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Reba Browne, internationally acclaimed dancer, explains how dance can bring people together in celebration of life
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Reba Browne, internationally acclaimed dancer, explains how dance can bring people together in celebration of life

Dazzlingly emotive, Reba Browne moves with fluidity and grace that is quintessential of the Indian dance styles that are her forte. With her crisp turns, clear-as-crystal technique, radiant stage presence and spellbinding command of an audience, Browne is an Indian dancer, choreographer, and dance educator, passionately spreading South Asian culture through dance. Dance Beginnings Browne was 7 when she began dancing thanks to her grandmother’s initiative. She took classical Indian dance lessons in kathak at the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, New Delhi. “I feel I was performing on stage before I could properly walk,” Browne says. “I vividly recall my first kathak performance at the Kamani Auditorium. I must have been 9 years old. I fell in love with the feeling of being on stage right ...
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Economic pressures boost Thanksgiving turkey prices by 20%
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Economic pressures boost Thanksgiving turkey prices by 20%

Supply chain issues, labor shortages and inflation have driven up the cost of Thanksgiving, raising the price of an 8- to 16-pound turkey by 20.2% over last year, according to government estimates. An 8- to 16-pound turkey cost $1.36 a pound last week, compared with $1.13 at the same time last year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The American Farm Bureau Federation estimates that the classic Thanksgiving feast will cost $53.31 this year, up from $46.90 last year. Christine McDaniel, a former deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury Department, said the price of a whole turkey in the U.S. has been rising for a while, but “that increase is showing even higher this year” because of the nation’s economic problems. “It is not really a shortage of turkeys, but rather a short...
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Robbie Antonio man Behind Revolution Precrafted, the Country’s First Billion-Dollar ‘Unicorn’ Startup
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Robbie Antonio man Behind Revolution Precrafted, the Country’s First Billion-Dollar ‘Unicorn’ Startup

"Time is our enemy here at Revolution but it’s also my greatest impetus,” Robbie Antonio says, as we make our way down the narrow hallway that runs through his penthouse office. “We never have enough of it.” A welcome interruption from a lively conversation about all that is upcoming at Revolution Precrafted, its founder and Chief Executive Officer leads us to the reception area where the renderings for his new museum project with French “starchitect” Jean Nouvel hang. In those few short steps, and somewhere in between sentences, it becomes clear that keeping up with Robbie is not for the faint of heart. Never unhinged and always at full-wattage, his thoughts and ideas are focused and plentiful. With every word he utters, he displays the confidence and conviction he has in his own ...
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Lawmakers clash over Treasury nominee’s Soviet background, anti-fossil fuel positions
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Lawmakers clash over Treasury nominee’s Soviet background, anti-fossil fuel positions

Fireworks erupted on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Thursday over President Biden’s nominee to lead a top regulatory post in the Treasury Department, with Republicans challenging her worldview as a native of the Soviet Union and Democrats accusing Republicans of engaging in “Red Scare” tactics. Saule Omarova, a Cornell University law professor nominated for comptroller of the currency, faces unified Republican opposition over past statements that she wanted the fossil fuel industry to go bankrupt to help tackle climate change and proposed to block credit to “suboptimal” industries such as arms dealers. Her nomination is on shaky ground. Two Democrats, Sen. Mark R. Warner of Virginia and John Tester of Montana, expressed concerns about Ms. Omarova’s past objectio...
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Congressional Republicans playing to lose
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Congressional Republicans playing to lose

OPINION: DENVER — Republicans in Washington are positively giddy over all the new polls showing President Biden tanking the Democratic Party ahead of next year’s midterms. Indeed, Mr. Biden is making history. For a guy who got elected on a single pledge to not send Mean Tweets, Mr. Biden has managed to burn through an astonishing reserve of goodwill in a very short period of time.  All he had to do? Be nice. And don’t touch anything. After 50 years in Washington, the guy was at the very least a known quantity. Sure, people rolled their eyes when he strolled into a room. They plugged their ears when he droned on and on. They smacked him gently away when he groped children and sniffed your hair. Everyone, of course, knew he made up stories.  But, still, people didn’t really hate Jo...
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Barronelle Stutzman to retire as florist, ending religious-freedom battle over same-sex weddings
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Barronelle Stutzman to retire as florist, ending religious-freedom battle over same-sex weddings

