Rep. Steve King said Wednesday that humanity might not exist if not for rape and incest, prompting the latest round of outrage at the Iowa Republican, who has a long history of making inflammatory remarks.
In a discussion at the Westside Conservative Club in…
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Amitha Kalaichandran is a resident physician, epidemiologist and journalist in Ottawa.
One of the biggest lessons I learned a decade ago in public-health graduate school was that education was rarely enough, on its own, to fundamentally change behavior. Educ…
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For Americans accustomed to paying 4 or 5 percent mortgage rates, let alone the double-digit figures consumers endured in the early 1980s, the new loan from Denmarks Jyske Bank might seem inconceivable.
The Danish lender last week started offering home buyer…
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There are lots and lots of high-profile Democrats running for president; there are not many high-profile Democrats running for Senate. And the pressure to change that is becoming more overt, as a party hopeful of winning back the presidency in 2020 confronts …
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President Trumps decision to postpone new tariffs on Chinese imports until Dec. 15 helped give U.S. stocks a short-lived bump on Tuesday. But the decision will also likely offer another, more substantial stimulus to another stock in the coming months: Trumps …
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When Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) spoke about Medicare-for-all at the July 30 Democratic presidential debate, he talked about how it would improve coverage for people currently receiving it. For senior citizens, it will finally include dental care, hearing aid…
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During the first two rounds of Democratic presidential debates, no topic received more attention than health care. In the two-night face-off in June, discussions of health care and immigration occupied the most airtime; in the July debates, the attention to h…
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BERLIN To the untrained eye, Skipper and Ping look like a typical king penguin couple.
Standing side by side at the Berlin Zoo with their flippers touching, they take turns carefully nestling an egg between their feet in the hope that it will eventually hatc…
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#1
Giants - RB
Saquon Barkley
Projected points: 372
Highest Pos. Ranking: 1 | Lowest: 3
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#2
Panthers - RB
Christian McCaffrey
Projected points: 354
Highest Pos. Ranking: 1 | Lowest: 4
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When my airplane dipped beneath the clouds, I could finally see the earth: interminable horizon, crisscrossing bands of interstate, the cities of the plains, home to more than 7 million souls. Landing in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex feels like drifting dow…
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