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Blue Origin to Launch NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission to Mars: How to Watch

This will be the second flight of the orbital rocket from Jeff Bezos’s space company and will include a key test of whether it can land a booster stage for later reuse.

© Stephanie Plucinsky/Blue Origin, via Associated Press

NASA’s ESCAPADE Mars orbiters encapsulated in Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Oct. 31.
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NFL week 10 live: Indianapolis Colts v Atlanta Falcons in Berlin – live

  • Live NFL updates from seven games at 6pm UK time

  • Send Graham an email with your thoughts

Colts 13-7 Falcons 4:36, 1st quarter

And our commentary team kindly informs us that Pierce’s brother played basketball in Germany. So him scoring today was meant to be I suppose.

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© Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP

© Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP

© Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP

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Bad Bridgets podcast about crime among Irish women in US inspires film

Margot Robbie’s company to make movie based on Northern Ireland academics’ stories of poverty and prison

It started as a trawl of dusty archives for an academic project about female Irish emigrants in Canada and the US by two history professors, a worthy but perhaps niche topic for research.

The subjects, after all, were human flotsam from Ireland’s diaspora whose existence was often barely recorded, let alone remembered.

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© Photograph: George Bradford Brainerd Photograph Collection, Brooklyn Public Library/Center for Brooklyn History

© Photograph: George Bradford Brainerd Photograph Collection, Brooklyn Public Library/Center for Brooklyn History

© Photograph: George Bradford Brainerd Photograph Collection, Brooklyn Public Library/Center for Brooklyn History

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I’m as capitalist as they get but Medicare for all is the best hope for US healthcare | Gene Marks

With the US government shut down over impending rises to insurance premiums, it’s clear the status quo cannot continue

Deductibles. In-network. Out-of-network. Concierge medical services. Out-of-pocket expenses. Co-payment. Co-insurance. Benefit advisers. Insurance brokers. Healthcare consultants. ACA. HMO. PPO. EPO. POS. HDHP. HSA. FSA. HRA. EOB. COBRA. SHOP. Single coverage. Dependent coverage. Premium tax credits.

Confused? You should be. Who understands all this stuff? Not the typical business owner. Nor the typical employee. Choosing the right healthcare insurance for our business – or for our families – seems like it requires a PhD in healthcare.

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© Photograph: Bryan Dozier/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Bryan Dozier/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

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MLS playoffs: Minnesota best Seattle in a classic as Miami rout Nashville

  • Lionel Messi scores two and assists two in 4-0 win

  • Cincinnati eliminates Columbus on late Brenner goal

Dayne St Clair scored and Andrew Thomas hit the crossbar in a penalty-kick shootout that was decided by the goalkeepers in the 11th round, and Minnesota United staged a shorthanded rally to beat the Seattle Sounders on Saturday in the rubber match of the best-of-three first-round series for the MLS Cup after a 3-3 tie in regulation

Thomas, who replaced starter Stefan Frei in the 89th minute with a shootout looming, appeared to injure a finger on a miss by Joaquín Pereyra to begin the shootout. He finished with a heavily taped hand.

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© Photograph: Michael Turner/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Michael Turner/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

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