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OAKLAND — Almost two-thirds of drivers Oakland police stopped in 2016 were African-Americans, who make up just over a fourth of the city’s population, according to a recent report.
Half of all citations Oakland police issued were to African-Americans, the report also found. African-Americans make up about 27 percent o... |
The search warrant used by the FBI to gain access to emails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop that were thought to be pertinent to the investigation into Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonSanders: 'I fully expect' fair treatment by DNC in 2020 after 'not quite even handed' 2016 primary Sanders: 'Damn right' I'll mak... |
Obama’s speech urging that the 1967 borders be the starting point for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations has been rejected by Netanyahu in the sort of in-your-face manner that can only mean that the Israeli Prime Minister is absolutely confident that Obama does not have the power to really force Israel to do anything. Th... |
This morning the Global Commission on Drug Policy held a press conference – here are some of the words of my fellow Commissioners:
“More people are killed by our drug policies than are killed by drugs” - Former Colombian President, César Gaviria
“We want criminal laws that don't say that drug use is a crime.” - Forme... |
Indoctrinating Children To Hate Freedom Of The Press?
from the lovely dept
I just listened to a recent podcast fromwith the theme of "Kid Politics." As per usual, it's an entertaining hour, but the First Act struck me as especially interesting, given the current debates about Wikileaks and free speech. In that story,... |
MANCHESTER, Tenn. -- A man accused of bringing more than a thousand doses of fake drugs to the Bonnaroo music festival said he was doing "God's Work" with the bogus substances, Tennessee authorities said Thursday.
The Coffee County Sheriff's Department David E. Brady of Albany, New York, has been charged with two coun... |
States across the nation are ramping up their digital defenses to prevent the hacking of election systems in 2018.
The efforts come in the wake of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, which state officials say was a needed wake up call on cybersecurity threats to election systems and infrastructure... |
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These incredible photographs show the moment a group of impalas leapt up into the air to escape the jaws of a crocodile.
Four antelopes jumped up in opposite directions after becoming aware of the danger in the water at Kruger National Park in northeastern South Africa.
The group immediately dashed awa... |
It is easy to defend one's own freedom to disseminate unpopular ideas (e.g., atheism). However, someone who supports freedom of speech must recognize that this freedom applies to those with whom we disagree as well (e.g., Christian extremists). To defend my right to free speech while attempting to interfere with theirs... |
New Delhi: Pictures of children sweeping floors and cleaning garbage with brooms in municipal schools here on Monday angered the Delhi High Court, which took the municipal corporations to task asking them whether teaching took place there at all.
"Is there any teaching taking place in the schools? Shall we call the st... |
TONY JONES, PRESENTER: This is an exclusive report from Canberra.
A highly sensitive government document obtained by Lateline has revealed a draft proposal for sweeping reforms to Australia's visa framework.
Under the proposed changes, refugees would no longer be granted direct access to permanent residency in Austra... |
Bedtime stories gone awry (really weird children’s books)
I can still remember my favorite books that I read when I was a child. Cars and Trucks and Things That Go was my all time favorite. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Encyclopedia Brown, and Where the Sidewalk Ends were right up there as well. It’s a different ... |
As Brazil's Economy Goes In Reverse, Illusion Of Prosperity Fades With It
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:
Only a few years ago Brazil was being celebrated for raising millions of people out of abject poverty. Now there are worries those gains may be at risk. The economy is shedding jobs and heading into recession. To explore th... |
Jeff Van Gundy joins Adrian Wojnarowski on The Vertical Podcast with Woj to discuss Kevin Durant's move to the Golden State Warriors.
The pair talk about the impact on the Warriors, the NBA and the Thunder. They compare Durant’s move with LeBron James’ to the Miami Heat, and the ramifications for the league to have a ... |
Two New York City Police officers will not face charges after the Manhattan District Attorney decided that widely circulated videos of them punching and pepper-spraying protesters amounted to insufficient evidence that they had done so.
