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Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life

Career advice as a genre is almost fatally flawed. With 160 million American workers across thousands of occupations in hundreds of industries, saying anything that is of use to all of them is practically impossible. The most common counsel is almost always too personal to be broadly applicable. My toes curl with embarrassment when successful people say anything along the lines of “Just do these three things I did.” Autobiography is not advice. Given how poorly most people understand themselves, it’s barely even autobiography.

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A superyacht linked to Vladimir Putin was a Christmas present from oligarchs, Russian opposition website claims

Funds for the Scheherazade, thought to be controlled by the Russian president, were gathered by business figures in 2014, the Dossier Center reported.

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Xi to meet Putin in first trip outside China since COVID began

The meeting will give Xi an opportunity to underscore his clout while Putin can demonstrate Russia's tilt toward Asia as the West seeks to punish Russia for the Ukraine war.

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Russia hits back after Ukraine breaks through the east's front lines, causing outages

Ukraine\'s battlefield gains would help as the Biden administration seeks continued financial support of the war effort from Congress and Western allies, said Daniel Fried, a former U.S. ambassador to Poland and now a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington.

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Ukraine-Russia war: missiles hit Kharkiv infrastructure with widespread power cuts reported â€" live

Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-appointed leader of Chechnya, has criticised the Russian army's leadership after it appeared to be caught off-guard by Ukraine's fightback against the Russian invasion in the north-east. In a sign that the Kremlin may face serious fallout over the loss of territory that the Russian occupation administrations had repeatedly stated they planned to keep "for ever", Kadyrov also suggested that Vladimir Putin might not be aware of the real state of affairs.

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On the eastern front, a stunning week of Ukrainian success and Russian failures

(CNN)The last week has seen a stunning transformation of the battlefield in eastern Ukraine, as a swift armored offensive by Ukrainian forces rolled through lines of Russian defenses and recaptured more than 3,000 square kilometers of territory.

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Ukraine Routs Russian Forces in Northeast, Forcing a Retreat

Andrew E. Kramer reported from Kharkiv, and Andrew Higgins from Warsaw. Reporting was contributed by Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Jeffrey Gettleman from Kyiv; Maria Varenikova from Kharkiv; Ivan Nechepurenko from Tbilisi, Georgia; and David E. Sanger from Washington.

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'We can't keep up': People in Kyiv are glued to their phones, buoyed by the latest developments.

“Russian troops will run, and they will, believe me, because today we are destroying their logistics chains, warehouses, and so on,” he said. “And the question will arise: ‘And where should they go?’ It will be like an avalanche.”

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Why a Group of Nuns and Bishops Has Been Buying Firearm Shares

An unlikely group of activists is going head to head with gunmaker Smith & Wesson on Sept. 12.

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Queen Elizabeth II's corgis will go to her son Prince Andrew and his ex-wife

Elizabeth\'s affinity for corgis can be traced back to her youth, when she was given a corgi named Susan for her 18th birthday. The queen owned more than 30 dogs over the course of her life — a majority of which were Pembroke Welsh Corgis.

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Kamala Harris says everything on the line in midterm elections

And she added that when meeting foreign leaders, the US "had the honor and privilege historically of holding our head up as a defender and an example of a great democracy. And that then gives us the legitimacy and the standing to talk about the importance of democratic principles, rule of law, human rightsâ€¦.through the process of what we've been through, we're starting to allow people to call into question our commitment to those principles. And that's a shame."

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The tech industry needs a labor movement

The tech industry pretends to be disruptive, but is following a path forged by older companies like Goldman Sachs. How is it that Apple and Google, the companies that effectively gave us the ability to remote work at scale, sound like they’re reading from a generic New York Times anti-remote op-ed?

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Expanded Safety Net Drives Sharp Drop in Child Poverty

The United States looks better in comparisons that use the American poverty line as a common standard. Yet even with that definition, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in 2019 found the United States ranked fourth among five rich English-speaking countries, trailing Australia, Canada and Ireland.

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Carlos Alcaraz defeats Casper Ruud to win the US Open final

A clay court specialist, Alcaraz has drawn comparisons to 22-time grand slam champion Nadal and is just the second player in the Open Era to make the US Open final in his teens after Pete Sampras.

