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• Twitter: US backs down on seeking anti-Trump user records

  07-04-2017 23:04 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Twitter says the U.S. government backed down on a request for records that could identify users behind an account opposed to President Donald Trump.As a result, Twitter is withdrawing a federal lawsuit that challenged the government's request. Twitter charged Thursday that efforts by...
  
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• Google expands fact checking in news searches

  07-04-2017 22:56 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Google will expand the use of "fact check" tags in its search results — the tech industry's latest effort to combat false and misleading news stories.People who search for a topic in Google's main search engine or the Google News section will see a conclusion such as "mostly
  
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• Bagging for a heart of gold

  07-04-2017 22:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Of all the things I am lousy at doing, bagging groceries is at least 10 of them.That tragic fact became abundantly clear Tuesday evening when I spent two hours as a “celebrity bagger” at the River Avenue Safeway to help kick off the annual Gold Heart Pin Campaign by Variety, the
  
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• 7 Superb Luxury Watches That Redefine the “Entry Level”

  07-04-2017 22:26
  
  Value remains the name of the game for the luxury watch market and these seven watches deliver it in spades...Justin Mastine-Frost
  
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• 5 Spectacular Seders to Celebrate Passover

  07-04-2017 22:00
  
  Top restaurants around the country offer gourmet takes on Passover favorites…Victoria Abbott Riccardi
  
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• Vintage Finds: Three Obscure Watches from Three Legendary Watch Brands

  07-04-2017 21:30
  
  This week, we look to the Patek Philippe, IWC, and Rolex archives to find three under-the-radar vintage watches…Justin Mastine-Frost
  
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• Fears heightened for Syrian refugees wary of U.S. action

  07-04-2017 21:21 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TORONTO - Maha Alio's heart sank when she learned the United States had bombed a Syrian air base in retaliation for the horrific gas attack that stunned the world."I'm sure bad things will happen now," the 25-year-old said Friday morning as speculation swirled over what's next.As global
  
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• Celebrity chef, Trump Organization settle lawsuit

  07-04-2017 21:12 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Celebrity chef Jose Andres has settled his dispute with The Trump Organization after backing out of a plan to open a restaurant in Washington's Trump hotel.Andres' ThinkFoodGroup and The Trump Organization issued a statement Friday saying the lawsuit has been settled. The deal's...
  
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• 4 Luxurious and Versatile Espadrilles to Add to Your Collection

  07-04-2017 21:00
  
  Swap out your standard canvas espadrille for a pair that features luxurious and versatile updates…Phoebe Neuman
  
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• Google expands 'fact check' conclusions in news searches

  07-04-2017 20:46 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Google will expand the use of "fact check" tags in its search results — the tech industry's latest effort to combat false and misleading news stories.People who search for a topic in Google's main search engine or the Google News section will see a conclusion such as "mostly true" or
  
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• Lookalike Trump, Obama, Kim offer comic relief in Hong Kong

  07-04-2017 20:25
  
  HONG KONG (Reuters) - At a time of political tensions over U.S. air strikes in Syria and sabre-rattling by North Korea, impersonators of President Donald Trump, his predecessor Barack Obama and...
  
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• Out-flank old ideas of flank steak with this rolled version

  07-04-2017 19:54 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Do you ever have the feeling that the world is lying to you? That everyone else in humanity has agreed to love something terrible, and you have to play along or risk looking like a fool?While we're in agreement that some things really are the worst, it's also true that some great things just
  
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• UK eats almost four times more packaged food than fresh

  07-04-2017 19:11
  
  Most of western Europe and north America also consumes more calories from packaged food than fresh according to analysis of data from 54 countriesThe UK eats almost four times as much packaged food as it does fresh produce, according to new data, with most of western Europe and north America following a similar pattern.The packaged food revolution – which includes ready meals and calorific cakes and biscuits – is held at least partly to blame for the rise in obesity in the US and Eur
  
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• Inside Venice’s Opulent New Palazzo Venart

  07-04-2017 19:00
  
  Venice’s Grand Canal is home to a new ultra-luxurious hotel…Sara Magro
  
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• KFC to stop using chickens raised with human antibiotics

