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One Broken Bone? You May Be at Risk for Another

One Broken Bone? You May Be at Risk for Another

Contrary to current guidelines, the authors wrote, “our study’s results are clinically important because, in contrast to a nontraumatic fracture, a fracture that is considered traumatic often does not trigger further evaluation for osteoporosis or counseling regarding increased subsequent fracture risk.” However, they added, “high-trauma and low-trauma fractures show similar associations with low…

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A.C.L.U. Apologizes for Tweet That Altered Quote by Justice Ginsburg

A.C.L.U. Apologizes for Tweet That Altered Quote by Justice Ginsburg

Anthony Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said Monday that he regretted that a tweet sent out recently by his organization altered the words of a well-known quote by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The A.C.L.U. tweet, which was sent out Sept. 18, changed Justice Ginsburg’s words, replacing each of her references to women with “person,”…

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Dentist Association Takes Scalpel to Medicare Proposal | The Motley Fool

Dentist Association Takes Scalpel to Medicare Proposal | The Motley Fool

America’s largest dentist lobby group has a plan for Democrats’ hallmark $3.5 trillion domestic policy bill: extraction. As part of the package, party leaders want to extend dental benefits to the 60 million older and disabled Americans on Medicare. But the American Dental Association said yesterday it wants a compromise that would pluck out the perk only for those who are really strapped for…

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Canada Doubles Its Afghan Refugee Resettlement Target to 40,000 People

Canada Doubles Its Afghan Refugee Resettlement Target to 40,000 People

Canada has doubled to 40,000 the number of Afghans fleeing the Taliban that it plans to take in, the Canadian foreign minister said Monday, fulfilling a campaign pledge made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The announcement, which came a week after Mr. Trudeau’s party won re-election, was certain to be welcomed by humanitarian groups in Canada. They had been pressing the government to do…

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NBC Channels on Youtube TV Could Go Dark Thursday As Companies Feud | The Motley Fool

NBC Channels on Youtube TV Could Go Dark Thursday As Companies Feud | The Motley Fool

NBCUniversal is threatening a lot of cancellations this Fall TV season — warning customers with YouTube TV accounts that over a dozen of its networks could disappear from the platform this week in a petty public throwdown between the old and new media giants. NBCU’s deal with the subscription service expires on Thursday, and NBCU wants more money in a renewal — but YouTube’s owner, Google, has…

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Man Who Blackmailed Girls to Send Explicit Images Is Sentenced to 20 Years

Man Who Blackmailed Girls to Send Explicit Images Is Sentenced to 20 Years

A man in Washington State who posed as a teenager online and blackmailed girls as young as 12 across the country to send him sexually explicit photos and videos was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison, the federal authorities said. The man, Joshua Henry Punt, 39, of Ridgefield, Wash., pleaded guilty in April to using the messaging apps Kik and Snapchat to connect with the girls, pressure…

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Blackstone Sells Cosmopolitan Casino And Hotel For $5.65 Billion | The Motley Fool

Blackstone Sells Cosmopolitan Casino And Hotel For $5.65 Billion | The Motley Fool

To paraphrase the immortal words of Kenny Rogers: You gotta know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em, know when to walk away… and know when to sell your 3,000-room hotel, casino, nightclub, and resort for billions of dollars. That’s the tune investment management group Blackstone was singing Monday when it announced it had cashed in Las Vegas’s Cosmopolitan for a cool $5.65 billion. Betting…

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American Siblings Barred From Leaving China for 3 Years Return to U.S.

American Siblings Barred From Leaving China for 3 Years Return to U.S.

