Australia’s Hannah Green overcame a three-shot deficit with a final round 5-under 67 Sunday to win the Portland Classic and deny teenager Yealimi Noh’s bid to become the third Monday qualifier to win on the LPGA Tour. Green erased a three-shot deficit with two birdies over the final four holes at Columbia Edgewater Country Club. […]
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Asian stocks were mixed Monday after Washington and Beijing escalated their trade war with new tariff hikes. Shanghai and South Korea advanced while Tokyo and Hong Kong declined. Markets reacted less strongly to the weekend tariff hikes on billions of dollars of goods than to previous increases. Investors are hoping for progress in talks this
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Image copyright Press Association The number of mental health incidents dealt with by police has risen by more than a quarter in four years, figures obtained by BBC Radio 5 Live show. While there were 385,206 incidents flagged as mental health-related in 2014, in 2018 that figure was 494,159, a rise of 28%. Police chiefs
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They may not be known for their music, but news programmes all have a distinct sound. So, how do you write music for a story that changes every day? George Fenton has composed for numerous BBC news programmes and let us in to his studio ahead of the rebrand of BBC Newsnight. Filmmaker: Stuart Denman
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Even one of the best nights ever for an Oklahoma player wasn’t good enough for Jalen Hurts. The new Sooners quarterback passed for three touchdowns and ran for three more, and No. 4 Oklahoma rolled past Houston 49-31 on Sunday night. It was Hurts’ first game for the Sooners since he transferred from Alabama. He
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The Latest on Hurricane Dorian (all times local): 12:05 a.m. Destructive winds from Hurricane Dorian are spreading across the Bahamas‘ northernmost island. The National Hurricane Center characterized the situation as “life-threatening” in a midnight Sunday statement. Residents of Grand Bahama, where the hurricane has made landfall, are encouraged not to leave their shelters when the
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Nick Senzel and Phillip Ervin helped end the Cincinnati Reds’ draining weekend on a winning note. Senzel and Ervin hit solo home runs, Luis Castillo pitched six effective innings and the Reds beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-3 Sunday night to end a four-game losing streak and salvage a split of the teams’ second doubleheader
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According to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks gun violence in America, there have been 283 mass shootings in 2019, defined as those in which four or more people were killed or injured, excluding the perpetrators. In August alone, 53 people died in mass shootings in the United States. Using the Justice Department’s
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Asian stocks were mixed Monday after Washington and Beijing escalated their trade war with new tariff hikes. Shanghai advanced while Tokyo and Hong Kong declined. South Korea’s main index was unchanged. Markets reacted less strongly to the weekend tariff hikes on billions of dollars of goods than to previous increases. Investors are hoping for progress
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Defending champion and No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic’s stay at the U.S. Open ended abruptly when he stopped playing during his fourth-round match against Stan Wawrinka on Sunday night because of pain in his left shoulder. Djokovic was trailing 6-4, 7-5, 2-1 and being thoroughly outplayed when he retired from the match in Arthur Ashe
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