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The grand myth of modern Republican politics — the trickle-down theory that sweeping tax cuts generate rising revenues — has come crashing down in Kansas.
An exuberant Gov. Sam Brownback enacted the largest tax cuts in the state’s history in 2012 and 2013, a $1.1 billion upper-bracket boon for which he promised rich e... |
Suspected fidayeen attacked the Border Security Force (BSF) 182nd Battalion camp near the Srinagar International Airport in the early hours of Tuesday. An Assistant Sub-Inspector was killed and four security personnel injured in the attack. Forces gunned down three militants as well. The Jaish-e-Mohammad, the Pakistan-... |
TAMPA — When the Yankees traded for Aaron Hicks in November, he was seen as a fourth outfielder and possible replacement if Brett Gardner was moved in the offseason.
Well, it’s nearly three months later, Gardner is still a Yankee and Hicks remains pegged as a spare part, despite general manager Brian Cashman saying, f... |
Almost a decade has passed since a Chicago Bears receiver obtained a thousand yards in a season. The drought was ended after the 2012 season thanks to moves made by then new Bears GM Phil Emery at the beginning of the 2012 free agency period. Emery made a big acquisition in Brandon Marshall, in a trade with the Miami D... |
wheels of misfortune
Houston was built for cars. What happens when Harvey destroys 250,000 vehicles?
Three weeks after Hurricane Harvey hit Texas with the worst rainfall event in U.S. history, many low-income residents are still stuck at home, unable to afford a replacement vehicle and get back to work.
More than 90... |
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has compared his fight to defund the Affordable Care Act to the fight against Nazi Germany. He sees it as his duty to provide “relief to the millions of people who are hurting because of Obamacare.” The uninsured in his own sta... |
On Wednesday, a colleague in Center City Skyped the office:
A building collapsed on 22nd market!
22nd and Market is close to pretty much everything in Philadelphia. For purposes of orientation, Philadelphia is laid out in a grid. Market Street is the 'halfway point' in the north-south divide. If you drew a line strai... |
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“Fact and Scrutiny”
So this is how Barack Obama is moving into the final 20 months of his dismal neoliberal presidency, which he once (proudly) described as ideologically akin to the Eisenhower White House. He is nauseating much of his own Wall Street-captive party’s electoral base by trying to push through the ab... |
Image caption Collecting litter on Amsterdam's streets is a way to raise money legally
Alcoholics are being paid in beer to clean the streets of Amsterdam as part of a project partly funded by the Dutch government - the organisers think other countries should abandon "old-fashioned political correctness" and adopt the... |
HONG KONG (Reuters) - There’s one thing even Hong Kong’s more than 40 billionaires will struggle to buy - a final resting place on their home turf.
Headstones stand at a cemetery surrounded by residential flats in downtown Hong Kong May 29, 2014. REUTERS/Bobby Yip/Files
Land shortages in the late 1970s forced Hong Ko... |
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Here’s what’s in the New York Times Magazine this week:
But…no. This piece doesn’t really tell us how Hillary became a hawk—and that’s too bad. It would be genuinely interesting to get some insight into how (or if) her views have evolved over time an... |
There was a fantastic picture of Alex Salmond doing the rounds earlier this week. It captures him striding through the doors towards the House of Commons chamber, right arm thrown back, a joyous grin on his face. When I saw it I thought “he looks like he’s auditioning for A Chorus Line”. But a more typical response was... |
WASHINGTON -- Tuesday was California Democratic Rep. Mark Takano's first time watching oral arguments at the Supreme Court.
He said he wanted to be there for what could be history in the making, as the justices considered whether all states should offer marriage licenses to gay couples and whether states must recogniz... |
Actor Yeon Woo Jin and actress Park Eun Bin are in talks for lead roles in SBS’s new drama “Dead End” (literal title).
