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England star Billy Vunipola commits to stay at Saracens for season in the Championship

England international Billy Vunipola insists he is 'definitely staying' at Saracens and hopes to help the crisis-hit club secure an immediate return to the Gallagher Premiership.




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Billy Vunipola confirms he will STAY at Saracens despite relegation over breach of salary cap rules

Billly Vunipola has ended speculation about his future by confirming that he will stay at Saracens next season, despite their demotion to the Championship.




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World Rugby chief Bill Beaumont on fears that game faces financial apocalypse

EXCLUSIVE BY CHRIS FOY: Bill Beaumont has warned rugby's global community that 'everyone will suffer' in the fall-out from the coronavirus shutdown, called for unity and more state help.




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Twickenham stadium offered for NHS medical use by head of RFU Bill Sweeney amid coronavirus crisis 

RFU CEO Bill Sweeney has also said that the Marriott hotel adjoining the stadium could be used to accommodate doctors and nurses, and the north car park for drive through testing.




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England set for autumn full of Tests as RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney confirms plans

England face a packed autumn of Tests at home and abroad after RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney confirmed post-coronavirus plans. 




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Dan Leo urges rivals Bill Beaumont and Agustin Pichot to fix inequality in the game

Bill Beaumont or Agustin Pichot, the rivals standing next month to lead World Rugby, must be shocked into a drastic overhaul of the game following the coronavirus pandemic. 




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Billy Vunipola on his Lions and World Cup dreams... and why Saracens need to be humble

EXCLUSIVE BY CHRIS FOY: Vunipola is glad Jones will continue to provoke trepidation and inspiration among players because he believes the Australian can lead them to World Cup glory.




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'Tell Clive I'm still alive and kicking': Sir Bill Beaumont vows to lead 'global revolution'

EXCLUSIVE BY NIK SIMON: Sir Bill Beaumont says he 'still alive and kicking' as he revealed his manifesto to be re-elected as World Rugby chairman after Sir Clive Woodward backed Agustin Pichot.




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Sir Bill Beaumont's link to convicted killer at the top of Fiji rugby slammed

EXCLUSIVE BY NIK SIMON: Sir Bill Beaumont's attempt to win re-election as World Rugby chairman has been thrown into further chaos after the governing body received a damning letter.




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Bill Beaumont turns to ex-Lions pals to secure votes of Wales and Ireland in World Rugby election

EXCLUSIVE BY CHRIS FOY: Bill Beaumont has turned to ex-Lions team-mates to 'keep Wales and Ireland on track' in the World Rugby chairman election.




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Sir Bill Beaumont set to retain World Rugby chairman job as Wales become latest country to back him

The Welsh Rugby Union publicly threw their weight behind Sir Bill Beaumont (left) today, backing him to retain his role as World Rugby chairman and beat rival Agustin Pichot.




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World Rugby election announcement is brought forward with Sir Bill Beaumont expected to win

Sir Bill Beaumont will discover on Saturday if, as expected, he has been elected to continue as World Rugby chairman for another four years - after the result announcement was brought forward.




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Sir Bill Beaumont re-elected as chairman of World Rugby after challenge from Agustin Pichot

The 68-year-old fought off a challenge from his vice-chairman Agustin Pichot and will stay at the head of the governing body for the next four years.




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SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: Good luck to Bill Beaumont on World Rugby win... but it remains same carve-up 

SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: When Bill Beaumont clocks back on Monday morning, it would be worth remembering that, although the official tally says 28-23, he actually won by only one vote.




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Sir Bill Beaumont starts second term as World Rugby chairman with club v country row

Sir Bill Beaumont will prioritise rearranging July's Covid-19 hit Tests after narrowly beating Agustin Pichot in the elections for World Rugby chairman.




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Beaten Agustin Pichot ready to quit World Rugby after narrow election defeat by Sir Bill Beaumont

EXCLUSIVE BY NIK SIMON: Pichot will give up his council seat and take up no further roles having become frustrated with the lack of progress in the game.




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Rita Ora her inner Marilyn Monroe as she narrowly avoids a wardrobe malfunction in billowy dress

The Lonely Together singer, 29, gave her latest photoshoot as she posed against the backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean.




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Rita Ora flashes sideboob as she goes braless in billowing gown for striking LOVE magazine shoot

She's no stranger to showing off her phenomenal figure.  And Rita teased at her sensational physique in a stunning cover shoot for LOVE magazine's upcoming edition.




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Simon Cowell's ex Jasmine Lennard announces her engagement to billionaire businessman

Simon Cowell's ex-girlfriend Jasmine Lennard has announced that she is engaged to her billionaire businessman boyfriend Mohammed Al Saif.




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Billie Eilish, Simon Cowell, Olivia Colman and Tom Hiddleston lead the stars thanking the NHS

Celebrities shared their appreciation to key workers for their tireless efforts to keep the nation running in the third week of the lockdown during the crisis ahead of the weekly Clap for the Carers.




