The Atlanta Braves set the tone for what turned out to be a big offensive night from the very first pitch. Ronald Acuña Jr. and Freddie Freeman hit first-pitch homers off Minnesota ace Jose Berríos and the Braves routed the Twins 12-7 Tuesday night. The first three batters in Atlanta’s lineup — Acuña, Ozzie Albies […]
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President Trump began a day set aside for healing by delivering a series of political grievances against liberals and the media, once again using Twitter on Wednesday to exhibit the divisive language that has prompted some in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, to protest his visits after horrific shootings in those cities. Mr. Trump is
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FedEx is severing ties with Amazon as the online retailer builds out its own delivery fleet and becomes more of a threat. The announcement Wednesday that FedEx would no longer make ground deliveries for Amazon comes two months after the delivery company said it was terminating its air delivery contract with Amazon. Amazon.com Inc. is
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The vast majority of American adults don’t eat enough fruits or veggies, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Only 12 percent eat enough fruit (between one and a half and two cups per day) and less than 10 percent eat enough vegetables (between two and three cups per day). Health experts want
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Jon Voight drew ire online after he declared in a video on Twitter that racism in the United States “has been solved long ago by our forefathers.” In the video, which the actor shared over the weekend, he also claimed that President Donald Trump is “not a racist, but a man who loves his country and
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A Houseboat on the Seine in Central Paris $4.5 MILLION (4 MILLION EUROS) This 125-foot houseboat is anchored on the Right Bank of the Seine in central Paris, steps from attractions like the Tuileries Garden and the Louvre. Built in 1920 from iron, teak and mahogany, and once used for transporting sand around France, the
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Former Wisconsin Badgers player Quintez Cephus has filed a petition to be readmitted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison after he was found not guilty of sexually assaulting two female students. The Wisconsin State Journal reports Wednesday that Cephus directed his attorneys on Tuesday to file the petition. They are asking for a response by Thursday.
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The Trump administration has ordered the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development to freeze much of the remaining money for foreign aid this year, in a move that suggests the funding could be cut altogether. The decision, issued in a letter by the Office of Management and Budget, covers a broad
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On May 8, the biggest players in the American debt collection business traveled to Philadelphia to have a talk with Kathy Kraninger, the new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. A day earlier, Kraninger’s agency had introduced a slate of regulations ostensibly designed to curb the worst abuses in the notoriously predatory world of
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption A trailer for a film starring Betty Gilpin (left) and Hilary Swank was pulled after the El Paso shooting Many of us watch movies not just for entertainment, but for escapism. A chance to be distracted from real-life problems for a couple of hours. So films and TV shows
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