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• Dan Gilbert moved his mortgage company Quicken Loans to downtown Detroit in 2010 and founded his real-estate company Bedrock a year later, when the city was just a few years from bankruptcy.
• Bedrock has invested or allocated a total of $5.6 billion across 100 or so properties in downtown Detroit and nearby neighborhoods, and said it has 98% occupancy of office and residential properties.
• Gilbert's family... Читать дальше...

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Amazon Prime’s free two-day shipping has led to an industry paradigm shift. Online retailers — small and large — are increasingly offering the perk to keep from losing customers to the behemoth marketplace. But free shipping comes at a steep cost: Rising shipping expenditures are eating away at retailers' margins. Читать дальше...

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• Jim Crow, the system of laws that advanced segregation and black disenfranchisement, began in the North — not the South, as most Americans believe.
• Long before the Civil War, northern states had legal codes that promoted racial segregation and black disenfranchisement.
• As recently as 1964, a majority of New Yorkers thought the civil rights movement had gone too far, a New York Times poll from 1964 reveals.

A southern city has now become... Читать дальше...

ABC

• The wife of George Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy adviser on President Donald Trump's campaign, is trying to scrap her husband's plea deal with the special counsel Robert Mueller.
• One former federal prosecutor said he sees the attempt as part of a larger effort by Trump's allies to discredit Mueller and the Russia investigation.
• Mangiante's comments could also have an effect on two significant parts of the probe: the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort... Читать дальше...

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Digital Trends

Consumers having been “cutting the cord,” or canceling their pay-TV subscriptions in favor of internet-delivered alternatives, for years now, but the trend reached new heights in 2017. 

There’s little reason to believe that this phenomenon will slow down any time soon either, so pay-tv providers will have to find new ways to generate revenue as their primary source continues to erode. 

One of the most prominent ways media companies are recuperating cord-cutting... Читать дальше...

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• Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra are officially engaged.
• After months of reports on their relationship, the two stars confirmed the news on Instagram.
• They both shared the same photo displaying Chopra's engagement ring.
• "Taken," Chopra captioned it, "With all my heart and soul."
• "Future Mrs. Jonas. My heart. My love," Jonas wrote.
• See the photos below.

Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas have made their engagement Instagram official. Читать дальше...

Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel und Russlands Präsident Wladimir Putin haben einiges zu besprechen. Am heutigen Samstagabend treffen sich die beiden auf Schloss Meseburg in Brandenburg. Es ist bereits das zweite Treffen in nur drei Monaten.

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• Summer blockbuster "Crazy Rich Asians" is set in Singapore, which is known worldwide for its extravagance and wealth.
• The Gardens By The Bay, featured in "Crazy Rich Asians," is a major landmark in Singapore, featuring more than a million plants, the world's largest glass greenhouse, and a grove of 160-foot tall 'supertrees.'
• I recently visited the Gardens By The Bay to see what it was like and found myself marveling at the beautiful park. Читать дальше...

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• Teens are obsessed with Supreme, a skater brand that has seen mainstream success in recent years.
• Supreme has garnered a lot of attention in the past week after copies of the New York Post with Supreme ads on the cover flew off the shelves. Almost all Supreme products sell out instantly.
• Because of how quickly new products sell out, product launches, which fans call "drops," have become heavily hyped-up events.
• We went to... Читать дальше...

New Line Cinema

Over the past decade, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has built an expansive set of films while raising the critical and commercial expectations for ongoing movie series.

But extensive film franchises have been around for awhile, and several older series, like the film adaptations from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth books, have received more positive critical acclaim on average than Marvel's. And some are only getting better as time goes on, like "Mission: Impossible,"... Читать дальше...

Time Out

• The Economist Intelligence Unit released its annual Global Livability Index, measuring the most livable cities in the world.
• For the first time in eight years, Melbourne, Australia, did not finish in the No. 1 spot.
• The cities were judged by metrics like crime rates, healthcare quality, infrastructure, and levels of corruption. 
• The US had several cities on the list, but none in the top 20.

When it comes to choosing a place to live... Читать дальше...

Reuters

• Russian President Vladimir Putin danced with Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl at her wedding in the town of Gamlitz on Saturday. 
• Putin brought a troupe of Cossack singers to serenade Kneissl and her new husband, entrepreneur Wolfgang Meilinger.
• The Russian president's attendance at the wedding was heavily criticized, as the EU has been at odds with Moscow recently, especially over the annexation of the Crimea. 

VIENNA (Reuters) - Russian... Читать дальше...

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• Brooks Koepka held off Tiger Woods and Adam Scott to win the 2018 PGA Championship, his third major championship in 14 months, on Sunday.
• Koepka is from the new school of golfing that believes the best way to win is to hit drives as far as possible and not worry about landing in the rough.
• Koepka went as far as to say fairways are "overrated." 

While most of the attention at the 2018 PGA Championship was on Tiger Woods, Brooks... Читать дальше...

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Spotify

With nearly 200 million monthly users — of which a staggering 83 million are paid subscribers — Spotify is one of the most popular music services in the world. 

It's easy to understand why Spotify is so big. As a longtime paid subscriber, I have universally positive things to say about the streaming service. It has a huge music library, it's easy to use, and it works with every device I operate daily — a Pixel 2 smartphone, a MacBook Air, and Sonos speakers. It even integrates into my PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Читать дальше...

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Drone technologies continue to improve at a rapid pace and are slowly pushing the unmanned aircraft toward the mainstream. Companies in a variety of industries are now looking to use drones to cut costs, boost efficiencies, and create new revenue streams and business values, such as last-mile... Читать дальше...

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Buying a house has become more expensive than ever — home prices have increased significantly since the 1960s, when the median price of a home was less than $100,000 in today's dollars.  Today, the median home listing price in the US is nearly $280,000, according to Zillow, but that varies by state. We ranked the most affordable and most expensive places to buy a house according to median listing price. In today's housing market, where you may have to save as long as ten years to afford a down payment... Читать дальше...

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Canada recently became the second country — and the first Group of Seven country — to legalize marijuana for adults.

As cultural attitudes change, governments around the world are looking to update their policies on drugs more generally. 

Uruguay, a small nation of around 3 million people in South America, set a global precedent when former president Jose Mujica signed a law to legalize marijuana in December of 2013. 

Nine US states — starting with Colorado in 2012 ... Читать дальше...

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• With an uptick in news about food-poisoning outbreaks, pregnant women need to be aware of which foods carry certain risks.
• Foodborne illnesses such as listeria can be riskier for pregnant women and their unborn children than the average person. 
• Food-poisoning expert Bill Marler advises people to avoid foods including sprouts, raw eggs, and pre-cut fruits and vegetables while pregnant.

Food-poisoning outbreaks seem to be sweeping the United States this year. Читать дальше...

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Ein Passauer Fleischereibetrieb bringt die Supermarktkette Edeka in Bedrängnis. Die Köpa Fleischwaren GmbH kann seit einiger Zeit Rechnungen und Gehälter nicht mehr bezahlen, berichtet die „Lebensmittelzeitung“. Der südbayerische Betrieb beliefere zahlreiche Edeka-Märkte mit Fleisch- und Wurstwaren, betreibe in einigen Filialen die Fleisch- und Wursttheke und habe sogar zwei eigene kleine Edeka-Filialen. Jene im bayerischen Frauenau musste wegen der Finanzierungskrise zuletzt zeitweise schließen, so die „LZ“ weiter. Читать дальше...

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Bitcoin is everywhere.

The cryptocurrency is seemingly in the news every day as investors and businesses try to understand the future of this digital finance.

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