Image copyright Getty Images Europe’s aviation safety watchdog will not accept a US verdict on whether Boeing’s troubled 737 Max is safe. Instead, the European Aviation Safety Agency (Easa) will run its own tests on the plane before approving a return to commercial flights. The 737 Max has been grounded since March after two fatal […]
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The Diving Girl was born in Portland, Ore., in 1920. In my pursuit of her ghost, I find myself eyeballing three contentious Canada geese on a floating swim dock in the Willamette River. On this overcast June afternoon, cottony clouds of varying thickness hang overhead, the sun and splashes of blue visible in the gaps
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Samsung says it will start selling its highly anticipated folding phone on Friday, after the original launch date was delayed by months because of embarrassing problems with the screen. The South Korean tech giant said Thursday that the Galaxy Fold is going on sale after it spent the past several months “refining” the device to
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Give credit to Andre Ethier for an assist on Joc Pederson’s recent home run tear. Pederson hit a leadoff drive and a two-run shot as the Los Angeles Dodgers set a National League record with their 250th long ball this season in beating the Colorado Rockies 7-3 Wednesday night to complete a three-game sweep. Pederson
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Good Thursday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today. _____________________ • Democratic candidates promised unprecedented new action on climate change in the first prime-time televised forum devoted to the issue in a presidential campaign. They vowed to undo the Trump administration’s environmental policies and spend trillions of dollars
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BLACK ROCK CITY, Nev. — It was dusk on the opening night of Burning Man, and the makers and misfits were touching up their art projects and orgy dens. Subwoofers oontz-oontzed as topless cyclists draped in glowing LEDs pedaled through the desert. And Paul Romer, a reigning laureate of the Nobel Prize in economics, sat
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Image copyright Arlene Leitch Image caption Three-year-old Bobby is enjoying having his mum home after five weeks in hospital When Arlene Leitch went to her GP complaining about heart palpitations she was relieved to be told they were likely to be a result of anxiety or drinking too much caffeine. However, the 32-year-old mother-of-one, from
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionLewis Capaldi says his success ‘can’t last’ Scottish pop star Lewis Capaldi has said he is convinced his success will not last very long. The 22-year-old said it was “bizarre” that he had become so famous since the release of his breakthrough single Someone You Loved in
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Image copyright Getty Images Nissan boss Hiroto Saikawa has accepted he was overpaid as part of a company compensation scheme, but denied any wrongdoing. The chief executive of the Japanese carmaker is accused of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of extra stock option payments in 2013. He told Japanese media he would return
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From the moment Terry Bradshaw rode his horse through Hollywood and Beverly Hills, everyone knew Fox’s NFL Sunday pregame show was going to be different. It can also claim to be something else — a Hall of Fame inductee. The pregame show, which kicks off Fox’s 26th season covering the league on Sunday, was inducted
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