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☆ No partner? No problem. People are joining forces with friends to afford to buy a house
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewElisa Ball and John Williams bought a house in Florida last year. Though they dated from 1997 to 2009, Ball and Williams are now just friends. As a result, people like Ball are buying homes with friends. I bought every single property with friends, and that was the only way I could get started. You must make sure you trust who you're buying withMaking a purchase as large as home is always risky.

Persons: —, Elisa Ball, John Williams, Williams, Ball, haven't, Bonds, cobuyers, who've, Jordan Pandy jpandy@businessinsider.com, Kristina Modares, she's, Austin, Steph Douglass, Modares, Austin Modares, they're, Noah Sheidlower Organizations: Service, Business, Open Locations: Florida, Palm Bay, West Palm, South Florida, Boca Raton, Austin, San Antonio

☆ 2 Black Heroes, 2 Cities in New York: A Journey Into the Past
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Shayla Martin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There are certain American cities that are known for Black history. But African American history and culture can, of course, be found across the United States, in seemingly unlikely cities, like Portland, Maine, say, or Providence, R.I. There are currently more than 700 Network to Freedom locations across 39 states, in addition to Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Many are in the Northeast, a region that is not always strongly associated with Black history. Curiosity about these lesser-known destinations is how I found myself on the road to Auburn and Rochester, N.Y., the homes of two American heroes: Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman.

Persons: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman Organizations: Service’s, Freedom, National Underground Railroad Network, Underground Railroad, Washington , D.C, U.S . Locations: Memphis, Atlanta . Birmingham, United States, Portland , Maine, Providence, R.I, Washington ,, U.S, U.S . Virgin Islands, Northeast, Auburn, Rochester, N.Y

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Marrit Steenbergen won gold for the Netherlands in the women's 100-meter freestyle Friday at the World Aquatics Championships. “The back half is my specialty,” said Steenbergen, who also was part of the winning Dutch team in the 4x100 freestyle relay. World record-holder Sarah Sjöström of Sweden is at the championships but withdrew from the 100 free before the preliminaries. The Americans, who are three-time reigning Olympic champions, bounced back from a quarterfinal loss at last year’s world championships in Fukuoka. Hungary came up just short of its first women's world title since 2005.

Persons: Marrit Steenbergen, Siobhán Haughey, Hong Kong, Steenbergen, “, ”, Haughey, Jack, Kate Douglass, ” Haughey, Australia's Mollie O'Callaghan, Sarah Sjöström, Rachel Fattal, Ashleigh Johnson, ___ Organizations: Paris, Dutch, Doha, United, Olympic, Greece Locations: DOHA, Qatar, Netherlands, Hong, Fukuoka, Australia, Sweden, United States, Hungary, Fukuoka . Hungary, Spain

Omar Victor Diop History, inheritance and possibility are re-imagined through the lens of the Senegalese photographer, one of the most successful young artists on the continent. Through his bold images, Diop examines the interplay between African and diasporic experiences by knitting together the past and present. Douglass sat for over 160 portraits, including a daguerreotype circa 1855 (bottom), to challenge negative representations of African Americans. Cultural Archive/Alamy In a 2015 self-portrait (top), from Diop’s series “Project Diaspora,” the artist emulates Frederick Douglass, who was the most photographed man of his era. Douglass sat for over 160 portraits, including a daguerreotype circa 1855 (bottom), to challenge negative representations of African Americans.

Persons: Omar Victor Diop, Frederick Douglass, Diop, Selma, ”, ” Omar Victor Diop, Douglass, “, ” Diop, Mama Casset, Malick Sidibé, Samuel Fosso, Martin Luther King Jr Organizations: paisley, West Locations: Senegalese, American, United States, Soweto, South Africa, Africa, “, African American, Dakar, Paris, Nigeria, Senegal, France, Nairobi, Lagos, Mali, America, African

Researchers have known for a while that beer production will be affected by climate change, said Mirek Trnka, a professor at the Global Change Research Institute. Political Cartoons View All 1240 Images"If we don’t act, we’re just going to also lose things that we consider not to be, for example, sensitive or related to climate change. Climate change moves faster than we might realize – but still too slowly for many to notice, he said. Hayes kept the card in his office, and has made it his life’s mission to work on improving winter barley. No matter what farmers and companies do with hops and winter barley, climate change may affect what beer-lovers are able to buy in the future.

