Gary Woodland has the 36-hole lead in the U.S. Open, the second time in his last four majors he’s been ahead at the halfway point. It’s really no lead at all. This U.S. Open is just getting started. Woodland was two shots ahead of Justin Rose going into the third round, with the leaders not […]
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Maggie Haberman has become an indispensable part of The Times’s political coverage since joining the newspaper in 2015, a go-to reporter for breaking news moments and Pulitzer Prize-winning peeks behind the White House curtain. But the handful of major stories she has a hand in on any given day are published in an environment where
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Patrick Maroon lifting the Stanley Cup above his head in a St. Louis Blues uniform fulfilled a lifelong dream. The moment didn’t compare to holding the Cup just low enough for his son to kiss it. Maroon will be hailed as a hometown hero for signing with the Blues and helping them win their first
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Those conversations keep coming. Rick Plowman 66, complained bitterly about how despite having Medicare, he had to pay nearly $500 for inhalers to treat his chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Still, he was skeptical. “I just don’t know what it’s going to look like down the road,” Mr. Plowman said. “Even Social Security for kids, you
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As subtitles go, the one Laurence Scott chose for his new book, “Picnic Comma Lightning,” is certainly on the ambitious side: “The Experience of Reality in the Twenty-First Century.” Scott’s hard-to-categorize, essayistic investigation of reality and technology is literary, cultural and deeply personal. The literary side is reflected in his title, which is taken from
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Large crowds are gathering in downtown St. Louis despite heavy rain, awaiting a parade and rally to honor the Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues. The Blues beat the Boston Bruins 4-1 Wednesday in Game 7 to win their first championship. The Blues joined the NHL as an expansion team in 1967 and made it
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We’re trying something new in our 2020 presidential campaign coverage. Every Saturday morning, we’re publishing “This Week in the 2020 Race,” bringing you the key moments — from speeches and surprises among the candidates to new policies and polls that are influencing the campaign. It’s a quick way to follow the presidential campaign and the
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Patrick Reed flubbed the chip. That lob wedge paid the price. The 2018 Masters champion snapped the wedge over his thigh after leaving the ball in the rough on a delicate chip from right of the 18th green at the U.S. Open on Friday. After taking it out on the wedge, he tossed the club
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Few states have a political history as shaped by the subtleties of the abortion debate as Pennsylvania. It has been home to Democrats like the former governor Robert P. Casey, who defended the state’s restrictive abortion laws in the landmark Supreme Court case Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which reaffirmed Roe but also allowed states to
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Image copyright Getty Images/BBC Image caption Graham Norton, Gary Lineker and Steve Wright lead the BBC pay list, with Claudia Winkleman the highest-earning woman Cutting the pay of stars and senior managers would only save a fraction of the cost of free TV licences for older people, the BBC has said. The broadcaster has defended
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