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Amane Advisors Merges with A. Vaccani & Partners AG, Combining Leading Expert Advisors in Water, Resource Recovery and the Circular Exonomy
Amane Advisors, the premier global strategic advisory firm focused on the water industry, has announced that it has merged with A. Vaccani & Partners AG (AVP), a leading consultancy firm providing expertise and dedicated research in the areas of sustainability and resource & energy recovery. Based in Zurich, Switzerland, AVP has specialized in providing services in strategy consulting, M&A advisory, strategic partnering, and industry research to a range of clients across the cleantech, environmental and energy sectors since 1992, with a focus on Europe, Asia and North America.
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Electric supercar maker Rimac receives over $500 million investment from Porsche and others
Rimac Group, the Croatian maker of exotic electric supercars that now controls Bugatti, announced that it received €500 million, or about $536 million in new investment. Among those involved in the new investment round is Porsche, which already owns about one quarter of the company.
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GM to Double the Super Cruise Road Network
Hundreds of thousands of additional miles of roads in the U.S. and Canada can be explored hands-free
*GM vehicles built on the VIP electrical architecture will be the first to receive the update later this year *To date, GM customers have driven more than 34 million miles with Super Cruise engaged
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Watch Trailer for New Movie - TILL starring Danielle Deadwyler, Directed by Chinonye Chukwu
See the new trailer a for Till starring Danielle Deadwyler and directed by Chinonye Chukwu. The movie was written by Michael Reilly & Keith Beauchamp and Chinonye Chukwu.
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Subway rider stabbed during argument on Upper West Side 2 train
Police are searching for the suspect behind a stabbing on the subway late Wednesday night.
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Leslie Jordan, beloved actor and social media star, dead at 67
Leslie Jordan, beloved comedian and actor known for his work on "Will and Grace," has died, his agent announced.
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Kanye West can't sell 'White Lives Matter' shirts because two Black men own the trademark
Two Black radio hosts in Arizona could be a potential roadblock if Kanye West ever decided to sell his "White Lives Matter" T-shirts in the United States.
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Lawsuit says police chasing White suspect wrongly arrested Black man
A Black man in Massachusetts says he was wrongly arrested by police who were looking for a White man, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in the US District Court of Massachusetts.
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Rudy Giuliani ordered to appear in front of Georgia grand jury investigating 2020 election aftermath next week
Rudy Giuliani was ordered by an Atlanta-area judge Tuesday to appear in person on August 17 in front of the special purpose grand jury investigating whether former President Donald Trump and his allies violated the law in their efforts to flip the 2020 election results in Georgia.
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Bar staff killed in Colorado club shooting helped build 'positive culture' Club Q was known for, coworkers say
As Colorado Springs residents and leaders wrap their arms around the 25 people injured and others traumatized in the Club Q shooting, loved ones are remembering five patrons who did not survive the attack on the beloved LGBTQ nightclub.
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Racial gerrymandering and the GOP House win
There is a bitter fruit from the 2022 congressional elections: the bare majority Republicans won in the House of Representatives is the direct result of racial gerrymandering. A new Jim Crow is back, empowered - as was the original Jim Crow - by partisan right-wing justices on the Supreme Court. Americans voted for democracy in 2022, even as the Supreme Court voted to undermine it.
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First on CNN: US Navy veteran released from Russian custody
An American Navy veteran who has been detained in Russia for nearly a year was released from Russian custody on Thursday, his family's spokesperson told CNN, after months of negotiations spearheaded by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
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H-E-B launches Fresh Bites brand, opens additional True Texas Tacos locations
H-E-B convenience stores to become H-E-B Fresh Bites, offering on-the-go customers fresh produce and convenient meal options
H-E-B is making it easier for Texans to fill up the gas tank while stocking up on fresh produce or grabbing a quick meal on the go. The San Antonio-based retailer is giving a new look to its H-E-B convenience stores, introducing H-E-B Fresh Bites brand, which will provide customers more fresh options such as produce, prepared food, and convenient meal options.
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Elon Musk on Mars: 'You might not come back alive'
There may not be a bigger promoter of the idea that humanity should go to Mars than Elon Musk. But Musk is once again in the news for admitting, though not for the first time, the truth about his dream: "A bunch of people probably will die" in the process.
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Boris Johnson: UK Prime Minister says transgender women should not compete in female sports
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that transgender women should not compete in female sports in comments he said he knew could be seen as "controversial."
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Proposed Alabama Bills Would Protect Confederate Monuments
An Alabama legislative committee has advanced two bills designed to further protect Confederate monuments and criminalize people who attempt to remove them.
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Justice Department seizes $500K from North Korean hackers who targeted US medical organizations
The US Justice Department seized approximately half a million dollars that North Korean government-backed hackers had either extorted from US health care organizations or used to launder ransom payments, deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Tuesday as she touted an aggressive US strategy to claw back money for victims of ransomware attacks.
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Man who assaulted law enforcement at US Capitol sentenced to five years in prison
A federal judge sentenced a man who assaulted law enforcement officers with poles during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol -- and continued to scuffle with officers even after being briefly detained that day -- to more than five years in prison on Tuesday.
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More than 40% of parents of young kids say they will not get their child a Covid-19 vaccine, survey finds
New survey results published Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation indicate that 43% of parents of children under 5 in the US say they will not get their child vaccinated against Covid-19, the highest percentage in the year that KFF's Vaccine Monitor survey has been asking the question.
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Restaurant cook discovers, films hours of rare Yellow Cardinal
A flash of bright yellow in the trees — it was the recent reappearance of a one-in-a-million bird: the Yellow Cardinal.