Persons: crisscrossed Gayle Goschie's, Goschie, Mirek Trnka, we’re, ”, Trnka, Shaun Townsend, Townsend, Kevin Smith, Smith, – Patrick Hayes, Oregon State University –, Hayes, Ashley McFarland, Douglass Miller, ” Hayes, Dee, Ann Durbin, Walling, ___, Melina Walling, Read Organizations: Change Research, Nature Communications, Oregon State University, University of Minnesota, Barley, Molson Coors, Anheuser Busch, Associated, Cornell, Associated Press, AP Locations: ANGEL, Portland , Oregon, Goschie, Willamette, U.S, Europe, Midwest, Detroit, Chicago

☆ Biden touts billions for northeast US rail corridor
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Jarrett Renshaw | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Erin Scott/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday will announce the latest tranche of federal dollars to modernize key portions of the nation's busiest rail corridor that stretches from Boston to Washington DC. Biden is highlighting $16.4 billion in funding from the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law for 25 passenger rail projects on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, which supports some 800,000 trips per day in a region that represents 20% of the nation's gross domestic product. "The bottom line is that for the over 200 million passengers who ride this rail corridor every year, these improvements are going to shorten travel times and improve reliability," U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a statement. Monday's event marks at least the third time Biden has held an event to highlight funding the Northeast Corridor line, underscoring the president's personal connection with the corridor. He believes strongly in improving America's passenger rail and he knows the Northeast Corridor like no one else," White House infrastructure czar Mitch Landrieu said.

Persons: Joe Biden, Finnegan, Maisy, Erin Scott, Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Frederick Douglass, Mitch Landrieu, Jarrett Renshaw, Lincoln Organizations: REUTERS, Washington DC, U.S . Transportation, Amtrak, Thomson Locations: Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, U.S, Boston, Washington, New York, Hudson, New Jersey, Maryland, Wilmington, Amtrak's Wilmington

☆ Opinion | The Laws of Campus Culture War
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( David French | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

They represent the moral and philosophical foundations for the concrete constitutional rules of culture war that directly apply on campus. One of the most powerful and compelling arguments for free speech in American history was born out of mob suppression. In 1860, Frederick Douglass wrote his “Plea for Free Speech in Boston” after a violent mob shut down an antislavery event. Every college and university — public or private — that receives federal funds has an affirmative duty to protect students’ civil rights. In the recent past, schools have sometimes been too enthusiastic about stopping harassment, defining the term so broadly that university anti-harassment policies actually violate students’ free speech rights.

Persons: George Washington, ”, “, Abraham, ” Washington, Johnson, Watts, they’re, Deactivating, Frederick Douglass, ” Douglass, Biden, Davis, VI, Scott Alexander’s, it’s, — Organizations: State University System of, Justice, Cooper Union, Cornell University, Trees School, . Ohio, Klan, Hamas, Civil, of Education, Cornell, Democratic Locations: State University System of Florida, Palestine, New York City, Ithaca, N.Y, ”, United States, America, Newport, R.I, Texas, Terminiello, Chicago, Brandenburg, ., Ohio, “, Gaza, Florida, Boston, Monroe County

☆ Man sentenced to prison for tweeting to suppress votes for Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A Trump-supporting social media influencer was sentenced to seven months in prison for conspiring to suppress the votes of possibly thousands of people who supported former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. Douglass Mackey, who was 33 when he was convicted in March, was also ordered to pay a $15,000 fine. Mackey made podcast appearances and social media posts about those beliefs, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said that 99% of the texts received by that number were sent after Mackey first posted a deceptive Hillary advertisement from one of his social media accounts. Andrew Frisch, Mackey's attorney, told CNBC he remained "optimistic" about Mackey's prospects on appeal, which has not yet been taken up.

Persons: influencer, Hillary Clinton, Douglass Mackey, Mackey, Ricky Vaughn, Hillary, Andrew Frisch Organizations: States, Court, Eastern, of, Trump, Prosecutors, CNBC Locations: of New York, Brooklyn, United States

☆ Man Who Spread Misinformation on Trump’s Behalf Sentenced to 7 Months
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Colin Moynihan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A digital-age dirty-trickster who used Twitter posts that looked like Hillary Clinton ads to spread false information before the 2016 presidential election was sentenced on Tuesday to seven months in prison. But they argued that Mr. Mackey committed a crime days before the election when, using the name Ricky Vaughn, he posted images targeting Black and Latino voters that claimed it was possible to vote by text message. The idea, prosecutors said, was to suppress votes for Mrs. Clinton. One of the images showed a Black woman and another one had a message in Spanish. Both included logos resembling the Clinton campaign’s and fine print attributing them to “Hillary for President.”

