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Trump to nominate NFL team owner Johnson as US ambassador to Britain

Clodagh Kilcoyne | Reuters The Union Flag flies near the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain, June 7, 2017. President Donald Trump will nominate National Football League team owner Woody Johnson as U.S. ambassador to Britain, the White House said on Thursday. Johnson, a billionaire investor and owner of the …

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Edit DeAk, a Champion of Outsider Artists, Dies at 68

Attuned to the emerging alternative galleries and performance spaces in downtown Manhattan, the journal, published out of Ms. DeAk’s SoHo loft, turned the spotlight on art at the margins: performance art, video art, conceptual art and outsider art. She had a special affection for street art, which she once called …

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SpaceX aims for rarefied air with upcoming launches

Getty Images | Robyn Beck Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX With its pair of launches on Friday and Sunday, SpaceX hopes to demonstrate its rocket services can be a cost-effective, rapid-turnaround means of reaching the final frontier. No private company has successfully launched two rockets in a 48-hour …

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After-hours buzz: SONC, BBBY & more

Kevin Hagen | Getty Images News | Getty Images Traders finish the day at the NYSE after markets took a sharp turn downward after news reports of former FBI Director James Comey’s interactions with President Trump on May 17, 2017. Check out which companies are making headlines after the bell: …

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Expo 2017: Utopia, Rebooted – The New York Times

Far more people came to Expo 67 than expected, at a time when Canada’s entire population was just 20 million, and the islands were more than just a fairground. They were a cosmopolitan pleasure garden, a place to see and be seen. The swankiest Expo denizens were the 1,800 or …

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YouTube Cannes Lions interview with YouTube’s Suzanne Daniels

Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Susan Wojcicki, chief executive officer of YouTube Inc., introduces the company’s new television subscription service at the YouTube Space LA venue in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. Google made headlines at the start of the Cannes Lions Advertising …

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YouTube claims 1.5 billion monthly users

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Susan Wojcicki, chief executive officer of YouTube. Google’s YouTube unit says it now reaches 1.5 billion viewers every month — and its users watch more than an hour of mobile videos per day — as it adds more videos it can use …

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Parks for Everyone – The New York Times

Slide Show Slide Show|25 Photos Parks for Everyone Parks for Everyone CreditNina Westervelt for The New York Times Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts held its opening night gala on June 17 at its home in Katonah, N.Y. The Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, N.Y., held a …

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Humana out of individual market, with or without Obamacare repeal

Peter Foley | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bruce Broussard, CEO, Humana Humana will not return to the individual insurance market after it exits the Obamacare exchanges this year, a market that Republicans are trying to repeal and replace through new legislation, Humana’s top executive said on Thursday. Republicans in the …

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Trump open to looser drone regulations in meeting

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump walks toward Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Executives from several drone companies who met with President Trump at the White House lobbied hard for looser rules for their industry and found …

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