Brazilians began voting in Sunday’s polarizing presidential election between incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, a contest that will determine whether the U.S. will significantly expand its growing influence in Latin America. Polls before Sunday’s vote showed the...
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Brazilians are voting Sunday in a presidential runoff that pits leftist incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva against Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro , a far-right ally of U.S. President Donald Trump. Bolsonaro, the son of imprisoned former President Jair Bolsonaro , bested Lula by more than...
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Both the Democratic and Republican parties are now leaning into presidential power amid early voting for the midterm elections.
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A 36-year-old man was killed when his vehicle left the roadway, rolled several times into a ditch and struck a pole in Houston early Sunday, according to Houston police. Officers were dispatched at about 2:39 a.m. to the 9000 block of Humble Westfield Road, near McKnight Lane. Po...
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The Israeli military continued a massive military operation in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, displacing hundreds of Palestinians and placing major restrictions on movement in response to a gun attack that killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded three others in Hebron on Frida...
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Saudi Arabia reopened its main airport for international flights, more than two weeks after deadly strikes by Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels knocked the facility out of service. Earlier Sunday, the kingdom said it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile and a drone fi...
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Tampa Bay Rays ace Drew Rasmussen had sailed through his first three postseason starts while working at least six innings in each of them. He couldn’t make it out of the fourth inning Saturday night against a Milwaukee Brewers lineup that specializes in driving up pitch counts an...
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Long lines of voters formed outside polling stations across Serbia on Sunday for a parliamentary election that is seen as a showdown between the Balkan country's strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic and a diverse movement of university students who have led protests against him for ...
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Aaron Ashby's playoff struggles in previous years taught him how important it was to avoid getting caught up in the pressure of the moment. The mindset shift has helped the Milwaukee Brewers left-hander deliver one of the great runs by any reliever in postseason history. Ashby fi...
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Bulgarians headed to the polls on Sunday to elect their next president in a campaign centered on growing economic hardship and drone attacks on Black Sea shipping. The vote will also be the first major test for the Moscow-friendly Progressive Bulgaria party of Prime Minister Rume...
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Episode: 1647 In which we study traffic problems in Houston, TX, in 1924. Today, Houston’s traffic in 1924.
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Four-run deficits don't discourage the Milwaukee Brewers this October, not with those orange Life Savers. Sal Frelick and Cooper Pratt, two of the under-the-radar Brewers manager Pat Murphy thinks of with his nickname for less-appreciated candy, combined for a sweet World Series ...
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Harris County voters broke records in the first week of early voting, with more than half a million people casting ballots since the polls opened Monday. No midterm in county records since 1998 has started faster....