A Washington state florist has agreed to retire from her business and pay a $5,000 settlement to close out a case accusing her of illegal discrimination against a same-sex couple that had wanted her to provide custom floral arrangements for their wedding ceremony. Barronelle Stutzman also agreed to cancel her request for a rehearing of her case before the U.S. Supreme Court. She said the $5,000 payment to the two men was a way to exit without having to compromise on her religious beliefs and not have to pay large fees to lawyers for the couple. “I am willing to turn the legal struggle for freedom over to others. At age 77, it’s time to retire,” she wrote in a letter announcing her decision to settle. Her case had become one of the most-watched tests of same-sex couples versus religiously-d...
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AUKUS deal about more than subs, Australia’s ambassador says
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AUKUS deal about more than subs, Australia’s ambassador says

Australia’s decision to dismiss France in favor of a nuclear submarine deal with the U.S. and Britain may have generated the most headlines recently, but the new Anglophone partnership known as AUKUS (Australia-United Kingdom-United States) is about much more than any particular weapon system, Canberra’s ambassador to the United States said this week. Ambassador Arthur Sinodinos told the Defense Writers Group that the main intent of AUKUS is to help generate a “global, rules-based order” as the geostrategic focus shifts to the Indo-Pacific region. He said the “big story” of the latter part of the 20th century and the start of the 21st has been the rise of China as a global economic and military superpower. “If [AUKUS] has the effect of convincing other countries in the region to cooperate ...
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Bill Hagerty pushes for updated AUMFs ahead of Senate vote to repeal them
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Bill Hagerty pushes for updated AUMFs ahead of Senate vote to repeal them

A key Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is pushing for an alternative to an all-out repeal of the 2002 Iraq war authorization ahead of the Senate’s vote on the annual defense policy bill. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, has committed to tacking onto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) a measure repealing the 1991 and 2002 authorizations for use of military force (AUMF) against Iraq. But Sen. Bill Hagerty, Tennessee Republican, says the U.S. could find itself flat-footed in the face of the threats from terrorists and Iranian-backed militants that persist in the region if the old AUMFs are not replaced with an updated authorization. “After watching the Biden Administration’s ongoing appeasement to the Iran regime and its poorly plann...
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Biden’s push for electric vehicles includes tax credit favoring union factories over non-union plant
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Biden’s push for electric vehicles includes tax credit favoring union factories over non-union plant

President Biden’s alliance with labor unions was on display on Wednesday with a proposal favoring union shops in his push for electric vehicles, snubbing Tesla and other nonunion plants while promoting his infrastructure programs and offering extra federal subsidies only for cars assembled at union factories. Speaking on the floor of the General Motors “Factory Zero” electric-vehicle facility in Detroit, Mr. Biden emphasized his close ties with unions. He also touted how the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill he signed into law this week would benefit labor, one of his biggest backers. “We are going to kick-start batteries, materials and parts production and recycling, boosting the manufacturing of clean vehicles with new loans and new tax credits,” Mr. Biden said, “creating new purchase in...
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Jake Sullivan under fire amid John Durham indictments, botched Afghanistan exit
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Jake Sullivan under fire amid John Durham indictments, botched Afghanistan exit

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, already under fire for his role in the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, is facing growing calls to resign amid questions about a suspected connection to debunked claims of collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Multiple reports surfaced last week that Mr. Sullivan, a longtime confidant of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a two-time presidential hopeful, is the “foreign policy adviser” named in special counsel John Durham’s indictment last week of Democratic lawyer Michael Sussmann, charged with lying to the FBI about what he knew about Mr. Trump and Russia. Citing “well-placed sources,” Fox News first reported that Mr. Sullivan is the adviser in question. The news report appeared to ...
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