Home Secretary Priti Patel has said she would vote for a Brexit deal that does not feature the Irish border “backstop”. Ms Patel previously voted against the EU Withdrawal Agreement negotiated by former Prime Minister Theresa May’s government three times. The backstop is designed to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic […]
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionAbqaiq is the site of Aramco’s largest oil processing plant US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blamed Iran for Saturday’s drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities. He dismissed a claim by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels that they had attacked the two facilities, run by state-owned company
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Jorge Alfaro got some timely advice from a teammate, and he put it to good use. Alfaro hit a massive home run off Madison Bumgarner, Miguel Rojas doubled in the go-ahead run in the top of the eighth inning, and rookie Robert Dugger pitched 6 1/3 solid innings as the Miami Marlins beat the San
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So when Amy Virshup, The Times’s Travel editor, approached me about the idea of an advice column fueled by actual readers’ actual experiences, the opportunity felt like a natural fit. “People always have travel disasters,” she wrote. “There’s always sweet vindication in someone’s getting reparations.” She’s right. Just ask the woman featured in our first
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Defensive end Curtis Weaver shrugged and smiled wryly when asked about his record-tying performance in No. 22 Boise State’s 45-10 victory over Portland State on Saturday night. “It means something to me,” Weaver said of matching the school’s single-game record of four sacks. “It’s always good but, at the end of the day, the whole
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Add on the handful of customers who throw cash in the jar after a credit card transaction, and we may be edging toward a 50 percent rate — enormous growth over counter-service tipping a decade ago, when tipping at counters mostly involved the highly optional act of throwing change in a jar. “The friction of
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Lincoln Riley and Jalen Hurts sent the Big 12 a message in fifth-ranked Oklahoma’s 48-14 victory over UCLA on Saturday night at the Rose Bowl. Despite 611 yards of offense — including 439 coming courtesy of Hurts — the Oklahoma coach and quarterback are far from satisfied going into an off week before opening conference
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BRISTOL, Wis. — The drug bust shattered the early-morning stillness of this manicured subdivision in southeastern Wisconsin. The police pulled up outside a white-shuttered brick condo, jolting neighbors out of their beds with the thud of heavy banging on a door. What they found inside was not crystal meth or cocaine or fentanyl but slim
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Justin Herbert isn’t satisfied yet but he’s confident that the Ducks are on the right path. The senior quarterback threw for 316 yards and five touchdowns in No. 15 Oregon’s 35-3 victory Saturday night over Montana, the Ducks’ final tuneup before opening Pac-12 play at Stanford next week. Jacob Breeland and Johnny Johnson III each
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Omar Narvaez loves his former Chicago White Sox teammates. He also loves beating them. The catcher hit a game-ending home run in the 10th inning and helped Felix Hernandez through his best outing of the year to lift the Seattle Mariners over his old team 2-1. Narvaez spent a few minutes in the sixth inning
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