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...At the Sawyer Ice House bar on the outskirts of downtown Houston on Thursday evening, the after-work crowd spilled in to watch the local Astros baseball team take on the New York Yankees....
...At a recent State Dinner at the White House, we finished with jazz musician Jon Batiste, who brought a playful element to the night....
...At some point, she began discussing her case with America’s most prominent #MeToo lawyer....
...“The ice cube has been melting....
...The firestorm led to Griffin testifying at the House of Representatives’ financial services committee hearing on the GameStop saga last month....
...Waffle House, a popular restaurant in America’s Deep South, has reopened in-house dining in about 400 of its locations in Georgia and Tennessee, two states where Republican governors have moved swiftly to...
...In early March, Donald Trump summoned the chief executives of Bank of America, Citigroup and other large lenders to the White House, while Rishi Sunak, the UK chancellor, has held meetings and calls with...
...Flat sales in the Americas have compensated for weakness in Asia but that’s likely to be a timing issue....
...(Reuters) Bank Winter on thin ice How one of Austria’s oldest and most opaque finance houses became embroiled in an alleged money-laundering scandal that saw millions of euros of dirty Russian money move...
...Those hexagonal blocks could heat up to melt ice and snow without salting, meaning residents would never again slip and fall on frosty pavements....
...There were Fashion Houses and then there were houses where you talked fashion, and ours was one of those....
...(FT) For more, click here to receive our House & Home Unlocked newsletter....
...Imagine if, after Columbus’s voyage to the Americas, no European had repeated the journey for half a century....
...(WaPo) Girls v Boys The US Girl Scouts are suing the Boy Scouts after it dropped “Boy” from its programme name....
...The company hopes to establish a mining base and meet the White House goal of establishing the moon as the first step in more distant space exploration....
...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
...She had joined the trading floor in the 1990s as a “specialist” for JJC (later a unit of Bank of America), where she eventually handled the shares of companies such as Hershey Foods and Ambac Financial....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...Gerson, WaPo) Political sideshow How Obama made humour history The Obama White House has deftly used humour – at the White House Correspondents’ dinner, for instance – to advance his agenda....
...Here is the rest of the economic calendar (UK time): 08.00: Spanish inflation (final reading) 09.00: Italian industrial production 09.30: UK inflation 09.30: UK house prices 10.00: Eurozone employment 10.00...
...The move highlights how the Singapore-listed trading house — one of Asia’s largest by volume — is prepared to sell cash-generating operations in order to cut its net debt of $3.7bn and to raise more money...
...(WaPo) Clinton v Trump: clash of the operatives David Brock and Roger Stone are masters of the dark arts of politics – 2016 will be their greatest canvas....
...Equity trading comprises about 10 per cent of its revenues (and 7 per cent of the revenues of ICE)....
...That has allowed Mr Sprecher to amass 11 exchanges and seven clearing houses in a portfolio that makes ICE the dominant global operator in key financial products that influence everything from the crude...
...If euro-denominated securities clearing was restricted to the eurozone, it could, however, route the business through its Holland Clearing House....
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