The Washington Nationals can only hope a four-day layoff won’t curtail the wave of momentum they’re riding into the All-Star break. Anthony Rendon doubled in the tiebreaking run in the eighth inning, Brian Dozier and Victor Robles homered, and Washington beat the Kansas City Royals 5-2 Sunday for its 10th win in 12 games. The […]
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Mr. Violette, a ninth-generation Virginian and Ms. Burnett, a reference librarian, started their research of the sale by asking basic questions: How many of the enslaved were sold? Did they leave Florida after emancipation? Then, after visiting Middle Oak, they wondered: Could they be related by blood to the Monroe descendants in Virginia? The researchers
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Charlie Morton struck out 10 in 5 2/3 innings to help the Tampa Bay Rays split a four-games series with the AL East-leading New Yok Yankees, 2-1 on Sunday. Morton (10-2) allowed one run, five hits and one walk in lowering his AL-best ERA to 2.32. The AL All-Star has given up two or fewer
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“This is the first real opportunity after the midterms for Republicans to prove how serious they are about electing women,” said Olivia Perez-Cubas, a spokeswoman for WFW Action Fund. “We are hoping this race sets the tone for lots more women to come.” Not if the party’s prominent conservative men have anything to say about
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A saloon in a New Mexico ghost town attracts regulars with diverse backgrounds and opinions with a promise to “have dialogue.” The No Scum Allowed Saloon in the White Oaks, New Mexico, pulls in people from around the state and sometimes tourists from overseas because of its reputation and catchy name, the Albuquerque Journal recently
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The Latest on the NASCAR race at Daytona (all times local): 3 p.m. With dark clouds looming and the end of the race in sight, leader Austin Dillon wrecked nearly half the field at Daytona International Speedway. “The Big One” happened on Lap 119 in Turn 1 and involved 17 cars — most of them
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Six police officers walked into a Starbucks in Tempe, Ariz., on Independence Day, paid for their orders and began to enjoy their drinks near the entrance. A customer who was “anxious, nervous or uncomfortable” seeing the officers asked a barista multiple times what the officers were doing there, a Starbucks spokesman, Reggie Borges, said. “The
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“Mulan” is set to hit the big screen once again, this time in a live-action version. On Sunday, Disney dropped its teaser for the remake of the 1998 animated film. It features Liu Yifei as the warrior heroine who, in disguise, joins the Chinese military to spare her father from serving. The trailer is jam-packed
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Jim Thome holds the record for the longest home run in Progressive Field history, a 511-foot shot against Kansas City in 1999. Two years earlier, the Hall of Fame slugger recorded a more dubious mark during the All-Star Home Run Derby. “I didn’t hit one,” Thome said sheepishly. It’s a safe bet that none of
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[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] They say you can never go home again, but some of New York’s most infamous Democrats are hoping that’s wrong. For six years, an ever-flexible number of Democratic state senators — sometimes five, sometimes nine, sometimes just one —
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