Coming off a hitless night, Bryan Reynolds told teammate Corey Dickerson he felt pressure to produce. Dickerson told the rookie to write a few things down to help him remember what he was doing, and what he was thinking, when he was hot. Dickerson wasn’t sure if Reynolds took his advice, but the rookie turned […]
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How do you keep a TV serial going past its fourth season? You reinvent, or you repeat. You find a new story, or you bring back old reliable villains who seemed to have been written off. The Donald J. Trump re-election kickoff rally Tuesday, at the Amway Center in Orlando, was an attempt to recreate
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Image copyright Getty Images Young people under 30 are spending less on non-housing items than the same age group in 2001, a new report suggests. The Resolution Foundation think tank studied changes in pay, housing, taxes and benefits to see if it was still true that newer generations are better off than their predecessors were.
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Facebook is getting a taste of the regulatory pushback it will face as it creates a new digital currency with corporate partners. Just hours after the social media giant unveiled early plans for the Libra cryptocurrency, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire insisted that only governments can issue sovereign currencies. He said Facebook must ensure
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Domingo Santana hit two home runs in a game for the third time this season, Marco Gonzales won his third straight start and the Seattle Mariners avoided an embarrassing series sweep with an 8-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday. Santana, who had five RBIs, and Daniel Vogelbach hit back-to-back homers in the
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The talks are proceeding months after a 35-day shutdown over the winter instigated by Mr. Trump, who had refused to sign any spending measure that did not fund a border wall. The latest round of negotiations has been complicated by an apparent disconnect among Republicans both inside the White House and on Capitol Hill about
General Motors is trying to avoid recalling potentially deadly Takata air bag inflators in thousands of full-size pickup trucks and SUVs for the fourth straight year, leaving owners to wonder if vehicles are safe to drive. The automaker petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to exempt it from recalls that were required under a
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Image caption The Acorns hospice in Walsall opened in 1999 Children’s hospices in England will be forced to cut services or shut unless the NHS increases its funding, a charity has warned. Together for Short Lives, which helps terminally ill children, highlighted a “dangerous cocktail” of higher costs and a drop in state funding. Its
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Image copyright Boohoo Image caption Boohoo’s first recycled range will be made with reclaimed plastics “If someone really cared about buying ethically sourced, green clothes then they wouldn’t shop at Boohoo,” shopper Camilla tells the BBC on Oxford Street. She is commenting on the fast fashion retailer’s first recycled clothing range – made with reclaimed
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The Latest on the NHL Awards show (all times local): 6:13 p.m. A full 25 years after he appeared in the first of two Mighty Ducks movies, Kenan Thompson was happy to get another taste of hockey. The “Saturday Night Live” veteran reminisced about his hockey history when he hosted the NHL Awards show at
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