Persons: Hillary Clinton, Douglass Mackey, Donald J, Trump, Mackey, Ricky Vaughn, Clinton, “ Hillary, ” Organizations: Twitter

☆ Ed Dwight was NASA's first Black astronaut candidate in the 1960s. A new documentary tells his forgotten story.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Two decades before Bluford's flight, Ed Dwight was an Air Force pilot who trained to be the first Black astronaut. Whitney Young of the National Urban League urged Kennedy to push the Air Force to find and train the first Black astronaut. Dwight said the famed pilot felt slighted and not being included in the decision to train a Black astronaut. "All of a sudden we were able to hire astronauts who didn't look like the classic NASA astronaut," Bolden said. During his flight, Glover had a group call with Dwight, Bluford, Bolden, and other Black astronauts.

Persons: Ed Dwight, Robert Lawrence, NASA didn't, —, Guion Bluford, Bluford, Dwight, Lisa Cortés, hadn't, John F, Kennedy, Whitney Young, Cortés, Dwight wasn't, Chuck Yeager, Yeager, Frederick Gregory, Frederick Douglass, Rosa Park, Ella Fitzgerald, Martin Luther King, Craig F, Walker, Ed, Leland Melvin, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Bernard Harris , Jr, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Ron McNair, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Charles Bolden , Jr, Tamayo Méndez, Gregory, Bolden, McNair, they'll, Charles Bolden, Melvin, de Mendoza, Katherine Johnson, Ed's, kickstart, Victor Glover, George Floyd, who's, Leland D, Victor, Glover Organizations: NASA, Service, Air Force, Black, Atlanta Constitution, National Urban League, Bettmann, Denver's, Denver, Getty, Soviet Union, Space Shuttle Challenger, Space Shuttle Columbia, Space Station, NASA’s Office, Education, Geographic, Disney Locations: Atlanta, Rosa, Cuban, Cuba, United States, Soviet Union

☆ The climate crisis is coming for your hoppy beer
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Rachel Ramirez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

“One of the side motives of this study was to illustrate how climate change might be important for even those who think it doesn’t matter,” Trnka told CNN. Now, each of the basic ingredients of today’s beer — water, barley, yeast and hops – are threatened by global warming. Researchers used weather data and climate models to analyze how European hops have been and will be affected by climate change between 1970 and 2050, assuming precipitation decreases and temperature increases. Felix Kästle/picture alliance/Getty ImagesIn recent years, more consumers are preferring beer aromas and flavors that require higher-quality hops, according to the study. Since these hops are only grown in smaller regions, researchers say they’re put at even higher risk from climate change-fueled heat waves and droughts.

Persons: Miroslav Trnka, ” Trnka, “, Beer, I’m, ”, Douglass Miller, ” Miller, Felix Kästle, they’re, Mark Sorrells, Sorrells, Trnka, it’s Organizations: CNN, Nature Communications, Change Research, Cornell University, Cornell University’s School, Integrative Plant Locations: Germany, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Pacific Northwest

NEW YORK (AP) — Iowa basketball star Caitlin Clark won the 93rd AAU James E. Sullivan Award on Tuesday night as the nation's top collegiate or Olympic athlete. Voting by the public as well as the AAU Sullivan Award committee, AAU board of directors, sports media and past winners determined the winner. “It is an honor to be selected for this prestigious award that elects a student-athlete that excels on the court and off. It is special to represent the University of Iowa on this stage.”Clark was the consensus national player of the year in women’s basketball. Clark is the eighth basketball player to win the award.

