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thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Today is July 15, 2019. Novak Djokovic won the longest Wimbledon

final in tournament history yesterday by defeating Roger Federer in a match lasting nearly five hours.

I hope I give some people a chance to believe that at 37 it's not over yet. Fedver said after losing the fifth set,

13 games to 12. I gave it all I had, and I still feel all right. There are times when perseverance

is the only way to confront adversity. Consider two other examples in the news. Forecasters are

warning of the potential for dangerous life-threatening flooding as

tropical storm Barry continues to creep northward across Louisiana. Coast Guard helicopters

rescued people stranded on rooftops, while Louisiana's National Guard deployed some 3,000

soldiers around the state. More than 51,000 customers in the state are still without power this

morning. Meanwhile, New Yorkers are recovering from a massive blackout over the weekend that affected

more than 72,000 con Edison customers along 30 blocks from Times Square to the Upper West Side.

The outage shut down Broadway shows and a Jennifer Lopez concert in Madison Square Garden.

After Hamilton was canceled, its cast sang from windows of their theater to crowds in the

street below.

When Carnegie Hall was evacuated, the musicians moved their concert to the street outside.

The cause of the outage is still under investigation this morning.

In a day when humans can land a spacecraft on an asteroid, and cameras can automatically

translate signs for travelers, it is hard to understand that we must live at the mercy of

forces we cannot predict or control, but we do. Neither Novak

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