Josh Bell isn’t worried about the Home Run Derby messing with the considerable mojo he’s built during his breakout season. Quite the opposite. Bell is pumped for the chance to step into the batter’s box and swing for the fences with everyone in baseball watching. So pumped, in fact, he’s already started practicing. The first-time […]
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CLINT, Tex. — Women held in rooms without running water, sleeping bags set up on concrete and children left apart from their families: That was what Democratic lawmakers said they heard about on Monday as they toured two Texas border facilities. Their emotional, and graphic, descriptions came on a day when ProPublica reported the existence
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionRachel Jones says since she got help from a vision rehab specialist her life is better than ever When Rachel Jones walked down the aisle she couldn’t see where she was going or her future husband waiting for her. Born with a degenerative eye condition, her sight
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The National League’s reigning MVP sure knows how to perform an encore. Christian Yelich singled with the bases loaded and hit his major league-leading 30th homer Monday night, helping the Milwaukee Brewers rally for their sixth straight victory at Great American Ball Park, 8-6 over the Cincinnati Reds. Milwaukee sent 10 batters to the plate
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When a Muslim lawyer in Virginia was threatened by a stranger on Twitter last year, he reported it to the social media company and to the federal authorities. The lawyer, Qasim Rashid, had no idea who had written the tweet in March 2018, which included an image of a man who had been lynched, along
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Image copyright Getty Images Millions of people in the UK are putting their sight at risk by continuing to smoke, warn specialists. Despite the clear connection, only one in five people recognise that smoking can lead to blindness, a poll for the Association of Optometrists (AOP) finds. Smokers are twice as likely to lose their
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Image copyright Llangollen International Eisteddfod Image caption Manic Street Preachers closed the event in 2017 The Llangollen International Eisteddfod is facing a “particularly difficult” period, organisers have warned. Its new musical director Dr Edward-Rhys Harry said the event, which runs until Sunday, needed to be more “modern and relevant”. And the eisteddfod’s chair Dr Rhys
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Image copyright Ossi Ahola Image caption Heikki Vaananen (left), pictured here with co-founder Ville Levaniemi, was inspired by the bad customer service he received in his local computer shop when he was 15 The BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Heikki Vaananen and
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Haiti earned one of the biggest wins in its soccer history, rallying from two goals down to beat Canada and reach the Gold Cup semifinals for the first time. Next up for Les Grenadiers is a monumental task: trying to take down mighty Mexico in the desert. Coming off two comeback victories over Costa Rica
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WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are calling for Housing Secretary Ben Carson to justify his hiring of a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official who resigned this year after the disclosure of racially provocative comments he made spanning more than a decade. Last month, White House officials placed Eric Blankenstein, a former policy supervisor at the
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