A victory by Vino Rosso in the Breeders’ Cup Classic was overshadowed by a fatal injury to a 15-1 long shot in the $6 million race at Santa Anita on Saturday night. Cup officials said in a statement about two hours after the race that Mongolian Groom had been euthanized after sustaining a serious fracture […]
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Last weekend, Mr. Trump attended Game 5 of the World Series at Nationals Park in Washington, where he was vigorously booed. Chants of “lock him up!” rang around the stadium — a twist of the oft-evoked Trump rally chant of “lock her up!” aimed at his 2016 election opponent Hillary Clinton. On Saturday, as Mr.
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Malaysia’s prime minister has urged leaders in Southeast Asia to use the sway of their shared market of 650 million people and speak with “one voice” to get fair access to world trade. Mahathir Mohamad told business leaders on the sidelines of a regional summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations that they should
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Image caption Kezia began to lose her sight when she was taking her GCSEs, but has not got funding for a place at a specialist college If a young person lost their sight, you might think it would be straightforward enough to get special needs funding. But Kezia, from Leyton in east London, has been
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Russell T Davies has said openly gay writers are “still very new” to society, meaning bringing gay issues to the screen is “rich open territory”. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, The Queer as Folk and Years and Years writer joked “we’ve always been there”, adding it’s time to “celebrate” that fact in
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Andres Johnsson scored in the 11th round of the shootout to give the Toronto Maple Leafs a 4-3 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday night. Kasperi Kapanen, Jason Spezza and Mitchell Marner scored for Toronto, which received 37 saves from Frederik Andersen during regulation and overtime and 10 stops in the shootout session. Ivan
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The committee said the Department of Health must take “immediate action to tackle acute issues facing the health service” Health services in Northern Ireland risk “deteriorating to the point of collapse” without a long-term funding strategy to support transformation, a report by a Westminster committee has said. It said
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Image copyright Olivia Rose Image caption Michael Kiwanuka: “I was always waiting for someone to find me out” “I won’t change my name, no matter what they call me,” sings Michael Kiwanuka on his latest single, Hero. Over the years, the London-born singer has been called a lot of things. “Michael Kiwa-nin-nin-nooko, Michael Keena-wooka, Michael
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Actress and activist Jane Fonda spent a night in a local jail after her fourth arrest in as many weeks while participating in a climate change demonstration on Capitol Hill. The 81-year-old Oscar winner was among more than 40 people arrested Friday while sitting in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building. A spokesman
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Layshia Clarendon can only imagine back to her college days at the University of California in Berkeley having the opportunity to match up with the best women’s players in the world, like Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi. Tara VanDerveer’s young Stanford team put on an impressive show hosting Clarendon, Bird and Taurasi on Saturday in
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