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American billionaire hedge-fund manager Julian Robertson took $800,000 in COVID-19 aid from New Zealand's government to pay the staff at his luxury resorts

Hedge-fund billionaire Julian Robertson received a total of $1.2 million NZ ($800,000 USD) from the New Zealand government to pay employees at his luxury resorts.Not unlike the Paycheck Protection Program that helps American businesses affected by the coronavirus crisis, New Zealand's wage subsidy has been hit by allegations of fraud and favoring large businesses. Robertson has amassed a $4.4 billion fortune running hedge fund Tiger Management.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.A billionaire former hedge-fund manager took hundreds of thousands of dollars from New Zealand's government to pay the staff at the luxury resorts he owns there, data from New Zealand's Ministry of Social Development shows.Julian Robertson's luxury resorts and golf courses received more than $1.2 million




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Read the pitch deck that buzzy startup Devoted Health used to reach a $1.8 billion valuation before it signed up a single customer

Devoted Health wants to change the way the U.S. takes care of its senior citizens, and it has big plans in its first five years to do just that.The startup, which has been gathering lots of buzz in the last year, was founded to sell private health insurance plans to U.S. seniors, a market that is growing rapidly as Baby Boomers age.Using one pitch deck, Devoted Health managed to secure $300 million from investors in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz late last year, with a valuation of $1.8 billion – all before it signed up a single customer.But the deck also outlined the company's aggressive plans for its first five years. Devoted Health planned to sign up 5,000 members for 2019 and grow that to 103,722 by 2023. It expects to make about $1.2 billion in revenue in 2023 while generating




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Nancy Pelosi says 'rogue' attorney general Bill Barr warrants a special prosecutor

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says AG Bill Barr is 'implicated' in testimony by Lev Parnas about the Ukraine affair, but that Barr wouldn't appoint a special prosecutor.




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Bill Barr defends Donald Trump firing the intelligence IG

Attorney General Bill Barr has backed up President Donald Trump's controversial decision to fire the IG for the intelligence community, Michael Atkinson.




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Robinhood just raised a $280 million round of funding led by Sequoia Capital, making it worth over $8 billion

Investing app Robinhood just announced a $280 million Series F at a $8.3 billion valuation.Previous investor Sequoia Capital led the round, with participating from NEA, Ribbit Capital, 9Yards Capital, and Unusual Ventures.Robinhood has added three million funded accounts since the start of the year. Investors continue to pour money at rising valuations into Robinhood despite the popular investing app facing multiple outages on some of the most volatile trading days in market history earlier this year.The fintech nabbed $280 million in Series F funding at an $8.3 billion valuation in a round led by previous investor Sequoia Capital. NEA, Ribbit Capital, 9Yards Capital, and Unusual Ventures also participated in the round. Robinhood's most recent round comes after a $323 million Series E in July




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Blackburn 0-2 Sheffield United: Billy Sharp's second-half brace downs Tony Mowbray's men

MIKE WHALLEY AT EWOOD PARK: This was the night when Sheffield United made a serious statement of intent in the Championship promotion race.




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Che Adams, Teemu Pukki and Billy Sharp nominated for Championship Player of the Year Award

Che Adams, Teemu Pukki and Billy Sharp have been named as the three players who will contest for the award while a number of other EFL awards and shortlists have been revealed.




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I'm a Celebrity: Billy Brownless says Charlotte Crosby's meltdown was 'a performance'

Eliminated I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! contestant Billy Brownless has accused Charlotte Crosby of putting on a 'performance' in the jungle. 




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A Florida bar pulled down $10,000 in single bills stuck to the wall so it could pay its 22 unemployed workers

Fort Lauderdale pub Hott Leggz is generally covered in dollar bills.However, after the coronavirus pandemic forced the bar to pivot to only takeout, 22 staff members were laid off.The co-owners took the cash off the walls and donated them to the laidoff staff - around $10,000 in total."We always had an inside joke, 'If anything goes bad, at least we have the money on the wall,'" co-owner Juliana Sodre told Business Insider. "This is the worst case scenario."Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Normally, the walls of Hott Leggz are papered with thousands of dollar bills.But customers coming in for takeout at the pub in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, are now greeted with the sight of a surprisingly sparse interior.That's because, as Phillip Valys first reported for the South Florida




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A senior economist says the $2 trillion stimulus bill 'is not going to be big enough' to fight the oncoming recession

Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures, a cofounder of the Seattle Review of Books, and a frequent cohost of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast with Nick Hanauer and David Goldstein.On the latest episode of "Pitchfork Economics," Hanauer and Goldstein talk with the Economic Policy Institute's senior economist, Heidi Shierholz, about how the coronavirus is upending the job market in the United States.Shierholz says she was shocked by the data recently released showing that nearly 10 million Americans had filed for unemployment in the first two weeks of the COVID-19 shutdown - the highest she's ever seen.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.In her role as senior economist and director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), Heidi Shierholz spends her days immersed




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Billionaire Mark Cuban told us his plan to save America's entrepreneurs now that the federal relief fund has run dry - and the biggest disasters the government must fix immediately

In less than 13 days, all $349 billion allocated for small business relief under the CARES Act were used up.But the funds barely scratch the surface of the 60 million employers and freelancers who were expected to apply.Mark Cuban told Business Insider that major changes need to be implemented to address the problems with the most recent package.Before the next round of funding, Cuban says businesses will need enough money to cover an extended re-opening period as well as an effective testing strategy that instills confidence in returning workers. Visit BI Prime for more stories.Following a rocky rollout of the Payroll Protection loan program, all $349 billion of the funds allocated for small businesses in the $2 trillion CARES Act have been committed - and Mark Cuban says it's too late to




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Billie Eilish arrives at Vanity Fair after-party with brother Finneas after performing at Oscars

Billie Eilish looked pretty proud of her efforts as she left the Academy Awards Vanity Fair after-party in Beverly Hills on Sunday, flashing a big smile as she headed off following a fun-filled evening.




