A look at what’s happening around the majors Wednesday: TWO GOOD ONES Max Scherzer faces Adam Wainwright as the Nationals and Cardinals finish their pivotal series in St. Louis. Washington is fighting for position in the wild-card race while St. Louis is looking to hold off Chicago and Milwaukee for the NL Central championship. Since […]
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This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — One of the accused conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks was secretly recorded at Guantánamo admitting he funneled most of the funds that financed the hijackers who killed nearly 3,000 people 18 years ago, according to transcripts
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AB InBev, the world’s largest brewer that produces Budweiser and Corona, on Tuesday revived plans to list its Asian business in Hong Kong but halved the size of its initial public offering to $4.8 billion. The move comes two months after it temporarily shelved plans to raise $9.8 billion in what would have been the
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How do you improve the health of an entire town? That was the question facing the former fishing port of Fleetwood, in Lancashire. It’s a place where lives have been blighted by illness and people were dying younger. So, in 2016, a local GP began to lead efforts to turn things around, helping people take
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Image copyright Netflix Image caption David Tennant guest stars in the opening episode of Netflix’s Criminal Unusually for a crime drama, there are no car chases, shoot-outs, explosions, kidnappings or violent attacks in Netflix’s Criminal. Well, not on screen anyway. The series is set almost entirely in a police interview room, where suspects (played by
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Image copyright Charles Goodall In 2015, residential developer Charles Goodall bought a derelict pub called Bridge Inn in Middleton-in-Teesdale, a small market town in Durham, hoping to turn it into some houses. The pub hadn’t been open for business since 2011, but on TripAdvisor, curiously people posted reviews for three years from 2014 to 2016,
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A growing number of countries are following China’s lead in deploying artificial intelligence to track citizens, according to a research group’s report published Tuesday. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace says at least 75 countries are actively using AI tools such as facial recognition for surveillance. The index of countries where some form of AI
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Utah left end Bradlee Anae may be the next mayor of Sack Lake City. Anae is among four players in the Pac-12 who have collected three sacks this season to lead the league, joining Oregon freshman Mase Funa, Colorado’s Mustafa Johnson and Oregon State’s Hamilcar Rashed. Anae has 20 career sacks, ranking him third among
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The Supreme Court is hearing competing arguments about the legality of the prime minister’s suspension of Parliament. The most senior judge in the UK, Lady Hale, says the case raises “a serious and difficult question of law”, as she and 10 other judges must decide whether advice Boris Johnson gave to the Queen about prorogation
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HuffPost may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page. Ever wish you could absorb knowledge at lightning speed, “The Matrix”-style? While technology isn’t quite there yet, this book summary app does make it easier to read more in less time. In fact, you could read 10 books in the time it
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