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MLB investigated to ensure no early Sasaki deal in place, pitcher likely to pick team mid-JanuaryDec 10, 2024 8:29 pm - DALLAS — Major League Baseball investigated to ensure no team had an advance deal in place for Roki Sasaki, and the agent for the Japanese pitcher said picking a club wil...
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Cubs Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg says cancer has returned, spreadDec 10, 2024 3:00 pm - Hall of Fame second baseman Ryne Sandberg says the prostate cancer he thought had been eliminated by radiation has returned and spread. The Chicago Cubs great made the an...
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Federal, state judges temporarily halt the proposed supermarket merger of Kroger and AlbertsonsDec 10, 2024 2:59 pm - A federal judge has temporarily halted a proposed merger between supermarket giants Kroger and Albertsons, an action that could scuttle the deal.
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Movie Review: A ‘Lord of the Rings’ tradition turns small-scale in the anime ‘Rohirrim’Dec 10, 2024 1:55 pm - It’s a discombobulating experience, after a “Lord of the Rings” trilogy that was built, down to every frame and hobbit hair, for the big screen, to see something so comparatively minor, small-scaled and TV-sized as “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim.”
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Ang Lee to receive DGA Lifetime Achievement AwardDec 10, 2024 11:55 am - Ang Lee, the protean filmmaker of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and “Brokeback Mountain,” will receive the Directors Guild of America’s lifetime achievement award. The guild announced Tuesday that Lee, 70, will be given the award at the 77th DGA Awards on Feb. 8.
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Hundreds of bookstore staffers receive holiday bonuses from author James PattersonDec 10, 2024 11:22 am - NEW YORK — Staffers at Thank You Books in Birmingham, Alabama, San Francisco’s City Lights Books and The Nook in Cedar Falls, Iowa, are among 600 booksellers receiving $5...
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Lauren Mayberry steps out of the band Chvrches for a solo album that shows her influencesDec 10, 2024 11:17 am - The birth of Lauren Mayberry as a solo artist should be marked by something like a wolf cry. The vocalist and percussionist from the Scottish pop band Chvrches has a new solo album out titled “Vicious Creature.” She will perform at Thalia Hall in Chicago on Feb. 5.
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Elon Musk warns Republicans against standing in Trump’s way — or hisDec 10, 2024 11:10 am - A week after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, Elon Musk said his political action committee would “play a significant role in primaries.”
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Still rockin': As Brenda Lee turns 80, the Christmas song she made as a teen is bigger than everDec 10, 2024 11:09 am - NEW YORK — Her memories of recording “Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree” are a little hazy. She remembers the producer placing decorations around the studio and blasting ...
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Book Review: Weike Wang’s 'Rental House' finds humor in marriage of oppositesDec 10, 2024 10:13 am - Vacation rental with the in-laws — for many, it’s a setup for disaster. In Weike Wang’s “Rental House,” it’s certainly that. It’s also an opportunity for Wang to explore the upside and downside of education, marriage and family.