Major League Baseball hitters have punctuated a power-packed year by shattering the record for most home runs in a season. Jonathan Villar of the Baltimore Orioles connected Wednesday night for the 6,106th homer. That topped the mark of 6,105 set in 2017. There are plenty more to come, too — the record was broken with […]
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After Mr. Trump told his staff on Sept. 5 to address the matter, Mr. Mulvaney called Mr. Ross, who was in Greece traveling for meetings. Mr. Ross then called Neil Jacobs, the acting administrator of NOAA, at home around 3 a.m. Friday, Washington time, and instructed him to clear up the agency’s contradiction of the
Image copyright Karim Brohi Image caption Prof Karim Brohi has been the London Trauma System’s clinical director since 2014 Every 75 minutes, someone in London is admitted to hospital with traumatic injuries, according to the capital’s ambulance service. In a week-long diary for the BBC, the London Trauma System’s clinical director describes the moment he
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Image caption Freddie Flintoff pictured on the trike involved in Tuesday’s incident Top Gear presenter Freddie Flintoff has said he is “absolutely fine” after an incident involving a three-wheeled motorcycle. The ex-England cricketer, 41, is understood to have “run out of runway” at Elvington Airfield near York while filming a race for the motoring show.
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Image copyright Getty Images US President Donald Trump will delay a planned tariff hike on $250bn (£202.8bn) of Chinese goods as a “gesture of good will”. In a tweet, Mr Trump said a 5% increase to duties scheduled for 1 October will be postponed for two weeks. He said the delay had been requested by
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The Latest on a California bill that would provide wage and other benefits to workers at so-called gig economy companies such as Uber and Lyft. (all times local): 11:35 a.m. California lawmakers have sent the governor a bill that would give new wage and benefit protections to workers at so-called gig economy companies such as
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From his youth in central Florida to his college career at USC, Nickell Robey-Coleman dreamed of making a mark on NFL history. The veteran defensive back never imagined his mark might end up being a rule change that exists mostly because officials in the last NFC championship game failed to flag him for committing pass
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But he said that his agency was in talks with the Department of Homeland Security about the “path going forward for deferred action,” adding that “those are internal discussions we are not prepared to discuss.” Ms. Bueso is among the immigrants who have received a letter in recent days saying that their cases will be
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Awkwafina is delicious. So is Larry Itliong, a legendary West Coast Filipino American labor organizer ― or at least they are in cookie form. Awkwafina and Itliong are just two of the Asian American heroes that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, baker Jasmine Cho has paid homage to by way of a butter cookie. Cho runs Yummyholic, a
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The hosts of “Here To Make Friends” came here to find love. Claire Fallon and Emma Gray revisit the tearful penultimate (for real this time) episode of “Bachelor In Paradise,” including the best exit burn, the whitest white people and the most overproduced romance. With the plush, halcyon days of Sayulita summer camp coming to
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