Philadelphia Phillies center fielder Andrew McCutchen has a torn ACL and will miss the rest of the season. Phillies manager Gabe Kapler made the announcement before Tuesday night’s game at San Diego. McCutchen injured his left knee during a rundown Monday and exited the game against the Padres. The 32-year-old McCutchen was hitting .256 with […]
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LONDON — When Queen Elizabeth II welcomed the president on Monday for his first state visit to Britain, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner watched from a Buckingham Palace balcony. Later, at a state banquet, Eric Trump posed for photographs. During dinner, Donald Trump Jr. tucked into a menu including lamb and halibut as Tiffany Trump
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Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the Federal Reserve is prepared to respond if it decides the Trump administration’s trade conflicts are threatening the U.S. economy. Investors read his remarks as a signal that the Fed will likely cut interest rates later this year. Powell’s remarks helped drive up stock prices, with the Dow Jones
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Positioned in mid-kill, the Tyrannosaurus rex towers over the prone body of its prey, a similarly huge triceratops. Even in simulation millions of years later, it’s a moment of unmistakable savage violence and an embodiment of the meaning of the word dinosaur: Greek for terrible lizard. The massive skeleton is the culmination of a decadeslong
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A government watchdog says the FBI has access to about 640 million photographs — including from driver’s licenses, passports and mugshots — that can be searched using facial recognition technology. The figure reflects how the technology is becoming an increasingly powerful law enforcement tool, but is also stirring fears about the potential for authorities to
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The Big Ten and SEC will soon be heading to the Las Vegas Bowl, taking turns facing the Pac-12 when the game moves into a new billion-dollar NFL stadium in 2020. The Big Ten, Southeastern Conference and Big 12 unveiled bowl lineups for the 2020-25 seasons Tuesday. Other FBS conferences are expected to release their
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WASHINGTON — Republican senators sent the White House a sharp message on Tuesday, warning that they were opposed to President Trump’s plans to impose tariffs on Mexican imports, just hours after the president said lawmakers would be “foolish” to try to stop him. Mr. Trump’s latest threat — five percent tariffs on all goods imported
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In a decade of travel, Robin Brinn accumulated dozens of small toiletry bottles from hotel bathrooms, bringing them home to her New York apartment and storing them in bags. But when she recently moved, she discarded most of them. “I just really wanted to pare down,” said Ms. Brinn, 67, a retired clinical social worker.
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The editor in chief and the managing editor of Vice Media’s website have both been let go, the new executive overseeing the media outlet’s digital offerings said in an email to the staff on Tuesday. “In making changes to the organizational structure of the digital editorial group, we had to make difficult decisions that mean
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The NBA’s first international Finals may be a coup for Canada, but decidedly not for ABC. Viewership for the first two games of the series between the Golden State Warriors and Toronto Raptors was down sharply from last year’s finals. The Nielsen company said the first game’s audience was off 28 percent from 2018, while
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