Jacoby Brissett threw a career-high four touchdown passes Sunday and the Indianapolis Colts sealed a 30-23 victory over the Houston Texans with Darius Leonard’s late interception. Indy (4-2) has won three straight in the series and took over the early season lead in the AFC South. The loss snapped Houston’s two-game winning streak. Brissett was […]
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INDIANOLA, Iowa — Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said on Sunday that she will release a plan to finance “Medicare for all” in the coming weeks, bowing to critics from the left and the right who have criticized her for not outlining how she would pay for a single-payer health care system. Ms. Warren has
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Arkansas reaped a windfall when a Walmart founder, James L. Walton, known as Bud, died in 1995 with a fortune estimated by Forbes at $1.65 billion in today’s money. The next year, state estate tax receipts jumped 425 percent, to about $183 million in current dollars. In an age when bigger fortunes are being made,
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A crew of deep-sea explorers and historians looking for lost World War II warships have found a second Japanese aircraft carrier that went down in the historic Battle of Midway. Vulcan Inc. director of undersea operations Rob Kraft said a review of sonar data captured Sunday shows what could be either the Japanese carrier Akagi
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A 3-year-old gelding was fatally injured in the fifth race at Santa Anita on Saturday, becoming the 34th horse to die at the track since December. According to a statement from track owner The Stronach Group, jockey Ruben Fuentes pulled up Satchel Paige at the three-eighths pole of the 6 1/2-furlong sprint. Track veterinarian Dr.
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Greens made significant gains as Switzerland elected a new parliament on Sunday, while a populist right-wing party remained the country’s strongest but saw its support slip, projections indicated. The projected outcome would amount to a significant shift in a country where political change tends to be gradual, and fulfilled pre-election expectations that environmental concerns would
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Leave Batman for another day, because apparently the biggest threat facing Joaquin Phoenix’s “The Joker” was Jared Leto trying to undermine the film from behind the scenes. Critics of Todd Phillips’ dark origin story have been loud and proud about their distaste for the film, but perhaps no one was more upset than Leto, who
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Now this is a serious World Series throw-down. Gerrit Cole, Justin Verlander and Zack Greinke vs. Max Scherzer, Stephen Strasburg and Patrick Corbin — all of them All-Star starters, still pitching at their peak. It’s a mound meeting that every fan can enjoy, the Houston Astros against the Washington Nationals. Capital hill, indeed. “We’ve got
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WASHINGTON — President Trump shared an update on Sunday from his defense secretary that outlined “minor skirmishes” between Turkish and Kurdish fighters in northern Syria as American troops make their way out of the area. It might have passed by with little notice in the rushing current of Mr. Trump’s Twitter stream, but for one
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Image copyright Cabinet Office Image caption Billboards telling the public to prepare for Britain’s exit from the EU will launch soon The government has changed the wording of its Get Ready for Brexit campaign appearing to suggest a no-deal exit on the 31 October is now less likely. Its website now says: “We could still
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