Victor and Cynthia Liu, American siblings who had been barred from leaving China for more than three years, returned to the United States on Saturday, said their lawyer, Marc Ginsberg. Victor Liu, a student at Georgetown University, and Cynthia Liu, a consultant at McKinsey & Company, went to China in June 2018 to visit their ailing grandfather. On the trip, their mother, also an American…

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Finding Memories, and Mom’s Sewing Stuff, in a Reused Cookie Tin

Finding Memories, and Mom’s Sewing Stuff, in a Reused Cookie Tin

It was a tweet heard round the internet. Two images, side by side: two regal blue Royal Dansk tins, filled with sugar-studded butter cookies slotted in white wrappers, next to an identical tin with a much less enticing assortment of buttons and thread. Written beneath the first image, “My fall plans.” Under the second, “The Delta variant.” The tweet in August, which followed a popular meme about…

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Marcus Rashford Targets Return for Manchester United After International Break

Marcus Rashford Targets Return for Manchester United After International Break

Marcus Rashford has been out of motion on account of an operation on his shoulder (Twitter) Manchester United’s first sport after the worldwide break will likely be away to Leicester within the Premier League on Oct. 16. Marcus Rashford is focusing on a return to the Manchester United group following the upcoming worldwide break, three months after his final aggressive sport the European…

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English club Gloucestershire apologises to ex-player David Lawrence over racist abuse

English club Gloucestershire apologises to ex-player David Lawrence over racist abuse

The previous England quick bowler recounted the incidents in a Sky Sports activities documentary in regards to the experiences of black cricket gamers and officers in England and Wales known as ‘You Guys Are Historical past’ English county cricket membership Gloucestershire have apologised “unreservedly” to retired Check bowler David Lawrence for failing to analyze incidents of racist abuse he…

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Rising Treasury Yields Hit Tech Stocks; Oil At 3-year Highs

Rising Treasury Yields Hit Tech Stocks; Oil At 3-year Highs

NEW YORK:U.S. authorities borrowing prices superior for a sixth week on Monday, hurting tech shares, on bets that larger rates of interest have been on the best way, whereas power shares rose as oil costs hit three-year highs. An easing in Sino-U.S. tensions and Chinese language authorities’ determination to pump in extra cash to offset the fallout from actual property agency Evergrande’s woes…

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North Korea Launches Projectile as Country’s Envoy Speaks at U.N.

North Korea Launches Projectile as Country’s Envoy Speaks at U.N.

SEOUL — North Korea fired an unidentified projectile off its east coast on Tuesday, the South Korean military said, just as the North’s ambassador to the United Nations called on the United States to end joint military exercises and withdraw its strategic weapons from around the Korean Peninsula. The South Korean military said its officials and American military intelligence analysts were…

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Ford Will Build 4 Factories in a Big Electric Vehicle Push

Ford Will Build 4 Factories in a Big Electric Vehicle Push

The top wage for a Ford assembly line worker represented by the United Auto Workers is $32 an hour under a contract the company and union reached in 2019. Unionized workers at parts factories typically make less than those assembling cars. Other big automakers are also pouring billions into battery and electric car plants. G.M., which said this year that it aimed to end production of…

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Most N.B.A. Players Are Vaccinated, but Skeptics Speak Out

Most N.B.A. Players Are Vaccinated, but Skeptics Speak Out

More than 90 percent of N.B.A. players have been vaccinated against Covid-19, according to the league, and all referees and key team personnel without exemptions will be, too, by the season’s start in three weeks. But a few high-profile players, including the Nets star guard Kyrie Irving, have expressed skepticism about vaccines or been evasive about their vaccination status. Because the Nets are…

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Opinion | This Is No Way to Run a Democracy

Opinion | This Is No Way to Run a Democracy

Bret Stephens: Hi, Gail. So it turns out that Joe Biden really did win Arizona last year. Are you … shocked? Gail Collins: Pass the champagne, Bret. We’ll drink a toast to the fact that recount-wise, it’s been easy to find excuses to celebrate. Arizona’s recheck showed Biden actually getting a few more votes than originally tallied. And some of the state’s Republican leaders nodded their approval…

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Republicans Block Government Funding, Refusing to Lift Debt Limit

Republicans Block Government Funding, Refusing to Lift Debt Limit

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Monday blocked a spending bill needed to avert a government shutdown this week and a federal debt default next month, moving the nation closer to the brink of fiscal crisis as they refused to allow Democrats to lift the limit on federal borrowing. With a Thursday deadline looming to fund the government — and the country moving closer to a catastrophic debt-limit…