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Rebag and Amazon team up to redefine how shoppers buy pre-owned luxury

Amazon’s not just for paper towels — from snacks to Chanel, it’s quietly positioning itself as the only store you’ll ever need.
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Vance Boelter’s Friend Reveals More Details About Assassination Suspect

David Carlson, who says that he has known Boelter since fourth grade, described the shooting suspect as a “great guy.”
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Officers injured as Portland rioters breach ICE building with explosives and rocks

Multiple police officers were injured in Portland, Oregon Saturday night during a violent riot at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility.
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Photos: The 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance auto racing

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A £2.5m dud? Fresh doubt cast on authenticity of National Gallery Rubens

Former curator’s comments, later withdrawn, reignite debate over attribution of Samson and Delilah painting

It is an unwelcome question, but an important one: did the National Gallery buy a £2.5m dud?

This has remained the suspicion of many experts since one of Britain’s premier cultural institutions acquired Samson and Delilah, a long-lost masterpiece by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, in 1980.

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A Congolese customs worker who resisted corruption is the Catholic Church’s newest model of holiness

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Hunter Dobbins caps controversial week by beating Yankees again

BOSTON — On the day before Father’s Day, Hunter Dobbins gave his father Lance the perfect gift: shutting down the team he never played for. In his second start against the Yankees in less than a week after the 25-year-old right-hander told the Boston Herald, “If the Yankees were the last team to give me…
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China considers lifting sanctions on UK parliamentarians as relations warm

Exclusive: Restrictions to be reviewed as embassy official says ‘UK-China relations are showing a positive momentum’

China is considering lifting the sanctions it imposed on UK parliamentarians in 2021, in the latest sign of warming relations between London and Beijing.

The Chinese government is reviewing the sanctions, which it introduced four years ago in response to what it called “lies and disinformation” about human rights abuses in Xinjiang, according to two UK government sources familiar with the conversations.

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Electrolyte sachets are everywhere – but will they cure a festival hangover?

Marketed to ‘party people’ and touted as a faster route to hydration than water, electrolytes are in the middle of a boom

The tickets are bought, the line-ups have been announced and it’s nearly time to drag last year’s tent out of the cupboard for a wipedown – and to evict a few dead earwigs. And this summer, there’s one more festival accessory that partygoers won’t be travelling without: electrolyte tablets.

Touted as a faster route to rehydration than water, and a way to replace vital salts lost during heavy drinking and partying, the focus on festivals is the latest twist in a global boom for electrolytes, as everyone from triathletes to YouTubers sings the praises of these super-hydrating mineral supplements.

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Why Gen Z Is ‘Enormously Attractive’ to Employers

“AI will stand them in very good stead,” Dr. Keith Arundale of the Henley Business School in the United Kingdom told Newsweek via email.