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D-Backs maintain slim playoff hopes, beat Rockies 12-8 as Moreno, Arenado hit first-inning homers
Gabriel Moreno and Nolan Arenado homered in a six-run first inning, and the Arizona Diamondbacks had a season-high 18 hits as they kept up their slim postseason chances with a 12-8 win over the Colorado Rockies Thursday.
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Fallout from a blowout 2022 loss to the Rams ultimately ushered in a new era for the Broncos
The Denver Broncos have undergone significant changes since a 51-14 loss to the Los Angeles Rams on Christmas Day in 2022 as Sean Payton is now the coach and Bo Nix has taken over at quarterback.
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Movie Review: In ‘Primetime,’ a sinister shift in media, with a dazzling Robert Pattinson
Buzzing with the sound of dial-up internet and the hum of grainy VHS tape, Lance Oppenheim’s “Primetime,” about Chris Hansen and his Dateline NBC series “To Catch a Predator,” identifies a seedy moment when media became the new arbiter of communal justice. In “Primetime,” Hansen, as played with malicious precision by Robert Pattinson, is an […]
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Some climb for faith, others for the views. This Chinese sacred mountain draws them all
WUDANG, China | A banknote clasped between her hands, Liu Haiyan prayed to the protector of the Wudang mountains. The range in central China has long been considered sacred in Taoism. “I asked him to bless our motherland with favorable weather and to make it even more prosperous,” Liu said while sitting outside the Golden […]
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Oxford English Dictionary adds several words long used in the Caribbean and Bermuda
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico | More than a dozen words long used in Bermuda and across the Caribbean got an official nod on Wednesday from the Oxford English Dictionary. First in line is “bimpert,” a Bermudian word of unknown origin that is used to describe a stupid or foolish person. People on the tiny island […]
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In ‘If I Go Will They Miss Me,’ a family seeks healing under the LAX flight path
LOS ANGELES | Six years ago, jet fuel was dumped from the sky onto a working-class city near Los Angeles International Airport, spattering onto children at an elementary school. For writer and director Walter Thompson-Hernández, who grew up nearby, the incident sparked a coming-of-age story that grapples with the contradictions of life under the LAX […]
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Denver opens its first college student residence for those facing homelessness
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. DENVER | During her first semester at Chicago’s Malcolm X College, Nikya Harrell had had enough. It was winter, and she was cold. She was bouncing to and from family members’ houses and sometimes could only afford one meal a week. Harrell came to school overwhelmed and crying. […]
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Exclusive: Board of Peace quietly met with UNRWA, ex-agency chief says
JERUSALEM | As the U.S.-created Board of Peace pushes ahead with plans to rebuild Gaza, it has said there’s no place for the U.N. body that for decades has provided support to displaced Palestinians. But the agency’s last chief says that behind the scenes, board members and others have been more open to working with […]
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Pope Leo XIV affirms need for media to cover public figures when asked about Trump ban
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE | Pope Leo XIV told reporters they were welcome to cover him, as he responded to the Trump administration’s attempt to bar U.S. media from the White House and affirmed the importance of journalists covering public figures. Leo spoke to reporters Friday on his way to France for a four-day visit. […]
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