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Stockton returns from the All-Star Break with the front-end of a home-and-home against San Jose this weekend.

Not everything can be 💯.

At the bottom of the emoji hierarchy lie the derelicts: the mountain cableway, the baggage claim icon, a bunch of squares with letters in them. It might seem impossible to lift these poor guys out of obscurity, but they're actually full of untapped potential. Kind of.

There's already a thriving, if small, community dedicated to recognizing neglected emoji, including the Twitter bot @leastUsedEmoji, which tracks the emoji with the fewest uses on Twitter. Right now... Читать дальше...

"It’s been an emotional 2 weeks making the hardest decision of my life, but I have accepted that I cannot continue ski racing."

SFO alleges four men secretly paid £322m to Qatar in return for investment in capital raising

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has ceased all assistance to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, a U.S. official said Friday. The decision was linked to a Jan. 31 deadline set by new U.S. legislation under which foreign aid recipients would be more exposed to anti-terrorism lawsuits. The deadline also sees the end of about $60 million in U.S. aid for the Palestinian security forces, whose cooperation with Israeli forces helps maintain relative quiet in the West Bank. Читать дальше...

Hohn to concentrate on Neeraj Chopra

The South Korean government is doubling the budget for "short-term training" for North Korean refugees for the new year.

President Donald Trump had little to say with regard to Tuesday's attack on

Last week, I blew through a new novella from Robert Jackson Bennett who you might remember as the author of Foundryside, a novel about industrialized magic. This shorter science fiction book, Vigilance, is a bit of a jump from that. It’s about a sociopathic TV network in the future that fields a “game show” in which active shooters are introduced to a public place. The “winners” get prize money if they take down the shooter.

The government has effectively given up on at least two of its more controversial legislations — the Citizenship Amendment Bill and the Triple Talaq

Marie Colvin was killed in Syria in 2012 and her death is the subject of a new film in 2019.

Advocates wanted the singer to speak out against the jailing of women's rights activists.

Lending lender State Bank of India (SBI) on Friday reported a net profit of Rs 3,955 crore year-on-year for the third quarter of 2018-19.

The Union Finance Minister Piyush Goyal has proposed an allocation of Rs 11,538.26 crore for the Department of Space, in his interim Budget for 2019-20 presented in Parliament on Friday.

The defender sustained a fractured leg in the game at Burnley on December 5 and was initially likely to be out for six weeks. However, the England international suffered a setback in his recovery.

CONCORD, N.C. – NASCAR’s winningest car owner, Jack Roush will be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Roush’s former driver and NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2017 inductee, Mark Martin couldn’t be prouder. “If it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t be in there,” Martin told SiriusXM’s Claire B. Lang. “He’s responsible for giving me […]

A recent study found that the majority of parents rely on cold-prevention strategies that have little to no scientific support. The Onion debunks popular myths about preventing colds.

MPs chanted 'Modi-Modi' for nearly 90 seconds when Goyal announced a tax rebate for people earning less than Rs 5,00,000 annually

Rs 6,000 per family per year amounts to an income support of Rs 500 per family a month. This is less than old age pension prevailing in at least more than half the states

(Telecompaper) Deutsche Telekom T-Systems units Detecon said CEO Heinrich Arnold will be leaving the company at his own request...

The actor was best known for his role as Hyacinth Bucket's long-suffering husband

Officials at Oakland International Airport (OAK) released December and Calendar Year passenger traffic figures reflecting stability in its passenger traffic numbers, and the highest number of passengers since its record year of 2007.

• A 7-Eleven in Portland, Oregon, received a noise violation after blasting a high-pitched buzzing noise from its speakers. 
• Manager Madhur Sharma said the store played the noise to deter homeless people from sleeping overnight. 
• Homeless advocates called the move dehumanizing and suggested it could make "life harder for people on the margins."

A 7-Eleven in Portland, Oregon, is trying to rid its store of homeless people by blasting high-pitched buzzing from speakers.