Sam Darnold gave the Jets’ struggling offense a huge boost by throwing two touchdown passes in his return from mononucleosis, and New York held on to beat the Dallas Cowboys 24-22 on Sunday night for their first win of the season. The Jets led 21-9 in the fourth quarter, but Dak Prescott and the top-ranked […]
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For 24 hours last week, Trey Gowdy, the former South Carolina congressman best known for leading congressional investigations of Hillary Clinton, was the new face of President Trump’s outside legal defense and a symbol of a streamlined effort to respond to a fast-moving impeachment inquiry. A day later, the arrangement fell apart, with lobbying rules
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The Latest on the Tunisia presidential election (all times local): 8:10 p.m. Tunisian polling agencies are forecasting that conservative law professor Kais Saied has overwhelmingly won the North African country’s presidential election. Saied’s supporters exploded with joy, celebrating on the main boulevard of Tunis even though official results from Sunday’s runoff vote aren’t expected until
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Image copyright Booker Prize/PA Media Image caption One of these writers will pick up the Booker Prize later The winner of this year’s Booker Prize is to be named later, with the six contenders led by Margaret Atwood for her follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale. Atwood’s The Testaments is the bookmakers’ favourite to scoop the
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Image copyright PA Image caption Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said Labour’s nationalisation plans would be cost-neutral Labour’s nationalisation plans would cost at least £196bn, according to the Confederation of British Industry. The employers’ group said the up-front cost of taking control of the water and energy utilities, train firms and Royal Mail was equivalent
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Gender based violence has been described as a national crisis in South Africa. Rape survivor Norma Ka Mbele shares her story, following protests over the high rates of sexual violence in South Africa. The country has one of the highest femicide rates in the world and recent high-profile murders have sparked outrage. Some activists are
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Lanto Griffin took the lead with a 35-foot birdie putt and won the Houston Open on Sunday with a 6-foot par that gave him a 3-under 69 and a one-shot victory that sends him to the Masters next year. Griffin was locked into a battle on the back nine at the Golf Club of Houston
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Minshew Mania didn’t have a prayer against New Orleans. Rookie quarterback Gardner Minshew was harassed, hurried and humbled in a 13-6 loss to the Saints on Sunday, his worst performance of the season coming just a few hours after Pope Francis accidentally tweeted support for the visiting team. “Today we give thanks to the Lord
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Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Over the past year, The Times’s Politics desk has been gearing up for the 2020 election — adding more reporters, chasing candidates around the country and covering the issues on voters’ minds. To introduce readers
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The Latest on local elections in Hungary (all times local): 9:20 p.m. Partial results are showing significant gains for opposition candidates over Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party in nationwide local elections. The voting is projected to have one of the highest voter turnouts in local elections since Hungary’s 1990 return to democracy. In Budapest,
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