Giancarlo Stanton hit a pair of go-ahead, two-run singles, both off third baseman Yuli Gurriel’s glove, and the New York Yankees beat the Houston Astros 7-5 Saturday night for their eighth straight win. The Astros lost their seventh in a row in the matchup of AL division leaders. Stanton made it 4-2 in the sixth […]
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President Trump again denied that he had sexually assaulted the advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s, saying multiple times in extended comments to reporters on Saturday that he had “no idea” who Ms. Carroll was. In a forthcoming book, Ms. Carroll alleges that Mr. Trump raped her in 1995 or 1996 in a
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Susan Hill was 63 when she became terminally ill with motor neurone disease. But when she claimed for personal independence payments (PIP), to pay her carers, she was forced to carry out “bizarre” physical tests, such as standing on one leg, as part of her benefit assessment. Mrs Hill, of Bargoed, has since died and
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Image copyright Gavin Li Image caption Playwright and actress Tuyen Do wants to break away from the image of the refugee Boat People Opening this week is what’s being presented as the first British Vietnamese play. Summer Rolls at London’s Park Theatre shows the younger generation embracing cultural change – and unsettling their families who
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Chez Reavie was plodding along during the third round of the Travelers Championship, watching playing partner Zack Sucher extend his lead. Then came the turn, both for the round and in the fortunes of the two players. Coming off a third-place tie last week in the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, the 37-year-old Reavie matched
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A telling moment came in March when Mr. Pompeo visited Jerusalem, where he spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the threat that Iran poses to Israel. An interviewer from the Christian Broadcasting Network posed a question around a biblical tale about a queen who saved Jews from being massacred by a Persian viceroy: Did
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption‘You have to prove you’re terminally ill – even when there’s medical evidence’ The family of a woman who died from motor neurone disease is calling for an end to a disability benefit assessments for the terminally ill. Susan Hill was 63 when she died, 18 months
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Image copyright ITV Image caption Lusaint (right) saw downloads of her song spike after it was featured on Love Island Last week, a two-year-old cover of En Vogue’s Don’t Let Go (Love) became the UK’s most sought-after song. Recorded by emerging singer-songwriter Lusaint, the track was searched for 23,000 times in three hours on the
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Jonathan Villar hit a three-run homer, Anthony Santander had a two-run shot and the Baltimore Orioles ended a 10-game skid with an 8-4 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday. Andrew Cashner worked six strong innings for the Orioles, who snapped the eighth-longest losing streak in club history. Baltimore will have a chance to win
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Saturday sought to tamp down anger over his praise for the bygone civility of a Senate that included notorious segregationists, stopping just short of an apology while asserting that his reference to never being called “boy” by one of the senators was not racial in nature. Appearing