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Flighty's app will bring flight tracking and more to your iOS 16 lock screen

Airlines are a mess in the post-COVID world, with flight cancellations, rescheduling, and last-minute gate changes becoming more common. A number of apps are available to help travelers keep up with flight tracking and alerts but when youre in a rush, even opening an app can take up precious time you may not have []

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Kamala Harris says internal threats to democracy fuel questions of U.S. values

"We're starting to allow people to call into question our commitment to those principles. And that's a shame."

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Jack Dorseys Former Boss Is Building A Decentralized Twitter

A little-known group of interoperable social networks has been growing in private for years, but now that the engineer behind Twitters pilot, Evan Henshaw-Plath has joined the fray, the parallel universe is verging on mainstream.

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Berlin leads Germany's dream for car-reducing public transport

Germany's 9 public transport ticket ends.The Berlin Senate announced a new 29 ticket. But how green was the 9 ticket?

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What is the story behind the monarchs famous red box?

King Charles III will have his own cypher, suggesting he is set to receive new boxes to mark the start of his reign.

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Sweden Parliamentary Election: Polarising race for next Prime Minister

Sweden has opened up its polling booth and voting begins for 349 parliamentary seats. While Social Democratic party chief Andersson is focusing on global issues, top focus in Sweden Parliamentary Election are soaring energy prices & inflation.

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YouTube algorithm pushed election fraud claims to Trump supporters, report says

Researchers analyzed real recommendations to hundreds of YouTube users.

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Youre Missing The Point Behind PCA

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Musicians offer lifestyles as well as their work: Yoshiki

Avoiding obsession with money is key for any business, says artist

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How Listening to Silence Changes Our Brains

Quiet is increasingly scarce in the modern world. But growing evidence shows that we need it for our health and cognition.

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Barbarian Is Top Film Amid Late-Summer Box Office Doldrums

“Bullet Train” has brought in $92.5 million in six weeks and “Top Gun: Maverick” has earned $705.7 million in 16 weeks. It now stands as the fifth highest-grossing domestic film of all time, just behind “Avatar” and just ahead of “Black Panther,” and is the biggest North American earner ever that is not part of a sci-fi or superhero franchise.

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Kamala Harris calls domestic threats 'dangerous' and 'harmful'

\"We talk about family a lot. We talk about our hopes, we talk about our dreams, we talk about the things that concern us, that worry us, the things that, that keep us excited about everything we are doing. It\'s a real friendship. We have a real friendship, and I cherish that,\" she said.

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Here's how much money you need to afford rent in the 15 most expensive U.S. cities

Because it\'s an average measure across two types of units, rental prices will likely skew higher than what most people pay, due to a small number of high-earning renters paying well above the median price.Â

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How Much Can You Spend in Retirement? Answer These Questions First.

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Your friends want you to call them more, new study findshere's how to strengthen communication in your friendships

\"It takes effort to do this sort of stuff and a lot of people struggle to really put in the effort of maintaining friendships or struggle with what it really means to be in deep, loving relationship with other people.\"

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The Eiffel Towers extravagant lights are coming into question during Europes energy crisisand will likely be shut off early

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Diana called them the Queen's 'moving carpet.' What will happen to the royal corgis now?

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Steven Spielberg debuts quasi-autobiographical 'The Fabelmans' at Toronto film festival

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Australian PM says now is not the time to reconsider UK monarch as head of state, punting on decades-long debate

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Dam collapse at massive abandoned mine in South Africa leads to flash flood that sweeps away 9 houses, kills at least 3

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Janet Yellen says labor market is 'exceptionally strong' right nowbut not for long if inflation runs rampant

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A trading error will cost a French power distributor $60 million

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Karen Bass, mayoral candidate in Los Angeles, says guns stolen in unnerving home burglary

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Australia news live: Covid causing acute employment challenges for young people; eight years since Tyrrell disappearance

.css-knbk2a{height:1em;width:1.5em;margin-right:3px;vertical-align:baseline;fill:#C70000;}Well that decision will be announced in the fullness of time. It wouldn't be appropriate to announce it at the moment. The focus right now is very much on paying tribute for the 70 years of loyal service that Queen Elizabeth gave Australia as our head of state. And also yesterday, of course, the proclamation of King Charles III as Australia's new head of state. So it's a very historic day here in Australia, as well as in the United Kingdom and in commonwealth nations around the world.

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Rightwing bloc heading to victory in Swedish election, 90% of vote count suggests

The Moderates, with the smaller Christian Democrat and Liberal parties, were forced to collaborate with the SD to have any hope of forming a majority in parliament – despite significant ideological differences, said Erik Zsiga, a former political adviser to the Moderate party. “The SD were so big so it was inevitable, they had to relate to them in some way,” Zsiga said.

