BIARRITZ, France (AP) — President Donald Trump, under pressure to scale back a U.S.-China trade war partly blamed for a global economic slowdown, said Monday that the two sides will begin serious negotiations soon. Trump said his trade negotiators had received two “very good calls” from China. He did not say when the calls were […]
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Eggs removed from the last two female northern white rhinos have been fertilized with sperm from the now-dead last male, but it will be about 10 days before it’s known whether the eggs have become embryos, an Italian assisted-breeding company said Monday. “We expect some of them will develop into an embryo,” Cesare Galli, a
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Nathan Patterson never even made the varsity baseball team as a middle infielder during high school back home in Kansas. Interested in MLB? Add MLB as an interest to stay up to date on the latest MLB news, video, and analysis from ABC News. In fact, he’d strayed far from the game — running his
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Ariana Grande has returned to Manchester for the first time since the benefit concert for the victims of the 2017 terror attack. Twenty-two people died in a bombing at the US singer’s Manchester Arena gig on 22 May 2017. Many of the fans who were at the attack turned up for Grande’s Manchester Pride concert
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If a pitcher takes a no-hitter into the sixth or seventh inning, that’s usually around when it starts to feel possible. It’s also apparently a decent time to pull him. In the past week, three pitchers were taken out with no-hitters in progress in the sixth inning or later, part of a growing trend in
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Asian shares tumbled Monday after the latest escalation in the U.S.-China trade war renewed uncertainties about global economies, as well as questions over what President Donald Trump might say next. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 started plummeting as soon as trading began and stood at 20,233.39 in the afternoon, down 2.3%. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 slipped 1.7%
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Las Vegas is set to bid on nearly a half dozen different NCAA championship events, including women’s basketball. The NCAA will start accepting bids Monday on nearly two dozen sports championships over all three divisions. This is the first year that Las Vegas is eligible to bid after the governing body for college sports indefinitely
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The year’s last Grand Slam tennis tournament gets started with quite a matchup: Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova are scheduled to face each other at the U.S. Open for the first time. The two stars meet in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday night. Williams has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, Sharapova five. Both own
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LOS ANGELES, Aug 25, (Variety.com) – “Angel Has Fallen,” the third chapter in Lionsgate and Millennium’s action franchise starring Gerard Butler, had a stronger opening weekend than expected, collecting $21.25 million during its first three days of release. Those ticket sales were enough to top domestic box office charts, bumping last weekend’s champ, Universal’s comedy
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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has told voters in coal-producing Kentucky that it’s possible to be a friend of coal miners and a believer in climate change and the need for cleaner energy sources to combat it. In blunt terms rarely heard in Kentucky’s political circles, the Vermont senator said Sunday on a stop in
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