Yeon Woo Jin’s agency Jump Entertainment revealed on October 14 that he is considering the offer to play the male lead in the upcoming drama. “It’s not decided yet. We’re working on the details,” they... |
A man in his 20s biking on the Ave collided with a man in his 40s walking in a crosswalk Thursday evening, sending both people to the hospital.
When Medics transported them shortly after 4:30 p.m., the man walking had serious injuries and the man biking was in critical condition.
We send them both our best wishes.
P... |
The StarCraft II ranked ladder is one of the most challenging and competitive arenas in the video game world. Many enter, and only a few rise to the top. In order to be the best, you have to be able to track your progress and know how you stack up against the competition. There are two primary goals behind the revampin... |
President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to investigate what he called “major” voter fraud, focusing in part on voters registered in two states. We have a great place for him to start: His own chief strategist. And his Treasury pick. And his daughter.
After losing the popular vote by almost 3 million ballots in November... |
His supporters have hailed Geert Wilders' acquittal as a victory for free speech, while his many detractors have slammed the decision not to punish a man who described Islam as "fascist." The Dutch right-wing populist politician was cleared of inciting hatred against Muslims by a court in Amsterdam Thursday after the j... |
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She's known for being at the centre of plenty of arguments on reality TV shows.
Now, Farrah Abraham h... |
Not everyone is drooling about Apple's soon-to-be-launched tablet. Members of the anti-DRM group Defective by Design were protesting Wednesday morning outside Apple's tighty controlled launch event, handing out cards mocking Apple's invitation, with Apple's tagline "Come see our latest creation" replaced with "Come see... |
Hillary Clinton’s newly unveiled climate vision sounds ambitious on its face: 500 million new solar panels from coast to coast, eco-minded energy tax breaks and enough green power to keep the lights on in every U.S. home.
But just as glaring are the details she left out.
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Does Clinton support or... |
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has underscored an essential boundary between church and state. In a 2-to-1 vote last week, the court found that the board of commissioners in Forsyth County, N.C., violated the establishment clause of the Constitution — “Congress shall make no law respecting an... |
While most cards work pretty straightforward in 2HG there are some quirks, often involving the combat phase or life total changes. Those cards are explained in these notes.
If you’re playing a 2HG prerelease you should also check out the 2HG Hidden Gems that highlights which cards to look out for!
For further reading... |
But if the story line propels me into my TV grotto, it’s the realism that keeps me there. There’s nothing artificial about “Breaking Bad” — the spell is never broken. The dialogue is pitch-perfect. And there’s a lot of useless but fascinating information: you can learn how a meth lab operates, how money is laundered an... |
HAMILTON — The Hamilton Tiger-Cats announced Tuesday that Vice-President of Football Operations, General Manager and Head Coach Kent Austin has been signed to a contract extension. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
“Kent Austin has done an outstanding job in every way since he joined the organization. He’s on... |
After a delay, the fighting game Tekken 7 is finally coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on June 2. Ahead of the launch, GameSpot had the opportunity to sit down with series producer Katsuhiro Harada to discuss the upcoming game and some topics surrounding it.
First, we asked about guest characters. Before getti... |
There's undeniably something wrong with the current state of the digital media ecosystem, which lets aggregators and bloggers free-ride profitably on the efforts of newspapers that themselves are often losing money. But suing Matt Drudge and trying to take control of his website, as one plaintiff did yesterday, is a fu... |
Appealing his season-long suspension this week, Adrian Peterson's NFL career is at a crossroads.
Although Peterson's Vikings' future is up in the air, the All-Pro tailback is determined to play -- and play well -- for at least another half-decade.
"People say, 'Oh, running back hits 34, 35 (and he's done). When you g... |
Pan Sutong. Goldin Properties On Wednesday we brought you the story of Hanergy Thin Solar, formerly the world's largest solar-energy company, and its majority owner, Li Hejun, now the former richest man in China.
Having seen the value of the company soar in recent months, it all came crashing down Wednesday with share... |
Last year I had occasion to read a batch of ten page manuscript submissions in a hurry, one right after the other. What I noticed was startling in its consistency.
