The Los Angeles Dodgers, one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball, ushered in a new era of ownership Wednesday while ending a dismal chapter of ownership under Frank McCourt, who baseball's commissioner described as “looting” the club of $190 million to fund an extravagant lifestyle.
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Dodgers usher in new era of ownership
Dozens more phone-hacking claims against News Group Newspapers emerge, including by Wayne Rooney and Sir John Major’s ex-daughter-in-law Emma Noble.
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New phone-hacking claims emerge
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney picked up another major endorsement Friday when conservative favorite Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, whose state votes Tuesday, called Romney “the right person for the job.”
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Romney gets Ryan’s endorsement
Declaring that the American oil industry is “booming,” President Barack Obama said Thursday the nation will be watching to see where Congress stands on his push to end tax breaks for the major oil companies.
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Senate blocks bid to end oil subsidies
Lord Newton, who served as a cabinet minister under Lady Thatcher and John Major, dies aged 74.
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Former Tory minister Newton dies
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Critics began panning the first leg of California’s futuristic high-speed rail network as a “train to nowhere” soon after officials decided to build it not in the major population centers of Los Angeles or San Francisco, but through the state’s Central Valley farming belt. Read full article > >
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Plans for high-speed rail are slowing down
I have this game I play when I meet college students. “What’s your major?” I ask. The student might say, “English,” “psychology,” “political science” or “engineering.” And then, in my mind, after factoring in some other information, I say to myself “job” or “no job,” depending on the major. Read full article > >
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Not all college majors are created equal
I have this game I play when I meet college students. “What’s your major?” I ask. The student might say, “English,” “psychology,” “political science” or “engineering.” And then, in my mind, after factoring in some other information, I say to myself “job” or “no job,” depending on the major. Read full article > >
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Not all college majors are created equal
Joe Torre has resigned his post with Major League Baseball in order to join a group trying to purchase the Los Angeles Dodgers. Since February, Torre had been responsible for major league operations, on-the-field operations, on-the-field discipline and umpiring. MLB announced his resignation this morning. Read full article > >
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Joe Torre resigns from MLB to pursue purchase of Dodgers
BBC chief political correspondent Norman Smith looks back at the major political news events of 2011.
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VIDEO: Norman Smith’s political review of 2011
Now is the time for President Obama to complete his evolution on the subject of same-sex marriage. Supporting the right of all Americans to marry the person of their choice would be the right thing to do. Strange as this may sound, it might also be good politics. More to the point, it would not be the almost certainly disastrous political move it would have been even in the last presidential campaign, when none of the major Democratic candidates supported the right to marry. Read full article > >
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The good politics of gay marriage
Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, has offered his resignation to defuse a growing controversy at home that threatens to aggravate already precarious relations between that country’s powerful military and its civilian government. In a letter sent Wednesday to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, Haqqani said in an interview, he wrote that “I do not want to be a distraction from the major challenges facing our country and our government.” Read full article > >
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Pakistani ambassador offers resignation
Baseball player Wilson Ramos, who plays for the US Major League Washington Nationals, is freed in Venezuela, two days ago after being kidnapped.
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The UK should stop using the term “special relationship” to describe its alliance with the US, Sir John Major says, arguing it is outdated and “patronising”.
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Major warns over UK-US alliance
Rick Perry has launched a highly visible effort to recover from a major gaffe during Wednesday’s presidential debate, giving interviews on the major morning television shows, appealing for donations from supporters and agreeing to poke fun at himself alongside David Letterman on “The Late Show” Thursday night. Read full article > >
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Rick Perry makes light of gaffe, vows not to quit
