A massive elm tree nicknamed Herbie is long gone, but he’s going to live on, thanks to cloned trees January 19, 2020, 2:15 PM 4 min read YARMOUTH, Maine — A massive elm tree nicknamed Herbie is long gone, but it is going to live on, thanks to cloned trees that are being made available […]
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Caleb McConnell had 10 points and 12 rebounds as Rutgers used a balanced team effort in a 64-56 win over Minnesota to continue the program’s best start in the Big Ten, and possibly an AP Top 25 ranking for the first time in over four decades By MATT SUGAM Associated Press January 19, 2020, 8:22
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWatch the critical moments from the SpaceX test SpaceX has conducted a test of the abort manoeuvre it would use if one of its crew-carrying rockets ever developed a problem during flight. The rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center saw a Falcon-9 vehicle’s ascent into the sky deliberately
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Jon Axel Gudmundsson had 21 points with four 3-pointers and nine assists as Davidson topped Fordham 74-62 January 19, 2020, 7:19 PM 1 min read Jon Axel Gudmundsson had 21 points with four 3-pointers and nine assists as Davidson topped Fordham 74-62 on Sunday. Mike Jones had 15 points for Davidson (8-9, 2-3 Atlantic 10
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WASHINGTON — Watching political unrest explode across South America this fall, officials at the State Department noticed an eerily similar pattern in anti-government protests that otherwise had little in common. In Chile, nearly 10 percent of all tweets supporting protests in late October originated with Twitter accounts that had a high certainty of being linked
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NEW YORK — Zachariah Mohammed’s living room is filled with stuff he doesn’t own. He pays $200 a month for the sofa, side table, bar cart, dining table and four chairs in his living room. It’s worth it, the 27-year-old New Yorker says. If he needs to move, which he’s done twice in the last
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Image copyright Getty Images Leaked documents reveal how Africa’s richest woman made her fortune through exploiting her own country, and corruption. Isabel dos Santos got access to lucrative deals involving land, oil, diamonds and telecoms when her father was president of Angola, a southern African country rich in natural resources. The documents show how she
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After Amber Atherton hit celebrity status in a British reality TV show in 2012, companies making everything from cream cheese to leggings offered her big bucks to promote their products By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer January 19, 2020, 6:00 PM 4 min read NEW YORK — When Amber Atherton hit celebrity status as the
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MELBOURNE, Australia — The secret to Novak Djokovic’s post-30 success? Not his best-in-tennis return. Or his limb-twisting, body-bending court coverage. Or even his baseline consistency or clutch gene. No, ask Djokovic to explain how he keeps playing so well at this age, and the Australian Open’s defending champion points to a quality he says he
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Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer expects striker Marcus Rashford to be out for a few weeks with a back injury January 19, 2020, 4:48 PM 1 min read LIVERPOOL, England — Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford is expected to be out for a few weeks with a back injury, manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said
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