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Rain is gone at Wimbledon; so are 18 seeded players

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

LONDON — After two days filled with rain, the sun actually made an appearance at Wimbledon on Thursday, allowing for plenty of play all around the grounds, a chance to finally conclude the first round — and several surprises, the biggest of which was French Open champion Garbine Muguruza’s exit. Muguruza, the second seed who reached her first Grand Slam final at the All England Club a year ago and won her first Grand Slam title less than a month ago, was one of 18 seeded players who lost on Day 4, including 11 women. Читать дальше...

U.S. puts N. Korea among world's worst countries for human trafficking

Yonhap News Agency (en) 

WASHINGTON, June 30 (Yonhap) -- The United States designated North Korea as one of the world's worst countries for human trafficking for the 14th straight year on Thursday, saying the communist nation subjects its people to forced labor at home and abr



Ex-London mayor halts bid to be UK prime minister, upends race

Yahoo Autos 

By Kylie MacLellan and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - Former London mayor Boris Johnson abruptly pulled out of the race to become Britain's prime minister that he was once favored to win, upending the contest less than a week after he led a campaign to take the country out of the EU. Johnson's announcement, to audible gasps from a roomful of journalists and supporters on Thursday, was the biggest political surprise since Prime Minister David Cameron quit after losing last week's referendum on British membership of the bloc. Читать дальше...

McGirt goes low in Ohio, leads at Firestone

TheRepublic.com 

AKRON, Ohio — Golf in Ohio must bring out the best in William McGirt. One month after his first PGA Tour victory at the Memorial, McGirt looked just as good two hours up the road at the Bridgestone Invitational. In his World Golf Championship debut, he opened with six birdies and finished with a 45-foot

News of the day from across the globe, July 1

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

Key U.S. trading partner Malaysia was taken off the blacklist controversially in 2015, soon after the discovery of mass graves of suspected trafficking victims. Palestinian attack: A Palestinian assailant broke into a home in a West Bank settlement early Thursday and stabbed a 13-year-old Jewish girl to death as she slept in bed, the latest in a nine-month wave of violence that had recently shown signs of tapering off. The attacker, identified as a 17-year-old high school dropout, was fatally shot by security guards. Читать дальше...

Obama admin: Dropoff in Obamacare enrollment since January

McClatchy DC Bureau 

11.1 million people were enrolled at the end of March

This is down from 12.7 million who signed up by the January deadline

Some people lost coverage because they didn’t pay premiums

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Business News Roundup, July 1

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

A $7.25 billion settlement between merchants and Visa and MasterCard over credit card transaction fees was rejected Thursday by a federal appeals court, a ruling praised by a retail trade association as a victory for consumers. The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the 12 million merchants covered by the antitrust class action were inadequately represented by law firms that gave merchants who stood to gain little or nothing no opportunity to opt out of the deal, approved by a judge in December 2013. Читать дальше...





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