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Moderate House Republicans warn of trouble for tax reform

Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images Republican Representative from North Carolina Mark Meadows speaks to reporters after a meeting of the House Freedom Caucus to discuss the healthcare bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 23, 2017. Twenty moderate Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives warned …

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Review: ‘The House’ Is a Comedy Built on Despair

Photo From left, Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler and Jason Mantzoukas reveling in their profits in “The House.” Credit Glenn Wilson/Warner Brothers Pictures “The House,” a new comedy starring Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler, has arrived in theaters without advance screenings for critics. I know better than to take it personally …

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Listening to the Piece That Made Chopin’s Career

Photo Jan Lisiecki Credit Holger Hage “Hats off, gentleman — a genius!” This enthusiastic phrase comes from an influential and oft-quoted article by Robert Schumann, from his early days as a music critic. Schumann was extolling Frédéric Chopin’s Variations on “Là ci darem la mano” for Piano and Orchestra, based …

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Canada’s Comedy, the Voice of a Polite Nation, Rises in the Trump Era

‘We Will Always Default to Superiority’ President Trump’s election has been a boon to Canadian comedians, and not just for the quirks and the missteps that have made him a focus of American comedy. Here, Trump jokes often come with the punch line that his election proves Canada’s superiority. Continue …

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Micron shares fall, pushing chip stocks lower

Kai Pfaffenbach | Reuters A booth of Micron Technology at an industrial fair in Frankfurt, Germany, July 14, 2015. Shares of Micron Technology fell on Friday, dragging the broader chips sector lower. The iShares PHLX Semiconductor exchange-traded fund (SOXX) slipped 0.2 percent, with Micron falling about 4 percent to lead …

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Police respond to active shooter situation in NYC hospital

Google Earth Google Map where an active shooting was reported at 1650 Grand Concourse in the Bronx, New York on June 30th, 2017. Local authorities told NBC News they were responding to an active shooter incident at the Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center in New York City on Friday afternoon. Multiple …

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Armed conflict in Gulf is a growing risk, analysts say

“It’s escalated to a stage where it’s very difficult for both sides to back down,” Firas Modad, analyst at IHS Markit, told CNBC this week. The demands include non-starters such as shutting down Al Jazeera news and closing a Turkish military base. The coalition also calls on Qatar to end …

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‘Hamlet,’ a New Opera, Makes Shakespeare Strange

With this endless proliferation of Hamlets, what more is there to say — or sing? Envisioning an opera made from the play is especially daunting, because so much must be cut in the translation; setting all 4,000 of Shakespeare’s lines to music could easily create an epic as long as …

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Tintri and Blue Apron IPOs reflect high private market valuations

Lucas Jackson | Reuters Traders work on the floor of the Exchange ahead of the Blue Apron IPO on the New York Stock Exchange in New York, June 29, 2017 First Blue Apron, now Tintri. It’s been a lousy week for tech initial public offerings, so rough for Tintri that …

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Boeing, Lockheed Martin’s United Launch Alliance beats SpaceX to win Air Force launch

Red Huber | Orlando Sentinel | TNS | Getty Images The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasts off on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016, carrying the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex-41. United Launch Alliance, a partnership of Lockheed Martin and Boeing, for the first …

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