Amazon Picks New York City, Northern Virginia for Its HQ2 Locations – WSJ

New York City and Northern Virginia will be the homes for Amazon.com Inc.’sAMZN +0.60% second and third headquarters, according to people familiar with the matter, ending a more than yearlong public contest that started with 238 candidates and ended with a surprise split of its so-called HQ2. The imminent announcement is expected as soon as Tuesday, according to the…

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Republicans in DC Can’t Get Laid

The Benjamin Bar & Lounge at the Trump Hotel in DC is one of the only places young Republicans can find a date. Photo: Trump Hotel In an article published yesterday by Fox News, Trump administration and Republican congressional staffers bemoan the difficulty of dating in DC. We’ve seen this kind of story before, but…

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Newseum in talks about possible building sale – The Washington Post

Two months shy of its 10th anniversary in a glass-and-steel showpiece on Washington’s most prestigious thoroughfare, executives at the struggling Newseum will meet Thursday with a top real estate firm to explore options that include selling their building or moving to another location. The previously undisclosed talks with officials from the international firm Eastdil Secured —…

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Why Medium Failed to Disrupt the Media – Bloomberg View

  Ev Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, spent five years building Medium into one of the slickest publishing platforms on the web. Yet he found himself in traditional-publishing purgatory on Wednesday, cutting 50 employees and searching for a new business model. There could be no better proof that delivery methods matter little and content is king….

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The Truth About the Biggest U.S. Sex Trafficking Story of the Year – Reason.com

PART ONE: ‘This Is What Human Trafficking Looks Like’ With the death of his mother last summer, Sigurds Zitars, a retired accountant, was the only family member left in University Place, Washington. Since 2006 “Sig” had been the clan’s caregiver, after his mother developed dementia and his father and sister both took ill. In January,…

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The Earthquake That Will Devastate Seattle – The New Yorker

The next full-margin rupture of the Cascadia subduction zone will spell the worst natural disaster in the history of the continent. Credit Illustration by Christoph Niemann; Map by Ziggymaj / Getty Barrier Status: ‘none’ When the 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck Tohoku, Japan, Chris Goldfinger was two hundred miles away, in the city of Kashiwa,…

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