Several companies have retired racial imagery from their packaging in recent months.
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Bob Woodward’s ‘Rage’ sells 600,000 copies in first week
Simon & Schuster says the book will be going into its 4th printing, with total copies in print to be 1.3 million.
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Disney delays ‘Black Widow,’ Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’
Ten of the studio’s top films shuffled release dates because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Maine leaders react to death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King, Gov. Janet Mills, Rep. Chellie Pingree and Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon issue statements.
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China flies 18 warplanes near Taiwan during U.S. envoy’s visit
Taiwan’s defense ministry says China flew 18 warplanes including fighter jets near Taiwan in an unusually large show of force as the U.S. envoy held talks with officials on the self-governing island.
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Firefighter dies battling wildfire in California
The blaze erupted earlier this month from a smoke-generating pyrotechnic device used by a couple to reveal their baby’s gender.
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Emergency tents, restrictions back as virus spikes in Madrid
The Spanish capital’s rate of transmission is more than double the national average, which already leads European contagion charts.
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U.S. stocks fall as market decline extends for third week
Big Tech stocks have stumbled sharply this month on worries that their prices have grown too expensive.
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Watchdog: FAA not prepared to update jet evacuation rules
The Transportation Department’s inspector general says the agency largely only updates standards after accidents and hasn’t revised them since a 1991 accident.
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Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein stripped of U.K. honor
The former Hollywood producer was convicted this year of rape and sexual assault against two women and sentenced to 23 years in prison.