Caeleb Dressel won both the 100-meter butterfly and 50 freestyle at the world swimming championships on Saturday, giving him five gold and six medals overall. The American could add to his haul in the final event of the night when he leads off the 4×100 free relay. Two years ago in Budapest, Dressel equaled Michael […]
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HOUSTON — The Trump administration on Friday granted Chevron, the last major American oil company operating in Venezuela, three more months to produce oil and gas in the South American country, which it hit earlier with sweeping sanctions. The announcement, from the Treasury Department, was made with no fanfare and was not viewed as a
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Image copyright PA Media Image caption Noel Edmonds fell victim to a multi-million pound fraud Lloyds Banking Group has apologised to Noel Edmonds and agreed a compensation deal with him following a fraud case. The TV star said a scam involving staff at the Reading branch of HBOS, which was subsequently bought by Lloyds, destroyed
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Breanna Stewart is hoping to be ready by February to play with USA Basketball in the Olympic qualifying tournament. That would be about 10 months after she ruptured her right Achilles’ tendon while playing in the Euroleague Women’s championship in April. “I’m trying to be back to play in February,” Stewart told The Associated Press
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WASHINGTON — When Mark Sanford was running for a South Carolina House seat in 2013 and wanted to make a point about the brand of liberalism he would fight in Washington, he staged a mock debate with a life-size picture of Nancy Pelosi, which his campaign staff had custom made at a local copy shop.
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President Donald Trump added “lawmarkers” to his laughable lexicon of language mistakes on Thursday. Trump presumably meant to say “lawmakers” during his welcome of new Secretary of Defense Mark Esper at the Pentagon. Or did he? On “Late Night,” Seth Meyers had his own take on Trump’s continued mangling of written and spoken English. The host
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President Donald Trump is promising to retaliate against France for adopting a pioneering tax on internet giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook. He also managed to get in a shot at French wine. Trump, who doesn’t drink, tweets: “I’ve always said American wine is better than French wine!” The tax primarily targets companies that use
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Venus Williams was just a kid at a World TeamTennis clinic the first time she tried to impress Billie Jean King. Years before she hit No. 1 in the world, Williams tried to show off in front of her tennis idol. “When it was my turn to hit, I was just like confident and strong,”
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Every Saturday morning, we’re publishing “This Week in the 2020 Race”: a quick way to catch up on the presidential campaign and the field of 24 candidates for the Democratic nomination. One way to respond to Mueller? Print T-shirts In testimony before two House committees on Wednesday, Robert S. Mueller III, the former special counsel,
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Ava DuVernay shared a heartfelt birthday message on Twitter in honor of Korey Wise, whose story was portrayed in her critically acclaimed series “When They See Us.” The director tweeted a portrait of Wise on Friday, writing, “Today is the day that a king is born.” Wise, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Kevin
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