  07-04-2017 18:54 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - KFC said Friday that it will stop serving chickens raised with certain antibiotics.The fried chicken chain said the change will be completed by the end of next year at its more than 4,000 restaurants in the U.S.It is working with more than 2,000 farms around the country to stop
  
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• The weekend cook: Thomasina Miers’ recipes for cassoulet and chocolate mousse

  07-04-2017 18:00
  
  The Easter holidays are a time for friends and family, so keep your cooking simple, but funAt last, a reason to celebrate: Easter is just a week away, and spring buds and blossom are all around. Goodbye winter, hello spring and a fresh cycle of life. Over the holiday, I intend to see friends and family, and not be hidden away in the kitchen the whole time, so I’ll be cooking simple but fun food. For Easter Sunday, I’m planning a light take on cassoulet, using neck of lamb instead of
  
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• Riding in the Mercedes-AMG GT C Roadster with the Boss of the Auto Brand

  07-04-2017 18:00
  
  Mercedes-AMG chairman Tobias Moers test-drives the high-powered convertible in the Nevada desert…Basem Wasef
  
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• Prince Harry attends UK team trials for Invictus Games

  07-04-2017 17:50
  
  BATH, England (Reuters) - Prince Harry was on hand to cast an eye over potential new recruits for Britain's Invictus Games team during trials in the southwest English city of Bath on Friday.
  
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• Let’s move to Kirkcaldy, Fife: a beautiful bay and an excellent farmers’ market

  07-04-2017 17:30
  
  This should be boom time for Adam Smith’s home town. However…What’s going for it? Were Adam Smith to be reincarnated here in his home town (as a till-worker at Lidl, perhaps) he might come to different conclusions about the free market. The wealth of nations is in short supply in Kirkcaldy today: the hidden hand of capitalism is hidden indeed and the trickle-down of good fortune to those in need is more of a dribble. Kirkcaldy has not had a good half-century or so. Its raisons
  
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• Hot air balloons sparkle in sky between Britain and France

  07-04-2017 16:16
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - A fleet of colorful hot air balloons left the English coast for France on Friday, attempting to break the record for most hot air balloons to cross the English Channel.
  
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• My teenage cousin is having a crisis, but her mother won’t get her the help she needs

  07-04-2017 16:00
  
  I had mental health problems as a teen and my cousin’s mother is acting the same way mine did. I fear that history will repeat itself. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerMy cousin is 16, and apparently going through a crisis. She hates college, skips classes and has spoken to my grandmother often of hating her life and not enjoying anything any more. My grandmother is in bits about this and has tried to talk to my cousin’s mother, her daughter, about getting her some help. However, my
  
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• How to stop feeling insignificant | Oliver Burkeman

  07-04-2017 16:00
  
  When events seem too much, what better solace than a reminder that they are, if you zoom out to a different timescale, indistinguishable from nothing at all?If planet Earth were a human being, I was informed the other day, it would be about 40, or halfway through its expected lifespan. “I learned this when I was six, and it kinda messed me up,” wrote Keith Karraker, a chemistry teacher who posted it on Twitter. By the same yardstick, humans have been using tools for a week and a half
  
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• Jil Sander appoints designing duo Lucie and Luke Meier

  07-04-2017 15:46 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  MILAN - The Jil Sander brand has appointed married couple Lucie and Luke Meier as creative directors, effective immediately.During her career, Lucie Meier has worked alongside Raf Simons at Dior, Nicolas Ghesquiere at Balenciaga and Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton. After Simon's departure from...
  
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• My partner will not apologise for anything, and it is making me ill

  07-04-2017 15:03
  
  No matter how damaging the consequences, they will not make amends or defuse the situation. It is causing a dramatic decline in my healthMy partner of more than 20 years will never, ever apologise. No matter how clear-cut an error they might have made and no matter how damaging the consequences, they will not apologise or make any efforts at all to make amends or defuse the situation. In fact, they are prepared to go to any length to avoid having to admit error. This also has the unfortunate con
  
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• Lorne, London SW1: ‘A soothing place to be’ – restaurant review

