Bar or Bat Mitzvah? Hey, What About a Both Mitzvah?

The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony stretches to accommodate the new gender fluidity.

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Screenland: People Don’t Bribe College Officials to Help Their Kids. They Do It to Help Themselves.

At least one of the students whose parents stand accused of fraud doesn’t appear to have been very interested in higher education in the first place.

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Her ‘Great Comet’ Glowed. Now She’s Heading to ‘Hadestown’

Rachel Chavkin is back on Broadway with another eye-popping, folk-fueled musical unlike anything else commercial theater has to offer.

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Monsanto Ordered to Pay $80 Million in Roundup Cancer Case

The jury found that Monsanto should be held liable for the man’s cancer because it failed to warn him about the herbicide’s cancer risks.

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To Barbara Bush, Donald Trump Represented ‘Greed, Selfishness’

A new biography of the former first lady also quotes a family insider confirming a long-lasting affair between former President George Bush and an aide.

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Trump’s Fed Pick Owes $75,000 in Unpaid Federal Taxes

Court records reveal a lien against Stephen Moore, an economic adviser whom the president said last week he would nominate to the Fed’s Board of Governors.

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Truck on Guatemala Highway Hits Crowd, Killing at Least 30

The crowd had apparently gathered at the highway to observe a person killed in a separate accident.

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Arizona Lawmaker Under Fire for Anti-Immigrant Remarks Resigns Amid Inquiry Into Old Sex Charges

The former state representative, David Stringer, faced an ethics committee investigation into reports that he was charged with sex crimes in the 1980s.

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Brexit: Push for May's Brexit deal after quit pledge

A day after saying she would resign, Theresa May still needs to win over the DUP and backbench Brexiteers

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Facebook to ban white nationalism and separatism

The social media firm is under pressure after the New Zealand mosque attack was live-streamed.

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Boeing announces fixes for its 737 Max aircraft

The US planemaker is making cockpit alterations in the plane model involved in two fatal crashes.

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Firms drag their feet on gender pay gap reporting

Nearly two-thirds of big companies have yet to disclose their pay gap, figures show.

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The woman who doesn't feel pain

Jo Cameron is one of two people on Earth known to have a mutation that means she feels almost no pain.

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'Fake' Botticelli painting is the real deal, English Heritage says

A supposed copy of a 15th Century masterpiece is actually found to have been created in his studio.

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Two killed in 'senseless act' after gunman opens fire on Seattle street

A man shot at drivers and at a bus in what police describe as a "random, senseless act".

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Brexit: Firms tell MPs to 'stop chasing rainbows'

Businesses are "angry and frustrated" at MPs for "putting politics before prosperity".

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Car theft rise prompts keyless warning

Insurers say £376m was paid out on claims last year following vehicles being stolen, a 29% rise on 2017.

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Prince William to honour Christchurch victims

Prince William will visit New Zealand on behalf of the Queen in late April, Kensington Palace announces.

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Probation services: Part-privatised system 'flawed'

The chief inspector of probation says supervision of offenders should be brought back in house.

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Explaining the US measles outbreak

According to officials there are 314 cases of measles currently reported in the US.

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