All of the writers had clearly spent time learning their craft. All of them had something to say. And all of them, by meticulously following what they’d be... |
SEVASTOPOL/KIEV (Reuters) - A pro-Russian force opened fire in seizing a Ukrainian military base in Crimea on Monday and NATO announced reconnaissance flights along its eastern frontiers as confrontation around the Black Sea peninsula showed no sign of easing.
Ukrainian activists trying to cross into Crimea to show so... |
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers paid $5.4 million for shoddy trash incinerators that were delivered years behind schedule and never used, leaving soldiers at an Afghanistan base with no other option than to keep burning waste in open-air pits, according to an internal probe.
The report from Special Inspector General ... |
Dinora Lopez Miranda, 87, grandmother of U.S. Army soldier Ivan Lopez, holds a picture of her grandchildren, from left, Eliezer, Ivanis, Ivan, and Rickey, while speaking to journalists outside her home in Guayanilla, in southwestern Puerto Rico on April 4, 2014.
Dinora Lopez Miranda, 87, grandmother of U.S. Army soldi... |
'You called my friend a maggot?'
Homophobic slurs are one thing...but does insulting someone by calling them a wiggly invertebrate, as per this edit of Martin Scorsese's Casino (1995), pack quite the same punch? (Skip to 1:06 in the long compilation above to see the moment.)
'See what happens when you find a stranger... |
One of the more difficult things to do for any player is to make a position change at the NFL level; especially when switching sides of the ball. Most players are drafted at a particular position and sink or swim at that same position and that's it.
Taiwan Jones was drafted by the Raiders to play running back, was inf... |
Make a Paper Dahlia for Fall
Paper flowers are lovely elements of décor. You can try to make some paper dahlias on your own to prepare for this year’s fall season. You can pick a dark purple paper to match the autumn colors. It is better to use glue dots to put the flower petals together. Take the violet metallic text... |
The full line-up at the E3 COLISEUM, a collaboration between The Game Awards’ Geoff Keighley and ESA, has finally been revealed. Square Enix are confirmed to be hosting two panels at E3 COLISEUM. The line-up shows that the first panel is scheduled for June 13, 2017 at 3:15pm PST/6:15pm EST/11:15pm BST. During this pane... |
Donald Trump calls the Iraq War a lie-fueled fiasco, admires Vladimir Putin and says he would be a "neutral" arbiter between Israel and the Palestinians. When it comes to America’s global role he asks, “Why are we always at the forefront of everything?"
Even more than his economic positions, Trump's foreign policy vie... |
MOSUL, Iraq — Militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) are surrendering en masse to the Iraqi government following the group’s seizure of thousands of meals ready-to-eat, which made the fighters largely ineffective amid cramps and diarrhea, Duffel Blog has learned.
In addition to a number of MREs s... |
Western Michigan: Rowing the Boat to a Legacy
Michael Sacco-Gibson Blocked Unblock Follow Following Nov 28, 2016
I have been absolutely SHOCKED (and intensely proud) of how well my alma mater, Western Michigan University, has played this football season. I have always had the utmost pride in my school, and its abilit... |
MOBILE, Ala. — Two attorneys for a same-sex couple who successfully challenged Alabama’s gay marriage ban have filed a new lawsuit against Mobile County Probate Court Judge Don Davis for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, and plaintiffs in an existing case amended their complaint to also name Davi... |
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STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- Judge Thomas Lipps reached a decision on Sunday in the trial of two Steubenville high school football players accused of raping an allegedly drunk 16-year-old.
He handed down a guilty verdict on all three counts and sentenced the boys to time in a juv... |
Ivan the Terrible, formally Ivan IV Vasilyevich, was the first Tsar of Russia. His reign, one of the longest of Russian Tsars, saw Russia emerge from its position as a medieval nation state into the beginnings of the Russian Empire.
