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Wide receiver Kendall Wright last played in an NFL game in 2017, but he’s giving professional football another shot in Canada. The Toronto Argonauts announced Wright’s signing on Friday. Wright was a 2012 first-round pick by the Titans and spent five seasons with the team. He moved on to the Bears in 2017 and spent […]
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Two studies published by The BMJ today find no links between prescription opioids or macrolide antibiotics taken during pregnancy and risk of major birth defects. Both opioids (painkillers) and macrolides (antibiotics) are often prescribed during pregnancy. Some previous studies have reported associations between exposure to opioids and macrolides and certain birth defects, but results are […]
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Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp shares climbed above 10,000 yen apiece on Tuesday, hitting two-decade highs, a day after the group’s Vision Fund unit reported record profits as portfolio company listings accelerate. SoftBank’s shares were up 3.3% at Y9,800 at 03:56 GMT having earlier shot past Y10,000, the biggest intraday jump in two months. On Monday […]
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The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is investigating money transfer app Venmo over the way it handles collections, a new regulatory filing shows. First reported by The Wall Street Journal, the filing shows Venmo owner PayPal received a Civil Investigative Demand from the CFPB on January 21st, “related to Venmo’s unauthorized funds transfers and collections processes, […]
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When Harper King was born, her loving parents Ebony and Jamie admit they were “speechless” when they saw the huge birthmark covering most of her face. While she was beautiful, they were worried about how she would be treated as she was older. Little Harper was born with a 1 in 20,000 birthmark across the […]
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Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has said he’s ready to restructure his contract to ease the Steelers’ salary cap situation for the 2021 season. But so far they’ve had no talks on the matter. Roethlisberger told Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today that he has not met with the Steelers. Under his current contract, Roethlisberger […]
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One third (35%) of people who took a new drug for treating obesity lost more than one-fifth (greater than or equal to 20%) of their total body weight, according to a major global study involving UCL researchers. The findings from the large-scale international trial, published today in the New England Journal for Medicine, are being […]
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Remote working is now one of the top daily challenges facing traders and a development that will likely boost the use of technology and electronic trading in the months ahead, a survey by JPMorgan released on Tuesday showed. According to the survey of 260 fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) traders conducted in December, almost […]
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Police in Minneapolis got a search warrant that ordered Google to provide account data on people who were near a protest that turned violent two days after the killing of George Floyd last year, TechCrunch reported. The search warrant required Google to provide account data for anyone “within the geographical region” of an AutoZone store […]
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A McDonald’s drive-thru customer was shot through the window of their car in front of queue of horrified onlookers. Adam Caine, 21, was being handed his takeaway meal at the Bromborough fast food branch, Wirral, when he was targeted by David Pugh. Brazen Pugh approached a black Ford Tourneo unmasked, before opening fire in front […]
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