Jorge Soler had the tying RBI double in the eighth inning and Cheslor Cuthbert followed with the go-ahead run-scoring single to lead the Kansas City Royals to a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night. Adalberto Mondesi started the rally with his third hit of the game, a double with one out off […]
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WASHINGTON — Last week, a group of freshman Democrats — primarily from districts long held by Republicans — approached the House majority leader with a seemingly odd demand: Block our pay raises. It has been 10 years since members of Congress have gotten even a cost-of-living increase, and the leader, Representative Steny H. Hoyer of
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Image copyright DGLimages/Getty Images Image caption The curriculum will be rolled out from September 2022 for children currently in Year 3 and below The Welsh NHS bill will “go through the roof” without regular PE in schools, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has said. Due to be introduced in 2022, the draft curriculum does not specify a
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Image copyright Moloda gvardiya/MICHAELA VONDRUSKA/SKY UK LTD/HBO Image caption Chernobyl engineer Oleksiy Breus, then and now, beside the backdrop of the TV portrayal of the disaster Hours after the world’s worst nuclear accident, engineer Oleksiy Breus entered the control room of the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. A member
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Image copyright Getty Images Landlords and other creditors will meet on Wednesday in London to vote on revised proposals to save Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia retail empire. Arcadia’s brands include Topshop, Miss Selfridge, Burton, Dorothy Perkins, Evans and Wallis. Last week, a vote on Sir Philip’s proposals was postponed after some landlords, including shopping centre
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The Latest on trade tensions between the U.S. and China and their wider impact, especially on technology giant Huawei (all times local): 5:55 p.m. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman has refrained from saying if President Xi Jinping intends to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump during a summit in Osaka later this month. Geng Shuang
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Rookie John Means tied a season-high with seven strikeouts and the Baltimore Orioles took the series opener from the Toronto Blue Jays 4-2 on Tuesday night. Means (6-4) allowed one run on four hits with three walks over five innings and lowered his ERA to 2.60. Baltimore reliever Shawn Armstrong threw a pair of scoreless
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WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats are examining whether a former arms-industry lobbyist serving as a midlevel State Department official played a role in the Trump administration’s decision last month to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates without seeking legislative approval, lawmakers and current and former government officials said. A House committee plans
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Image copyright TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The NHS fraud squad is investigating GPs in England amid suspicions they are claiming for non-existent patients. Doctors get £150 a year for each patient on their list, but records show there were 3.6 million more patients in the system last year than there were people in England. The
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Image copyright Jamie Nelson Image caption The singer has upset the conservative country establishment by singing about smoking weed and gun control Women in country music are offered two potential paths, says Maren Morris. “The stereotype is you’ve either got to be this religious, virginal conservative, or the wronged woman burning the house down.” But
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