This, it seems, is where some of the tensions began. Fred Gardner, an office spokesman at the time, said that Mr. Hallinan became concerned as Ms. Harris assumed a public-facing role in the ballot debate, growing suspicious that Ms. Harris might run against him. (Mr. Hallinan’s son, Brendan, said his father, now 82, was not […]
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It was a good week for soybean farmers and a bad one for “Froopy” e-cigarettes. What are those, you ask? Read on and learn. ImageCreditGiacomo Bagnara What’s Up (Sept. 8-14) Vanquishing Vaping Dessert-flavored e-cigarettes will soon be banned as part of a federal crackdown on the growing trend of teenage vaping. Spearheaded by President Trump
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Image copyright Getty Images Thomas Cook has said it is “focused on completing” a rescue deal amid reports that some lenders could vote against the terms of the agreement. The troubled travel firm is understood to be in last minute negotiations with bondholders to approve a takeover by Chinese firm Fosun Tourism. The deal needs
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FIBA will look at adjusting travel demands on teams at the next World Cup, after this tournament in China led to many complaints about the distances that nations participating in the knockout stages had to cover without much time to prepare for games. Some teams faced major travel challenges at the tournament’s most crucial time.
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Home Secretary Priti Patel has said she would vote for a Brexit deal that does not feature the Irish border “backstop”. Ms Patel previously voted against the EU Withdrawal Agreement negotiated by former Prime Minister Theresa May’s government three times. The backstop is designed to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionAbqaiq is the site of Aramco’s largest oil processing plant US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blamed Iran for Saturday’s drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities. He dismissed a claim by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels that they had attacked the two facilities, run by state-owned company
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Jorge Alfaro got some timely advice from a teammate, and he put it to good use. Alfaro hit a massive home run off Madison Bumgarner, Miguel Rojas doubled in the go-ahead run in the top of the eighth inning, and rookie Robert Dugger pitched 6 1/3 solid innings as the Miami Marlins beat the San
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So when Amy Virshup, The Times’s Travel editor, approached me about the idea of an advice column fueled by actual readers’ actual experiences, the opportunity felt like a natural fit. “People always have travel disasters,” she wrote. “There’s always sweet vindication in someone’s getting reparations.” She’s right. Just ask the woman featured in our first
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Defensive end Curtis Weaver shrugged and smiled wryly when asked about his record-tying performance in No. 22 Boise State’s 45-10 victory over Portland State on Saturday night. “It means something to me,” Weaver said of matching the school’s single-game record of four sacks. “It’s always good but, at the end of the day, the whole
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Add on the handful of customers who throw cash in the jar after a credit card transaction, and we may be edging toward a 50 percent rate — enormous growth over counter-service tipping a decade ago, when tipping at counters mostly involved the highly optional act of throwing change in a jar. “The friction of
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