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The American Restaurant Is On Life Support

We’re eating at street-corner stalls and food trucks, in front of the TV and at the grocery—everywhere but restaurants. They might not be here when we get back. In a week, The New York Times would run a rave review of FieldTrip, a rice-centric little place in Harlem, New York…

bubmagMarch 2, 2020

Paul Newman

‘Inside the Actors Studio’ host James Lipton dies at 93

LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Lipton, an actor-turned-drama-school-dean who got hundreds of Hollywood luminaries to open up about their life and art and became an unlikely celebrity himself as the longtime host of “Inside the Actors Studio,” died Monday. Lipton died of bladder cancer at his New York home, his…

bubmagMarch 2, 2020

Animal Protection

Jordi Casamitjana vegan tribunal a ‘victory for animal protection’.

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionJordi Casamitjana said in January he was "really really satisfied" with the judge's rulingAn ethical vegan who was unfairly dismissed said his tribunal case was a "victory for animal protection".Jordi Casamitjana has agreed a settlement with anti-hunting charity the League Against Cruel…

bubmagMarch 2, 2020

Bolsonaro

Paris makes former Brazil president Lula an honorary citizen

PARIS (Reuters) - Paris city hall made Brazil’s former leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva an honorary citizen on Monday, in a likely blow to his political enemy President Jair Bolsonaro whose relationship with France has deteriorated. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo looks on as former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula…

bubmagMarch 2, 2020

Vietnam

Hanoi rocks for R&D – just ask Samsung: Chaebol starts work on $220m AI, IoT, 5G facility

Pandemic-dodging Sammy continues tradition of investment in Vietnam Not that Hanoi Rocks (Olga Popova / Shutterstock.com) Samsung has started work on a $220m R&D centre in Vietnam to contribute to it's research in AI, IoT, big data and 5G. The facility, which is based in the heart of the capital…

bubmagMarch 2, 2020

Mexico Border Wall

Rethinking What Passes for Normal Amid the “Trump Revolution”

Central American migrants walk on the outskirts of Huixtla, Chiapas, Mexico on October 24, 2018 (photo by Luis Antonio Rojas, all images courtesy Bronx Documentary Center)As the Bronx Documentary Center puts it, the “Trump Revolution” is the ongoing upheaval in American politics and society “whose speed, reach and consequences are…

bubmagMarch 2, 2020

Obamacare

US Supreme Court to review Obamacare law

Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to once again review former president Barack Obama's signature health care law, the target of repeated political and legal challenges over the past decade.The top court, which had upheld the law in 2012 and 2015, will examine a suit brought…

bubmagMarch 2, 2020

Obamacare

Obamacare arguments put Supreme Court and health care in election spotlight

Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court agreed Monday to once again become the decider on the future of Obamacare -- the controversial law that has become a fabric of society for the millions of Americans who have come to rely upon it.But the justices ensured something else as well. They guaranteed that…

bubmagMarch 2, 2020

Paul Newman

James Lipton, Inside the Actors Studio Host, Dead at 93

James Lipton, who was best known for creating and hosting Inside the Actors Studio, has died at the age of 93. His wife Kedakai Turner told TMZ that Lipton died Monday morning at his New York City home after a battle with bladder cancer.Lipton created Inside the Actors Studio in…

bubmagMarch 2, 2020

Hongkong

Hong Kong Protesters Firebomb Coronavirus Clinics; over 100 Arrested

Hong Kong police arrested 115 people between Saturday night and Monday morning for several violent incidents over the weekend that included the use of Molotov cocktails to attack designated Chinese coronavirus treatment centers. The events of the past 48 hours represent the largest protests in Hong Kong since the coronavirus…

bubmagMarch 2, 2020

The American Restaurant Is On Life Support

‘Inside the Actors Studio’ host James Lipton dies at 93

Jordi Casamitjana vegan tribunal a ‘victory for animal protection’.

Paris makes former Brazil president Lula an honorary citizen

Hanoi rocks for R&D – just ask Samsung: Chaebol starts work on $220m AI, IoT, 5G facility

Rethinking What Passes for Normal Amid the “Trump Revolution”

US Supreme Court to review Obamacare law

Obamacare arguments put Supreme Court and health care in election spotlight

James Lipton, Inside the Actors Studio Host, Dead at 93

Hong Kong Protesters Firebomb Coronavirus Clinics; over 100 Arrested

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