A black member of Georgia’s House of Representatives said she had been the target of verbal harassment and had been told “go back where you came from” at a grocery store near Atlanta on Friday. In a video posted to her Facebook account, the representative, Erica Thomas, said she was “shocked” that a white man […]
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Boston’s Rafael Devers led off the seventh inning with a double to end a no-hit bid by Baltimore Orioles right-hander Asher Wojciechowski. Making his fourth start of the season, Wojciechowski was 0-3 with a 5.74 ERA going into Sunday’s game against the Red Sox at Camden Yards. Facing the highest-scoring team in the majors, Wojciechowski
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The Latest on the Baseball Hall of Fame Inductions (all times local): ——— 1:45 p.m. The Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony has begun. The 56 members are being introduced. Former New York Yankees star Bernie Williams will perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” outside Clark Music Center in
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GREENVILLE, N.C. — President Trump waited for 13 seconds, as the chants from the crowd of thousands grew louder. “Send her home!” the North Carolina audience yelled, mimicking Mr. Trump’s recent tweet attacking a Somali-born Democratic congresswoman. “Treason!” one man screamed. “Traitor!” shouted another. The moment Wednesday night, a microcosm of the angry tribalism that
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When one French rider starts to fade, another comes to the fore. One way or the other, France may still be on course for its first Tour de France winner since 1985. Dancing over his saddle, his mouth wide open and gasping for air, Thibaut Pinot launched a ferocious attack Sunday and profited from the
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The tiara went to Kathy Zhu, but one day after she had been crowned Miss Michigan by the Miss World America organization, the beauty queen was stripped of her title. Racially and religiously charged comments Ms. Zhu had made on Twitter came to the attention of pageant organizers, who ruled that they violated the competition’s
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A new law in Oregon allows students to take “mental health days” just as they would sick days. The teens behind the bill say it’s meant to respond to a mental health crisis in schools. Gov. Kate Brown signed the measure into law last month. The Oregon Health Authority reports suicide is the second-leading cause
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Ali took the stage at Comic-Con in San Diego on Saturday and put on a “Blade” baseball cap, sending audience members into a frenzy. The “Moonlight” actor previously voiced the Prowler in the critically acclaimed movie “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and villain Cornell “Cottonmouth” Stokes in the first season of the Netflix/Marvel series “Luke Cage.”
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The East Coast on Sunday sweated through another day of heat and humidity in a stretch of weather so oppressive that a New Jersey drawbridge got stuck and suburban Boston police jokingly asked criminals to take it easy. The central part of the country, meanwhile, enjoyed some relief. A cold front was steadily moving southward
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Swedish teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg has received the first Freedom Prize awarded by France’s Normandy region, which last month commemorated the 75th D-Day anniversary. Thunberg, 16, received the award in Caen on Sunday, posing alongside D-Day veterans Charles Norman Shay and Léon Gautier. Thunberg said that “I think the least we can do
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