As they prepared to present themselves at the San Ysidro Port of Entry today, a group of asylum seekers from Central America gathered at the border fence in Playas de Tijuana early Sunday cheered on by supporters on both sides of the border.
The boisterous gathering grew to hundreds, with some...
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Shohei Ohtani's next pitching start pushed back by Angels
When Sunday began, the Angels and New York Yankees were the top two teams in the American League wild-card race.
With only 135 games and five months to go.
Given this big-picture context, the Angels decided Shohei Ohtani will not make his next scheduled start, Tuesday against Baltimore, because...
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Dodgers' frustrations boil over as Cody Bellinger benched in loss
The closer is no longer inevitable. The ace walked the park in his last start. The lineup lacks continuity and consistency. The bullpen behaves like butane.
And on Sunday, in a 4-2 loss to the San Francisco Giants, the reigning National League rookie of the year was benched for what his manager...
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Stagecoach reveals the many niches within country
A couple of new classes of country music performer emerged at the 2018 edition of the Stagecoach Country Music Festival over the weekend — one obvious, one less so.
After making strides for the last three years with female headliners Shania Twain, Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert, it was back...
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As North Korea offers to give up its nuclear arms, the Trump administration insists it's not 'starry-eyed'
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un promised at a meeting with his South Korean counterpart last week to give up his nuclear arms in exchange for a U.S. pledge not to attack his country, a spokesman for the South Korean president said Sunday.
Top aides to President Trump signaled skepticism, but insisted...
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La Liga: Barcelona wins league title in an almost perfect season
Barcelona is celebrating yet another Spanish league title to cap a nearly perfect season.
Unbeaten Barcelona added to its domestic dominance by winning La Liga for the third time in the last four seasons on Sunday, remaining unbeaten after 34 rounds. Lionel Messi scored a hat trick and Philippe...
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T-Mobile and Sprint plan to merge in a $26.5-billion deal
T-Mobile and Sprint, the nation's third- and fourth-largest wireless carriers, announced a roughly $26.8-billion merger Sunday that could dramatically reshape the U.S. telecom industry and test consumers’ and regulators’ appetites for further corporate consolidation.
The deal is the latest attempt...
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Cosby prosecutor worried about global implications if #MeToo era's first big trial went the other way
In the tense moments before a jury convicted Bill Cosby of sexual assault, the prosecutor who had branded him a "con man" and called him out for laughing during closing arguments started to worry about the global implications if the #MeToo era's first big trial went the other way.
Andrea Constand's...
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Migrants from Central American caravan face a long road to asylum in U.S.
A caravan of asylum seekers from Central America made it to the California border Sunday. Here’s a look at what’s ahead for them:
What do we know about this caravan?
At its largest, the caravan reportedly numbered about 1,200 people, mostly from Central American countries such as Honduras, where...
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The Golden Knights were supposed to be competitive, not mounting a Stanley Cup run
Nate Schmidt wondered what he was getting thrown into when the Vegas Golden Knights selected him off the Washington Capitals’ roster in the NHL expansion draft last June. He knew one other player, forward Erik Haula, a former teammate at the University of Minnesota, and knew goaltender Marc-Andre...
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NBA playoffs: LeBron James scores 45 in Game 7 to help Cavaliers advance
LeBron James scored 45 points and got some needed help in Game 7 to stay unbeaten in the opening round of the NBA playoffs, leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 105-101 win over the Indiana Pacers, who pushed the game's best player to the limit.
James improved to 13-0 in the first round and kept...
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks with Israel on Iran's growing presence in Syria
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Joey Logano breaks losing streak with win at Talladega
Joey Logano has ended a nearly yearlong losing streak with a victory at Talladega Superspeedway.
Logano's last victory was April 30 of last year at Richmond but his car failed inspection, the benefits from the victory were stripped and it cost him a shot in the playoffs.
On Sunday, he made sure...
