A co-owner of Maximum Security, the horse that was stunningly disqualified from the Kentucky Derby just minutes after being named the first-place finisher on Saturday, said he will appeal his horse’s historic loss. “We are going to file an appeal today with the state racing commission,” Gary West said Monday on NBC’s “Today.” Maximum Security […]
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• Mr. Trump awarded Tiger Woods with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. The decision to honor Mr. Woods in the Rose Garden was the perfect way to reward someone who has supported Mr. Trump as other athletes distanced themselves from him. • The president is embracing a traditional campaign fund-raising
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Image copyright Getty Images The effects of social media use on teenage life satisfaction are limited and probably “tiny”, a study of 12,000 UK adolescents suggests. Family, friends and school life all had a greater impact on wellbeing, says the University of Oxford research team. It claims its study is more in-depth and robust than
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The choir that sang at Prince Harry and Meghan’s wedding have written a lullaby for their new baby. The Kingdom Choir are a gospel group who performed Stand By Me in front of an estimated global TV audience of 1.9 billion people at the royal wedding in May 2018. They wrote the lullaby for the
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Image caption Food for thought: tech entrepreneur Lin Liu believes “winter is coming” for tech firms China’s once scorching tech sector is cooling off. “Winter is coming,” laughs Lin Liu, a 29-year-old Shanghai tech worker. Electric vehicles, industrial robots, and microchip production all slowed recently. Big firms like Alibaba, Tencent, and search engine Baidu have
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How this chaotic miracle comes together is the work of Mr. Coulton, Mr. Sabourin and Greg DiCostanzo, who is the “Storm” of Paul and Storm, and Drew Westphal, the chief operating officer of the partnership. Mr. Sabourin and I met to talk in the ship’s casino, a place we knew would be quiet. In a
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LONDON — In Spain, activists were convicted for social media posts that violated an expanded antiterrorism law. The Twitter accounts of German citizens were blocked because of rules enacted last year that prohibit hate speech. And a Dutch court determined Google must remove search results about a doctor punished for poor performance, in compliance with
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Atlanta Braves pitcher Kevin Gausman has been suspended for five games and fined for throwing a 97 mph fastball behind Miami’s Jose Ureña last week. Gausman appealed the penalty imposed Monday by Chief Baseball Office Joe Torre. Gausman can continue to play until there’s a final ruling. Gausman’s first pitch to Ureña in the second
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the popular freshman Democrat from New York who is trying to use her star power to move the Democratic Party to the left, will headline a rally next week in Washington in favor of the Green New Deal, as she seeks to shore up support for the expansive climate legislation that has
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By threatening to raise taxes on Chinese imports, President Donald Trump is throwing down a challenge to Beijing: agree to sweeping changes in China’s government-dominated economic model — or suffer the consequences. The unexpected ultimatum, delivered via tweets on Sunday and Monday, shook up financial markets that were convinced the world’s two biggest economies were
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