Persons: Caitlin Clark, AAU James, Clark, ” Clark, Dylan Crews, Jordan Chiles, Jordan Crooks, Kate Douglass, Zach Edey Organizations: AAU, AAU James E, Sullivan, New York Athletic Club, University of Iowa, Hawkeyes, LSU, Washington Nationals, Purdue, AP, womens Locations: Iowa, Jordan Chiles , Tennessee

☆ When Club Music Went Commercial, Remixes Kept It Real
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Craig Seymour | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Remixes can free a song from the dictates of radio trends, marketability and the pop conventions of boy-meets-girl. It makes me think about what, on the surface, seems so irrational: a Black queer person risking alienation from the larger Black community to shape a distinct identity around the inexplicable wants of the heart. You just had to learn it for yourself.”There is another function of the remixes I cherish most: They instigate precious memories. The beat is the confession, which recognizes, changes, and conquers time.” Some remixes remind me of the 1980s and ’90s, when music forged in Black queer spaces began reaching the mainstream. Remixes were one way of preserving Black queer aesthetics amid economic incentives to make club music more commercial.

Persons: Diana Ross, ” Jody Watley, Mariah Carey, ”, Quincy Jones’s, Arthur Baker, Baker, Chaka Khan’s, Frederick Douglass, “, Whitney, David Cole, Robert Clivillés, Oz, Glinda, “ You’ve, James Baldwin Locations: Houston

☆ Analysis: Here’s why many Black people despise Clarence Thomas. (It’s not because he’s a conservative.)
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( John Blake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

CNN —Long before he became a Supreme Court justice, Clarence Thomas told a story at a public gathering that still sounds shocking years later. Justice Clarence Thomas jokes with his clerks in his chambers at the Supreme Court building in Washington in 2016. AP“His entire judicial philosophy is at war with his own biography,” Michael Fletcher, co-author of “Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas,”. “He’s arguably benefited from affirmative action every step of the way.”Thomas has admitted that he was accepted at Yale Law School under an affirmative action policy. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas looks at the displays inside the Pin Point Heritage Museum.

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☆ Florida state colleges may allow entrance exam favored by many conservatives
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Sharon Bernstein | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Students stage a walk out from Hillsborough High School to protest after Florida education officials voted to ban classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in all public school grades. The Board of Governors of the 12-campus State University System of Florida will consider the adoption of the Classic Learning Test (CLT) on Friday. The test's adoption would mark the third time that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has taken on the non-profit College Board, which administers the SAT, or Scholastic Aptitude Test. The College Board has pushed back against the new test, criticizing as flawed a study meant to compare students' scores on the CLT with scores on the SAT. Reporting by Sharon Bernstein in Sacramento, California; editing by Grant McCoolOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Octavio Jones, Chancellor Ray Rodrigues, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, Priscilla Rodriguez, Jeremy Tate, Tate, Thomas Aquinas, Dante Alighieri, Frederick Douglass, Flannery O'Connor, Sharon Bernstein, Grant McCool Organizations: Hillsborough High School, REUTERS, Governors, State University System, ACT, Florida, Board, Republican, College, American Studies, The, College Board, Thomson Locations: Florida, Tampa , Florida, U.S, Southern U.S, Sacramento , California

☆ 2 millennials who have bought a combined 22 properties with friends and family explain how they got into real estate without waiting on a spouse
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Two millennials who bought homes with friends say "houses before spouses" is the way to go. They bought a beach house, lake home, and ranch house with friends, which they use for vacations. Since then Modares has purchased eight properties with friends and family that have variously served as rental properties and primary residences. Modares and Douglass run a "buying with friends" minicourse to encourage clients to explore less-conventional real-estate partnerships. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe critical part of homebuying with friends, they said, is the operating agreement, which outlines the terms and conditions of a real-estate partnership.

Persons: Kristina Modares, didn't, Modares, Steph Douglass, Douglass, minicourse, they're, homebuying Douglass, Austin's, She's, they've, that's, she'd, she's, — Douglass, they'd Organizations: Service, Open House Austin, Nationwide Locations: Wall, Silicon, San Antonio, Austin, Florida, homebuying, Airbnb

☆ Jill Lepore Revisits American Myths With an Eye to the Present
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Sloane Crosley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

THE DEADLINE: Essays, by Jill LeporeIn 1636, at the height of the Dutch economic hysteria known as Tulipomania, John Harvard helped found the first college of the American colonies. It’s a good thing I do not have Jill Lepore’s job. The phrase “historical framework” is insufficient when it comes to Lepore, who also provides the picture and the glass. Through these figures Lepore covers American consumerism, literary biography, journalism, intellectual property law and other cultural curiosities. But it’s her inclinations toward misfits and old narratives we have taken for granted that make “The Deadline” glow.