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Billie Eilish teases that her Bond theme is 'a ballad'

Billie Eilish has teased that her James Bond theme is 'a ballad'. 




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Billie Eilish was sick and thinks she 'bombed' Oscars performance of the Beatles' Yesterday

She moved viewers with a rendition of the Beatles' Yesterday at the Oscars. But Billie Eilish is her own worst critic, as she revealed on New Music Daily With Zane Lowe this week.




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New bill will not protect Northern Ireland veterans from accusations of wrongdoing

Veterans accused of wrongdoing overseas are set to get protection with the introduction of a new bill, but it will not apply to soldiers who served in Northern Ireland, nor Afghan and Iraq veterans.




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China is the biggest threat to America and poses a 'very serious threat', says Bill Barr

Amid rising anti-China rhetoric from the Trump Administration about Beijing's alleged Covid-19 'cover-up' Barr was asked if he considered Russia or China the biggest threat to the upcoming elections.




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Russian billionaire found dead in his gym was murdered, his sons claim

The body of Dmitry Bosov, 52, who played ice hockey with Vladimir Putin, was discovered by his wife with a gunshot wound to his head in a 'suspected suicide' at his Moscow mansion.




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Mayor Bill de Blasio appoints his wife head of coronavirus racial inequality task force

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday that he believes it will take more than 20 months to fully rebuild New York City and announces different councils that will focus on reopening the Big Apple.




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Mayor Bill de Blasio and wife slammed for strolling through Prospect Park

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife Chirlane McCray were heckled as they strolled through Brooklyn's Prospect Park on Saturday, criticized for traveling to Brooklyn for a walk.




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Mayor Bill De Blasio instructs police to ARREST mourners at funerals and large gatherings

NYC Mayor De Blasio personally showed up at an Orthodox Jewish funeral in Williamsburg Tuesday and threatened mourners with arrest for ignoring social distancing.




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Bill de Blasio under attack for singling out the Jewish community for breaking social distancing

The NYC Mayor showed up at an Orthodox Jewish funeral in Williamsburg Tuesday and threatened mourners with arrest for ignoring social distancing. His actions were widely condemned.




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Bill de Blasio apologizes for shutting down Jewish orthodox funeral attended by hundreds in Brooklyn

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has apologized for singling out 'Jewish community' after Hasidic funeral of Rabbi Chaim Maertz saw thousands gather in Williamsburg NYC Tuesday night.




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Billy Porter cuts husband's hair with the guidance of newly launched Quarancuts Virtual Hair School

To help those performing their own haircuts at home, NYC's Barba, launched the Quarancuts Virtual Hair School. Singer and actor Billy Porter enlisted to cut his husband's hair.




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Liverpool owners are worth £5BILLION - so why did they furlough staff amid coronavirus pandemic?

As the news broke over the weekend that Liverpool would be putting their non-playing staff on furlough, a quote from chief executive Peter Moore that came out last year started doing the rounds.




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Sen. Susan Collins a NO on health care bill

A third GOP senator, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, has said she will vote against the GOP 'Graham-Cassidy' health care bill, likely killing the measure for good.




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David Hogg's GoFundMe raises early $10K for billboard of Trump's anti-Cruz tweet

David Hogg (left) helped raise money for a billboard of Trump mocking Cruz in a tweet that reads;'Why would the people of Texas support Ted Cruz when he has accomplished absolutely nothing'.




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Ex-AG Eric Holder says Bill Barr will 'pay a price' and sacrifice credibility in misconduct probe

Former Attorney General Eric Holder, 68, who served during Barack Obama's presidency, said the current one, Barr, risked 'paying a price' and sacrificing his credibility on Tuesday.




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Billionaire Michael Bloomberg plans to spend $34 million in just ONE week on anti-Trump ads

The ad campaign is slated to run nearly nationwide beginning on Monday, and comes one day after Bloomberg filed paperwork creating a presidential campaign committee.




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Obama's attorney general Eric Holder tears into Bill Barr

Eric Holder, who served as Barack Obama's attorney general, slammed Bill Barr as 'unfit to lead the Justice Department' and charged him with running political interference' for Donald Trump.




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ESPN lists Barack Obama and Bill Clinton as 'former Chicago resident' and 'former Arkansas Governor'

ESPN's series about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls included two surprising contributions: 'Former Chicago resident' Barack Obama and 'former Arkansas Governor' Bill Clinton.