A look at what’s happening around the majors today: WELCOME Zac Gallen is set to make his major league debut when he starts for the Marlins at St. Louis. The 23-year-old righty was 9-1 with a 1.77 ERA at Triple-A New Orleans, striking out 112 in 91 1/3 innings. Gallen might see some familiar faces […]
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Climate change is “eating” the glaciers of the Himalayas, posing a grave threat to hundreds of millions of people who live downstream, a study based on 40 years of satellite data has shown. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, concluded that the glaciers have lost a foot and a half of ice
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Image copyright Getty Images Philippe Cerboneschi (also known as “Zdar”), one half of of French dance duo Cassius, accidentally died in Paris on Wednesday, his agent has said. “He made an accidental fall, through the window of a high floor of a Parisian building,” said Sebastien Farran, without giving further details. Cerboneschi formed Cassius with
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With a name that sounds like futuristic fiction, Rapid DNA machines roughly the size of an office printer have helped solve rape cases in Kentucky, identified California wildfire victims and verified family connections of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Now a state board in Texas has asked a growing government provider of the DNA equipment
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Cody Bellinger keeps getting on base, and if he’s at home chances are it’s via a home run. Bellinger slugged his 24th homer — 16th at Dodger Stadium — and Los Angeles kept it together after losing starter Rich Hill to injury in a 9-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night, becoming
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Fragments recovered from one of two tankers crippled by explosions in the Gulf of Oman last week bear a “striking resemblance” to limpet mines that Iran has previously displayed, United States Navy officials told reporters on Wednesday in the United Arab Emirates. A Navy commander also said during the briefing that fingerprints and other information
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Eduardo Rodríguez knew his job was to pile up innings after the Boston Red Sox had to go 17 innings in Tuesday’s loss at Minnesota. Even after giving up runs early Wednesday night, Rodriguez wasn’t going to be taken out. He had to handle the workload, regardless of results. The Boston left-hander picked up the
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Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. The countries of Europe, which together represent the world’s third-largest industrial emitter, are set to decide on Thursday whether they can leap to a future largely free of fossil fuels within the next 30 years. Leaders from all 28 countries
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Image caption Like many people, comic artist Leah Pearlman uses Facebook to promote and share her work Leah Pearlman draws comics about ideas like “emotional literacy” and “self-love”. When she began posting them on Facebook, her friends responded warmly. But then Facebook changed its algorithm – how it decides what to put in front of
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A Boston-based genealogical organization and a Georgetown University graduate who launched a project to trace the family histories of hundreds of black slaves sold by the Jesuits who ran the college in 1838 have teamed up to digitize the information and make it available to people researching family histories. The public announcement Wednesday of what’s
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