Persons: Jill Lepore, John Harvard, Jill Lepore’s, John Harvard’s, ”, Lepore, Jane Franklin, Lela, Robert L, Ripley, Who ”, Rachel Carson, Mary Shelley, “ Frankenstein, Fredrick Douglass, Joan Didion’s, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s, “, Karl Marx, Walt Whitman Organizations: Yorker, Magna Carta, Mattel, Affordable, Lepore

☆ Progressives for Speech Discrimination
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones, frederick, douglass, muriel, bowser, b6cb39af Organizations: washington

☆ Opinion | Using Frederick Douglass to Rationalize Slavery? In Florida, Yes!
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Charles M. Blow | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Last month, the Florida Department of Education announced that grade-school teachers could use videos produced by Dennis Prager’s PragerU Kids in their classrooms. PragerU is no more a university than Trump University was. In fine type at the bottom of its webpage, it admits that “PragerU is not an accredited university, nor do we claim to be. We don’t offer degrees, but we do provide educational, entertaining, pro-American videos for every age.”In reality, PragerU is little more than a propaganda media site. The Southern Poverty Law Center takes an even dimmer view of its credentials, saying, “PragerU seems to be yet another node on the internet connecting conservative media consumers to the dark corners of the extreme right.”

Persons: Ron DeSantis’s, Dennis Prager’s, “ PragerU, ” Organizations: Republican, Florida Department of Education, Trump University, Southern Poverty Law Center Locations: Florida

REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsAug 15 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday revived part of a lawsuit claiming that the District of Columbia enforced an anti-graffiti law against anti-abortion protesters in Washington but not racial justice demonstrators in 2020. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. The foundation claimed D.C. authorities abandoned enforcement of the anti-graffiti law during widespread protests in the city following the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg dismissed the lawsuit in 2021, finding that the groups did not produce evidence of discriminatory intent by the D.C. government. “It is fundamental to our free speech rights that the government cannot pick and choose between speakers, not when regulating and not when enforcing the laws,” the court said.

Persons: Samuel Alito, Wade, Elizabeth Frantz, “, Frederick Douglass, George Floyd, Erin Hawley, James Boasberg, Andrew Goudsward, David Bario, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: U.S, Supreme, Washington , D.C, REUTERS, of Columbia, Appeals, Frederick, Frederick Douglass Foundation, Life, Washington, Alliance Defending, District, D.C, U.S . Constitution, Thomson Locations: Washington ,, Washington, America, Minneapolis, U.S .

☆ Tony Bennett, masterful stylist of American musical standards, dies at 96
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +14 min

US singer Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) performs on stage during an invitation only concert at the newly opened Encore Boston Harbor Casino in Everett, Massachusetts on August 8, 2019. "No country has given the world such great music," Bennett said in a 2015 interview with Downbeat Magazine. The evening's performance resulted in the album, "Tony Bennett: MTV Unplugged," which won two Grammys, including album of the year. Bennett would win Grammys for his tributes to female vocalists ("Here's to the Ladies"), Billie Holiday ("Tony Bennett on Holiday"), and Duke Ellington ("Bennett Sings Ellington — Hot & Cool"). He also won two Emmy Awards — for "Tony Bennett Live By Request: A Valentine Special" (1996) and "Tony Bennett: An American Classic" (2007).

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CNN —Donald Trump’s legal troubles deepened earlier this week when he was informed by special counsel Jack Smith that he’s the target of the criminal investigation into the aftermath of the 2020 election – the clearest sign yet that the former president could soon face more criminal charges. But without more detail, it’s hard to know exactly what shape the charges will take or what Trump 2020 election-related conduct they are aimed at. Among the potential charges Trump has been warned about is one pertaining to witness tampering, according to the Wall Street Journal and other outlets. Trump’s alleged involvement in a criminal conspiracy has been invoked in the litigation around the House select committee that investigated January 6’s pursuit of Trump lawyer John Eastman’s emails. That ruling pointed both to the obstruction of an official proceeding statute and the general conspiracy statute.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Jack Smith, Smith, Trump, Todd Blanche, ”, Norm Eisen, “ Trump, Shan Wu, CNN’s Manu Raju, Mike, Joe Biden, ” Eisen, “, Justin Levitt, Levitt, Douglass Mackey, ” Mackey, Joe Biden’s, Enrique Tarrio, Trump’s, John Eastman’s, David O, Carter, Eastman, Elie Honig, ” Honig Organizations: CNN, Sunday, White, Trump, ABC, The New York Times, Loyola Law School, Obama Justice Department, Biden White House, Klux Klan, Wall Street, Justice Department, Boys, Eastman, Capitol Locations: United States, New York, Georgia, Arizona