  07-04-2017 15:00
  
  The beef short rib would make me a devotee. This is the cure to whatever ails you, comfort and contentment on the plate With every good restaurant, there’s one thing that will draw you in at first. Lorne’s initial hook for me is its pedigree: partners Katie Exton (sommelier and front of house) and Peter Hall (chef) have between them worked in some serious restaurant royalty: the Square, where the duo met, the River Cafe, Chez Bruce, Brawn and San Francisco’s hugely celebrated B
  
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• Experience: I found my stolen dog

  07-04-2017 15:00
  
  An anonymous tip came via Facebook, with a picture of her in a field next to a guy holding up a dead hare Nina is a rescue dog, a lurcher, from Battersea Dogs Home. She arrived in 2013, skinny and nervous. I walked her twice a day, unless work got really busy, in which case she’d go out with a dog-walker. On the day she was stolen, 12 July 2016, the dog-walker picked Nina up as usual, put her in the back of the van and carried on her rounds, collecting the other dogs. When she came out of
  
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• Dog attacks on mail carriers rise again as online sales boom

  07-04-2017 14:47 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Letter carrier James Solomon thought he knew all the tricks to prevent a dog attack: watch the pet's mannerisms, use the mail satchel as a shield, pull out the emergency dog spray — it contains an extract of cayenne pepper.But nothing prepared the 17-year postal veteran from
  
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• When does close friendship turn into emotional infidelity?

  07-04-2017 14:30
  
  If you’re having a hard time in your marriage, is it wrong to talk to someone else about it, or to share intimate secrets with a friend?A few weeks ago, I wrote a column about infidelity in which I referred to “emotional infidelity” – what used to be called “an affair of the heart”. Just what does it mean to be emotionally unfaithful in a time when email, instant messaging and mobile phones give us more private ways to connect than ever before?
  
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• Jilly Cooper: ‘My books are my babies’

  07-04-2017 13:59
  
  The novelist talks about her pride in her father, her mother – who taught her to read at four – and how writing novels saved her from loneliness after the death of her husbandMy father, Bill, was very, very shy, but he was divine. And very clever: he got a first in two years at Cambridge University and then became the youngest brigadier in the army, which made me burst with pride. He and I used to play Beethoven piano duets.After the war, he ran English Electric and then became
  
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• Five ways to make your bathroom more efficient

  07-04-2017 13:32
  
  Small changes to your bathroom can make a big difference to your environmental impact. Go green with these quick tips …Reduce the flushIf your loo cistern is less than a decade old, chances are you’ll have a dual-flush system already, so you’re only using as much water as you need. If not, and you’re not in a position to replace it, consider gently placing a brick inside the cistern to minimise water usage. Continue reading...
  
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• Dominique Ansel’s recipe for apple beignets

  07-04-2017 13:30
  
  For Ansel, these were the perfect antidote to a difficult day at school – sweet deep-fried treats that were a cheap and cheerful snackI grew up in Beauvais, a small town about an hour north of Paris. I don’t have that many memories of the house – or at least, I have some, but not good ones. It was a very poor neighbourhood. My dad worked in a factory. We often didn’t have enough food, and I went to school with a knife in my pocket.I was the youngest of four children. We l
  
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• Delia’s chocolate mousse could save you from therapy

  07-04-2017 13:00
  
  After overcoming the trauma of separating eggs, the sense of closure is nearly as delicious as this dessertChocolate for dessert: what’s not to like? Chocolate: good. Puddings: good. Combine the two and you have the dessert of your dreams, whether it be brownies, trifle or cake.Except the sad truth of most chocolate-based recipes is that the first mouthful is pure pleasure, the second mouthful is a little too sweet, and the third mouthful leaves you contemplating your inevitable descent in
  
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• Food expert raises concerns that garlic powder may contain inferior ingredients

  07-04-2017 10:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  QUEBEC - One of the world's foremost experts on food fraud is warning about the possibility that garlic powder on store shelves including those in Canada may contain inferior ingredients.Prof. Christopher Elliott, director of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's University Belfast...
  
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• Killer style inspiration from 1980s crime shows – in pictures

  07-04-2017 09:55
  
  Our All Ages team pays tribute to the stars of Murder, She Wrote, Moonlighting and Columbo Continue reading...
  
