The Latest on the track and field world championships Monday (all times local): 10:16 p.m. Kenya’s Beatrice Chepkoech stayed on course and won the women’s steeplechase in a breeze, while Uganda’s Halimah Nakaayi used a late kick to take the 800-meter race being run without Caster Semenya. Chepkoech finished the steeplechase in a world-championship record […]
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WASHINGTON — In his first public comments since leaving the White House, John R. Bolton, the former national security adviser, delivered a stark warning Monday about President Trump’s approach to North Korea, undercutting the president’s yearslong insistence that North Korea wanted to make a denuclearization deal with him. Without mentioning Mr. Trump by name, Mr.
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Congress didn’t unconstitutionally penalize Democratic-leaning states when it imposed a cap on federal deductions for state and local taxes, a federal judge ruled Monday. The 2017 federal tax law, which President Trump signed after a party-line vote in Congress, limited to $10,000 the state and local tax payments that families can write off on their
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Silently and without pause, the giant African snail has been invading Cuba. The snails with brilliantly striped shells and bodies up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) long have become public enemy No. 1 for epidemiologists in Cuba. And citizens have grown to fear their ability to transmit diseases and harm crops. Some families are keeping
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThis exchange, broadcast on 17 July, sparked the complaint The BBC’s director general Lord Hall has reversed a decision to partially uphold a complaint against Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty. He told staff that Munchetty’s words were not “sufficient to merit a partial uphold” of the complaint against
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NEW YORK (AP) — WeWork’s new leaders formally suspended a planned stock market debut Monday, as they seek to repair the battered image of a company that appeared to revolutionize the office-rental industry and was poised just weeks ago to go public with a value of nearly $50 billion. WeWork said it will withdraw regulatory
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Two of the biggest names in golf have taken a swing at the course set-ups on the European Tour, saying they need to be tougher to test the best players. Rory McIlroy was the first to vent his frustration, saying after the final round of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship on Sunday that “there are
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WASHINGTON — As Speaker Nancy Pelosi solemnly declared the opening of a formal impeachment inquiry against President Trump last week, and the steady stream of Democrats supporting it became something of a stampede, a small group of Democrats remained unconvinced. The cluster of skeptics, mostly moderate first-term lawmakers in conservative-leaning districts had dwindled to just
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After a Walmart employee wrapped up her maternity leave in 2015, she walked into her Carson City, Nevada, store with an electric breast pump in tow. She was intent on breastfeeding her new baby. Walmart was legally obligated to help her do it by providing a private space and enough breaks so she could pump
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Ricky Martin is about to expand his brood once again. The Latin pop superstar announced over the weekend that he and his husband Jwan Yosef are expecting their fourth child. Martin revealed the news Saturday during an emotional speech at the 23rd annual Human Rights Campaign National Dinner in Washington, where he was honored with the
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