A look at what’s happening around the majors today: BACK WHERE IT BEGAN Albert Pujols returns for his first game in St. Louis since leaving the Cardinals to sign a $240 million contract with the Angels before the 2012 season. The slugger won three NL MVP awards and made nine All-Star teams with the Cardinals, […]
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Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s presidential campaign was forced into a defensive posture this week after he invoked his work with Southern segregationist senators to make a point about bygone comity in Congress. The backlash has posed an early and important stress test on Mr. Biden’s hold on a constituency that has helped
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Mitsubishi Motors Corp. shareholders approved on Friday the ouster of Carlos Ghosn, who was pivotal in the Japanese automaker’s three-way partnership with Nissan and Renault until he was arrested on financial misconduct charges last year. The vote took place in a 2-hour general meeting of shareholders at a Tokyo hotel, with approval shown in clapping
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The past decade has seen a huge surge in wind and solar capacity For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, Britain is obtaining more power from zero-carbon sources than fossil fuels. The milestone has been passed for the first five months of 2019. National Grid says clean energy
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Across the city this summer, works that artists conceived for public spaces are turning up — like “Estructuras Monumentales,” five large-scale sculptures that Carmen Herrera started making in the 1960s that will be on view at City Hall Park from July 11 through Nov. 8. Other artists, like Leonardo Drew, have had to do more
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The Latest on a California Assembly hearing on vaccination legislation (all times local): 4:45 p.m. A California Assembly committee has advanced a bill to tighten the state’s rules on vaccination exemptions. But there remains disagreement about the measure among Assembly Democrats. Some members of the Assembly Health Committee say the bill will help protect children
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Bol Bol started the night high-fiving children as he walked across the stage as part of the festivities, being introduced with Zion Williamson, Ja Morant, RJ Barrett and others expecting to hear their names called early in the NBA draft. The other players were long gone by the time Bol heard his name called. It
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Tracy Letts is a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (“August: Osage County”) and a Tony Award winning actor (“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”). But he’s never served in local government. So when he decided to write a pointed comedy set in a municipal building, he turned to the great archive of all things contemporary: YouTube. “I
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Image caption The Northern Powerhouse aims to encourage growth outside London and south-east England The Northern Powerhouse is being “undermined” by austerity despite signs of economic growth, a think tank says. Five years since its launch, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said the project was at risk of “fizzling out”. The Institute of Public Policy
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“And that’s very, very sensitive data,” he added. The British Board of Film Classification, the regulator that would be responsible for ensuring compliance with the new laws, plans to provide certification for age verification companies. But the process would be voluntary and at least one company has already said that it will not apply for
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