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• How to wear this season’s catwalk trends in real life

  07-04-2017 09:00
  
  From mega bags to the politics of pink: six spring looks, decodedReceptacles were huge on the catwalks this season, and served with a dose of irony. At Balenciaga, the new It bag is a £2,300 version of the sort of square-edged plastic cover that comes with a new duvet or electric blanket. If you are committed to getting the look for less, buy some bedding and reuse the case (bonus: you get a new mattress topper). Or just enjoy the knowledge that your look is on point even when you’re
  
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• We saved our ailing local pub – now it's the heart of the community

  07-04-2017 08:42
  
  The Bevy in Brighton is the UK’s first co-operative pub on a housing estate – we are proof that communities can turn things aroundWhen word got out that local residents wanted to re-open the Bevendean Pub in Brighton, we received an email from a local copper. Let’s just say he wasn’t taken with the idea. The pub had slowly gone downhill over the years, until the police decided they’d enough and closed it down in 2010 following a string of brawls and anti-social beha
  
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• Simply smashing: how to invent your own top-notch cocktail

  07-04-2017 08:21
  
  The smash is one of the most flexible and forgiving cocktail templates out there – which makes it perfect for home experimentationAnyone trained in classical French cooking will be familiar with the five “mother sauces” – the basic sauce recipes from which nearly all of the panoply of sauces used in French cuisine derive. Once you learn how to make a mother sauce, you can rapidly learn how to make its derivatives – so, for example, a Béarnaise sauce is, pract
  
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• Fashion week job swap: could I become an Instagram star?

  07-04-2017 08:00
  
  Social media stars are wielding increasing power in the fashion industry. What happens when Jess Cartner-Morley trades places with ‘influencer’ Doina Ciobanu?The front row is a world divided. Montagues and Capulets, in bare legs rather than doublet and hose. Between the two blocs – editors on the one hand, “influencers” on the other – there is little love lost. Last autumn, American Vogue staffers branded the influencers “pathetic”, describing the
  
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• Make it a clean break (up)

  07-04-2017 07:36 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  The kindest way to end a relationship is a clean break. A distinct line drawn between what was once “us” and is now “you and me,” and no waffling in between. It’s not easy to do. It feels cruel, cold even. But a clean cut heals faster and the scar less ugly.Three
  
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• Demand booming on college campuses for creative writing

  07-04-2017 06:52 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Some credit the rise of social media. Others attribute it to a flourishing culture of self-expression. Whatever the reason, colleges across the United States are seeing a boom in demand for courses on creative writing.Colleges are adding writing programs to accommodate
  
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• Booming online sales mean more dog bites for mail carriers

  07-04-2017 04:30 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WASHINGTON - Booming online retail sales are good news for the U.S. Postal Service, but its carriers are incurring a cost: more dog bites.Dog attacks on postal workers rose last year to 6,755, up 206 from the previous year and the highest in three decades, as internet shopping booms and
  
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• The Evora Sport 410 Is the Fastest Street-Legal Lotus Sold in the United States

  07-04-2017 03:40
  
  The lightweight looker meets North American safety and emissions standards while bolting to 190 mph…Viju Mathew
  
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• Kakuro 1546 hard

  07-04-2017 01:01
  
  Fill the grid so that each run of squares adds up to the total in the box above or to the left. Use only numbers 1-9, and never use a number more than once per run (a number may reoccur in the same row, in a separate run).
  Buy the Guardian next Friday or subscribe to our Digital Edition to see the completed puzzle. Continue reading...
  
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• Looking for Beachfront Bliss? Buy a Home in Los Cabos

  07-04-2017 01:00
  
  From high-end haciendas to ritzy residences, Cabo is one of the hottest places to buy a home…Rebekah Bell
  
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,165

  07-04-2017 01:00
  
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• Study: Nearly half of US adults infected with genital HPV

  07-04-2017 00:36 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Health officials say nearly half of U.S. adults have caught HPV, a sexually-transmitted bug that can cause cervical cancer and genital warts.About 45 per cent of Americans ages 18 to 59 had some form of genital human papillomavirus, according to a report released Thursday that's the...
  
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