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Max Scherzer gives up 3 runs in rehab start, his 1st game action since offseason back injury
Max Scherzer gave up three runs and five hits pitching into the third inning of a rehab start for the Texas Rangers' Triple-A team on Wednesday night. It was the three-time Cy Young Award winner's first game action since back surgery in mid-December. Scherzer struck out four without a walk while throwing 32 of his 52 pitches for strikes for Round Rock against Salt Lake.
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Expanded so-called 'Don't Say Gay' education restrictions advance in Alabama
A bill aimed at furthering restrictions on discussions of "gender identity or sexual orientation" in public schools is progressing in the Alabama legislature, passing the state House on Tuesday. Current law states that classrooms in kindergarten through the fifth grade "shall not engage in classroom discussion or provide classroom instruction regarding sexual orientation or gender identity in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with sta
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Overcrowded Venice introduces first payment charge for tourists
Venice becomes the first city in the world on Thursday to introduce a payment system for tourists in an effort to thin the crowds that throng the canals during the peak holiday season. "No one has ever done this before," Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro told reporters earlier this month. Some 20 million people visited Venice last year, a city official said, with roughly half of them staying overnight in hotels or holiday lets - an influx which dwarves the resident population currently put at around
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Australian police charge 5 teens in investigation stemming from stabbing of Sydney bishop
Five teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology have been charged with a range of offenses in an investigation that began with the stabbing of a bishop in a Sydney church, police said Thursday. The five, aged from 14 to 17, were among seven boys arrested across southwest Sydney on Wednesday in a major operation by the Joint Counter-Terrorism Team. The team includes federal and state police as well as the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, the nation’s main domestic
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Construction of new defence building in Yellowknife set to begin, years later than expected
Construction on a new Department of National Defence facility in Yellowknife is set to begin in May, after years of delays.National Defence Minister Bill Blair attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the new National Defence Multi-purpose Facility in Yellowknife on Wednesday, along with Northern Affairs Minister Dan Vandal, N.W.T. Premier R.J. Simpson, and N.W.T. MP Michael McLeod. Blair said that construction on the facility, which was originally scheduled to be completed this year, is now sla
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RCMP confirm 2 missing kayakers found dead in Washington state
RCMP confirmed Wednesday that two kayakers who went missing from Vancouver Island have been found dead in Washington state.On Tuesday, the San Juan County Sheriff's Office announced they had found two bodies in the waters off San Juan Island.It came three days after a search began for two kayakers last seen off the shore of Sidney, B.C., around 25 kilometres north of Victoria.Daniel MacAlpine, 36, and Nicolas West, 26, were reported missing on Saturday afternoon while kayaking from D'Arcy Island
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