Anthony Bologna, the now-infamous NYPD inspector, was filmed in September 2011 spr... |
Rand Paul Is Right: End Welfare To Israel, And The Rest Of The World
The debate over Senator Rand Paul's proposed $500 billion spending cut plan has focused almost exclusively on one issue, and one nation.
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At the end of a page long piece about conflicts between Tea Party goals on spend... |
IQALUIT, Nunavut – The hunter grabs one of his delicacies by its furry, frozen ear and waves it in the air.
“Caribou heads for sale!” he cries. “Caribou heads for sale!”
Eager for the makings of a tasty soup, customers flock to his table at an open-air market in Iqaluit, where fresh-from-the-land food has been on occ... |
Of Course The FBI Has Been Gradually Expanding Its Access To And Influence Over NSA's Data Trove
from the because-of-course dept
In 2008, according to the report, the F.B.I. assumed the power to review email accounts the N.S.A. wanted to collect through the “Prism” system, which collects emails of foreigners from pro... |
An online head count, the reasoning goes, should reach more households more efficiently than mailed forms. The enumerators who track down those who do not respond (in 2010, almost 3 in 10 households) will use smartphone apps that instantly send data to the bureau’s computers and track the canvassers’ progress.
The bur... |
LOS ANGELES - In what is becoming tradition, the Oregon Ducks swept the Pac-12 Track & Field Championships Sunday at Drake Stadium.
The Oregon men won going away, and the UO women showed a flair for the dramatic. The bottom line was the same.
The Ducks have owned this meet since 2009, when the women began a streak of... |
Television shows have served as a respite to real life since TV was first invented. In my own life, analyzing episodes of “Lost” on a newborn online community kept me company during the very real demands of an actual newborn while I was on maternity leave. What is perplexing about “Mr. Robot,” however, is how it freaki... |
The researchers' camp in Fayum, where the fossils were found. Credit: Matt Borths
Masrasector nananubis skull. Credit: Matt Borths
Hyaenodonts were carnivorous mammals that emerged as top predators after the extinction of the dinosaurs. Fragmentary and incomplete fossil records have made it difficult to understand ho... |
After potentially missing out on their number one targetto rival Premier League club Manchester United, Chelsea have turned their attention to Real Madrid’sand, as they plan a £132m swoop for the pair. This is according to reports from Spanish outlet Diario Gol. Blues boss Antonio Conte was upset with the Chelsea board... |
Movie Review Movie Review Imperium B Movie Review Imperium B B Imperium Director Daniel Ragussis Runtime 108 minutes Rating R Cast Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette, Tracy Letts, Sam Trammell Availability Select theaters and VOD August 19
Early press for writer-director Daniel Ragussis’ feature debut Imperium largely co... |
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AMY GOODMAN: Finally, Julian, we cut you off earlier when you were talking about what you felt were the most significant emails that you have released. Is there any last one that you’d like to mention? And also, do you have any thoughts on Donald Trump? I m... |
Gore for same-sex marriage
Not sure what prompted this, but Al Gore has quietly released a video with a forceful endorsement of equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians. It pushes the Democratic establishment that much closer to a position he now shares with Eliot Spitzer and some other leading Dems, and is prompti... |
Send in the Clowns
Reflecting back on national security debates (as well as others in technology or politics), I've noticed a rather persistent pattern.
There is something that is unwise, controversial, unsustainable, or otherwise problematic. There is no room or very little room for internal dissent about it for som... |
Catholic World News
Mass exodus continues from German Catholic Church
July 17, 2015
More than 200,000 Germans formally left the Catholic Church in 2014, accelerating the downward trend in the Catholic proportion of the country’s population.
Germans who are officially enrolled in congregation are subject to a “churc... |
If you read science news in the popular press, you’ve probably come across articles about how junk food is just as addictive as street drugs. You may have rolled your eyes at the suggestion that white bread is like heroin. Well, a study published Monday in the open-access neuroscience journal eNeuro suggests that this ... |
It's a rainy Tuesday night in early February and a mysterious band called Footshooters have sold out Glasgow’s Art School. Despite their apparent lack of internet presence and zero indication of any gigging history, tickets to the show vanish in record time. Hours before doors, Scott Street is full of excited faces exc... |
Armed men occupying Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon are tearing down part of a fence erected by the government to keep ranchers out of federally owned property.
