“I could have run as a Republican,” Ms. Sparks said. But, she said, she fits better with Democrats, and “when I look at President Trump and what he does and says, I would not want to represent that. Period.” The Lubbers, who are Republicans, feel the same. So when they voted in 2016, they wrote […]
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Kanye West really wanted commitment on his new album “Jesus is King.” The rapper asked everyone working on the project to abstain from food and premarital sex. “There were times when I was asking people to fast during the album,” West told Zane Lowe on Beats 1 Thursday (per USA Today). “This is gonna be
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Karl-Anthony Towns took advantage of an obvious mismatch Friday night when Charlotte center Cody Zeller wasn’t there to defend him. Towns had 37 points, 15 rebounds and eight assists, and the Minnesota Timberwolves remained unbeaten with a 121-99 win over the Hornets. Without Zeller, who missed the game due to undisclosed personal reasons, the Hornets
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WASHINGTON — The Transportation Department announced Friday that it would suspend flights from the United States to nine airports in Cuba beginning in December. The policy will sever air service to every international airport there except the one in Havana. The suspensions were made at the request of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who endorsed
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A widely used software program that helps guide care for millions of patients is flawed by unintentional racial bias that leads to blacks getting passed over for special care, according to a new study. The software predicts costs rather than sickness. It is used by U.S. insurers and hospitals to direct higher-cost patients into health
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Amanda Knox — a woman who is well acquainted with both fame and prison — offered Lady Gaga a little reality check Friday. On Thursday, the 33-year-old “Shallow” singer tweeted: “Fame is prison.” Fame is prison — Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) October 25, 2019 Many fans thought Gaga was hinting at new music, but Knox took
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Morgan Rielly broke a tie with 5:29 left and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the San Jose Sharks 4-1 on Friday night, spoiling Patrick Marleau’s return to Scotiabank Arena. Ilya Mikheyev had a goal and an assist, Jake Muzzin and Auston Matthews added goals, and Frederik Andersen made 16 saves for Toronto. The 40-year-old Marleau
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WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer and a key figure in the impeachment inquiry, managed to inadvertently telephone an NBC News reporter at 11 p.m. one night this month and leave a lengthy voice message filled with snippets of an overheard conversation. In the muffled recording — left on Oct. 16 with
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It’s rare to see someone look as excited as actor Ted Danson when he was arrested Friday at the weekly “Fire Drill Friday” climate change protest in Washington, D.C., along with fellow actor Jane Fonda. Fonda’s arrest was the third in three weeks at the protest demanding urgent action to address climate change. She and Danson proudly
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Don Valentine, a venture capitalist who founded Sequoia Capital, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that helped cement the area’s rise as a technology hub, died on Friday at his home in Woodside, Calif. He was 87. Mr. Valentine died of natural causes, a spokeswoman for Sequoia said. Mr. Valentine’s career spanned four decades and
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