When it comes to the deciding set, count on Kei Nishikori. The Japanese player won his eighth consecutive five-set match on Monday to defeat Benoit Paire 6-2, 6-7 (8), 6-2, 6-7 (8), 7-5 over two days and set up a quarterfinal match against defending champion Rafael Nadal at the French Open. In a match ridden […]
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Candidates for the Conservative leadership contest should need a proposer, seconder and 10 further MPs to nominate them, a joint secretary of the 1922 committee has suggested. Nigel Evans said there was a need to get the number of contenders “down to a manageable proportion”. He was speaking to Politics Live presenter Jo Coburn about
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Centene shares are tumbling after Humana took the rare step of publicly refuting reports that it’s interested in buying the company. Centene Corp., based in St. Louis, is in the midst of a $15 billion takeover of WellCare, another insurer specializing in government funded health coverage. Humana said in a prepared statement Monday that it
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A former employee of celebrated chef Thomas Keller is suing him and his three-star Michelin restaurants — Per Se in New York and the French Laundry in California — for discrimination, saying she was denied a job transfer and ultimately let go because she was pregnant. Vanessa Scott-Allen is seeking $5 million in damages for
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Image caption Sissay wrote a poem for the FA Cup in 2015 called Adventure Flight Lemn Sissay, who was an official poet for the London 2012 Olympics, has been awarded this year’s Pen Pinter prize. The award, which champions free speech, was established in 2009 by writers’ charity English Pen in memory of playwright Harold
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The Golden State Warriors relied on a champion’s heart to overcome their weary bodies. Klay Thompson scored 25 points before leaving with a hamstring injury, Stephen Curry had 23 and the Warriors ran off the first 18 points of the second half on the way to a 109-104 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Sunday
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But interviews with top advisers and confidants from then and now help explain how Mr. Biden came to see himself as presidential material in the first place, and suggest that the central tensions and vulnerabilities laid bare during Biden ’88 remain the most urgent questions at the core of Biden 2020: Can he credibly present
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Food and Drug Administration sampling has found nonstick compounds called “forever chemicals” in some foods. The FDA presented the unreleased results at a science conference in Finland last week. The Environmental Defense Fund and the Environmental Working Group obtained the results and provided them to The Associated Press. The findings came from a 2017 sampling
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Image caption Tidmarsh presented Outlook for more than 30 years Tributes have been paid to the former BBC World Service presenter John Tidmarsh who has died at the age of 90. He presented the Outlook magazine programme on the BBC World Service for more than three decades. The programme offered world news, current affairs, features
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People in all major cities across the western Balkans face alarming levels of air pollution that are reducing their life expectancies because the underdeveloped, politically fragile region is still heavily reliant on burning coal to generate power, the U.N. said Monday in a new report. The report released by the U.N. Environment Program was prepared
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