Starting pitcher Yu Darvish and outfielder Jason Heyward are staying with the Chicago Cubs, who exercised their $11.5 million option for 2020 on left-hander José Quintana on Saturday and declined their $6.5 million option on lefty Derek Holland, which triggered a $500,000 buyout. Darvish and Heyward both had the right to opt out of their […]
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to drastically increase the number of charging stations for electric cars in Germany to give consumers more confidence to switch over to electric from internal combustion engines. Speaking in her weekly video podcast Sunday, Merkel said she wants Germany to have 1 million charging stations by 2030. Germany currently has
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A 310-year-old violin worth £250,000 that was left on a train in south London has been returned to its owner. After secret negotiations, musician Stephen Morris got it back in a supermarket car park in Beckenham with plain-clothes police officers in attendance. The man who had the violin said he had made a mistake and
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Rory McIlroy did everything he thought he needed to win the HSBC Champions, and then Xander Schauffele made him do a little more. McIlroy delivered all the right shots in a playoff Sunday, hitting 4-iron to 25 feet for a two-putt birdie to beat Schauffele and win for the fourth time this year. It was
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Image caption The 1920s Dr Dolittle children’s stories focus on a doctor based in a fictional village in western England In the new film Dolittle, perhaps the greatest surprise is not that Robert Downey Jr is able to talk to animals – but that he appears to do it in a Welsh accent. Many Hollywood
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The Latest on the deadly Halloween night shooting in California (all times local): 8:42 p.m. The family of a man who was killed at a Halloween party in Orinda says they are devastated by his death. Omar Taylor Jr. was among five people killed Thursday at the party. Family members say he was a DJ
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Rory McIlroy did everything he thought he needed to win the HSBC Champions, and then Xander Schauffele made him do a little more. McIlroy delivered all the right shots in a playoff Sunday, hitting 4-iron to 25 feet for a two-putt birdie to beat Schauffele and win for the fourth time this year. It was
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LOS ANGELES — The crowd was buzzing with Hollywood types — the actress Patricia Arquette, the producer Norman Lear — at a private film screening on Sunset Boulevard one recent Sunday afternoon. But here in liberal America, the biggest celebrity in the room was not someone who makes a living in what people call “the
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Is stealing a presidential portrait a prison-worthy crime? Or a laudable act of civil disobedience? Courts around France are grappling with this question in response to an unusual new environmental movement that’s aiming to push French President Emmanuel Macron to do more to fight climate change. One by one, environmental activists around France have removed
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