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Company is returning to powered flights

Getty Images George Whitesides, CEO of Virgin Galactic, stands inside Virgin Galactic’s new LauncherOne facility March 6, 2015 in Long Beach, California. Virgin Galactic chief executive George Whitesides said his company will soon return to powered flights for the first time in three years. “We’re ready to go into powered …

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Google buying HTC, report says

Beck Diefenbach | Reuters Brian Rakowski, VP of Product Management at Google, speaks about the Pixel phone, during the presentation of new Google hardware in San Francisco, California, U.S. A report from a Taiwanese news outlet called Commercial Times says Google is in the final stages of acquiring all or …

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Review: ‘Top of the Lake: China Girl’ Soaks in Mood More Than Logic

Photo Elisabeth Moss and Alice Englert in “Top of the Lake: China Girl.” Credit Lisa Tomasetti/SundanceTV, See-Saw Films Elisabeth Moss is a vessel for cultural misogyny. Her TV characters have been harassed, sexually assaulted, threatened, degraded, lied to and betrayed. How much sexist abuse can befall one person? Oh, plenty. …

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Buy cybersecurity stock FireEye due to its big upgrade cycle: Morgan Stanley

Beck Diefenbach | Reuters FireEye information analysts work at the company’s office in Milpitas, California. Investors should buy FireEye shares because a survey of its customers points to robust sales ahead for the company, according to Morgan Stanley, which raised its rating on the security firm to overweight from equal-weight. …

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Hollywood actors earn far more money than actresses

Eddy Chen/ABC via Getty Images Emma Stone took home the award for best actress at the 2017 Oscars for her performance in La La Land “Compared to men, in most professions, women make 80 cents to the dollar,” Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman tells Marie Claire. “In Hollywood we are making …

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Review: ‘Pinocchio,’ the Opera, Is a Hit For a Renovated Theater

Photo Stéphane Degout in Philippe Boesmans’s “Pinocchio” at La Monnaie in Brussels. Mr. Degout plays a theater director who also slips into roles of a crook, a murderer and a circus ringleader. Credit Patrick Berger/ArtComPress BRUSSELS — A major opera house opened its season with a contemporary work on Wednesday. …

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With Florida under hurricane watch, here’s how to change travel plans

Al Diaz | Miami Herald | Getty Images Tourists Erica Bourke of Australia and Jacob Botha of South Africa wait for a Greyhound bus on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017 as they evacuate Key Largo in anticipation of the arrival of Hurricane Irma. It’s still too early to say what impact …

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Investors bailing on insurers even though industry can handle Irma

Al Diaz | Miami Herald | TNS | Getty Images Ben Cosme installs hurricane shutters at Key Largo Chocolates in Key Largo, Florida in preparation for Hurricane Irma on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. Florida’s situation is somewhat unique: Most of the mainline insurers have fled the state, leaving a good …

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Review: Resonant Bodies Festival, a Summer Camp for Singers

The most telling paean to the Resonant Bodies Festival at its opening night on Tuesday came from the vocalist and composer Theo Bleckmann, who took the stage first. Thanking the audience for coming, he said that the festival, this year at Roulette in Brooklyn, had organized the most impressive backstage …

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Trump claims ‘dreamer’ recipients ‘have nothing to worry about’

Getty Images President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a meeting with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Orrin Hatch, other members of congress and his administration regarding tax reform in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on …

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