The escalation comes 10 days into the standoff at the fowl sanctuary south of Burns, Oregon. Ammon and Ryan Bundy, who head the group occupying the... |
Graeme McDowell produced a brilliant final round to overturn an eight shot deficit and successfully defend a tournament for the first time in his career.
McDowell shrugged off some miserable weather conditions to retain his Alstom Open de France title, carding a closing 67 at Le Golf National, the joint-lowest round o... |
I could hear the plane before I could see it, the engine growling loudly. And then the scarlet biplane came into view, a dark figure suspended between the parallel wings becoming more distinct as it flew toward the Lake Erie shoreline where thousands of spectators were waiting for the next air show act.
That figure wa... |
Gonzalo Higuain: Real Madrid striker finds the net in Bournemouth
Ancelotti was speaking after Higuain netted one of the Spanish giants' goals - shortly after coming on as a half-time substitute - in a 6-0 rout of Bournemouth in their friendly at Dean Court.
Argentina international Higuain has also been linked with A... |
A former Denver police officer was sentenced Thursday to four years of probation for possession of child pornography.
Timothy J. Kelley, 50, received a four-year deferred sentence Thursday in Adams County District Court after pleading guilty on April 2 to sexual exploitation of child, a felony, according to court reco... |
TORONTO, Ontario (April 21, 2012) – The Chicago Fire (2-1-2; 8pts.) used Dominic Oduro’s fastest goal in club history and tallies from Gonzalo Segares and Patrick Nyarko to upend Toronto FC (0-6-0; 0pts.) 3-2 at BMO Field Saturday afternoon in Toronto.
Just 25 seconds into the match the Fire found the back of the net ... |
Share. Gran Turismo developers push the PlayStation 3 to 3840 x 2160 resolution. Gran Turismo developers push the PlayStation 3 to 3840 x 2160 resolution.
Just because you might be the best in the world at what you do, it doesn't mean you don't want to continue to push the boundaries of what's feasibly possible. That ... |
The 2014 spending bill that the U.S. Congress passed last week renders moot part of Justin Esarey’s recent grant application to the National Science Foundation (NSF). But Esarey, an assistant professor of political science at Rice University in Houston, Texas, couldn’t be happier.
Esarey was one of hundreds of researc... |
Aug 16, 2013; Boston, MA, USA; Uriah Hall poses during the weigh-in for his UFC fight at TD Garden tomorrow night. Mandatory Credit: Winslow Townson-USA TODAY Sports
By now, most everyone has seen the confrontation between Uriah Hall and Mayhem Miller at a recent BAMMA event. In the video, you can clearly hear Mayhem ... |
New Thameslink Southern and Great Northern franchise to be operated by Govia joint venture between Go-Ahead and Keolis
Go-Ahead has promised to transform services on one of Britain's busiest commuter routes after winning the merged Thameslink franchise and marking the end of the First Capital Connect brand.
Govia, a ... |
A National Security Agency whistleblower said Wednesday there is a possibility that the NSA itself hacked the Democratic National Committee's emails and gave the files to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
"The first thing I would look at is, think about the attack," said Bill Binney, who was the NSA's technical direct... |
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Amazon is expected to introduce a smartphone on Wednesday at an event in Seattle, a long-rumored project that aims to close any remaining gap between the impulse to buy and the completed act, David Streitfeld reports.
