A look at what’s happening around the majors Tuesday: CRUZ CONTROL Twins slugger Nelson Cruz has homered in four straight games, his streak coming soon after his return from a strained wrist that put him on the injured list for more than three weeks. The 38-year-old Cruz is batting .279 with 11 home runs and […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Wage growth beat market and economist expectations in the three months to April. Pay rose by 3.4% compared with a year ago. After taking inflation into account, wage growth was 1.4%, official figures show. The unemployment rate remained at 3.8%, and has not been lower since the October to December 1974
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From the Orient Express to the Trans-Europe Express, few methods of travel have offered as much romance as a European night train. Unfortunately, these overnight train routes have long been in decline, particularly in Western Europe, due mainly to the growing popularity of budget airlines. In 2016, the German rail operator Deutsche Bahn ended all
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Big Tech is about to become big politics in Washington. The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday will launch its investigation into the market dominance of Silicon Valley’s biggest names, starting with a look at the impact of the tech giants’ platforms on news content, the media and the spread of misinformation online. In a Capitol
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The famous Olympic motto is Faster, Higher, Stronger. Next year in Tokyo, it could be shortened to only “Faster and Stronger.” Higher is out. Interested in Olympics? Add Olympics as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Olympics news, video, and analysis from ABC News. That was part of a warning on
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Now, both parties believe that Arizona, which Mr. Trump won by about 90,000 votes, or 3.5 percentage points, is in play in the 2020 presidential race. Who wins will come down, in no small part, to places like Chandler, with its well-educated independent voters. [Sign up for our politics newsletter and join our conversation about
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I didn’t have a problem not mentioning it when I was hired at my current job, and that was directly coming off unemployment. Gut instinct says not to, but I’m still unsure. What should I do? Name Withheld You have a perfectly good explanation for both of these job terminations. In the second instance, you
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Image caption A wave of Australian nurses have been lured to Aberdeen Almost 100 Australian nurses could be working in hospitals in the north east of Scotland by the end of the year after a successful recruitment drive to tackle shortages. Some – mainly graduate nurses – have already arrived in Aberdeen from Western Australia,
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Image copyright Getty Images Ocado has invested £17m in developing so-called “vertical” farms. The firm, which delivers food bought online from Waitrose, is planning to grow herbs and leafy greens next to its distribution centres. It has made two investments in indoor farming. One is a joint venture with 80 Acres, a US vertical farm
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In early 2018, the F.B.I. created the Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement team, or J-Code, with more than a dozen special agents and staff. Europol has its own dedicated dark web team. And authorities everywhere have broadened their focus beyond just the administrators overseeing the markets. During the first few months of 2019, American officials
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