolite through November 2022, with an option for renewal through 2025 * Repligen - Pursuant to agreement, Repligen will supply Protein A ligands to Purolite through November 2022, with an option for renewal through 2025 Source text for Eikon: | 0 | en | gpt-2 | null |