Amazon has spent the last several years furiously investing billions of dollars on multiple fr... |
What's a little laughable about this charge is that LulzSec openly admitted doing exactly what the FBI says it did when it issued its press release for the so-called Sownage attack:
Our goal here is not to come across as master hackers, hence what we're about to reveal: SonyPictures.com was owned by a very simple SQL ... |
Elsewhere across the region, some help has trickled in. Russian Cossack commanders have set up a soup kitchen for the elderly and distributed a one-time payment of 1,000 hryvnia, about $63, to pensioners in other cities. Russian and international aid groups have delivered food, clothing and basic medical supplies to th... |
Some users have had luck in unlocking the disabled shader cores in standard AMD Radeon RX 460 cards, taking the Polaris 11 GPU from 896 SPs up to its full unlocked harem of 1,024. The rumor mongers over at WCCFTech report that Sapphire will be launching a graphics card with a factory-unlocked Polaris 11 GPU. Proving th... |
Josh Duhamel and Fergie Grooming "The Last Unicorn" as Broadway Musical
Hollywood couple Josh Duhamel and Fergie are among the artists working to bring an immersive musical adaptation of the fantasy novel "The Last Unicorn" to Broadway.
Peter S. Beagle penned the 1968 novel that is perhaps best known for its 1982 ani... |
CARLTON believes it can secure the next Anthony Miles, as well as 195cm swingman Kristian Jaksch, all for the loss of only 10 live picks.
The Blues are set to secure a trade for GWS midfielder Mark Whiley and Jaksch as early as Wednesday by giving up pick 7 and receiving selection 19 from the Giants.
NSW zone selecti... |
New video has surfaced showing Fox News contributor Steven Crowder being repeatedly punched while trying to stop Michigan pro-union protestors from tearing down a conservative tent outside the state’s capitol.
Earlier this afternoon, we reported that pro-union protestors in Michigan tore down an Americans for Prosperi... |
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Mitt Romney’s national security advisers have quietly urged him to reverse President Barack Obama’s 2009 executive order that outlawed the use of interrogation techniques that amounted to torture, according to a 2011 policy memo obtained by Charlie Sa... |
Fresh Produce, LP
When Frank Ocean’s Endless arrived by surprise on a Thursday night in August, the feverish anticipation for his way-overdue third release was soon replaced by confusion. Before the world, or at least the internet, could categorically classify it as “classic” or “trash,” it first had to figure out, Wh... |
These 10 Hidden Waterfalls In Rhode Island Will Take Your Breath Away
We all hear about the beaches, but there’s not a lot of talk about these beautiful waterfalls located throughout the state. While some are century old damns in the heart of small towns, others are simply natural wonders. Have you seen all 10 of thes... |
Junior tennis: Kamil, Faizan in U-16 finals
LAHORE: Another six matches in the ongoing Rafum Junior Tennis Championship 2018 were decided here at the Bagh-i-Jinnah’s courts on Friday. All the six matches were the semifinals of the under-12, u-14 and 16 age categories and the players who made it to the finals were Ahma... |
Sure, we can point to criticism from Barack Obama media cheerleaders like Jon Stewart to argue that the White House spin on the ObamaCare fiasco has utterly failed. But why do that when we can have one of the Obama administration’s former spinmeisters make the argument explicitly? Former Obama adviser and press secreta... |
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Greg Sargent sees a light at the end of the Obamacare tunnel. Until now, the GOP’s only goal has been repeal. But as 2014 wears on, it’s going to become increasingly obvious that Obamacare is here to stay. What happens then?
If Republicans do get to ... |
�video of the staff making fun of's's accent has caught fans' attention.
The video, dated at May 1st, filmed EXID coming to Los Angeles. Junghwa told the camera she was very happy, and a female TMZ staff imitated the accent. When the male staff shook his head and repeatedly said, "No," she defended herself by saying t... |
A divided three-member New York State Tax Appeals Tribunal has upheld an administrative judge’s finding that billionaire hedge fund pioneer Julian H. Robertson Jr. wasn’t a resident of New York City in 2000, saving him $27 million in tax.
In a dissent, Tax Commissioner Carroll R. Jenkins said he feared the decision wo... |
Breaking: Fletcher Smith, Donovan McNabb's agent, comments on recent events concerning Donovan and the Redskins:
I think it is important to clarify some misinterpretations following Donovan comments made earlier this week on his radio show.