☆ Gov. Wes Moore wants Democrats to deliver results. If he pulls it off, he could change Maryland for decades.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

When speaking about the Democratic Party in Maryland, Moore leaned into a similar message. "If you look at the work that we're doing here in the state of Maryland, it's results," he said. Moore in his office at the Maryland State House in Annapolis. Moore told me that he had full confidence in the legality of the legislation, calling it "the right thing to do." Moore gives his first State of the State address at the Maryland State House on February 1, 2023.

Persons: Wes Moore, Moore, Wes Moore's, —, Mitt Romney, Chris Christie, Marylanders, We're, Biden, Frederick Douglass, we're, Del, Dan Cox, Michael Robinson Chávez, Moore —, Gov, Aruna Miller —, Annapolis —, we've, Jarrod Ramos, Christian Segovia, Jr, Brian Witte, Atlanta , Georgia —, J.B . Pritzker, Matt McClain, I've, he's Organizations: Maryland Gov, NRA, Black, Republicans, Democratic, Democratic Party, Democrats, GOP, Maryland National Guard, Maryland State House, Washington Post, National Guard, US, 82nd Airborne Division, Gazette, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore's Brooklyn Homes, Guardians, Capital Gazette, AP, National Rifle Association, Morehouse College —, Democratic Gov, Illinois, Washington, Getty, of Commerce Locations: ANNAPOLIS , Maryland, Maryland, Annapolis, Afghanistan, Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, Buffalo , New York, Baltimore's Brooklyn, Sr, Md, Atlanta , Georgia