Ivan the Terrible was three years old when he became Tsar
This article contains some ... |
Microsoft and 343 Industries’ Halo Reclaimer trilogy (Halo 4, Halo 5, and Halo 6) has been expanded to be “more of a saga.”
Microsoft Game Studios corporate vice president Phil Spencer told GameSpot that the teaser trailer shown at E3 is a “legitimate version of Halo” that the team at 343 is currently working on.
“It... |
The $12 million charitable foundation of Medea Benjamin, who has become a leading supporter of the movement to boycott companies that do business with Israel, invested its assets in Caterpillar, one of the very companies the BDS movement campaigns for others to divest from because of its activities in Israel.
“The ant... |
After a week of sometimes indignant public denials and insistence that he was the victim of an Internet hacker, a weeping and stammering ... [Representative Anthony D. Weiner] acknowledged at a news conference that he had sent the photo of himself in his underwear to ... a college student in Seattle.
— The Times, June... |
How did the struggle for Palestine gain such prominence on the left? The answer might tell us something about broader patterns of thought in left-wing politics today.
Eloïse Bollack/Demotix. All rights reserved.
The left is frequently accused of singling Israel out for censure. Of all the authoritarian and oppressive... |
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Thursday, November 17, 2016 the San Diego Air & Space Museum held their annual “Legends of Flight” Hall of Fame Gala. The museum selected eight honorees based on their historic contributions to aviation and space as well as their aerospace outreach efforts and achievements. ... |
More than a million people have converged on central Paris for a “national unity” rally in solidarity with the victims of the week’s attacks and in support of freedom of the press.
Security forces are on the highest alert for the event, being attended by about 40 heads of state and government.
German chancellor Angel... |
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A friend once described her mantra for parenting to me and I thought it concise and excellent. She said that parents had two main roles:
Keep them alive Keep them from turning into an asshole
She’s right and it ... |
Although it may be nine years away, the joint bid by the United States, Canada and Mexico for the 2026 World Cup now has potential locations and stadiums for games to be played in. A total of 49 stadiums across all three countries are being considered. 37 stadiums in the U.S, nine stadiums in Canada and three stadiums ... |
“I didn’t want to do it because my English is kind of broken,” Okabe said recently. “But no one else spoke English and Japanese.”
Okabe needed clarification after Kellerman described Ishida as cannon fodder for Kirkland.
“Like a victim, right?” Okabe asked.
The awkward episode, which occurred on the undercard of a p... |
No question, the 2009 Nissan 370Z is an amazing car. But, personally, I feel that the aesthetics make the car look a bit soft since it has to appeal to both sport cars junkies and people who like to think it’s “cute.” The 2009 NISMO 370Z takes that fluff, beats out the stuffing, gives it some jail house tats and puts a... |
JavaScript Allongé solves two important problems for the ambitious JavaScript programmer. First, JavaScript Allongé gives you the tools to deal with JavaScript bugs, hitches, edge cases, and other potential pitfalls.There are plenty of good directions for how to write JavaScript programs. If you follow them without alt... |
VANCOUVER—Rena Mackert sat in tears in the front row of a Vancouver courtroom Wednesday, as she watched a video of herself recounting a childhood marked by sexual and physical abuse, which she said is the direct result of the polygamous life she was born into.
Mackert was the first of 14 women and children who once li... |
Yes it's that time again folks, it seems the 2020 primaries are already getting started. A large number of candidates have already declared that they're running for president in 2020, but there's still no word from Hillary. Honestly, I think there are even still questions out there as to whether Hillary will even run a... |
2 major highway closures start Friday night, last through the weekend
Friday, Sept. 8 at 9 p.m. – Monday, Sept. 11 at 5 a.m.
