NEW YORK — Philadelphia Phillies minor leaguer Logan O’Hoppe got the news from his agent and relayed it immediately to teammate Vito Friscia. Friscia, a 40th-round draft pick, would be getting his spring training pay, after all. “He thought I was kidding,” O’Hoppe said. “It’s awesome, I’m happy for him.” Major League Baseball announced Thursday […]
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Mitt Romney cut his campaign’s list of about 80 potential running mates to 20 in early April 2012. By late July, the list had been narrowed to five men, after the one woman under serious consideration, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, declined the campaign’s invitation to be vetted. (Mr. Romney eventually chose Representative Paul
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“It was so frustrating,” said Tim Tilley, who was laid off from his kitchen job at an Olive Garden in Ohio on Tuesday. For four hours that day and eight hours on Wednesday, he tried to file a claim. The website crashed repeatedly — after three attempts, he was locked out. He called dozens of
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Image copyright Getty Images Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced plans to test more people for coronavirus. At the moment only people in hospital are being routinely tested, so if you have symptoms and you are not sure if you have the virus, you may well not be able to find out. As of 19
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Duffy said she felt “freer” after making her sexual assault ordeal public Pop star Duffy has unveiled her first original song for a decade, weeks after revealing a rape and kidnap ordeal that led her to retreat from the public eye. The Welsh singer sent the song, titled Something
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GameStop issued a memo to employees Thursday instructing them to keep stores open during the coronavirus pandemic because the company views itself as “essential retail” alongside grocers and pharmacies. Store managers were specifically told to push back on local authorities’ requests to close GameStop locations. “Due to the products we carry that enable and enhance
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Thousands of travelers are stranded in Morocco, the North African kingdom that has closed its borders and gone into lockdown to try to stem the spread of the coronavirus By AMIRA EL MASAITI Associated Press March 19, 2020, 10:31 PM 4 min read RABAT, Morocco — Thousands of travelers are stranded in Morocco, which has
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The Oxford researchers modeled the use of phone tracking and alerts to affect the spread of the coronavirus and found that such a system could be helpful even if it was not universally adopted and the location data was not always precise. A majority of people in an area would need to be using it,
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The Latest on NFL free agency. The NFL’s spending in free agency continues Thursday. All times EDT: ——— 6:30 p.m. The Green Bay Packers are holding on to safety Will Redmond. Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst said that Redmond has agreed to terms on a new contract. The 26-year-old Redmond has played in 18 regular-season
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WASHINGTON — Under pressure to upend centuries of tradition to respond to a growing pandemic, congressional leaders reluctantly agreed on Thursday to at least study the feasibility of allowing lawmakers to vote from home, after two House members tested positive for the coronavirus and a dozen others were quarantined. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was staunchly
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