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From the HERE City National DeskROME, Italy — It took UFC bantamweight Raul Rosas Jr. just 43 seconds on Tuesday to force a tap from Colby Covington, who once held the interim UFC welterweight belt, in the Hype Fighting Italy headliner at PalaPellicone.Rosas, the 22-year-old bantamweight, took the 10-minute, submission-only…
National
From the HERE City National DeskBRUNSWICK, Maine — Bowdoin College said Tuesday that B.J. Hammer is no longer head coach of its football program, with the change taking effect Nov. 1.The move follows a leave of absence that began Oct. 22, partway through Hammer's seventh year with the Polar Bears.…
National
From the HERE City National DeskOCEANSIDE, Calif. — Yuki Kawamura is back in the G League and says his goal has not changed. The Japanese guard told reporters Tuesday that he wants a full NBA contract and a defined role on an NBA roster.Kawamura, 25, spent the preseason with the…
Business
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Floriana, the Italian restaurant that has anchored a stretch of 17th Street in Dupont Circle for 47 years, will serve its last meals in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 31 and move across the river to Old Town Alexandria.The restaurant shared the news on Instagram on Nov. 4…
Crime
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jurors in D.C. Superior Court on Wednesday convicted Wilbert Whitaker, 77, of second-degree murder while armed plus a gun charge tied to a violent crime in the Washington killing of Leo Hackett.Hackett, who was 30, was dating Whitaker's daughter. Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the…
Politics
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Robert White, who won the race Tuesday for the nonvoting House seat representing Washington, D.C., says his first job in Congress will be persuading fellow Democrats that D.C. statehood deserves a spot near the top of their agenda.White, 44, grew up in Washington and once worked as…
Politics
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Foie gras is on its way off restaurant menus in Washington, D.C., after voters approved Initiative 86 by a wide margin in Tuesday's election, with about 73 percent backing the measure.The initiative outlaws force-feeding birds to swell their livers and bars businesses from selling, distributing or bringing…
National
From the HERE City National DeskTOPEKA, Kan. — Democrat Adam Hamilton has unseated first-term Republican Sen. Roger Marshall, giving Kansas its first Democratic U.S. senator elected since 1932 and adding to the seats that handed Democrats control of the Senate.Hamilton is the founder and longtime head pastor of the biggest…
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From the HERE City National DeskKYOTO, Japan — Nintendo has pushed out a version 1.1.1 update for its remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Nintendo Switch 2, one day before the game goes on sale worldwide on Thursday, Nov. 5.Nintendo's patch notes list two changes. The…
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