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​MGM imports industry veterans to run National...

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MGM National Harbor is rounding out its culinary team with the appointment of a casino-wide beverage director, pastry chef, restaurant director and others. The new staff members will work alongside Executive Chef Jason Johnston in the operation of all the non-celebrity-chef-driven restaurants and food and beverage in the casino and hotel. That includes the National Market food hall concept we wrote about earlier this year, which will house 10 different eateries and bars in one large, open marketplace. It…

Breather after Brexit: U.S. stocks expected to...

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Can Wall Street breathe again after the Brexit rout?



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Why a sausage company picked Baltimore for its...

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If you haven’t heard of Hofmann sausages, you are about to. Syracuse, N.Y.-based Hofmann Sausage Co. quietly opened its first Hofmann Brands corporate office six months ago at 16 E. Lombard St. downtown. The company has been making sausages and hot dogs in New York for 137 years and recently started to expand. Hofmann currently offers products in a range of states, including Florida and Texas. Along the East Coast, the company has partnerships with Wegmans and Harris Teeter. Reginald Bailey, CEO…

8 things you need to know this morning

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Good morning, and happy Tuesday. Today is going to be much gloomier than yesterday. Clouds and off-and-on rain will hang around for most of the day, and some thunderstorms will start rolling in around 6 p.m. Also, it’s never too early to start looking toward the weekend — for those of you keeping an eye on your Fourth of July plans, Monday seems to be dry. Here are eight things you need to know to get your day started. There was a long and tense standoff between police and West Baltimore residents…

VW to announce $15B settlement in emissions...

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Volkswagen has agreed to pay up to $15 billion for selling cars with software designed to cheat on emissions tests, according to a source familiar with the settlement.



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Rio's acting governor: Olympics could be a 'big...

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The headache for Rio’s Olympic organizers shows no signs of subsiding. Six weeks before the Games are set to begin, Francisco Dornelles, the acting governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro, told the Brazilian newspaper O Globo that the state has not y…



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GOP seizes on video to hit Hillary Clinton on...

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It’s the video that Sen. Bernie Sanders never had: footage of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on camera praising the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership as “the gold standard” in trade agreements.



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Airbnb sues its hometown of San Francisco

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Airbnb is taking its hometown to federal court. The company has filed a lawsuit against the city of San Francisco, objecting to short-term rental rule changes approved by its Board of Supervisors.



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Brexit: EU leaders to meet over UK withdrawal

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British Prime Minister David Cameron will face European Union leaders Tuesday as the bloc meets to discuss the UK’s potentially convoluted and messy divorce from the European Union. The EU parliament will open an extraordinary plenary session of its …



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Report: Timberwolves, Lynx owner to sell shares to...

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Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor has sold shares in the team to Shanghai-based businessman Lizhang Jiang that will enable the former to remain the franchise’s controlling owner, sources told ESPN on Monday.



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