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LA Dodgers spent big in free agency before winning big. The 2025 class might be even deeperNov 03, 2024 4:59 pm - The Los Angeles Dodgers spent big last offseason before winning big this postseason, taking home a World Series title after committing more than $1 billion on players like Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Teoscar Hernández.
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AP Top 25: Oregon a unanimous No. 1 ahead of 1st CFP rankings, followed by Georgia, Ohio StateNov 03, 2024 4:56 pm - Oregon was the unanimous choice for No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll on Sunday, strengthening its bid for the top spot in the College Football Playoff selection committee's first rankings of the season.
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Retired journalist fell asleep doing a crossword. He woke up amid a stroke.Nov 03, 2024 8:05 am - Retired journalist Paul Krueger’s wife found him laying down at an odd angle, a pen and crossword puzzle nearby. She touched his shoulder and he jerked awake, laughing. Odd, she thought. She later found out she caught him mid-stroke. The couple recounts their experience.
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Harris team warns CEOs that Trump is a threat to economy, while Trump promises them historic growthNov 01, 2024 1:57 pm - Kamala Harris ' campaign is actively warning business leaders that Donald Trump has a pattern of disregard for democracy and the rule of law that would threaten U.S. economic growth — a closing argument designed to show the possible consequences for companies and workers if he returns to the White House.
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Trump says Liz Cheney might not be such a ‘war hawk’ if she had guns pointed at herNov 01, 2024 10:06 am - Donald Trump is calling former Rep. Liz Cheney, one of his most prominent Republican critics, a “war hawk” and suggesting she might not be as willing to send troops to fight if she had guns pointed at her. Cheney responded by branding the GOP presidential nominee a “cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”
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Voters view one another across partisan divide with increasing animosityNov 01, 2024 9:50 am - WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden tried to explain this week that he doesn’t really think Donald Trump’s supporters are “garbage,” but that doesn't mean that other people ...
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Trump and Vance make anti-transgender attacks central to their campaign's closing argumentNov 01, 2024 9:43 am - Donald Trump has made his opposition to transgender rights central to his closing argument before Election Day, using demeaning language and misrepresentations to paint an exceedingly narrow slice of the U.S. population as a threat to national identity.
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Creative ‘I Voted’ stickers branch out beyond the familiar flag designNov 01, 2024 9:20 am - Whether scenic or slightly sinister — angry werewolf, anyone? — the designs on the front of “I Voted” stickers are attracting a lot of attention this year. But have you ever considered the back of your Election Day souvenir?
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Maine school staple ‘Lost on a Mountain in Maine’ from 1939 hits the big screenNov 01, 2024 8:19 am - Most Maine schoolchildren know about the boy lost for more than a week in 1939 after climbing the state’s tallest mountain. Now the rest of the U.S. is getting in on the story when “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” opens in suburban theaters Friday.
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US employers added just 12,000 jobs last month as hurricanes and strikes sharply reduce payrollsNov 01, 2024 7:51 am - America’s employers added just 12,000 jobs in October, a total that economists say was held down by the effects of strikes and hurricanes that left many workers temporarily off payrolls. The report provided a somewhat blurry view of the job market at the end of a presidential race that has pivoted heavily on voters’ feelings about the economy.