Fifteen years ago, the clothing retailer Brandy Melville opened in Los Angeles, and in the years since it has become the brand for preteen and teenage fashion for girls — specifically thin, white girls. When some customers complained about the … Continued
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Julie Appleby | (TNS) KFF Health News Until last week, the system that is used to enroll people in federal Affordable Care Act insurance plans inadvertently allowed access by insurance brokers to consumers’ full Social Security numbers, information brokers don’t … Continued
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Fiona MacDonald, Jennifer Jacobs and Donato Paolo Mancini, Golnar Motevalli | Bloomberg News (TNS) The huge salvo of missiles and drones launched from the arid plains of Iran toward Israel was the kind of direct conflict between the Middle East … Continued