Kyle Hendricks tossed one-run ball over seven innings to continue his dominance over St. Louis, lifting the Chicago Cubs to a 5-1 win over the Cardinals on Sunday night. Carlos González hit his first homer with the Cubs and Kyle Schwarber went 2 for 3 with two RBIs as Chicago completed a three-game sweep of […]
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Ms. Jones attended a diverse, low-income school outside Baltimore, after she and her mother fled domestic violence. Students there were seen as “those kids,” for whom higher education seemed out of reach. In her junior year, against the advice of her administrators, the high-achieving student chose to cut her class schedule in half to join
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Ahead of a Parliamentary debate about access to a cystic fibrosis drug, the family of four-year-old Harrier Corr recorded a video diary to show the impact of living with the condition. More than 10,000 people in the UK have the debilitating genetic lung condition and for about half of them, Orkambi could make a big
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A second horse in two days and 29th overall has died at Santa Anita, where management has chosen to continue racing for the rest of the current meet. Truffalino collapsed in the final stages of the third race on turf Sunday. A track spokesman says the 3-year-old filly died of a heart attack. She was
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Senators Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren took selfies — with each other. Senator Bernie Sanders marched with striking fast-food workers. Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., played the blues on an electric keyboard. And former Representative John Delaney brought a team of bagpipers. The Democratic Party gathering in Iowa on
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Nineteen-year-old Red is a student, a fan of metal music and aspiring make-up artist. As a child, she was chatty and full of life – but only when she was at home. When she left the house, everything changed. At a secondary school open evening in Kettering, Northamptonshire, a teacher was playing a game with
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Eva Schloss is 90 years old. Her father and brother both died in Auschwitz concentration camp, but her mother survived and was later remarried to Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father, after the war. “Anne has become a symbol of the one-and-a-half million Jewish children who died” said Eva. “This will be the last generation of
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Khris Davis homered for the first time in nearly a month as the Oakland Athletics built an eight-run lead, then hung on to beat the Texas Rangers 9-8 on Sunday for a four-game split. Davis hit a two-run homer off Drew Smyly (1-5) in the third inning, his 13th home run this season but first
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WASHINGTON — As the special counsel’s investigators pursued the question of whether President Trump tried to impede their work, they uncovered compelling evidence — a voice mail recording and statements from a trusted witness — that might have led to him. A lawyer for Mr. Trump, John M. Dowd, reached out to a lawyer for
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, June 9 (Reuters) – Nineteen Democratic presidential candidates delivered rapid-fire sales pitches to Iowa party leaders on Sunday, touting their ability to energize voters, win the White House and deliver on longtime party goals such as universal healthcare. At the biggest gathering so far of 2020 presidential candidates, the Democrats had five
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