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Housebuilders lobbied against plan for electric car chargers in new homes in England

A Barratt spokesperson said its view in 2019 was that there was not "sufficient supply chain capacity to support full electric vehicle charging point rollout nationwide". Since then it has worked with the government on regulations that give customers choice while "being practical for the industry to deliver at scale".

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Foreign dignitaries must share buses to travel to the Queens funeral

London's streets are unable to cope with the volume of private cars of foreign leaders expecting to attend the funeral. Instead, they will be taken to a separate site in London where the government will "provide coach transport from a central assembly point â€¦ Because of traffic restrictions, it will not be possible for guests to travel to such events in their own vehicles."

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We had to be here: crowds bid farewell to Queen on her final Scottish journey

Surveying the thronging world media, he added: "We'll speak more now, but in a few week's time, come up and ask me if I've seen a member of the royal family. Even with my dog collar on, even if I've spoken to one five minutes ago, I'll lie through my teeth."

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Anthony Varvaro, MLB player who joined New York police, dies in car crash on way to September 11 memorial

Port Authority officials issued a statement to the media. “On this solemn occasion as the Port Authority mourns the loss of 84 employees in the attacks on the World Trade Center – including 37 members of the Port Authority police department – our grief only deepens today with the passing of Officer Varvaro,” the statement said.

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Senate intelligence chair urges judge to allow briefing on Trump Mar-a-Lago search

Pressed on whether it would be too divisive to prosecute a former president, Harris signaled that Trump should be held accountable, saying: “Our country has gone through different periods of time where the unthinkable has happened, and where there has been a call for justice, and justice has been served…people are going to demand justice, and they rightly do.”

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John Roberts defends supreme court as Kamala Harris lashes out at Roe ruling

Roberts said that fencing around the court building in Washington DC, installed amid fierce protests over abortion rights, has come down. And that when the next supreme court term begins in October, arguments will be open to the public in person again, after the building was shut in the pandemic.

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Swedish election result too close to call

Get local insights from Lisbon to Moscow with an unrivalled network of journalists across Europe,expert analysis, our dedicated ‘Brussels Briefing’ newsletter. Customise your myFT page to trackthe countries of your choice.

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Oppenheimer Says Biotech Stocks Look a Bit Brighter Right Now; Here Are 2 Names to Consider

The stock market is one of the few means of building significant wealth within one lifetime, even if you\'re starting out with next to nothing. Indeed, a modest sum of $20,000 could become as much as $350,000 (or more) if you handle things smartly. A proverbial down payment of $20,000 on a comfortable future funded by a nest egg of $350,000 is not only possible but also likely.

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Stocks Poised to Open Higher on Monday

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Asia stocks edge up, dollar restrained before CPI By Reuters

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Quentin Tarantino settles Miramax lawsuit over Pulp Fiction NFTs By Cointelegraph

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Tennis-Alcaraz wins U.S. Open and becomes world number one By Reuters

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Cathay Pacific to gradually increase capacity after crew quarantine rules lifted By Reuters

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Disney CEO lays out early plan for digital future By Reuters

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Gold Creeps Higher as Dollar Eases Ahead of CPI Data By Investing.com

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Tigrayan forces say ready to accept an AU-led peace process in Ethiopia By Reuters

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Buccaneers vs. Cowboys - Game Summary - September 11, 2022 - ESPN

— Justin Jefferson started his third season with Minnesota by smashing rival Green Bay for 184 receiving yards and two touchdowns, giving new Vikings coach Kevin O\'Connell a 23-7 victory over the Packers in his first game on Sunday.

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Nebraska fires Frost; coach to get $15M buyout

It only got worse Saturday against Georgia Southern, a team Nebraska paid $1.423 million to travel to Lincoln and play. Georgia Southern gained a whopping 642 yards in the game, and the student section chanted, \"Fire Frost! Fire Frost!\"

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Week 1 takeaways and big questions: Bad losses for Bengals, Patriots, Titans and 49ers

Do the Rams expect to see more from two key players, RB Cam Akers and WR Allen Robinson II, going forward? When Rams coach Sean McVay was asked about Akers\' involvement in the game, he said, \"We really just didn\'t get in much of a rhythm tonight.\" Akers played 12 snaps on Thursday to Darrell Henderson Jr. \'s 54. In McVay\'s answer, he also brought up that he wanted to get Robinson more involved in the offense. Robinson was targeted just twice on 45 routes run, according to NFL Next Gen Stats. The 4.4% target rate was the lowest of his career. -- Sarah Barshop

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Here's how close Albert Pujols is to 700 home runs

Pujols moved into sole possession of fourth place Sunday with a go-ahead two-run home run off Chase De Jong. With his 18th home run of the season, he now ties Carlton Fisk for second-most all time by a player in his age-42 season or older. Barry Bonds is first with 28.

