June 2019

Devils select US center Hughes with 1st pick in NHL draft

The New Jersey Devils selected American center Jack Hughes with the first pick in the NHL draft Friday night. From Orlando, Florida, Hughes is the eighth American selected No. 1, and first since 2016, when the Toronto Maple Leafs chose Auston Matthews. The 5-foot-10, 170-pound play-making center was the NHL Central Scouting Bureau’s top-ranked North […]

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Buttigieg, for Second Time, Returns Home to Deal with Police Shooting Aftermath

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Pete Buttigieg’s effort to return to the Democratic presidential campaign was abruptly aborted Friday as a crisis over a police killing called him back home to Indiana and threatened to overshadow recent momentum in his 2020 candidacy. Mr. Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., withdrew from the South Carolina fish

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Excluding Black Jurors in Curtis Flowers Case Violated Constitution, Supreme Court Rules

WASHINGTON — Doug Evans, a white prosecutor in Mississippi, has spent decades trying to convict Curtis Flowers, a black man, of the 1996 murders of four people inside a furniture store. Over the course of six trials, Mr. Evans relied on a signature tactic: he worked diligently to keep black people off Mr. Flowers’s juries.

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Blue States Roll Out Aggressive Climate Strategies. Red States Keep to the Sidelines.

Even so, states like California and New York, which would rank as the world’s 5th- and 11th-largest economies if they were stand-alone countries, have the ability to sway large markets. For instance, their purchasing power can increase demand for things like electric buses or efficient heating pumps and potentially drive down prices. They can also

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