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Man Pleads Guilty To Poaching Black Bear On Reservation

ST. PAUL, Minn.: A man accused of shooting a 700-pound black bear on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota and removing its head pleaded guilty Thursday, although his lawyer alleges that only half of the federal government’s story is accurate. Brett Stimac, 41, of Brainerd, Minnesota, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of wildlife trafficking […]

Business

U.S. Pushes Large Arms Sale to Taiwan, Including Jet Missiles That Can Hit China

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is pushing the sale of seven large packages of weapons to Taiwan, including long-range missiles that would allow Taiwanese jets to hit distant Chinese targets in the event of a conflict, say officials familiar with the proposals. If approved by Congress, the packages, valued in the billions, would be one […]

Sports

Kansas City Chiefs seek improved goal-line running from Clyde Edwards-Helaire

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs found much to like in running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire‘s NFL debut last week. He rushed for 138 yards and leads the league through the first week of the season. But Edwards-Helaire has one area to improve: his running near the opposing goal line. He gained negative-2 yards […]

Technology

Unity prices IPO above range at $52, valuing company at $13.7 billion

Unity CEO John Riccitiello speaks onstage during Day 1 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 5, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Steve Jennings | TechCrunch | Getty Images Video game software developer Unity priced its IPO above the expected range on Thursday in an offering that initially values the company at […]

Politics

Breaking down the Brexit border problem

The UK government has been heavily criticised for planning to override part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement that it reached with the EU. It acknowledges that doing so would break international law. At the heart of the latest Brexit escalation is the thorny issue of where customs checks should be between the UK and the […]

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A ‘Medicane’ Is Bearing Down on Greece

A rare Mediterranean cyclone began to rake western Greece with heavy rains on Thursday and was expected to slam into the country in full force on Friday, with hurricane-force wind and life-threatening flooding in some places, forecasters said. Cyclone Ianos is an example of what meteorologists sometimes call a Medicane — a powerful type of […]

Sports

Australia won 20 Super League points after winning the series | क्रिकेट: सीरीज जीतने पर ऑस्ट्रेलिया को मिले 20 सुपर लीग प्वाइंटस

डिजिटल डेस्क, मैनचेस्टर। ऑस्ट्रेलिया ने इंग्लैंड के साथ तीन मैचों की वनडे सीरीज 2-1 से जीतने के बाद आईसीसी विश्व कप सुपर लीग में 20 प्वाइंटस हासिल कर लिए हैं। ऑस्ट्रेलिया ने मैन आफ द मैच ग्लैन मैक्सवेल (108) और एलेक्स कैरी (106) के बीच छठे विकेट के लिए हुई 212 रनों की मैच जिताऊ साझेदारी […]

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Bytedance Plans Tiktok IPO As US Deal Talks Advance: Report

Donald Trump ordered ByteDance last month to divest TikTok (File) China’s ByteDance is planning a US initial public offering of TikTok Global, the new company that will operate the popular short video app, should its proposed deal be cleared by the US government, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. ByteDance is racing to […]

Business

A wave of job searches has yet to come.

When the federal government’s $600 weekly supplemental benefit for recipients of unemployment insurance expired at the end of July, ZipRecruiter, an online employment marketplace, expected a huge wave of searches to follow. But it never materialized. “Job seeker numbers are pretty flat,” said Julia Pollak, labor economist at ZipRecruiter. “People still expect to get their […]

Technology

Poco X3 launch confirmed in India: Launch details, specifications

Poco is on a launch streak in India. The company first launched the Poco M2 Pro in the month of July then launched its younger sibling the Poco M2 just a few weeks earlier. Now the company is all set to launch the Poco X3 in India after unveiling it at a global event earlier […]