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...BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street have come under particular fire because their funds collectively control about 20 per cent of most large US companies....
...Charlotte is in North Carolina, not South Carolina as stated in an earlier version of this story....
..., whose Supreme Court victory over Harvard and the University of North Carolina last year effectively ended race-based affirmative action in college admissions....
...Rescue officials told local media that at least seven people had been pulled into the water, with a fire department spokesperson calling the incident a “mass-casualty event”....
...over high casualties and a deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza....
...Art Pope, chair of a North Carolina-based retail chain and a Haley donor, says he will never vote for Biden, but is undecided on Trump....
...“There were no casualties and a fire on board the tanker has been extinguished,” said a defence department spokesperson....
...the town north-east of Donetsk....
...Everyone took me seriously and a lot of people cried with me. I’m talking to hardworking north country Canadian dudes and three hours later they’re dabbing away [tears]. It wounded people badly.”...
...The US property and casualty insurance industry has suffered through a summer of devastating thunderstorms on the continent....
...Last year’s event included dancers styled by Carolina Herrera creative director Wes Gordon and guest vocalists such as Vanessa Williams and Patti LuPone....
...Patrick McHenry, a Republican congressman from North Carolina and close McCarthy ally, has been designated “Speaker pro tempore” to lead the chamber in the absence of an elected Speaker....
...Because the book ends in early 2023, it tells a story of gritty defence, rising casualties and destruction, and then success as Ukraine’s forces recapture territory in the north-east and Kherson above Crimea...
...In the US, the rate has climbed to 4.9 per cent, with casualties this year including car dealership Carvana, National CineMedia and infrastructure services group QualTek....
...Security camera footage captured the moment of the explosion at the plant in Sergiev Posad, a small city and popular tourist destination 70km north of Moscow....
...The roll-call of oil and gas producers reporting sharp drops in profits continues this week, with Pioneer Natural Resources, Devon Energy and Occidental Petroleum all posting 50 per cent-plus slides in their...
...Mexico is the second-biggest trading partner of the US, and American investment in its southern neighbour has soared in the wake of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, which later became the USMCA...
...Nato armies also rely on a vast array of bespoke satellites and communications systems to target and fire precision-guided munitions....
...On Friday, North Carolina treasurer Dale Folwell called for founder Larry Fink to resign or be removed as chief executive of the $8tn asset manager....
...It is one of the reasons Ukraine didn’t have the same trajectory as Russia,” says Silviya Nitsova, an expert on oligarchs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....
...They rejected the Harvard and University of North Carolina programmes that give a boost to minority students for violating the constitutional guarantee of equal protection under the law....
...One of the largest US railroad companies is facing lawsuits and mounting anger after a train carrying hazardous materials derailed in a rural community in Ohio earlier this month....
...The smell of peppermint and eucalyptus bathes the top-floor practice room, with its exposed brick walls and crackling wood fire, in a warm and tranquil haze....
...Contending that the firm was hostile to fossil fuel, Republican states have pulled more than $3bn in funds from BlackRock and North Carolina’s treasurer has called for the ouster of founder Larry Fink from...
...University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....
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