He has had more influence in the Senate, up to a point. “Some senators, like Hubert Humphrey and Teddy Kennedy, were good on both inside and outside strategy,” added Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, a labor-allied progressive who briefly entertained running for president this year. “Bernie has chosen to pursue the outside strategy. The […]
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What’s up: In the third season of “Stranger Things,” the kids of Hawkins, Indiana, have grown out of the simple, childhood pleasures that once brought them joy and now must learn what it means to mature. In the summer of 1985, the young protagonists must handle feelings of love, loneliness and failure, all while still
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Mike Teunissen claimed the first yellow jersey of this year’s Tour de France with a sprint victory in Saturday’s opening stage, which was marked by defending champion Geraint Thomas’ crash in the finale. Another top contender, Jakob Fuglsang, also hit the tarmac about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the finish. Teunissen edged former world champion
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LONDON — Decades after Melania Trump left the rolling hills of Slovenia and became first lady of the United States, a life-size wooden statue of her has appeared on the banks of a river near her hometown. Much of the figure, from its shoulders to its fingertips, is painted powder blue, in a reflection of
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Image copyright PA Media Image caption The sculptor called on BP to put half its profits towards renewable energy research Sculptor Sir Antony Gormley has joined calls for London’s National Portrait Gallery to end its sponsorship with BP. BP has sponsored the gallery’s annual Portrait Award for 30 years, but the oil company has faced
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Making the long walk from the Stratford train station through a mall and to Olympic Stadium, fans headed to the first Major League Baseball games in Europe passed retailers filled with gear from Premier League clubs. Next on the route was a tented pop-up outlet brimming with merchandise from the New York Yankees and Boston
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EASTPORT, Me. — Senator Susan Collins jogged her way through the Fourth of July parade in this picturesque little port city, handing out American flag stickers to cheers and shouts of “Thank you!” But beneath the bonhomie, there were hints that the once untouchable Republican may be in trouble because of two men: Justice Brett
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Warning: “Stranger Things” Season 3 spoilers below. At the start of the new season of “Stranger Things,” we see Nancy Wheeler (Natalia Dyer) being treated unfairly at her summer internship with The Hawkins Post. The newsroom is full of authoritarian male figures who bark lunch orders at her and insult her when she tries to
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A week ago, Petra Kvitova wasn’t even sure if she could hold a racket in her left hand, never mind play against some of the best tennis players in the world at Wimbledon. She can do both. The two-time Wimbledon champion reached the second week at the grass-court Grand Slam for the first time since
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Kinky Boots and Pose star Billy Porter is set to take on a new stage role this year as the headline act at London Pride. The LGBT+ performer said there was a time he tried “to conform so that he could work” but that he wasn’t able to keep on hiding himself. The BBC’s LGBT
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