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Melania Trump’s Mail Suit Suggests Desire To Monetise First Lady Role

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This Secret Room In Mount Rushmore Is Having A Moment

Intro text we refine our methods of responsive web design, we’ve increasingly focused on measure and its relationship to how people read. Strech lining full story

Finland Has An Education System The Other Country Should Learn From

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Foreign News

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Supply sergeant named USO Soldier of the Year

OAHU, Hawaii — An Army supply sergeant who pulled a fellow Soldier from a burning car will be recognized as this year’s United Services full story

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Why Finland is holding a war crimes trial in Liberia

Tales of atrocities dominate accounts of Liberia’s years of civil war but not a single person has been tried for war crimes in the full story

Covid: Biden calls 500,000 death toll a heartbreaking milestone

President Joe Biden has addressed the nation as the US passed the figure of 500,000 Covid-related deaths, the highest number of any country. “As full story

Editorial

Wole Soyinka

THE DAY I CONFRONTED PROFESSOR WOLE SOYINKA!

By Ken Ikonne One odd evening in July, 2001, my boss and learned Senior colleague in chambers, Amobi Nzelu Esq, did to me what full story

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Ideas: 3 Sure Ways to Make Money From Your Blog or Website

If you’re thinking about starting a blog or website, but you don’t have an online store, you might wonder how you can actually make full story

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Extra Cash:Guide to Starting a ‘Fulfillment by Amazon’ Business

The Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) business model continues to grow in popularity, and for good reason. Fundamentally, it’s the same as a traditional ecommerce business. But, instead of full story

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Business Security: ‘Scammer cloned my business on Instagram’

In the last weekend of August, when Emma Heathcote-James had been looking forward to a relaxing bank-holiday break, she instead found herself fighting to full story


Sports

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US Open 2020:Naomi Osaka beats Jennifer Brady to reach final

2020 US Open Venue: Flushing Meadows, New York Dates: 31 Aug-13 Sept Coverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, full story

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France defence coach prepares to welcome Wales

Former Wales defence coach Shaun Edwards is looking forward to another reunion with his old side when Wayne Pivac’s team travel to France. Wales full story

McIlroy becomes father after wife Erica gives birth to baby daughter

Rory McIlroy’s wife Erica has given birth to the couple’s first child, the four-time major winner has revealed. The Northern Irishman wrote on Instagram full story

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Why you should really consider natural cleaning products

Cleaning, and the products we use to clean, is a bigger consideration than ever. And while much of the focus has been on disinfecting to reduce the transmission full story

Trump/Harris

Trump’s rhetoric on Kamala Harris has changed & why

In the span of just over a year and a half, President Donald Trump has gone from praising Sen. Kamala Harris’ crowd sizes to saying a full story

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Covid-19 isn’t holding back these indigenous pageant queens

As her silver crown shimmered in the sunlight, Shaandiin Parrish loaded car after car in the Navajo Nation‘s Huerfano chapter area with food and toilet full story


Entertainment

Drew Barrymore says she’ll ‘never get married again’

Marriage is not in Drew Barrymore‘s future. The 45-year-old actress recently spoke to People magazine about her upcoming daytime talk show, “The Drew Barrymore Show,” and revealed full story

Ronald ‘Khalis’ Bell, Kool & the Gang co-founder, dead at 68

Kool & the Gang co-founder and singer, Ronald “Khalis” Bell, is dead. He was 68. Bell passed away in the U.S. Virgin Islands at his home on Wednesday morning with full story

Justin Timberlake invests in effort to bring MLB team to Nashville

Superstar Tennessee native Justin Timberlake is backing an effort to bring Major League Baseball to Nashville. Music City Baseball, a group leading the push to bring the would-be Nashville Stars into full story

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Policy And Politics

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The Democrats’ national convention shone a spotlight on Texas’ emerging bench

During their party's national convention this week, Democrats got a glimpse of their roster of up-and-coming leaders. Among them were at least four Texans full story

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Facebook Braces Itself for Trump to Cast Doubt on Election Results

The world’s biggest social network is working out what steps to take should President Trump use its platform to dispute the vote.

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Trump Goes on Offensive, Starting With an Attack on Harris

“At stake in this election is the survival of our nation, it’s true,” Mr. Trump told a small crowd in a Pennsylvania town not full story


Projects

Walmart says all customers will be required to wear masks

Walmart will require customers to wear masks in its more than 5,000 stores in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the full story

Iconic department store Lord & Taylor to close all stores

After nearly two centuries in business, Lord & Taylor, America’s first department store, is liquidating all of its assets and closing its doors. The full story

McDonald’s adds spicy McNuggets to menu

McDonald’s is debuting two new menu items that will bring plenty of heat and something cool and sweet to customers in an effort to full story