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Rio de Janeiro’s 2020 Carnival celebration was filled with spectacular costumes, dances, and political satire Bolsonaro

Rio de Janeiro’s 2020 Carnival celebration was filled with spectacular costumes, dances, and political satire

Carnival celebration at Rio de Janeiro's Sambradome. Pilar Olivares/REUTERS Rio de Janeiro's Carnival celebrations began last week before the beginning of Lent with tens of thousands of spectators gathering at the Sambadrome to experience exquisite costumes, intricate dances, and samba music.Samba, an Afro-Brazilian genre of music and dance, has become…
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February 28, 2020
Podcast links: content recycling Recycling

Podcast links: content recycling

Abnormal Returns, since its launch in 2005, has brought the best of the finance and investment blogosphere to its readers. I am also the Director of Investor Education at Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC. More here. Mentions E-mail sign-up SearchThe Archive The Archive Enable Our Alexa Skills Read More
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February 28, 2020
Backlash strikes campaign encouraging pensioners to donate to child poverty Old-Age Poverty

Backlash strikes campaign encouraging pensioners to donate to child poverty

SUPPLIEDSpend My Super erected an installation of 160 pictures of babies at Britomart, Auckland, to highlight the problem of children born into poverty.A campaign encouraging wealthy superannuitants to donate their pension to combat child poverty has met with a backlash online. Spend My Super erected an installation of 160 pictures…
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February 28, 2020
Sun Yang, 3-time Olympic gold medalist, banned 8 years in controversial drug testing case Doping Test

Sun Yang, 3-time Olympic gold medalist, banned 8 years in controversial drug testing case

China's Sun Yang will not be able to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after CAS banned him for eight years. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)Sun Yang, China’s most decorated swimmer and one of the sport’s biggest stars, was banned for eight years on Friday for breaking anti-doping rules in an incident…
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February 28, 2020
When the Billionaire Family Behind the Opioid Crisis Needed PR Help, They Turned to Mike Bloomberg Oxycodone

When the Billionaire Family Behind the Opioid Crisis Needed PR Help, They Turned to Mike Bloomberg

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Long celebrated as civic-minded philanthropists, the Sacklers were becoming pariahs. The billionaire family whose company created and pushed the addictive painkiller OxyContin had managed to escape connection…
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February 28, 2020
Bulgarian PM to meet Turkey’s Erdogan on Monday amid migrant worries Syria

Bulgarian PM to meet Turkey’s Erdogan on Monday amid migrant worries

FILE PHOTO - Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov leaves the second day of the European Union leaders summit, held to discuss the EU's long-term budget for 2021-2027, in Brussels, Belgium, February 21, 2020. REUTERS/Francois LenoirSOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria has seen no significant increase in migrants breaching its border with Turkey,…
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February 28, 2020