Major league owners and players seem to be in rare agreement By TIM DAHLBERG AP Sports Columnist March 27, 2020, 1:08 AM 5 min read Major league owners and players seem to be in rare agreement. They want to play as many games as possible, as soon as possible. Ordinarily that would be something to […]
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“This is not permanently raising government spending,” said Louise Sheiner, a senior fellow at the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution. “It’s a one-time thing. A big one-time thing, but it raises the level of debt and doesn’t do anything to the trajectory of debt after that, which makes it
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Image copyright Atlantic Records Image caption The singer’s second album is the follow-up to her self-titled, Brit Award-winning debut The future starts now for self-isolating Dua Lipa fans, after the star put out her new album a week early. Future Nostalgia, which features writing contributions from Tove Lo and Madonna’s producer Stuart Price, was brought
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Canceling March Madness because of the coronavirus pandemic will cost the NCAA about $375 million that it would have distributed to 350 schools across the nation. Some will be able to absorb the losses better than others. The NCAA announced Thursday it will distribute $225 million to its Division I member schools in June, nearly
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The actor-artist used his latest politically-themed piece to take aim at the Trump White House’s widely criticized response to the coronavirus pandemic. Carrey cast POTUS in “Jaws,” which could actually be the movie of Trump’s nightmares given his reported terror of the animals. “Trump is willing to risk countless lives to save his economic record,”
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