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Senator Flake, a Republican, Explains Why He Didn’t Vote for Trump

That is on Page 5. On Page 6, he notes that Trump is in the regular habit of destabilizing the American people, not just foreign leaders. On Page 29, he says the word “Orwellian” “seems quaint now, inadequate to our moment.” On Page 30, he denounces the “embrace of ‘alternative …

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Review: ‘Park Plays’ Draw Inspiration From the Queens Landscape

Photo From left, Monique Robinson, Patrice Bell and Juanita Frederick in “G.O.A.T.” Credit Dominick Totino She is the greatest of all time, so magnificent that these three devotees need not even utter her name as they gather to burn sage in her honor. Serena Williams is their own personal deity, …

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Hertz shares plunge after Barclays downgrades rental car service

Hertz shares plunged 21 percent on Monday after Barclays downgraded the rental car company to underweight. Barclays chastised Wall Street for driving up Hertz’s stock price 99 percent from June 21 through July 28, saying it “ignores the challenges ahead” in Hertz’s earnings recovery. Before the bump, shares of Hertz …

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Will Shark Lovers Love ‘Unabomber’? Asking for a Cable Network.

“Manhunt: Unabomber” might seem an incongruity in a schedule anchored with shows like “Naked and Afraid” and “Deadliest Catch.” But not to John Goldwyn, a producer who had worked with Mr. Ross on the Fox series “Gracepoint” and on another good fact-based series for Discovery, “Harley and the Davidsons.” Photo …

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Treasury sanctions Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

Miraflores Palace | Handout | Reuters Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro gestures as he speaks during a meeting with representatives of pharmaceutical sector, in Caracas. The Treasury Department slapped sanctions on Nicolas Maduro on Monday, alleging that Venezuela’s president has attempted to undermine democracy and the rule of law in his …

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There’s a 99% chance stock market returns will be subpar from here

Investors may be in for disappointing market returns in the decade to come with valuations at levels this high, if history is any indication. Analysts at Goldman Sachs pointed out that annualized returns on the S&P 500 10 years out were in the single digits or negative 99 percent of …

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2 Chainz’s Style? It’s More Like 7 Chains

Photo “I sleep in like three or four chains,” the rapper 2 Chainz says. “I get up and add two to three more.” Credit Nathan Bajar for The New York Times The rapper 2 Chainz (born Tauheed Epps) loves jewelry so much that he usually wears more than two chains …

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ETF assets top $3 trillion after huge July inflows

Tetra Images | Getty Images ETFs are traded on exchanges, so they can be bought and sold like stocks through a brokerage. Not everyone is convinced rates are going to remain low forever. After lagging all year, money has finally started to flow into financials, clearly a bet that rates …

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Oil rises above $50 for first time in 2 months…then retreats

U.S. crude oil on Monday briefly broke through the key psychological level of $50 a barrel for the first time in two months. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude touched a session high of $50.06 in overnight trading, its highest intraday level since May 30. The fresh 9-week high came after …

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Oppenheimer raises S&P 500 forecast to second-most bullish on Wall Street

Pablo Blazquez Dominguez | Getty Images Bulls running during the San Fermin Running of the Bulls festival on July 9, 2016 in Pamplona, Spain. Oppenheimer’s John Stoltzfus raised his year-end S&P 500 target 200 points on Monday, based on expectations of better earnings and economic growth. U.S. economic growth of …

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