Austin Dillon and Daniel Hemric tuned up for Chicagoland Speedway with a little doubles ping-pong. Worked out quite well for the Richard Childress Racing teammates. Dillon won the pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race, and Hemric qualified third. According to Dillon, he bonded with his teammate this week by combining for an easy ping-pong […]
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In a profile of Mr. Seymour during the Deaver case, The Times noted that for years he had gathered his extended family on Cape Cod every Independence Day to take turns reading passages of the Declaration of Independence aloud and discussing the document’s meaning and significance. “If this seems an unusual and poignant way for
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Image caption As well as Lauren’s dedication, Liam played Champagne Supernova in honour of The Prodigy’s Keith Flint As he played Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage on Saturday, Liam Gallagher dedicated Slide Away to a fan who’d been taken ill. “Last year,” he told the crowd, “I met this lovely lady and she wasn’t too well”. “She
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Image copyright Ian & Liesel Simmons Image caption Liesel Pritzker Simmons and husband Ian Simmons run an investment firm focussing on social enterprises Liesel Pritzker Simmons is fabulously wealthy. But this member of one of America’s richest families is also uneasy about it. “It’s time for us who are blessed with unusual financial success or
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Danny Jansen hit a game-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning, Cavan Biggio launched his first career grand slam and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Kansas City Royals 7-5 Saturday after starter Marcus Stroman exited early with a cramp in his non-pitching shoulder. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. added a solo home run
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WASHINGTON — He would relish a run against Senator Elizabeth Warren and has dismissed Senator Bernie Sanders as “crazy.” He has worried about Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s standing in the polls, at the same time telling advisers that the former vice president is a male version of Hillary Clinton and that a matchup in 2020
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Image copyright Marc Brenner Image caption Kevork Malikyan and Ron Cook play a refugee and a stationmaster respectively Michael Longhurst, the new artistic director of London’s Donmar Warehouse, explains why he is beginning his tenure with a 25-year-old play. Michael Longhurst had never encountered Europe by David Greig until he pulled it off a shelf
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Image caption Georgina is looking forward to her special occasion Sixteen-year-old Georgina’s got just a few days until her end of school prom. She found her dream dress months ago and is now in the final stages of preparing for the big night. “You’ve got your spray tan, getting your nails done, hair and make-up,
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Rest assured, British fans: Most baseball games are not like this, not even the crazy ones between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. Major League Baseball arrived in Europe on Saturday night with Ye Olde Slugfest. Each team scored six runs in a first inning that stretched nearly an hour, with Aaron
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WASHINGTON — A last-minute effort by European powers to persuade Iran not to breach limits on its stockpile of nuclear fuel ended inconclusively on Friday, with the Iranians saying that Britain, France and Germany had made only modest progress in developing a system to get around tight American sanctions on trade with Tehran. As he
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