PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia honored singer Patti LaBelle with her very own street earlier this week. Unfortunately, the signs didn’t get her name right. The city’s Streets Department didn’t capitalize the “b″ in the legendary soul singer’s last name on the signs that were put up before Tuesday’s ceremony on Broad Street. A stretch between […]
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The Xfinity Series race at Daytona International Speedway has started after a rain delay of 2 hours, 35 minutes. NASCAR had already moved the start of Friday night’s race up roughly 15 minutes but the skies opened an hour before the scheduled start, putting all activity on hold. Earlier Friday, qualifying for the Cup race
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Image caption Young previously presented Crimewatch on BBC One from 2008-2015. Kirsty Young is stepping down as the host of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. She has presented the long-running show since 2006 and has interviewed hundreds of guests including Annie Lennox, Morrissey and David Tennant. Last year, Young took a break from hosting
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SYDNEY, Australia — A video game that uses footage of the Christchurch massacre to put Muslims in a gunman’s cross hairs. Memes featuring the face and weapons of the man charged in that New Zealand attack. Messages on online forums that glorify him as St. Tarrant — patron saint of the far right. New Zealand
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The midpoint of the NASCAR season is here, making one last holiday weekend run at its birthplace, trying as always to deliver a white-knuckled thrill fest on the high banks of Daytona International Speedway. The series is riding a high into Saturday night’s race following Alex Bowman’s first career Cup victory last week and a
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This artwork needs to be part of your world. On Wednesday, Variety reported that Halle Bailey, a 19-year-old singer who is half of the R&B duo Chloe x Halle, has been picked to star as Ariel in Disney’s live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid.” Amanda Edwards via Getty Images Halle Bailey at the 2nd Annual
Tyler Boyd was conceived in the U.S. and now he’s playing there, too. His father, Ric, wanted his son to be born in his native New Zealand, so Ric and Sherry Boyd traveled there for their son’s birth in December 1994. “We flew straight back to America when I was old enough to travel,” Tyler
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Image copyright AFP Image caption The sculpture was carved out of a tree trunk with a chainsaw A statue of US First Lady Melania Trump has appeared on the outskirts of her Slovenian hometown of Sevnica. US artist Brad Downey hired a local chainsaw artisan, Ales Zupevc, to carve the likeness out of a tree
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BEIJING — The Trump administration says the mere potential for Beijing to influence the Chinese technology giant Huawei is enough to justify a law passed last year restricting federal agencies’ business with the company. Huawei has challenged the law in federal court, arguing that Congress produced no proof that the company was a security threat
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Bryson DeChambeau dominated the second round of the 3M Open, racking up nine birdies to finish Friday at a career-low 62 and vault into the lead with a 14-under par score halfway through the first-time PGA Tour event at the TPC Twin Cities. The 25-year-old DeChambeau, who entered the week eighth in the world rankings,
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