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Before competing at her first pageant, all Alma Cooper had was just her mom and a dream.She competed at Miss Michigan Teen USA 2016 in a dress from Facebook Marketplace, which her mother had bejeweled with hundreds of beads.”I can’t even put into words this surreal feeling,” Cooper told Business…
The West should send Ukraine the kind of weapons it needs to inflict a lasting, strategic defeat on Russia, NATO countries on the front lines of the military alliance said Tuesday.The defense ministers of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — the three Baltic states that border Russia and staunch supporters of…
Some single Chinese women — fatigued from the social stigma of being unmarried and childless — are opting to run away altogether.These women — mostly millennials in their mid to late 30s — are taking to the Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu to talk about their great escape to the…
Kendrick Lamar cemented his win in his rap beef with Drake at an LA show on Wednesday where he performed a diss track five times, surrounded by rap legends. But the Juneteenth concert wasn’t just a victory lap, with fans viewing it as an iconic moment in hip-hop history and…
By Nivedita Balu TORONTO (Reuters) – Canadian lender National Bank’s expansion from east to west, rather than following Canada’s big banks south of the border, could help secure growth, analysts and investors said. The Quebec-based bank’s C$5 billion ($3.65 billion) deal to buy Alberta’s Canadian Western Bank (TSX:), announced on…
When Russia first invaded Ukraine, the West slapped Moscow with swathes of sanctions in an attempt to cripple its finances and force it to end the war quickly.However, more than two years later, the war is ongoing and the Kremlin is touting its robust economy.But it’s not because the sanctions…
The US miscalculated when it imposed harsh sanctions on Russia, and not only has Vladimir Putin’s economy weathered the impact, but the West is facing the negative effects of the economic restrictions it imposed. That’s according to Jeff Rubin, an economist who thinks the West may have opened “Pandora’s box of…
Happy total solar eclipse day! More than 30 million people can see the moon obscure the sun today. Here’s a guide for where you need to be and when to get the best view.But first, it’s a building bonanza.If this was forwarded to you, sign up here.The big storyThe return…
Kanye West was hit Tuesday with another lawsuit related to his private Christian school, Donda Academy.Former Donda staffer Trevor Phillips alleged Ye on several occasions threatened staff and students.Phillips, who’s seeking $35,000 in damages, also claims Ye often praised or compared himself to Hitler. A former employee of Kanye West’s…
By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila and Joe Bavier SAMREBOI, Ghana (Reuters) – Surveying the stripped landscape of her farm – dotted with pools of cyanide-tainted, tea coloured waste water left by illegal gold miners – is enough to make Janet Gyamfi break down. Only last year, the 27-hectare plot in western…
