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US created 148,000 jobs in Dec, vs a hundred ninety,000 jobs anticipated

Federal Reserve policymakers are watching the jobs data closely, both for payroll gains and for wage growth. Though central bank economists estimate the jobs market is near full employment, wage pressures have remained muted. « I don’t think it’s that big of deal, » Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors, said of the…

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The tragedy and blessing that is Trump

The real tragedy of US President Donald Trump is that he swept in Republican majorities with him. In his first year in office, the only serious bill he passed was the tax cuts. But Mitch McConnell, majority leader in the Senate, and Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House, wanted tax cuts as much or more…

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Trump New Year’s Momentum Sapped by Wolff E book’s Revelations

President Donald Trump entered 2018 with momentum: the massive tax cut he signed just after Christmas, he hoped, would give his legislative priorities a lift early in the New Year. But all of that energy vanished after publication of excerpts from a bombshell book detailing dysfunction, backstabbing and chaos in his White House and Trump’s…

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Israel’s contemporary demise penalty invoice ‘targets Palestinians’

The Israeli government’s proposal to make it easier for judges to hand out the death penalty for « terrorist activity » has been condemned as « fascist » by Palestinian politicians and rights groups, who fear it will give Israel legal cover to target Palestinians. A bill to amend existing legislation regulating the use of the death sentence passed…

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India probes breach of biometric identification database

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which runs the world’s largest biometric identity card scheme, has initiated a police probe into a major security breach.  The probe was ordered on Thursday after the local Tribune newspaper accessed a database containing the identity details of more than one billion citizens, which was being sold for a…

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Hear Justin Timberlake’s novel electrical-funk music ‘Filthy’

Justin Timberlake released “Filthy,” the lead single from his fourth studio album Man of the Woods, early Friday. Along with the electric-funk track with hints of Prince, the 36-year-old pop star shared a video directed by Mark Romanek, who has worked on clips with artists including Taylor Swift, U2, and JAY-Z. Though Man of the Woods is Timberlake’s…

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Saudi ‘intercepts’ Houthi missile reach Yemen border

Saudi Arabia says it has intercepted a ballistic missile fired towards the country by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The Saudi statement came just hours after the Yemeni group claimed to have launched the attack. State-owned TV channel Al Ekhbariya reported on Friday that Saudi defence forces intercepted the missile over Najran, a region straddling the kingdom’s southern…

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A a lot-correct revival in Central Europe

Mitteleuropa, an area stretching from the North and Baltic seas to some of the Adriatic, represented a European « multi-ethnic dream » in the 19th and early 20th century. It comprised multicultural cities such as Trieste, Bratislava and Prague, and was home to a dynamic intellectual milieu that regularly produced pioneers such as Sigmund Freud and Italo…

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tombh/texttop

Hello newcomers. This has suddenly got some unplanned exposure. I’m actually in the middle of a complete rewrite on the webext-rewrite branch. You can get an idea of my approach with this function: https://github.com/tombh/texttop/blob/webext-rewrite/webext/src/text_builder.js#L165 After the success of hitting the front page of Hacker News last year, I really wanted to sit down and turn…