Image copyright Geography Photos Troubled fashion chain Bonmarché has warned that trading in the first quarter has been “poor” and reversed its opposition to the £5.7m takeover offer from UK billionaire Philip Day. Blaming poor weather, the chain said that it was also possible that its losses could be greater than the £5-£6m it was […]
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Aaron Judge and his teammates were joking about which one of them would hit the home run that gave the New York Yankees a major league-record 28 straight games with a long ball. The 6-foot-7 slugger, batting second in the lineup, predicted the mark might fall in the first inning. Judge was right, even though
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In recent cycles, the debates have been enough to bring more attention to some candidates and put them into contention. That was the case in 2012, for instance, for Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich. A few candidates, like Rick Perry or Scott Walker, stumbled in the debates and never recovered. But more often, the debates
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Image copyright Getty Images Cardi B has pleaded not guilty to assault following a fight at a New York strip club last year. The rapper and two members of her team have been charged with 12 crimes each including assault, harassment and conspiracy. Cardi, real name Belcalis Almanzar, is accused of ordering attacks on two
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A look at what’s happening around the majors today: GETTIN’ LOOSE Angels two-way star Shohei Ohtani will throw off a mound for the first time since Tommy John surgery. Ohtani had surgery Oct. 1 at the conclusion of his AL Rookie of the Year season. He returned to the Los Angeles lineup as a designated
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On Wednesday and Thursday nights, as the first two Democratic debates wind down around 11 p.m. Eastern, viewers seeking postgame reaction can watch supersize panels on cable news or scroll through Twitter. Or they can tune into the late-night shows. Back in the old days — that would be four years ago — the presidential
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China promised that for 50 years after Britain gave up control of its last colony, this shimmering financial enclave would get to keep freedoms absent in the communist-ruled mainland. Twenty-two years on, those are rights many here believe Hong Kong cannot live without. The hundreds of thousands who marched in a June 16 protest over
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Image copyright Norsk Hydro Image caption Aluminium maker Norsk Hydro refused to pay ransomware hackers – many others pay up When malicious hackers disable your business and demand a ransom, should you pay up? Many firms do out of desperation, turning to intermediaries to help broker the deal. But law enforcement says this just makes
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After a tough eight-game stretch, Chad Pinder is starting to find his hitting stroke. Pinder and Marcus Semien homered in a six-run fifth inning, and the Oakland Athletics rallied to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-3 Tuesday night. Pinder had three hits Sunday to end a 3-for-23 slump, and kept it going against the Cardinals.
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In recent years, the national conversation around criminal justice has shifted from the hard-nosed approach of the 1990s to avoiding wrongful convictions and creating alternatives to prosecution. In Boston and Philadelphia, voters sided with reform-minded candidates who promised to discontinue policies that focused on minor offenses as a way to combat major crime, which, critics
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