I-10 at Fair Oaks Parkway
Main lanes, both directions, at Fair Oaks Parkway. All lanes will close while crews demolish the old overpass bridge. Traffic will exit Fair Oaks Parkway, continue al... |
Since President Richard Nixon founded the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) 45 years ago, millions of our young have been sent to prison for non-violent drug use or possession. The problem has not gone away. In fact, we have a record number of people in prison as I write this.
And now, even though President Ronald Reagan ... |
Roma make Guardiola enquiry
By Football Italia staff
Roma have reportedly joined the queue of clubs ready to make an offer to available tactician Pep Guardiola.
The former Barcelona boss is currently taking a year out of the game, but he has confirmed that he will return to a bench for 2013-14.
Although giants such... |
As the rumors of Trump campaign staffers’ ties to Russia piled up in the days before inauguration, the team got a call offering advice from a rather unlikely source: former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Despite being forced out of his role because of his own ties to businessmen and politicians close to the Kremlin,... |
On this show, our Josh, Sandy and Paul chat with Joshua Fiore, who just won the Ultra World Championship in Iceland. We talk about how he got there, what he had to do to win it, and if he carried his engagement ring the whole way! Enjoy the show, and Merry Christmas! Would you like to
On this show, our Josh, Sandy and... |
“Ground Floor” isn’t returning to the smallscreen for another season, but star Skylar Astin is — the actor has been cast as a lead in ABC’s untitled NBA comedy pilot, Variety has learned.
The buddy comedy set in the world of professional basketball follows a non-English speaking rookie and a non-basketball speaking tr... |
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You’ve just found a bowl you know nothing about. You start pulling out marbles and the first 99 marbles are red. Will the 100th marble be red as well?... |
Without a doubt, today Venezuela is facing the most painful and far-reaching crisis in the Americas. The degradation of the current scenario will be catastrophic for all Venezuelans and may have harmful spill-over effects for Latin America (especially, Colombia), the Caribbean (Cuba, in particular), and even the United... |
At the #XboxE3 briefing we announced an exciting new pilot program called Xbox Game Preview – a feature that allows players the opportunity to download and evaluate a selection of games under active development. Every game in the program has a free trial, allowing the community to get involved and provide feedback duri... |
Ball three, take your base.
UFC 139: "Henderson vs. Shogun" went down last Saturday night (Nov. 19, 2011) at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California, featuring a unanimous decision win for Dan Henderson following a three five round bloodbath that was not only "Fight of the Night," but perhaps of the year, as well.
Wh... |
“Admiral, we’re in position. All fighters accounted for.”
–Lando Calrissian
In our last two previews of Star Wars™: Armada, we looked at the game’s first capital ships, for both the Imperial Navy and the Rebel Alliance. We looked at how each ship’s different configurations offer it a range of tactical flexibility, as... |
The park bond battle
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Recreation and Parks clubhouses are privatized and cut off from public access. Public spaces like the Botanical Gardens and the Arboretum in Golden Gate Park are closed to people who can’t pay the price of admission. Event fees and permit processes have become so onerous that they’v... |
I’ve been religious at some times in my life, and not religious in others. I’ve believed in God, not believed in God, and occupied several intermediate spots in between those two poles. So I feel that I can understand beliefs that motivate statements like that of Richard Mourdock, who called a hypothetical pregnancy re... |
2017 American superhero film
Saban's Power Rangers,[6] or simply Power Rangers, is a 2017 American superhero film based on the franchise of the same name, directed by Dean Israelite and written by John Gatins. It is the third Power Rangers film, and is a reboot. The film features the main characters of the Mighty Morp... |
Lenovo officially finalized its acquisition of Motorola Mobility on Thursday which means, moving forward, Motorola is now a part of Lenovo and no longer under Google’s ownership. One might assume that means there will be drastic changes to Motorola’s smartphone portfolio, particularly when it comes to Android software ... |
An optometrist who alledgedly bugged his former lover's car to find out if she was seeing another man and then urinated into her postbox has been thrown out of the profession.