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Some Americans offer to open up their homes to Central American asylum seekers
The blow-up mattress takes up nearly half the guestroom in Blair Overstreet’s 1940s-era apartment in University Heights. The 36-year-old San Diego resident and her husband, Matt Dunn, still needed to empty out a chest of drawers. A wooden desk crammed against the wall would likely need to go.
Still,...
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Police seek public's help in locating gunman who fatally shot teenage girl at South Los Angeles hamburger stand
Police are asking for the public's help in identifying and locating the gunman who fatally shot a 15-year-old girl as she waited with her mother outside a hamburger stand in South Los Angeles.
The girl was identified Sunday as Hannah Bell, said Officer Mike Lopez of the LAPD's Media Relations Section.
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Israeli troops kill 3 Palestinians in latest Gaza Strip violence
Israeli troops fatally shot two Palestinians who infiltrated the country from Gaza and in a separate incident killed another Palestinian who tried to breach the border Sunday night, the military said.
Another Palestinian was detained in the latter incident, and two more were caught trying to cross...
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Saudi Aramco appoints first woman to board of directors
Saudi national oil giant Aramco said Sunday that five new members had been appointed to its board of directors, including the first woman in the firm's history. Lynn Laverty Elsenhans, 60, is the former head of US oil company Sunoco Inc. and has been director of oil services company Baker Hughes since July last year. Other newly-appointed Aramco board members include Minister...
Northrop Grumman Has a Smart Strategy for Business Success
Northrop Grumman is only bidding on projects that the company believes will generate the best financial returns on its investments. Continuing a recent trend amongst major defense companies, Northrop Grumman is only bidding on projects that the company believes will generate the best financial returns on its investments. The company even ruled out bidding on certain programs...
Lawmakers ask Paul Ryan to explain House chaplain firing
House Democrats and even some Republicans are angry over Speaker Paul Ryan's sudden firing of their longtime chaplain. Now questions are being raised about why this happened. Ed O'Keefe reports.
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Fortnite: 13-year-old is game's youngest professional player
Kyle Jackson from Sidcup in Kent is set to compete for cash prizes in events all over the world.
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Detroit Was Crumbling. Here’s How It’s Reviving.
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South Korea to End Propaganda Broadcasts Along Border With North
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Twin Bombings in Kabul Kill or Wound Dozens at Rush Hour
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A Week Inside a Soccer Club When the Money Runs Out
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A Polyglot N.B.A. Swears by One Thing: That Call Was #@!&
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Capitals Hold On to Early Lead, Tying Series With the Penguins
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Gary Sanchez’s Homer Gives Yankees a 9th Straight Win
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The Profound Normalcy of a Day at the Movies in Saudi Arabia
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After Chaos, Port Authority Sets Storm Rules for Planes to Kennedy
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What’s on TV Monday: ‘James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction’ and ‘Elementary’
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Amber Rudd, Britain’s Home Minister, Resigns Over Migration Crisis
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At Toronto Vigil After Van Attack: Sadness, Civic Pride and Unease
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Ronny Jackson, Failed V.A. Pick, Is Unlikely to Return as Trump’s Doctor
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James Harden’s 41 Points Lead Rockets Over Jazz
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How Your Brain Can Trick You Into Trusting People
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Quotation of the Day: Doctors Ask When a Heart Is Not Worth Fixing
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Britain, Pamplona, Killer Caterpillars: Your Monday Briefing
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‘Trust’ Season 1, Episode 6: A Dead Body Focuses the Mind
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‘Billions’ Season 3, Episode 6: Eat or Be Eaten
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A Butterfly Effect at the North Korean Border
“Is this ridiculous, what I’m trying to do?” says South Korean violinist Hyungjoon Won in the short documentary 9at38. Catherine Lee’s film, premiering on The Atlantic today, follows Won as he attempts to stage a peace concert at the 38th Parallel Demilitarized Zone to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Korea’s independence. “I’ve made an official pitch to the South and...
