Gerald L. Baliles, a former Democratic governor of Virginia who pushed through a $10 billion transportation initiative as well as measures to clean up Chesapeake Bay, died on Tuesday at his home in Charlottesville, Va. He was 79. Gov. Ralph Northam confirmed the death, from cancer, in a statement. Mr. Northam said state flags would […]
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Amazon must decide soon if it will protest the Pentagon’s awarding of a $10 billion cloud computing contract to rival Microsoft, with one possible grievance being the unusual attention given the project by President Donald Trump. Amazon was long thought to be the front-runner in the competition for the huge military contract. Its Amazon Web
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Image copyright Amazon Studios Image caption Jillian Bell takes on her first lead role as Brittany In an era of body positivity, the film Brittany Runs A Marathon would, on paper, seem completely off message. Stripped back, it’s a story of a plus-sized, shambolic young woman, who embarks on an extreme health kick, loses a
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Image copyright Getty Images China’s mobile operators have made 5G services available to consumers, as the country seeks to become a global technology leader. State-owned carriers China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom unveiled their 5G data plans on Thursday. It comes as Beijing and Washington have been embroiled in a power struggle over trade
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Jahlil Okafor scored 26 points, Brandon Ingram added 25 and the New Orleans Pelicans beat the Denver Nuggets 122-107 on Thursday night for their first victory in five games this season. Ingram has scored at least 22 points in each of his first five games for New Orleans after coming over from the Los Angeles
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WASHINGTON — Before the House voted on Thursday to endorse the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry into President Trump, two of the most conservative lawmakers in the caucus hazarded a guess as to whether some colleagues might join them in opposing the measure. “It might just be us,” they said. In the end, they were right. Democrats
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Jennifer Garner delivered a look and the mail for her Halloween costume this year. The “Alias” alum stuck to her advice of going “funny over sexy” for the holiday by dressing as an overstuffed mailbox with a matching hat and red-checkered socks and shoes. Garner revealed the costume months after she dropped some wisdom to
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Wesley Kennedy ran for 145 yards and two touchdowns and Georgia Southern upset No. 20 Appalachian State for the second straight season 24-21 on Thursday night. The Eagles (5-3, 3-1 Sun Belt) ran for 335 yards and held the country’s ninth-highest scoring offense in check most of the night on a rainy, windy Halloween night.
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Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox. We asked. You answered! There’s been a lot of debate within political circles over whether Democrats are calling out for a savior to enter the 2020 primary, or whether they’re just fine with who they’ve got, thank you very much. Names have been floated: Clinton
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With home sales crashing, real estate agent Zhang Yonggang is tightening his belt, part of a plunge in Chinese consumer demand that is a bigger threat to economic growth than Beijing’s tariff war with Washington. Zhang, who works in the central city of Taiyuan, said his office sold no apartments last month after Beijing tightened
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