Philip Egan, 53, bombarded his ex with texts and banged on her windows late at night after she moved out of their three-bedroom home in Hertfor... |
Britain is preparing to grant nearly a million EU citizens the right to remain in the UK even though they have not achieved the five-year residency qualification as part of plans to kick-start Brexit negotiations, the Telegraph can reveal.
The proposal is part of a “generous” package of measures that will offer to gua... |
Back in 2012 I made a mistake. I wanted to change the art world by introducing Yellowism – an autonomous phenomenon in contemporary visual culture – to the people. But defacing Mark Rothko's Black on Maroon at the Tate Modern was not the right way of going about it.
First, it was wrong to deface the work of a fellow a... |
Forever will the Alabama Gang be a part of Talladega Superspeedway.
On Wednesday the largest track on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule honored The Alabama Gang by naming the backstretch after them titling it “The Alabama Gang Superstretch.”
The speedway paid tribute to the original members of the Alabama Gang – ... |
By By Andrew Moran Jun 29, 2012 in World Khartoum - Sudan's National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has reportedly blocked access to Hurriyat's online newspaper. The outage has been ongoing since Jun. 25 amid the continuing coverage of the protests in Khartoum and elsewhere. This week, Sudan deported Egyptian Bloo... |
Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935
By Paul Mitchell
12 January 2012
Royal Academy of Arts, London, until January 22, and Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin—April 5 to July 9, 2012.
London and Berlin are the most recent venues in the six-year tour of an exhibition of work of artists, architects, ... |
Western clothes are a part of "foreign imposed slavishness", believes Subramanian Swamy, who also suggested that western attire is not "Indian climate friendly".
Bharatiya Janata Party Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament also has a few suggestions for his party's discipline: "Indian climate friendly clothes" and no alcoh... |
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Anti-Muslim groups remain a force in the U.S. with Donald Trump and important administration members as allies in the White House. The total number of anti-Muslim hate group chapters dropped from 114 in 2017 to 100 in 2018. ACT for America, the largest anti-Muslim organization in the country, held a nati... |
Guess what? The Democrats and the Republicans are both lying to us again. So what else is new? The truth is that the great “budget crisis” which supposedly took us to the verge of a government shutdown was just a whole bunch of political theater. Even the Associated Press is declaring that our politicians used “account... |
On Saturday night, Leonardo DiCaprio was obviously on cloud nine. His latest film, “The Revenant”, landed him the Screen Actors Guild Award for “Outstanding Performance By a Male Actor in a Leading Role”. As he was enjoying the evening of awards and recognition with Hollywood’s A-listers, he casually pulled out a small... |
3 Questions to lead better interviews for your next video or podcast
Bogdan Zlatkov Blocked Unblock Follow Following Nov 11, 2016
When you’re shooting a campaign it’s easy to get bogged down by all the logistics, planning, ideas, and other balls you’re juggling around. I’ve worked on a lot of documentaries and ad cam... |
The Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES, also referred to as The Exchange) is the retailer on U.S. Army and Air Force installations worldwide. The Exchange is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and its director/chief executive officer is Tom Shull.
The oldest and the largest of the Department of Defense's exchange s... |
The child killer in your home: The week the daughter of a shipping tycoon became the TWELFTH victim in two years killed after getting tangled in window blind cord
A pink rabbit sits at the end of Luis Edwards’s bed. Hanging on the wall are two photographs, one in a pink frame and one in a blue. The bunny used to sit a... |
When James Craig took on the job as Detroit Police chief last year, the city was facing the prospect of bankruptcy, the political structure had collapsed, an emergency manager was in place, police precincts were closed to the public after 4 p.m. and the department was in need of a serious shakeup.
