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New York City

Robert Mueller, Tornadoes, Israel: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing

9.Broadway is booming. Last season, 14,768,254 patrons saw Broadway shows, for a total box office gross of $1.8 billion through Sunday, both records for the industry. The reason? Diverse offerings, shows that run longer and the popularity of New York City fo…

bubmagMay 30, 2019

Yemen Civil War

The seasons after the Arab Spring

Images of popular protests that recall the revolutionary movement of 2011 have dominated news from the Arabic-speaking world for months. Uprisings began in Sudan on 19 December and in Algeria with the marches of Friday 22 February. They revived memories of th…

bubmagMay 30, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Matteo Salvini, Italy’s populist strongman

Matteo Salvini at a demonstration in Milan ahead of the European elections in May Italy has a new strongman, and for many, a new saviour. The effective head of the government in Rome is not the titular premier, Giuseppe Conte, nor the winner of the last elec…

bubmagMay 30, 2019

Star Wars

Disneyland Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge: What to know about opening day, rides, food and more

Disneyland's most anticipated new attraction ever Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge will open May 31 to guests clamoring to travel to a galaxy far far away. And USA TODAY will have a first look available Wednesday at 9 p.m. EDT. Imagineers have been working on the…

bubmagMay 30, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Amazon adds delete commands for Alexa – Washington Post

Amazon is making it easier for users of its Echo devices to delete recordings of their voices, as consumer and regulatory privacy concerns regarding artificial-intelligence assistants mount. The retail giant said Wednesday it tweaked its Alexa voice software…

bubmagMay 30, 2019

Google

Google Maps expands its speed limit feature to more countries

Vehicular commuters who rely on Google Maps just got a useful new feature. Or, to be more precise, more of them in more places got a useful new feature. Google has begun rolling out speed limit and speed camera indicators in Google Maps. The feature is avail…

bubmagMay 29, 2019

NASDAQ

Entrepreneur Index™ and Victoria’s Secret Shares Fall as Trade Concerns Affect Market

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Only 12 of 60 stocks on the Entrepreneur Index™ had gains today with just one rising more than one percent. Stock prices fell sharply again as the major indexes head toward their first month in …

bubmagMay 29, 2019

Palestine

After the Netanyahu Fail, What Is Trump’s Israel-Palestine Solution? Let Others Pick Up the Pieces

TEL AVIV Israel is now headed to an unprecedented repeat election just weeks after the last poll, and this just as one rather significant foreign visitor, Jared Kushner, arrives in Jerusalem. While Kushners Israel sojourn was scheduled before this most recen…

bubmagMay 29, 2019

Donald Trump

Sarah Sanders snaps back on Russian interference claims

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bubmagMay 29, 2019

Orangutan

Palm oil: Down from the conservation barricades and out of the rhetorical trenches

Oil palm is alternatively seen as a gift from god or a crime against humanity; according to science, it is neither Norwegian University of Life Sciences IMAGE: The view of an oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Credit: Douglas Sheil Oil palm is neither the d…

bubmagMay 29, 2019

Robert Mueller, Tornadoes, Israel: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing

The seasons after the Arab Spring

Matteo Salvini, Italy’s populist strongman

Disneyland Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge: What to know about opening day, rides, food and more

Amazon adds delete commands for Alexa – Washington Post

Google Maps expands its speed limit feature to more countries

Entrepreneur Index™ and Victoria’s Secret Shares Fall as Trade Concerns Affect Market

After the Netanyahu Fail, What Is Trump’s Israel-Palestine Solution? Let Others Pick Up the Pieces

Sarah Sanders snaps back on Russian interference claims

Palm oil: Down from the conservation barricades and out of the rhetorical trenches

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