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Fire finish on a high with win over Spirit
Welsh Fire ended their Women’s Hundred campaign with a 15-run victory over London Spirit. The win gave Fire a positive finish to their season, with Georgia Wareham’s batting proving decisive. Wareham scored her first half-century of the campaign to set up the result for Welsh Fire. The match was their final game of the competition,…
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Paramount may leave California over antitrust enforcement, lawyer says
Paramount’s chief legal officer is telegraphing a willingness by the company’s chief executive to leave California as the media company faces growing antitrust scrutiny from the state government there. “His intent is to be committed to California,” Makan Delrahim, Paramount’s top legal official, said at Politico’s The California Agenda: Sacramento Summit. Delrahim added, however, that “there is a…
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City centre fountains run dry as temperatures soar in parched Sheffield
Met Office heat warning currently in place
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Fire end campaign with comfortable win over Spirit
Welsh Fire ended their Women’s Hundred campaign with a 15-run victory over London Spirit at Sophia Gardens. Both teams had already been eliminated, but Georgia Wareham’s first half-century in the competition and a strong early bowling spell from Grace Potts ensured Fire finished on a positive note. Fire made 138-7 from 100 balls, with Wareham…
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Greetings from a surreal expanse of sand dunes dotted with freshwater lagoons in Brazil
The pristine white sand dunes of the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park are bordered by thick jungle on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. Thousands of lagoons fill up after the rainy season.
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Lucy Davis Supported by Fellow ‘The Office’ Alum Jenna Fischer, ‘Sabrina’ Star Kiernan Shipka and More After ‘Incurable’ Cancer Diagnosis
Actor Lucy Davis has revealed that she has an incurable Stage 4 breast cancer diagnosis, prompting messages of support from former colleagues and other actors. Davis said the cancer has spread to her bones and that she hopes to continue acting and campaigning for animal rights, despite the prognosis. Jenna Fischer, who played the US…
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Trump approval takes another hit: Poll
President Trump’s approval rating dipped again this week, following a downward trend in support for the president amid the ongoing Iran war and mounting affordability concerns ahead of November’s midterms. The latest survey from The Economist/YouGov survey, published on Monday, found 33 percent of respondents said they approved of how Trump has handled his job…
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Blakeman cuts into Hochul’s New York governor’s race lead in new poll, as likely voters give DSA judgment
A new Siena University poll shows Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul’s lead over Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman narrowing as New York’s gubernatorial election approaches. The result suggests Blakeman has gained some ground, although Hochul remains ahead, while the poll also indicates that likely voters view the Democratic Socialists of America more negatively than positively. The survey…
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Brendan Carr is one firing away from an unchecked FCC
President Donald Trump’s nomination of Danielle Thumann Severs to the Federal Communications Commission could allow the agency to retain a voting quorum without its sole Democratic commissioner, Anna Gomez. The Verge argues that this may make it easier for Trump to dismiss Gomez, eliminating the FCC’s remaining formal opposing voice and raising concerns about independent-agency…