Donovan did say that “he didn’t want to go anywhere” and that he “enjoyed him... |
Wigan's Callum McManaman is expected to be banned for at least three matches for his challenge on Newcastle defender Massadio Haidara.
The Football Association is set to take retrospective action following the controversy in the Magpies' 2-1 loss to Wigan.
Referee Mark Halsey did not see the incident, paving the way ... |
The Disney film studio is in damage control this week, as news spreads that its live action remake of Beauty and the Beast may contain a gay subplot, in what is being described as a first and now a last for any high budget children’s film. Conservative pundits and cinemas alike are protesting the “unnatural” inclusion,... |
Late last month, it was speculated that President-elect Donald Trump may have been inspired by a Fox & Friends segment to tweet out about how burning the American flag should lead to loss of citizenship and/or prison time. His tweet came out shortly after Fox News ran a story about a flag being burned at Hampshire Coll... |
Yesterday, My Ubuntu 10.04 was not able to boot, displaying “Continue to wait; Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery” due to file system error in / and /home partitions. I went ahead with Recovery boot option and run fsck on both / and /home file systems. / was OK. Then I had problem in getting fsck cleared... |
Abstract This Systematic Country Diagnostic seeks to identify the most important constraints to and opportunities for inclusive and sustainable growth in Haiti, a country that is one of the poorest and least equal countries in the world. For this purpose, an extensive review of the literature (from both within and outs... |
WASHINGTON — Sparks flew Wednesday as Secretary of State John Kerry sparred with GOP lawmakers who sent a letter to Iranian leaders stating Congress would have to approve any nuclear agreement.
“It’s really almost insulting that the presumption here is that we’re going to negotiate something that allows them to get a ... |
Against the advice of its own panel of outside experts, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency is forgoing tests meant to ensure that a critical component of the nation’s homeland missile defense system will work as intended.
The tests that are being skipped would evaluate the reliability of small motors designed to help kee... |
We do not always agree about colour. Your red might be my pink or orange. Vietnamese and Korean people do not differentiate blue from green – leaves and sky are both coloured xanh in Vietnam. The late English artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman once met a friend on London’s Oxford Street and complimented him on his beaut... |
Dragon Quest X Online announced for Wii, Wii U
Latest Dragon Quest goes MMORPG.
Dragon Quest X: Rise of the Five Tribes Online was formally announced in Tokyo this morning. Initially confirmed in 2008, the game is now unveiled to be a online role-playing game for Nintendo Wii.
Take a second. “An online game… for Wii... |
Liberals are absolutely outraged that President Trump called on Americans to boycott the NFL, where they’re now trying to make the asinine claim that the NFL is a “private enterprise” whose First Amendment “rights” are now being infringed upon. The anti-Trump Democratic Coalition has even filed an ethics complaint agai... |
Is AIG going to sue the government for bailing it out? Hahaha no of course not, come on, that would be nuts. So what is this?
The board of A.I.G. will meet on Wednesday to consider joining a $25 billion shareholder lawsuit against the government, court records show. The lawsuit does not argue that government help was ... |
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AMY GOODMAN: Very quickly, Shayana, before we go, you’ve been talking about the origins of ISIS.
SHAYANA KADIDAL: Sure. I think, you know, with everything that’s in the news lately, it’s important to remember something that got buried when it was first rep... |
This piece was originally published in Free Inquiry.
What does religion provide?
This is something a lot of atheists and humanists have been asking ourselves: What does religion provide for people? What do people get out of it? Why do they like it? Why do they stay with it, even if they don’t like it? And how can ath... |
(One PNC customer's account showed a number of "miscellaneous withdrawals" that the bank said it would reverse. Image provided by customer)
By Tim Jimenez
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A number of PNC bank customers woke up today seeing less money in their accounts.
The company is calling it a “glitch.”