☆ Factbox: List of Wimbledon women's singles champions
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) - List of Wimbledon women's singles champions:2023 Marketa Vondrousova (Czech Republic) beat Ons Jabeur (Tunisia) 6-4 6-42022 Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) beat Jabeur (Tunisia) 3-6 6-2 6-22021 Ash Barty (Australia) beat Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic) 6-3 6-7(4) 6-32020 Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic2019 Simona Halep (Romania) beat Serena Williams (U.S.) 6-2 6-22018 Angelique Kerber (Germany) beat Serena Williams (U.S.) 6-3 6-32017 Garbine Muguruza (Spain) beat Venus Williams (U.S.) 7-5 6-02016 Serena Williams (U.S.) beat Kerber (Germany) 7-5 6-32015 Serena Williams (U.S.) beat Muguruza (Spain) 6-4 6-42014 Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) beat Eugenie Bouchard (Canada) 6-3 6-02013 Marion Bartoli (France) beat Sabine Lisicki (Germany) 6-1 6-42012 Serena Williams (U.S.) beat Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 6-1 5-7 6-22011 Kvitova (Czech Republic) beat Maria Sharapova (Russia) 6-3 6-42010 Serena Williams (U.S.) beat Vera Zvonareva (Russia) 6-3 6-22009 Serena Williams (U.S.) beat Venus Williams (U.S.) 7-6(3) 6-22008 Venus Williams (U.S.) beat Serena Williams (U.S.) 7-5 6-42007 Venus Williams (U.S.) beat Bartoli (France) 6-4 6-12006 Amelie Mauresmo (France) beat Justine Henin (Belgium) 2-6 6-3 6-42005 Venus Williams (U.S.) beat Lindsay Davenport (U.S.) 4-6 7-6(4)9-72004 Sharapova (Russia) beat Serena Williams (U.S.) 6-1 6-42003 Serena Williams (U.S.) beat Venus Williams (U.S.) 4-6 6-4 6-22002 Serena Williams (U.S.) beat Venus Williams (U.S.) 7-6(4) 6-32001 Venus Williams (U.S.) beat Henin (Belgium) 6-1 3-6 6-02000 Venus Williams (U.S.) beat Davenport (U.S.) 6-3 7-6(3)1999 Davenport (U.S.) beat Steffi Graf (Germany) 6-4 7-51998 Jana Novotna (Czech Republic) beat Nathalie Tauziat (France) 6-4 7-6(2)1997 Martina Hingis (Switzerland) beat Novotna (Czech Republic) 2-6 6-3 6-31996 Graf (Germany) beat Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (Spain) 6-3 7-51995 Graf (Germany) beat Sanchez Vicario (Spain) 4-6 6-1 7-51994 Conchita Martinez (Spain) beat Martina Navratilova (U.S.) 6-4 3-6 6-31993 Graf (Germany) beat Novotna (Czech Republic) 7-6(6) 1-6 6-41992 Graf (Germany) beat Monica Seles (Yugoslavia) 6-2 6-11991 Graf (Germany) beat Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) 6-4 3-6 8-61990 Navratilova (U.S.) beat Zina Garrison (U.S.) 6-4 6-11989 Graf (Germany) beat Navratilova (U.S.) 6-2 6-7(1) 6-11988 Graf (Germany) beat Navratilova (U.S.) 5-7 6-2 6-11987 Navratilova (U.S.) beat Graf (Germany) 7-5 6-31986 Navratilova (U.S.) beat Hana Mandlikova (Czechoslovakia) 7-6(1) 6-31985 Navratilova (U.S.) beat Chris Evert Lloyd (U.S.) 4-6 6-3 6-21984 Navratilova (U.S.) beat Evert Lloyd (U.S.) 7-6(5) 6-21983 Navratilova (U.S.) beat Andrea Jaeger (U.S.) 6-0 6-31982 Navratilova (U.S.) beat Evert Lloyd (U.S.) 6-1 3-6 6-21981 Evert Lloyd (U.S.) beat Mandlikova (Czechoslovakia) 6-2 6-21980 Evonne Goolagong Cawley (Australia) beat Evert Lloyd (U.S.) 6-1 7-6(4)1979 Navratilova (Czechoslovakia) beat Evert Lloyd (U.S.) 6-4 6-41978 Navratilova (Czechoslovakia) beat Evert Lloyd (U.S.) 2-6 6-4 7-51977 Virginia Wade (Britain) beat Betty Stove (Netherlands) 4-6 6-3 6-11976 Evert Lloyd (U.S.) beat Cawley (Australia) 6-3 4-6 8-61975 Billie Jean King (Moffitt) (U.S.) beat Cawley (Australia) 6-0 6-11974 Evert (U.S.) beat Olga Morozova (Soviet Union) 6-0 6-41973 King (U.S.) beat Evert (U.S.) 6-0 7-51972 King (U.S.) beat Cawley (Australia) 6-3 6-31971 Cawley (Australia) beat Margaret Court (Smith) (Australia) 6-4 6-11970 Court (Australia) beat King (U.S.) 14-12 11-91969 Ann Jones (Britain) beat King (U.S.) 3-6 6-3 6-21968 King (U.S.) beat Judy Tegart (Australia) 9-7 7-5Pre-Open era:1967 King (U.S.) beat Jones (Britain) 6-3 6-41966 King (U.S.) beat Maria Bueno (Brazil) 6-3 3-6 6-11965 Smith (Court) (Australia) beat Bueno (Brazil) 6-4 7-51964 Bueno (Brazil) beat Smith (Australia) 6-4 7-9 6-31963 Smith (Australia) beat Moffitt (King) (U.S.) 6-3 6-41962 Karen Susman (U.S.) beat Vera Sukova (Czechoslovakia)6-4 6-41961 Angela Mortimer (Britain) beat Christine Truman (Britain) 4-6 6-4 7-51960 Bueno (Brazil) beat Sandra Reynolds (South Africa) 8-6 6-01959 Bueno (Brazil) beat Darlene Hard (U.S.) 