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China expresses ‘strong dissatisfaction’ with US intellectual property probe

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump walks to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, July 24, 2017. China on Monday expressed “strong dissatisfaction” with the U.S. launch of an investigation into China’s alleged theft of …

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Topple a Confederate Statue? This Broadway Musical Already Did.

“It was meant to be shocking — it would have been very daring in 1963,” Mr. Kushner said in an interview on Friday. He said that he could not have anticipated the events of the past few days, but added: “I really hoped it would happen someday. I did take …

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French designer in costly dispute over Pitt-Jolie chateau

MICHEL GANGNE | AFP | Getty Images An aerial view taken on May 31, 2008 in Le Val, southeastern France, shows the Chateau Miraval, a vineyard estate owned by US businessman Tom Bove. US actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are relocating to the chateau, a local official told AFP …

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Maersk agrees to sell oil unit to Total in $7.45 bln deal

Balint Porneczi | Bloomberg | Getty Images A crane loads a shipping container branded AP Moller-Maersk A/S onto the freight ship. The company fell victim to a widespread cyberattack on June 27, 2017. Denmark’s A.P. Moller-Maersk said Monday it had agreed to sell its oil and gas division, Maersk Oil, …

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Russia’s Rosneft closes deal to buy 49 pct stake in India’s Essar Oil

Stanislav Zalesov | Kommersant | Getty Images Worker at Vankor Field, operated by Russian national oil company Rosneft, in Igarka, Russia. Russia’s largest oil producer Rosneft said on Monday it had successfully closed a deal to buy a 49 percent stake in Indian private refiner Essar Oil Limited (EOL). An …

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What’s on TV Monday: The Great American Eclipse and ‘The Good Karma Hospital’

Photo Images of the sun taken by NASA satellites from “Eclipse Over America,” on “Nova.” Credit WGBH Today is all about the great American eclipse, and there’s a viewing option for almost anyone. Elsewhere, Acorn TV heads to India with “The Good Karma Hospital,” an escapist medical melodrama. What’s on …

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Drugmaker Hikma’s U.S. unit raises medicine prices

Michael Fein | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee works in a lab at Momenta Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hikma Pharmaceuticals Plc’s U.S. subsidiary has raised the price of a common diarrhea drug by more than 400 percent and is charging more for five other medicines as well, the Financial …

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Bankrupt Energy Future Holdings abandons $9 billion deal to sell Oncor to Warren Buffett

Matt Nager | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Luminant Lake Hubbard natural gas power plant, a subsidiary of Texas Energy Future Holdings, stands in Dallas, Texas, U.S., on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. Bankrupt Texas utility Energy Future Holdings will abandon a deal to sell power transmission company Oncor to Warren …

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‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7, Episode 6: Seeing Is Believing

In other words: It. Is. On. [Want exclusive “Game of Thrones” explainers as well as the internet’s best articles on this week’s episode? Sign up for our Season 7 newsletter here.] The episode picked up where we left off last week, with seven heroes and a fungible number of Wildling …

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Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Patricia Williams Goes From Crime to Comedy

What’s the most surprising thing you learned while writing it? When you’ve been abused, a lot of times you protect the person who abused you. I had no idea I was protecting those people, which is my mom and my kids’ father. Jeannine would say, “Do you understand you’re protecting …

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