PNC spokeswoman Marc... |
Reproduction of a Messerschmitt Me 262 in 2006
Reproduction of a Messerschmitt Me 262 produced by the project at the Berlin Air Show 2016
The Me 262 Project is a company formed to build flyable reproductions of the Messerschmitt Me 262, the world's first operational jet fighter. The project was started with the Texas... |
The reviews for “Winter’s Tale” (currently a 6% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) have not been kind. But at least give the fantasy epic, based on a 1983 novel by Mark Helprin, credit for this — it has one of the most eclectic casts for a Valentine’s Day release since 2010’s “Valentine’s Day.”
Colin Farrell stars as the film’... |
PALOS HEIGHTS, IL -- Crime scene tape roped off a house in a quiet Palos Heights subdivision after a man was shot to death late Monday afternoon. Two evidence placards could be seen in the open garage and one on the driveway. The shooting is being investigated by Palos Heights police and the South Suburban Major Crimes... |
The Detroit Red Wings have been fined an undisclosed amount for comments made by senior vice president Jim Devellano regarding the lockout.
TSN reported the fine is in the range of $250,000.
In an interview earlier this week with Island Sports News, Devellano said that players should take 43 percent of the revenue, d... |
A professor who claims he was fired from New York University after giving the actor a bad grade, is now suing his former student over remarks he made about his teaching
A professor who claims he was fired from his job at New York University after giving James Franco a "D" is to sue his former student for defamation.
... |
A New Jersey nonprofit group advocating assisted suicide launched a national campaign here in San Francisco with a billboard. The giant sign, which cost $2,500 and will be up for 30 days, simply reads: “My Life, My Death, My Choice.” It also includes the web address for Final Exit Network, the organization behind the b... |
poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201511/1350/1155968404_4620624841001_4620592927001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404" true Eye of the Tiger plays at Kim Davis' rally. Huckabee sued for playing 'Eye of the Tiger' at Kim Davis rally
A member of the rock band Survivor is suing Mike Huckabee for copyright infringeme... |
We can’t wait to meet you this weekend at the Tacoma Studio Tour! Visit, see, learn, create, shop. It’s free and for all ages.
What: Tacoma Studio Tour
Where: 42 studio locations around Tacoma
When: October 14 & 15, 11 am – 5 pm
Cost: FREE!
You are invited inside the working studios of 70 local artists to learn ab... |
A sincere and heartfelt happy birthday to our hero Tina Fey, who turns 45 years old today, and continues to be basically amazing all the time. So in celebration of this welcome anniversary of her time on earth, we focus our attention on one of her finest accomplishments: the insults of the dearly departed 30 Rock, whic... |
PEORIA — The last time Demarcus Pate spoke to his little brother, Tommie T. Forest III, Forest, asked if he could spend the night with Pate instead of his friends.
“I told him no, I will come get you before your football game,” Pate said. “And I got the call at 2 o’clock in the morning.”
Fourteen-year-old Forest, of ... |
“Big data” is a buzzword that has gone in and out of popularity since it was measured in megabytes. Unfortunately the immensity of its popularity in its current boom is doing some serious harm. Too many people are getting distracted by the “big” excitement and are only adding more friction to their goal of analysis.
A... |
The 34 Languages of McDonald's
An Interactive Linguistic Quiz
This set of pages was inspired by a visit to McDonald's in May 2004. Along with our son's Happy Meal, we got a small playstation-type game where you have to help a monkey catch bananas as they fall from the sky. I was amused to note that the instructions c... |
It's no secret that Zynga likes to take ideas that aren't exactly their own and repackage them for consumers. They've done so with nearly all of their major releases, dating all the way back to when their signature Farmville ripped off Farm Town.
It's a practice decried by many for years, but that hasn't stopped them ... |
MONTREAT, N.C. -- President Obama arrived at Rev. Billy Graham's mountaintop log cabin Sunday afternoon, making a brief visit to the 91-year-old evangelist who has been a spiritual adviser to presidents for seven decades.
