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‘Tough Game for Women': Female Jockeys Missing Again at Triple Crown
Mike Smith will ride Justify for a shot at the Triple Crown in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes. He’ll compete against nine other horse/jockey combinations — and all nine other jockeys will be men. In fact, over the past 48 years, more than 300 jockeys have ridden in Triple Crown races, and only six have been women. A female jockey hasn’t competed...
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Adopted Abroad as Infants, Raised in US, and Now — They May Face Deportation
An NBC Bay Area investigation has discovered tens of thousands of U.S. residents, adopted as infants from foreign countries, and raised in the United States, now face possible deportation – because they are technically not citizens.
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Defense Dominates, Eagles Rout Jets 31-6
Nate Gerry returned an interception for a score, Orlando Scandrick took a strip-sack the distance and the Philadelphia Eagles routed the New York Jets 31-6 on Sunday.
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Why Apple Doesn't Want Users to Replace Their Own Batteries
The two recent incidents involving Apple products show a growing risk to the company’s brand: the lithium-ion batteries that power its devices. First, the Federal Aviation Administration disclosed last week that some Apple laptops have been banned from flights. This comes after Apple recalled some 15-inch MacBook Pro laptop models because the batteries inside the computers pose a fire hazard....
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‘Yelp for Sex': Review Boards That Rate Women Flourish After Crackdown on Ad Sites
On review boards for commercial sex, buyers denigrate the women they rate and spin fantasies about sex acts. They use forums on the sites to warn one another about anti-trafficking busts and to answer each other’s questions about the “hobby.”
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A Patch of Garbage in the Pacific Is Now Twice the Size of Texas
Imagine trillions of pieces of plastic debris that, if strung together end to end, would line every inch of coastline in the world at least three times over. That’s how much garbage researchers found pollutes a remote area in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii. The phenomenon is known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and researchers with The...
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Recap: A Look at Robert Mueller's Testimony
Former special counsel Robert Mueller told lawmakers Wednesday that Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was “not a witch hunt” and “not a hoax,” as President Donald Trump has claimed. Mueller testified before the House intelligence and judiciary committees in back-to-back hearings to answer questions for the first time about his two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016...
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Black Hole Captured for First-Time: ‘We Have Seen What We Thought Was Unseeable'
Scientists have unveiled humanity’s first-ever photo of a black hole. The Event Horizon Telescope, a network of eight radio observatories spanning the globe, captured a massive black hole “53.5 million light-years away in galaxy Messier 87,” researchers with the National Science Foundation announced Wednesday. “We have seen what we thought was unseeable,” EHT assistant director and Harvard University senior research...
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Revealed: This Iconic Film Villain Is Your All-Time Favorite
Who’s the most iconic film villain of all time? Now we know.
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Money Madness: AP Analysis Shows Growing Gap in NCAA Payouts
Powered by Ja Morant’s no-look passes and Dylan Windler’s step-back 3s, March Madness has been a bonanza for the Ohio Valley Conference. The league placed two teams in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament for the first time in 32 years. Then Morant’s Murray State Racers and Windler’s Belmont Bruins both won games during the first week of play, making them...
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What Is Playing in the NCAA Tournament Worth?
The NCAA men’s basketball tournament means big money for the schools and athletic conferences that participate – and even for some schools that don’t play.
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Compiling Most Beloved Eagles Team of Last 20 Years
Given that it’s Valentine’s Day, it seems like a good time to put together an Eagles team with the most beloved players of the generation. By Dave Zangaro
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Stolen Secrets: With Economic Espionage on the Rise, Silicon Valley Must Better Protect Secrets, Feds Warn
US counterintelligence officials say an emerging threat to national security could wreck entire portions of the nation’s economy and currently poses as big or bigger threat to the country as foreign terrorism. Senior Investigative Reporter Stephen Stock reports on a story that first aired Wednesday, February 13.
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Live Countdown: How Many Days Until Spring
With below-freezing temps gripping the region, you can’t blame people for dreaming of spring in Philadelphia. So when does spring start?
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Clamor for Ouster of Top Democrats Slows in Virginia
The clamor for the resignation of Virginia’s top two politicians seemed to die down Monday, with some black community leaders forgiving Gov. Ralph Northam over the blackface furor and calling for a fair hearing for Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax on the sexual assault allegations against him. Over the past several days, practically the entire Democratic establishment rose up to demand...
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2019 State of the Union Fact Check: Trump's Full Speech, Annotated
President Donald Trump delivered his second State of the Union speech Tuesday, hailing the country’s booming economy and warning of human traffickers flooding across the border. Here’s a closer look at some of the statements from his address.
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1 Year Later: President Trump's 2018 State of the Union Speech Annotated
A year after President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address on Jan. 30, 2018, here is a look at where things stand on the issues he discussed: from successful prison reform to tax cuts that did not completely live up to their billing to a border wall that has not been built and is at the...
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Here's Some of the Technology Set to Make a ‘Quantum Leap' in 2019
From foldable cellphones to high tech burgers, more than 4,500 companies showcased their latest technology at CES, the world’s largest consumer electronics show which took place in Las Vegas earlier this month.
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San Francisco Paid Firm $400K for Research Claiming City is Nearly Spotless; Complaints Over Trash, Needles, Feces Soaring
San Francisco paid a public relations firm hundreds of thousands of dollars for research that claims the city is near spotless, according to government documents obtained by the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit. The high rating appears to contradict San Francisco’s own 311 complaint records, which reflect a continued spike in complaints concerning trash, used needles, and human feces scattered...
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‘From the Ashes We Will Rise': Coffey Park Rebuilds a Year After Deadly Wine Country Wildfires
A year after deadly fires ripped through the neighborhood, scorching everything in its path, there’s cement mixers instead of charred grass, rose bushes instead of burned hedges and a sense of optimism instead of doom. What once resembled a movie set from “Apocalypse Now” looks more like – to quote a resident – “an obstacle course.”