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Carl Reiner, comedy’s rare untortured genius

Writer, director and comedic legend, born to Jewish immigrants in New York, created ‘Dick Van Dyke Show,’ pioneered sitcom and sketch TV programs

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Mississippi governor signs bill to retire flag with Confederate emblem – CNN

Mississippi governor signs bill to retire flag with Confederate emblem  CNN Mississippi governor signs bill removing state flag with Confederate emblem  CBS News Mississippi governor signs bill retiring last state flag with Confederate battle emblem  Fox News Mississippi Furls Its Divisive Flag  The Wall

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Airbus Announces Job Cuts Amid Massive Dip In Aircraft Orders

The European passenger-jet maker says it plans to cut 15,000 jobs amid a 40% drop in its business since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. (Image credit: Christof Stache/AFP via Getty Images)

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Mississippi Officially Removes Confederate Emblem From State Flag

JACKSON, Miss. — With a stroke of the governor’s pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem — a symbol that’s widely condemned as racist. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves on Tuesday signed

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Cendana Capital, which has been backing seed funds for a decade, has $278 million more to invest

When in 2010, former VC Michael Kim set out to raise a fund that he would invest in a spate of micro VC managers, the investors to which he turned didn’t get it. Why pay Kim and his firm, Cendana

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WATCH: Alabama governor gives coronavirus update as cases grow

States that President Donald Trump won in the 2016 election account for about 75% of the new cases, a trend that has accelerated since the end of May.

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Protester Knocked Down By Buffalo Police Leaves The Hospital Nearly One Month Later

Martin Gugino suffered a fractured skull after being shoved backward by officers at a protest against police violence on June 4. The 75-year-old will continue his recovery at an undisclosed location.

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Facebook shuts down Hobbi, its experimental app for documenting personal projects

Facebook’s recently launched app, Hobbi, an experiment in short-form content creation around personal projects, hobbies, and other Pinterest-y content, is already shutting down. The app first arrived on iOS in February as one of now several launches from Facebook’s internal

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Rep. Kinzinger explains why question of Trump being briefed on Russia bounty intel is ‘irrelevant’ – Fox News

Rep. Kinzinger explains why question of Trump being briefed on Russia bounty intel is ‘irrelevant’  Fox News Suspicions of Russian Bounties Were Bolstered by Data on Financial Transfers  The New York Times Pentagon pushes back on reports on Russian bounties  Fox News Russian

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Rep. Kinzinger explains why question of Trump being briefed on Russia bounty intel is ‘irrelevant’ – Fox News

Rep. Kinzinger explains why question of Trump being briefed on Russia bounty intel is ‘irrelevant’  Fox News Trump says reports that Russia paid Taliban to kill U.S. troops were not “credible”  CBS News Father of Slain Marine Finds Heartbreak Anew in Possible

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