A look at what’s happening around the majors today: BIG PAPI’S RECOVERY David Ortiz remained in intensive care at a Boston hospital Tuesday night, recovering from the bullet fired into his back at a bar in the Dominican Republic on Sunday night. Police are investigating what aspect of the national hero’s life made him the […]
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In the middle of May, the former vice president was making his maiden swing through New Hampshire. His first stop was a pizza bistro in Hampton, lunchtime on a drizzly Monday. A hundred or so bodies were jammed in, seemingly half of them New Hampshire state representatives wearing name-tag pins, many saying they had known
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Shares retreated Wednesday and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index dipped nearly 2% as thousands continued protests against proposed legislation that many city residents fear could further erode the territory’s legal autonomy. In early European trading, Germany’s DAX lost 0.6% to 12,079.26 and the CAC 40 in France dropped 0.6% to 5,377.20. Britain’s FTSE 100 skidded
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An A&E consultant, a psychiatrist, and two junior doctors swap notes on being disabled in the medical profession. Emergency medicine consultant Dr Cieran McKiernan speaks on the perils of self-diagnosis. He lost his leg after failing to treat a blister which became a 5cm-sq hole in his foot. Trainee GP Dr Hannah Barham-Brown’s wheelchair means
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Several movie sets were destroyed in the fire on 1 June 2008 Recordings by Sir Elton John, Aretha Franklin, Nirvana, Eminem and thousands more were destroyed in a fire in 2008, according to a New York Times report. They were lost when a blaze swept through a warehouse at
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Met Police hopes the change will make police work more attractive to both men and women with family commitments The Met Police will recruit part-time police constables for the first time as the force tries to “break down barriers” deterring women from joining. From November, all new constable
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If the Boston Bruins seemed like something of an afterthought at times this season, maybe it was understandable. They played in the Atlantic Division shadow of the Tampa Bay Lightning, who raced to the President’s Trophy and were the No. 1 overall seed in the playoffs. Still, Boston kept winning — only three teams won
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A 5-year-old boy vomiting blood has become the first cross-border case of Ebola in the current deadly outbreak. Now authorities are trying to determine how his family, exposed to the virus, managed to cross from Congo into neighboring Uganda. Interested in Ebola? Add Ebola as an interest to stay up to date on the latest
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A new battlefront has opened in the trade war between the United States and China: the $1.6 trillion American travel industry. A Los Angeles hotel long popular with Chinese travelers saw a 23 percent decline in visits last year and another 10 percent so far this year. In New York City, spending by Chinese tourists,
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Craig Berube made a rare stop in the locker room after the game to address his players. It was important. It was minutes after San Jose’s Timo Meier had gloved the puck to Gustav Nyquist and wound up being credited with the second assist on Erik Karlsson’s winning goal in Game 3. It was a
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