The Latest at Wimbledon (all times local): 1 p.m. Top-seeded Dylan Alcott of Australia won the first quad wheelchair singles title at Wimbledon, a day after winning the doubles title. Alcott beat doubles partner Andy Lapthorne of Britain 6-0, 6-2 in the first official singles final for the event at the All England Club. Alcott […]
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Cardi B has zero time for men openly underestimating her abilities ― particularly fellow rapper Jermaine Dupri. During a Thursday segment on “People Now,” Dupri said he doesn’t have a favorite current female rapper because he feels like “they’re all rapping about the same thing.” “For me, it’s like strippers rapping. As far as rap
A directive for new protections for endangered right whales represents an “absurd federal overreach” that places an unfair burden on Maine’s signature lobster fishery, Gov. Janet Mills said. She ordered the state Department of Marine Resources to draft an alternative plan that would reduce the impact on lobstermen. “My administration will not allow any bureaucrat
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If Roger Federer’s going to win a record ninth championship at Wimbledon, he’ll need to follow up a victory over Rafael Nadal with one over defending champion Novak Djokovic. Federer has played both at the same Grand Slam tournament only once, at the 2011 French Open: He beat Djokovic in the semifinals, but lost to
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WASHINGTON — President Trump said he would not impose quotas on imports of uranium, backing away from one of many trade confrontations the administration has threatened as it tries to protect American industry. Mr. Trump, in an announcement late Friday night, said that he did not agree with the commerce secretary’s findings that foreign uranium
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Horror author Stephen King talked about the similarities between a fictitious character he created more than 40 years ago and President Donald Trump in a new video that NowThis shared online Friday. King imagined the political rise of “real estate con man” Greg Stillson in his 1979 novel “The Dead Zone,” who he described as “a
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SAN FRANCISCO — Dozens of databases of people’s faces are being compiled without their knowledge by companies and researchers, with many of the images then being shared around the world, in what has become a sprawling ecosystem fueling the spread of facial recognition technology. The databases are pulled together with images from social networks, photo
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Ferrari set the pace in final practice for the British Grand Prix with Charles Leclerc fastest ahead of teammate Sebastian Vettel. Formula One championship leader Lewis Hamilton was 0.049 seconds off Leclerc’s Silverstone lap of 1 minute, 25.905 seconds on a frustrating morning in his Mercedes on Saturday. Teammate Valtteri Bottas was down in sixth,
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Juan Pablo Di Pace first opened up about his sexuality publicly earlier this year, but compared with many celebrities, his words are having an inadvertently delayed impact. Best known for his role on Netflix’s “Fuller House,” the Argentinean actor announced he was gay during a TEDx Talk in March. His speech, titled “The Story of Your Life,” was delivered
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Hungary’s president has signed a bill paving the way for the government to take control of academic research, a move that researchers see as a threat to scholarly freedom. President Janos Ader gave his approval Friday to the law, which strips the Academy of Sciences, a partially state-funded body, of its research network, many of
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