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Andy Burnham says he’d hand more power to local governments if he becomes U.K. leader
MANCHESTER, England — Andy Burnham, likely the next U.K. prime minister, pledged Monday to give away a chunk of his power by handing greater autonomy to local leaders in a “circuit-breaker” for the sclerotic British state. The former mayor of Greater Manchester also said he would move part of the prime minister’s office from London’s 10 Downing…
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California gas prices set for another hike on July 1: ‘Ridiculous’
California drivers will soon see another increase at the pump as the state’s gasoline excise tax rises again on July 1, adding to the cost of filling up in a state already among the nation’s highest fuel prices. The state excise tax will increase by 2.2 cents per gallon, bringing the total gas tax to…
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Olivia Wilde sets record straight on how to pronounce her ‘devastating’ real last name
Call her by her name. Olivia Wilde set the record straight on how to pronounce her real last name, Cockburn. “I’ll tell you something. And there’s no way you would know this. It’s pronounced Coburn (KOH-burn),” the director told Dax Shepard and Monica Padman on the “Armchair Expert” podcastMonday. “It’s spelled Cockburn. It’s a Scottish…
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A fringe attack on voting rights just got four votes on the Supreme Court
The premise of the Republican Party’s lawsuit in Watson v. Republican National Committee is that three 19th-century federal laws require thousands of lawfully cast ballots to be tossed in the trash — and somehow no one noticed this fact for the better part of two centuries. In a nonpartisan judiciary, the case would have never…
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10 Things Doctors Want You to Know About Hearing Aids
—Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Images: Cultura Creative, Iparraguirre Recio, peakSTOCK—Getty Images) Plenty of people put off getting hearing aids because they’re afraid the devices will make them look old. Audiologist Eileen Clark tells them they have it backward. “Wearing hearing aids is not what makes you old,” says Clark, who owns Integral Audiology in Cornelius,…
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Usernames Are Coming to WhatsApp Soon. Here’s How to Reserve Yours
One of WhatsApp’s most in-demand features is finally coming out of beta. Later this year, the messaging app used by over 3 billion people plans to add usernames. It’s an additional (and more privacy-friendly) way for WhatsApp users to connect without sharing phone numbers. But that means the race to grab the best WhatsApp usernames…
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Europe’s record heat has overwhelmed Paris mortuaries and left families in distress
PARIS — Every few minutes, the mortuary owner’s phone rings. Since a record-smashing heat wave started taking lives and storage space for bodies in Paris and beyond, the funeral directors and mourning families calling him mostly have the same question: Do you have room for one more? With all 32 places in his cold room taken, Zouhaeir…
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Chrissy Teigen defends baring all in sheer top for ‘risqué’ photo shoot
Chrissy Teigen defended her decision to expose her chest for a “risqué” photo shoot. In images taken by fashion designer Yu Tsa and shared via Instagram Sunday, the model flaunted one of her breasts in a white sheer top. But after she saw the online reaction to her post, Teigen explained she doesn’t consider the…
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A Longstanding Theory of Childbirth Is a Myth
As billions of people can attest, giving birth is hard for humans. Our infants have an exceptionally large head for their body size and yet have to squeeze through a very narrow pelvis. Appendages can get stuck; bones can fracture. At worst, the consequences can be lethal for mothers or babies. Until recently, many researchers…
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Elon Musk’s Mother Posts Happy Birthday Image for Him That, on Closer Inspection, Is Devastatingly Sad
The world’s first trillionaire just celebrated his 55th birthday. And we can’t tell which possibility is more depressing: that his mother used AI to either generate or enhance pictures of him blowing out the candles on a rocket cake made to look like a SpaceX Starship — or that his social media network is convinced…