Craig came in, reope... |
Who are the ‘skeptics’? There’s celebrity woo-hunters, like Simon Singh (journalist, physicist), Ben Goldacre (journalist, almost fully qualified psychiatrist) and Brian Cox (TV presenter, physicist). As successful media players, they have a public profile, readers, fans. But their reputation is critically fed by a sub... |
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Jan. 15, 2016, 1:27 PM GMT / Updated Jan. 15, 2016, 1:28 PM GMT By Andy Eckardt
MAINZ, Germany — A spate of Hundreds of sex assaults allegedly committed mostly by North African men on New Y... |
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In a recent article that he wrote himself for the Chicago Sun-Times, former White Sox pitcher Jim Parque has come clean about his use of performance-enhancing drugs in 2003 when he was attempting to come back from shoulder injuries. Most of us have suspected Parque as PED user (HGH) since the Mitchell Report came o... |
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch says she will cooperate fully with a Senate committee probing whether she told presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign that she wouldn’t let an FBI investigation into Clinton’s emails “go too far.”
Lynch called into question the accuracy of a dubious Russian intelligence... |
With Bachelor in Paradise having resumed filming, Corinne Olympios released a statement confirming that she will not be returning to the show’s fourth season.
Olympios was a cast member at the start of the season until production was shut down earlier this month following allegations of sexual misconduct. At that time... |
There was a time — say, from the rise of Grandmaster Flash in the 1970s to the fall of the 42nd Street grindhouse in the ’90s — when a singular trend in portrait photography took root in New York, from Times Square to Harlem to Coney Island. Street photographers, usually wielding Polaroid cameras, set up backdrops airb... |
Isn’t the city filling up with condos?
Only 15% of the city is currently zoned for mid-rise and high-rise condos and apartments: most of that concentrated in the downtown core, within very narrow bands along major thoroughfares like Yonge Street, and areas near transit stations and large freeway exits.
As it happens,... |
CLOSE An Islamist-allied militia group says it has "secured" a U.S. Embassy compound in Libya's capital, more than a month after American personnel evacuated from the country over ongoing fighting. (Aug. 31) AP
A picture taken on May 13, 2009 shows a U.S. flag fluttering outside the U.S. embassy in Tripoli. (Photo11: ... |
A shoe firm’s ad campaign - featuring female nudity alongside the phrase ‘fancy a pair?’ - has been banned for being ‘degrading’ to women.
Watchdogs ruled that the multimedia adverts for Goodwin Smith Shoes - accompanied by an image of three models wearing just knickers - ‘objectified’ women.
An investigation was lau... |
Apple today accused Samsung of demanding too much money for infringement of patents pledged to industry standards, and argued that Samsung violated European guidelines by not disclosing the patents to a standards body quickly enough.
As we reported yesterday, Samsung’s legal counterattack against Apple’s patent infrin... |
This is a little crazy. And delightful. Here’s what has happened: in 2011, I wrote a story about Barrett Brown that won a National Magazine Award. (An NMA, for those not in the biz, is like a Pulitzer of magazine journalism. (Even though they recently began awarding Pulitzers for magazines, the NMAs are still the count... |
One of the most common complaints about Soldier Field as a football venue has to do with the playing surface. Fans and talking heads complain that Soldier Field’s grass is dangerous to players and is responsible for any number of injuries. To this, the various folks who make high-level decisions for the Bears have norm... |
Linux and Android users will probably be familiar with the KDE Connect app that allows you to connect your Android phone to your Linux desktop. If you are a Gnome user, GSConnect now provides the ideal way for you to integrate your mobile devices with your desktop as an alternative to KDE Connect. GSConnect gives users... |
In AZ, our tablet magazine: Listen to Lancaster describe life in nine audio clips accompanied by family photos. AZ is free for a limited time. Download it on your iPad by searching for “AZ Today” in the Newsstand Store or going to tinyurl.com/AZmagazine .
The Republic | azcentral.com Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:55 PM
The lett... |
Image caption Analysts say the accusations may damage Deutsche Bank's reputation in South Korea
Deutsche Bank employees manipulated South Korea's stock market last year, financial regulators have said.
As a result, it has been banned from trading certain securities and derivatives, and regulators have called for staf... |