Month: November 2019

As E.U. and U.S. officials meet in New York this week for the 15th round of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations, a new report warns of how the corporate-friendly, increasingly unpopular deal could “lock in” high drug prices and “help entrench a broken medical innovation system.” Specifically, the analysis explains how expanding intellectual […]

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Israel and Facebook will team up to delete content the country views as inciting violence, the Associated Press reports Monday. “The joint Facebook-Israel censorship efforts, needless to say, will be directed at Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians who oppose Israeli occupation,” Glenn Greenwald writes at The Intercept. The development follows a meeting in Tel Aviv between […]

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You know what they say: Couples who slay together, stay together. Just ask Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux, the lovebirds killed it in coordinating head-to-toe black ensembles for the launch of Louis Vuitton’s collaboration with artist Jeff Koons at the Louvre in Paris Tuesday night. Aniston sizzled in a plunging bustier by the French fashion […]

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The world’s richest nations have failed to agree on a deadline to phase out fossil fuels subsidies—a commitment energy ministers made in 2009—stirring new fears over the impact of the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars that go toward keeping dirty energy afloat every year. Energy ministers from the Group of 20 (G20) met in […]

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The broadcast of the 2017 Billboard Latin Music Awards, which took place last night in Miami, was an evening to remember for the Spanish-music industry. Before the festivities began, celebrities like Becky G, Eva Longoria and Jackie Cruz were stunning the crowds in their fashion on the red carpet but it was Jennifer Lopez who stole the […]

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One week after the collapse of a tenuous ceasefire, tensions between the United States and the Russian-Syrian alliance appear to be at a boiling point, while the consequence of that political fall-out is “nothing short of a human catastrophe.” At an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Sunday, western powers blatantly […]

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Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth rarely walk the red carpet as a couple, but Thor: Ragnarok‘s Los Angeles premiere was the exception to their rule. And you can thank future brother-in-law and older sibling Chris Hemsworth for the isolated loved-up appearance.  The duo looked totally smitten while supporting Thor himself at Tuesday night’s event, with both Cyrus and […]

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