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• AB Holding L.P. Q2 2020 Earnings Release

  23-07-2020 23:53 via article.wn.com
  Mark Griffin, Investors Jennifer Casey, Media 629.213.5672 212.969.1157 [email protected] [email protected] ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN HOLDING L.P. ANNOUNCES SECOND QUARTER RESULTS GAAP Diluted Net Income of $0.59 per Unit Adjusted Diluted Net Income of $0.61 per Unit Cash Distribution of $0.61 per Unit New York, NY, July 23, 2020 - AllianceBernstein L.P. ("AB") and AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. ("AB Holding") (NYSE: AB) today reported financial and operating results
  
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• Australia probes three near-misses in less than two weeks at Sydney airport

  14-08-2026 11:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  Air traffic controllers under scrutiny after back-to-back incidents put aircraft and flyers at risk
  
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• Trump pretends to be Spider-Man on new White House website tracking eliminated ‘fraud’

  14-08-2026 11:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  New tracker claims to trace misappropriated funds from different government departments around Washington, D.C., casting the president as a pixelated version of the beloved web-slinging superhero
  
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• 2 UAE tankers attacked while transiting Strait of Hormuz, and other news from the Middle East

  14-08-2026 11:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  The United Arab Emirates is blaming Iran for firing drones at two tankers operated by a state-owned oil company as they sailed through the Strait of Hormuz, saying Friday the attacks represented acts of piracy
  
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• A look back at all the times Trump has obsessed over steam catapults

  14-08-2026 11:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘You have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out,’ Trump once said, referencing the system that replaced steam catapults
  
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• Israeli officials shocked by the speed of Iran’s military recovery after war, report says

  14-08-2026 10:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  US officials said in May that Iran appeared to be rapidly rebuilding its drone capacity, before the conflict reignited
  
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• Residents jump from windows as fire spreads in Berlin high-rise building

  14-08-2026 10:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  The fire was in the Friedrichshain neighborhood near the Ostbahnhof train station
  
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• Naoero: The world’s third-smallest country is changing its name

  14-08-2026 10:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Republic of Naoero is one of the most at risk from climate change
  
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• Christians in Israel fear rising harassment amid violent assaults

  14-08-2026 10:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘If you stroll around in your habit, sooner or later you’ll get some spitting next to you’
  
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• France and England battle multiple wildfires as record heat grips Europe

  14-08-2026 09:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  Firefighters across France and central England are battling multiple fires as a new wave of record-breaking heat hits Europe
  
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• Iran-US war latest: Trump sends new aircraft carrier to Middle East as war puts troops under strain

  14-08-2026 09:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  A servicemember complained of rotten meat and a lack of supplies in messages home on board the carrier
  
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• Tourists forced to flee as huge wildfire engulfs popular Croatian tourist town

  14-08-2026 08:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  A total of 19 people have been injured so far
  
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• North Korea’s latest missile tests are unusual. Ukraine should be wary

  14-08-2026 08:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  Kim Jong Un’s silence over missile tests earlier this month raises possibility that Pyongyang is refining weapons for use by its ally Russia. Shweta Sharma reports
  
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• Trump finally orders Navy to return to older steam catapults in obsession that could cost billions

  14-08-2026 08:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump's obsession with the new technology goes back to at least 2017
  
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• US Government hunts vandal after Washington World War II Memorial filled with soap bubbles

  14-08-2026 08:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  Uniformed police and National Guard troops were sent to the scene
  
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• Russian Navy officer who defected from Ukraine killed by hidden bin bomb in Crimea, officials say

  14-08-2026 08:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Russian official says suspect was acting ‘on instructions from Ukrainian intelligence agencies’. Kyiv has not publicly commented on the attack
  
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• Ukraine drone strikes on major Russian oil refinery 800 miles from the border sparks fire

  14-08-2026 07:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ukrainian drones have struck a major refinery deep inside Russia, marking the fourth attack in three days
  
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• Iran-US war latest: Hegseth says US can keep up naval blockade ‘indefinitely’ after Tehran vows to prolong war

  14-08-2026 06:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Iran rejects Donald Trump’s claims that the US has ‘total control’ over the Strait of Hormuz
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Nato jets scrambled to shoot down foreign drone after it enters Latvian airspace

  14-08-2026 06:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  Finland, another Nato member, also temporarily restricts airspace
  
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• What to know about a surrogacy dispute between a California couple, their surrogate and Texas courts

  14-08-2026 03:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  A surrogate who gave birth in Texas to a California couple's child is embroiled in a legal battle
  
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• Fox News airs fake quote from an Iranian general

  14-08-2026 03:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  The bogus quote from IRGC Commander-in-Chief Ahmad Vahidi said Iran would disarm its nuclear program if the US and Israel did
  
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• What Lindsay Clancy’s phone data reveals about the weeks before her children’s deaths

  14-08-2026 02:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Clancy looked up suicide methods, bipolar disorder and insomnia
  
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• Three men executed in three states on same day for first time since 2010

  14-08-2026 02:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  Having three executions in one day is a coincidence in scheduling, but it also reflected a trend of increased executions in the US
  
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• Nearly a quarter of the nation’s children are chronically absent from school in ‘ominous’ trend: researchers

  14-08-2026 02:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Absenteeism is down since peaking during pandemic, but districts across the country are still struggling
  
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• California dog is euthanized even though the case to save it reached the Supreme Court

  14-08-2026 02:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  Bruce,a three-year-old Great Pyrenees and German Shepherd mix, was euthanized over several biting episodes
  
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• Border chief defends plan for barriers in national park despite pushback from locals: ‘We know the terrain’

  14-08-2026 01:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  Rodney Scott says the controversial project is needed to keep Big Bend National Park ‘safe, secure, and pristine’
  
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• Lindsay Clancy admitted to killing her three children but her trial questions her sanity. The internet is buzzing with theories

  14-08-2026 00:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  While court witnesses recount a loving mother seeking psychiatric help, online creators are picking apart phone logs and errand timelines to build their own theories about what really happened in January 2023
  
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• Rangers warn visitors to watch out for flying rabid bats at one National Park

  14-08-2026 00:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  One even got caught in a woman’s hair last weekend, says the National Park Service
  
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• Trump’s Reflecting Pool mystery now has the Scooby-Doo gang on the case: ‘Jinkies!’

  14-08-2026 00:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  A viral video skewering the president’s fixation has drawn over a million views on social media: ‘And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids,’ cartoon parody Trump says in typical Scooby-Doo fashion
  
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• Judge tosses Trump administration’s antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard University

  13-08-2026 23:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  The legal complaint had claimed Harvard failed to adequately shield Jewish students amid pro-Palestinian protests following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel
  
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