Trump May Already Be Violating the Iran Deal
As anyone who reads the news knows, Donald Trump will decide by May 12 whether to “withdraw from” or “pull out of” or “abandon” or “scrap” or “jettison” (the synonyms keep coming) the nuclear deal with Iran. Why May 12? Because last October, Trump declared that Iran isn’t complying with the agreement. Under a law passed by Congress, that “decertification” means Trump can reimpose...
Afghan farmers stick to growing opium in the face of less lucrative options
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan farmers are busy in their poppy fields as the annual opium harvest begins, underscoring the government's failure to stamp out a crop that yields much of the world's supply of heroin.
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Diplomacy Without Diplomats
President Donald Trump evidently doesn’t need the State Department to conduct foreign policy. When Mike Pompeo went to North Korea over Easter, no one from the State Department accompanied him. Pompeo, still the CIA director at the time, hadn’t been confirmed by the Senate as secretary of state, and his trip had to be quietly declared “not diplomacy.” Meanwhile, Trump has...
RedState and the Dwindling Space for Anti-Trump Conservatives
RedState was a rare thing these days in the conservative media: a platform for an array of different opinions about President Trump.
That now seems to be a thing of the past, as media on the right has split into two camps: the full-on Trump boosterism of Breitbart or Fox News’s opinion programs, or anti-Trump critique as exemplified by National Review. On Friday, several contract...
The GOP's Path to Economic Populism
Come the 2020 Democratic National Convention, it is entirely possible that the party’s presidential nominee will be committed to “Medicare for all,” at least two tuition-free years at a public college or university, a $15 minimum wage, a sharp increase in Social Security benefits, a dramatic expansion of wage subsidies, and a federal jobs guarantee. Bernie Sanders, who came...
Photos of the Week: Diplomacy, Mud Madness, a Brand-New Prince
A cliffside convenience store in China, a Peruvian sunset, a nesting stork in Belarus, Fashion Week in Brazil, flower fields in California, three lost bear cubs in Bulgaria, fire dancing in the Philippines, Lego art in Paris, a historic handshake in the Korean Demilitarized Zone, and much more.
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Trump's Triumph, Trump's Folly
All politics, even geopolitics, is domestic. (Sorry, Tip.) Friday’s historic meeting between North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-In represents an important milestone on the Korean Peninsula, but it is also an important moment for President Trump, for whom North Korean proliferation has been a major foreign-policy challenge.
Discerning what the...
An Israel 'Conspiracy Theory' That Proved True—but Also More Complicated
To report on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is to invite criticism and controversy. In what is arguably the most well-covered story in the world (perhaps before the rise of Trump), any mistake is amplified, with both sides often accusing media outlets and journalists of bias. Yet The New York Times recently took this journalistic truth to another level with a severely...
The Best Ways to Fix College Admissions Are Probably Illegal
Year after year, the admissions process at selective colleges seems to make high-schoolers and their parents only more anxious. The numbers are wild: Harvard admitted just 4.6 percent of its nearly 43,000 applicants for the class that begins this fall. Stanford accepted only 4.29 percent, and Princeton 5.5 percent. Although selective schools—those that accept fewer than half...
Tennessee's Pro-Life Plans Now Include This 'Monument to Unborn Children'
Tennessee is moving ahead with plans to construct a monument that will honor the lives of unborn children who were victims of abortion.
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The Deceptively Simple Promise of Korean Peace
On Friday, after becoming the first North Korean leader to step into South Korea, Kim Jong Un joined with South Korean President Moon Jae In in making an extraordinary announcement: The two leaders vowed to pursue the shared objective of a “nuclear-free Korean peninsula” and, by the end of this year, to finally proclaim an end to the Korean War.
The declaration established...
New Photo Released of UK Toddler Alfie Evans; European Parliament Member Continues Push for Parental Rights
An administrator of the "Alfies Army Official" Facebook page posted on Friday a new photo of UK toddler Alfie Evans, sleeping on his hospital bed and still off life support. Meanwhile, a member of the European Parliament, continues his push to change the law in the UK in favor of parental rights.
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