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Young immigrant files lawsuit challenging Trump administration’s DACA decision

Claudia Torrens | AP Martin Batalla Vidal, who was born in Mexico, poses in Brooklyn, New York, Friday, Aug. 26th 2016. Vidal has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government in order to recover the three-year work permit that was given to him as part of one of President Barack …

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German Police Uncover $3 Million Art Heist, Including Baselitz Work

BERLIN — The boisterous sculptures and strident upside-down paintings of the Neo-Expressionist Georg Baselitz are known the world over. But when more than $3 million worth of works from his personal collection, including some he had created, disappeared from a German storage depot, it took months before anyone noticed. Prosecutors …

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HPE’s Meg Whitman says she’s not leaving after Uber CEO search

Drew Angerer | Getty Images Meg Whitman, chief executive officer of Hewlett Packard (HP), on July 6, 2016. HPE CEO Meg Whitman on Tuesday gave her clearest comments yet on her commitment to the company following reports that she was in the running to be the next CEO of taxi …

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Colin Trevorrow leaves Disney’s ‘Star Wars: Episode IX’

Getty Images Director Colin Trevorrow attends the premiere of Walt Disney Pictures and Lucasfilm’s ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ at the Dolby Theatre on December 14, 2015 in Hollywood, California. Colin Trevorrow will no longer direct “Star Wars: Episode IX.” The split was mutual, Lucasfilm said in a statement. “Colin …

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To View Clyfford Still Retrospective, Just Click

Photo A self-portrait of Clyfford Still, 1929. Credit All Rights reserved, Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO. City and County of Denver/VAGA, New York Among the Abstract Expressionists, Clyfford Still was the un-New Yorker. After living for a short time in Manhattan, Mr. Still, in 1961, moved to Westminster, Md., where …

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White House says Trump wants comprehensive immigration reform, not just DACA bill

Getty Images President Donald Trump makes an announcement on the introduction of the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy (RAISE) Act in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on August 2, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump wants more than a bill from Congress addressing the Deferred …

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Here are JPMorgan’s top internet stock picks for the second half

Akio Kon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Reed Hastings, chief executive officer of Netflix, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Monday, June 27, 2016. JPMorgan’s research team shared its top internet stock picks for the second half of the year, as workers returned from the Labor Day holiday …

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‘We want to step back from the brink’ on North Korea: Former ambassador

KCNA | Reuters North Korean leader Kim Jong Un participates in a meeting with the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang September 4, 2017. On Sunday, …

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Faulkner and Other Ghosts Sing Through Jesmyn Ward’s New Novel

These are Jojo’s burdens. His gifts include a devoted grandfather and an ability to communicate with animals and ghosts that runs in the blood. His mother can see the ghost of her slain brother — but only when she’s high. She gets high a lot. Photo Credit Sonny Figueroa/The New …

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Trump’s top advisors discuss tax initiatives at White House summit

Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump hosts a lunch with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (L) and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R) at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 1, 2017. Business groups like the RATE Coalition have supported the idea of tax reform, the promise …

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