The pair met for about a half-hour as Obama ended a brief vacation in nearby Asheville, and prepa... |
Around 200 firefighters have been battling a large blaze which started in the early hours of Sunday morning in Podgora on Croatia’s Dalmatian coast.
The fire started in forest land in between upper Tučepi and Podgora on the Makarska Riviera early this morning which has forced roads to close and has seen guests evacuat... |
Conventional political wisdom often says climate change is a bottom-tier issue for voters. “It is very difficult to find an issue that voters place lower on the list than climate change,” GOP pollster Whit Ayres told the New York Times last fall. Ayres and other critics took Democratic donor Tom Steyer's failures in th... |
Chris Sale enters elite company with his 300th strikeout of the season, and the Red Sox are headed to the postseason.
Hanley Ramirez has been following some of the TB12 method: Tom Brady’s new book, The TB12 Method, vouches for using resistance bands over heavy-weight lifting. Ramirez has not only been listening to Br... |
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In his fourth book, "American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures in North America," award-winning author Colin Woodard identifies 11 distinct cultures that have historically divided the US.
"The country has been arguing about a lot of fundamental things la... |
Try your best to forget the video. The remixes. The parodies. The corny Super Bowl commercial. The time Trump danced to it, the time Jimmy Fallon did whatever he did to it, the hydrant of thirsty covers. Where were you the first time you heard Drake’s “Hotline Bling”?
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Paul Jefferies was in his car, driv... |
“And these blast points, too accurate for Sand People. Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise.”
–Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars: A New Hope
The white armor of Stormtroopers is a common sight throughout the Star Wars™ galaxy – a universal mark of the Empire’s superior strength and unlimited resources. Legions of Stormt... |
Concord Community Schools will move forward with their annual holiday show, including a controversial nativity portion, after a Wisconsin-based group threatened legal action calling the scene "illegal."
At a board meeting on Tuesday, the superintendent told a room full of people: "For more than 30 years, the Spectacul... |
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DUBLIN, OH (WCMH) -- Pit bulls are no longer singled out as vicious dogs in the City of Dublin.
Dublin City Council voted 6-1 Monday night to bring the city's dog law more in line with state law and recent court rulings. The c... |
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The only people celebrating this rogue, previously unknown holiday are FBI agents, but, with three raids on allegedly corrupt politicians across the country on Wednesday, it is possibly the hottest new holiday since Arbor Day.
Let's start with New York because New Yor... |
Sanders: Obama Has 'Tried To Be Fair' In Primary Race
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President Obama and Vice President Biden "have tried to be fair and even-handed" in the primary process, Sen. Bernie Sanders said Wednesday following a meeting with the president at the White Ho... |
PoliZette Pelosi’s Bogus Claim Obamacare Has Reduced Costs Democrat leader glosses over spiking costs under the ACA for millions of Americans
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters Wednesday that Obamacare has achieved its goals — including making health care more affordable.
Pelosi made her rem... |
Prosecutors have just brought federal charges of fraud and money laundering against Nicholas Arthur Woodhams of Kalamazoo, Mich. You may remember Woodhams as the man who scammed Apple out of numerous iPod shuffles, a plot that got him sued by the company in June 2008.
Here's how the scheme worked: Between March 2006 a... |
Every Sunday, we pick a new episode of the week. It could be good. It could be bad. It will always be interesting. You can read the archives here. The episode of the week for May 7 through May 14, 2016, is "Human Raw Material," the fifth episode of the fourth season of BBC America's Orphan Black.
It was only a matter ... |
Gameleon - Make Your Own Games!
Hey Everyone,
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Gameleon has launched!
Big thanks to you and others like you who've already supported us on Kickstarter, used the live version of Gameleon Beta and helped test our platform!
Start using the editor here!
Built into the editor,... |
Oakland Athletics first baseman Yonder Alonso (17) watches as Texas Rangers catcher Jonathan Lucroy (25) rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run in the fourth inning during a Major League Baseball game between the Oakland Athletics and the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas Wednesday August 17,... |