< 1 mn readBread sold in six different states has been voluntarily recalled after fragments of glass were found on top of the bread, the Food and Drug Administration has announced. The bread, sold by the Maryland-based company Upper Crust Crest Hill Bakery, listed as “Upper Crust Bakery LP,” by the FDA, was recalled on April 12, according […]
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3 mn readMaximo Peña had been coming to the Jet Set nightclub every single Monday for the past 30 years. This week, excited to see a concert by the popular Dominican singer Rubby Pérez, he took his wife and his sister. Now all three are buried beneath the rubble of the collapsed discotheque, after the roof caved […]
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5 mn readGates and Paul Allen launched computing giant Microsoft 50 years ago. In 1993, he talked to the BBC about the online innovations that would define the 21st Century. When the BBC first broadcast an interview with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in June 1993, there were thought to be only 130 websites in total. The BBC’s […]
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7 mn readBlanche Hoschedé-Monet has barely been acknowledged in art history. But not only did she help her stepfather Claude, she created her own fine works – often of the same scenes as him. Haystack at Giverny, Poplars at the Water’s Edge, Morning on the Seine. These painting titles bring only one name to mind – the […]
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5 mn readThe roar of the Zambezi is deafening as millions of gallons of water crash over rocks and tumble down rapids. But there’s another sound cutting through the trees of the Zambian bush – the unmistakable high-pitched whine of a bitcoin mine. “It’s the sound of money!” says a smiling Philip Walton as he surveys the […]
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2 mn readThe Social Security numbers and other personal details of at least two former congressional staffers who investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy were revealed by this week’s release of declassified records ordered by President Donald Trump. Joseph diGenova, 80, and Christopher Pyle, 86, both had their names, birth dates, birth places and Social […]
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