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A new page in Austin? Texas sees its future in close loss to Alabama

\"I just preached to the boys after the game that this was just one game,\" Coburn said. \"Georgia won a national championship with one loss. ... We\'ve got a chance to still see those guys again.

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Premier League pause, Real Madrid and Barcelona in form, VAR trips Juventus: Weekend review

His family say he\'s now in a stable condition in hospital. The game resumed, and Barca won 4-0, but the altruistic actions by those who helped the victim were the biggest victory of the evening. -- Kirkland

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Why Chelsea fired Tuchel and hired Potter after six league games

The subsequent postponement of all football matches in England this weekend has given the national pause for thought. It also gives Chelsea a moment to steady themselves as a new chapter begins.

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Binotto: Safety car finish at Monza was 'simply wrong'

\"There was plenty of yellow flags and they are F1 drivers in the end, so I don\'t think there is any risk. So, as we discussed after Abu Dhabi, we should speed up operations and today we didn\'t.\"

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Can the Dallas Cowboys finally beat Tom Brady by embracing a defensive team identity?

\"I think we have a chance to break some more records and set a standard of how defense should be played,\" Parsons said. \"I think we got some older talent. We got some really good young talent and we got some really good guys coming in.\"

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Persistent Rains Pummel Chicago, Submerging Roads and Swamping Basements

“Everything like this is extra exhausting right now,” he said. “Chicago is becoming a climate change destination. But things still happen. There’s tornadoes, here’s wind storms, there’s lightning. And there’s rain like today.”

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Man Sentenced After 12 Years of Threats to an Actress and Her Daughter

Mr. Rogers apologized to Ms. LaRue at the sentencing’s video conference on Thursday. But for Ms. La Rue and her daughter, the damage had been done. They both lived in fear and paranoia after more than a decade of threats, Ms. La Rue said.

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Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, 93, Dies; Created Database of Enslaved People

As a tribute to his mentor, Dr. Seck oversaw the creation of Allées Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, a memorial in which the names of each of the 107,000 people in her database are inscribed in granite blocks. Later this year, at her request, her ashes will be scattered at the site.

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Wildfire in Washington Blows Toxic Air to Seattle and Surrounding Areas

Easterly winds pushed smoke and ash from the fire toward Seattle on Saturday, causing the air quality to turn toxic. Later, even with fresh air blowing in from the west, air quality in the Puget Sound area, including Seattle, was still considered hazardous on Sunday morning.

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Marking 9/11, Biden Remembers the Precious Lives Stolen From Us

“The more the time passes, the easier it is for people to forget or to put it on the back burner,” she said. Ms. Katsimatides said the goal of the yearly remembrance was to “teach younger generations” in an effort to avoid a similar tragedy in the future.

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For Trumps Lawyers, Legal Exposure Comes With the Job

Mr. Flood is now representing Mr. Cipollone, the former White House counsel, who is facing federal investigators’ questions about Mr. Trump’s conduct. And Ms. Raskin is helping to represent Ms. Ellis.

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Queen Elizabeth II: Trains to London likely to be 'extremely busy'

Elsewhere in the city, London bus stops have also paid tribute by showing portraits of Queen Elizabeth II. On Thursday, London black cabs lined The Mall leading up to Buckingham Palace to silently pay their respects.

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At Corporate Pep Rally, Disney C.E.O. Pitches Warmer, Fuzzier Side

Heading toward his dressing room, an R.V. parked backstage (with a refrigerator stocked with water, Diet Coke and Dr Pepper), Mr. Chapek encountered a D23 attendee who was persistent in trying to grab the C.E.O.’s attention. He was in his 20s and looked cranky.

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Loeb reverses course on push to get Disney to spin off ESPN

\"We believe that it would even be prudent for Disney to pay a modest premium to accelerate the integration,\" Loeb said in a letter. \"We know this is a priority for you and hope there is a deal to be had before Comcast is contractually obligated to do so in about 18 months.\"

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