It sounded like the dullest of developments: the award of a big Pentagon I.T. contract was postponed so the new defense secretary could review it. But the competition over the $10 billion, 10-year contract to transform the military’s computing systems has been fierce, and the highly unusual, last-minute intervention by President Trump this week was […]
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The Latest on the U.S. employment report for July (all times local): Interested in Jobs Report? Add Jobs Report as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Jobs Report news, video, and analysis from ABC News. 8:30 a.m. U.S. employers slowed their hiring in July, adding a still-healthy 164,000 jobs to an
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If your bladder acts as a middle-of-the-night alarm clock, you might be curious whether it’s a cause for concern. Turns out you’re in good company if you’re wondering. “Is it normal to pee in the middle of the night?” is one of the most common questions that Marcelino Rivera, a urologist with Indiana University Health,
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There was a bit of a loco-commotion at Scarborough’s North Bay Railway. As the tourist attraction pulled into the station on Thursday, out stepped Kylie Minogue, along with some of her backing dancers. The pop princess was taking a tour of the area ahead of her sell-out performance at Scarborough’s Open Air Theatre that night.
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Image copyright Getty Images The number of tourists visiting the UK from China has risen by almost a fifth this summer, the latest figures show. Travel data firm ForwardKeys said that summer flight bookings from long-haul markets were also 6% higher than in the same period last year. It credited the weakness of the pound
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San Francisco International Airport is banning the sale of single-use plastic water bottles. Interested in Climate Change? Add Climate Change as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Climate Change news, video, and analysis from ABC News. The unprecedented move at one of the major airports in the country will take effect
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Tyler Blevins, the 28-year-old multimillionaire and a popular face of Fortnite, announced on Thursday that he would be leaving Twitch, the largest streaming platform for gamers, for the Microsoft-owned platform Mixer. Mr. Blevins, better known to millions of gamers as Ninja, posted a video announcement on Twitter just four days after a 16-year-old won $3
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Lincoln Riley could take a few moments to stop and soak it all in. But that’s not how he got so far, so fast. Riley has accomplished more at age 35 than most coaches do in a career. Barely two years into his run at Oklahoma, he has been to the College Football Playoff twice
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“When we were first dating, one of my best friends said, ‘Dude, you’re gonna be in the White House one day,’ and I was just like, ‘Yeahhh.’” Ms. Gabbard will not say what podcasts she listens to, but she does say she just finished Oliver Stone’s television series “The Untold History of the United States.”
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E-cigarette giant Juul Labs gave nearly $100,000 to members of Congress during the first half of 2019 as the company faced the bulk of the blame for a surge of underage vaping and calls for tighter government regulation of the industry. The donations from Juul’s political action committee represent a sharp increase over last year’s
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