6-4 6-31958 Althea Gibson (U.S.) beat Mortimer (Britain) 8-6 6-21957 Gibson (U.S.) beat Hard (U.S.) 6-3 6-21956 Shirley Fry (U.S.) beat Angela Buxton (Britain) 6-3 6-11955 Louise Brough (U.S.) beat Beverly Fleitz (U.S.) 7-5 8-61954 Maureen Connolly (U.S.) beat Brough (U.S.) 6-2 7-51953 Connolly (U.S.) beat Doris Hart (U.S.) 8-6 7-51952 Connolly (U.S.) beat Brough (U.S.) 7-5 6-31951 Hart (U.S.) beat Fry (U.S.) 6-1 6-01950 Brough (U.S.) beat Margaret du Pont (Osborne) (U.S.) 6-1 3-6 6-11949 Brough (U.S.) beat Du Pont (U.S.) 10-8 1-6 10-81948 Brough (U.S.) beat Hart (U.S.) 6-3 8-61947 Osborne (U.S.) beat Hart (U.S.) 6-2 6-41946 Pauline Betz (U.S.) beat Brough (U.S.) 6-2 6-41940-45 No competition1939 Alice Marble (U.S.) beat Kay Stammers (Britain) 6-2 6-01938 Helen Moody (Wills) (U.S.) beat Helen Jacobs (U.S.) 6-4 6-01937 Dorothy Round (Britain) beat Jadwiga 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Persons: Vondrousova, Elena Rybakina, Ash Barty, Karolina Pliskova, Simona Halep, Serena Williams, Angelique Kerber, Muguruza, Venus Williams, Petra Kvitova, Eugenie Bouchard, Marion Bartoli, Sabine Lisicki, Agnieszka Radwanska, Kvitova, Maria Sharapova, Vera Zvonareva, Bartoli, Amelie Mauresmo, Justine Henin, Lindsay Davenport, Sharapova, Davenport, Steffi Graf, Jana Novotna, Nathalie Tauziat, Martina Hingis, Novotna, Graf, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, Sanchez Vicario, Conchita Martinez, Martina Navratilova, Monica Seles, Gabriela Sabatini, Navratilova, Zina Garrison, Hana Mandlikova, Chris Evert Lloyd, Evert Lloyd, Andrea Jaeger, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Virginia Wade, Betty Stove, Cawley, Billie Jean King, Moffitt, Evert, Olga Morozova, King, Margaret Court, Smith, Ann Jones, Judy Tegart, Jones, Maria Bueno, Bueno, Karen Susman, Vera Sukova, Angela Mortimer, Christine Truman, Sandra Reynolds, Darlene Hard, Althea Gibson, Mortimer, Gibson, Shirley Fry, Angela Buxton, Louise Brough, Beverly Fleitz, Maureen Connolly, Connolly, Doris Hart, Hart, Fry, Brough, Margaret du Pont, Osborne, Du Pont, Pauline Betz, Alice Marble, Kay Stammers, Helen Moody, Wills, Helen Jacobs, Dorothy Round, Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, Jacobs, Hilde Sperling, Moody, Cilly Aussem, Hilde Krahwinkel, Elizabeth Ryan, Lili de Alvarez, De Alvarez, Kathleen Godfree, Suzanne Lenglen, Joan Fry, Kathleen McKane, Molla Mallory, Dorothea Chambers, Chambers, Ethel Larcombe, Winifred McNair, Charlotte Sterry, Dora Boothby, Boothby, Agnes Morton, Morton, Sutton, Dorothea Douglass, Douglass, Sterry, Thomson, Muriel Robb, Blanche Hillyard, Hillyard, Charlotte Cooper, Cooper, Louisa Martin 6, Alice Pickering, Helen Jackson, Edith Austin, Lottie Dod, Dod, Lena Rice, May, Bingley, Maud Watson, Watson, Lillian Watson, Aadi Nair, Ed Osmond Organizations: Wimbledon, Henin, Davenport, Graf, Evert, King, Brough, Wills, Rice, Bingley, Thomson Locations: Czech Republic, Tunisia, Kazakhstan, Jabeur, Australia, Romania, Germany, Spain, Kerber, Muguruza, Canada, France, Poland, Russia, Belgium, U.S, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Mandlikova, Britain, Netherlands, Soviet Union, Brazil, South Africa, McKane, Bingley, Bengaluru

☆ Do you always need to tip 20%? Here's how much an etiquette expert says to leave at restaurants, hotels and more
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Kamaron Mcnair | In Kamaronmcnair | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The barista hands you your coffee and spins their tablet around to show a screen that prompts you to tip 15%, 20%, 30% or 0% on your order. Sitting down for a meal: Always tip 15% to 20% These rules haven't changed much. Gottsman and other industry experts still recommend tipping 15% to 20% on your bill when you have a sit-down meal at a restaurant. How much to tip on vacationWhen you're traveling, Gottsman says you should always leave a tip for valets, bellhops, housekeepers and shuttle drivers. Even if there is a fee for valet service, you still tip the valet."

Persons: Diane Gottsman, Gottsman, —, Douglass Miller, Cornell University's Nolan, it's, Miller, they're, gratuity Organizations: Digital, Protocol, CNBC, Cornell University's, Cornell University's Nolan School of Hotel Administration Locations: Texas, U.S

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