LAS VEGAS — Early voting for Nevada’s Democratic caucuses began on Saturday, with several leading candidates rallying supporters amid lingering concerns about whether Nevada would be able to avoid a repeat of the caucus fiasco in Iowa. So, for example, when Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont addressed a crowd in a high school cafeteria on […]
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LONDON (AP) — Caroline Flack, a British television presenter who hosted the controversial reality TV show “Love Island,” has died at age 40, her family said Saturday. “We can confirm that our Caroline passed away today, the 15th of February,” the family said in a statement. A family lawyer said Flack had killed herself and
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The San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics are separated only by a bay and a bridge, but they rarely do business together By JOSE M. ROMERO Associated Press February 15, 2020, 9:23 PM 2 min read MESA, Ariz. — The first baseball trade in almost 30 years between two teams separated only by a bay
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FRANKFURT, Germany — Imagine a mortgage that pays you the interest, not the other way around. Or a savings account where it’s the bank, not the saver, who collects interest. Welcome to the upside-down world of ultra-low and negative interest rates that is taking hold in many parts of the world where economic growth has
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Image copyright ITV/Shutterstock Image caption Flack with 2018 Love Island winners Jack Fincham and Dani Dyer ITV have pulled Saturday’s edition of Love Island following the death of the show’s former host Caroline Flack. An episode of unseen bits from the week in the villa was due to have been aired at 21:00 GMT. Flack’s
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A cargo ship is rocketing toward the International Space Station, carrying candy and cheese to satisfy the crew’s cravings By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer February 15, 2020, 8:22 PM 3 min read CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A cargo ship rocketed toward the International Space Station on Saturday, carrying candy and cheese to satisfy the
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Abdul Ado’s tip-in with 0.6 seconds left was his only basket of the game and the game-winner for Mississippi State, which slipped past Arkansas 78-77 By ERIC W. BOLIN Associated Press February 15, 2020, 8:22 PM 2 min read FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Abdul Ado’s tip-in with 0.6 seconds left lifted Mississippi State to a 78-77
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Caroline Flack hosted the popular ITV dating show, Love Island, for four years, but stood down after she was charged with assaulting her boyfriend in December. She pleaded not guilty, and her boyfriend, whom she was accused of assaulting, did not support the prosecution’s charges against her. Caroline Flack was due to stand trial on
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No. 13 Penn State tops Northwestern 77-61 By TRAVIS JOHNSON Associated Press February 15, 2020, 7:18 PM 2 min read STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Lamar Stevens scored 23 points to lead No. 13 Penn State over Northwestern 77-61 on Saturday. Myles Dread scored 16 and Jamari Wheeler and Mike Watkins added 11 apiece for the
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“The Chinese Communist Party is heading even faster and further in the wrong direction — more internal repression, more predatory economic practices, more heavy-handedness, and most concerning for me, a more aggressive military posture,” he said. That has become a bipartisan view: His assessment was echoed by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat.
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