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From Jayson Jenks at The Athletic on March 7, 2019:

Not​ long ago,​ I started hunting for the answer​ to​ two questions I’ve​ always been​ curious about: Why​ do​ baseball​​ managers wear uniforms? And why did football coaches stop wearing suits?

Newspaper archives led me to books while books led me back to newspaper archives — a bottomless fall into old photos and forgotten names. Finally, my search led me to two seemingly unconnected men: Connie Mack and Tom Landry.

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President designate George Vella is expected to take over from his predecessor, Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, the helm of the constitutional reform steering committee, Times of Malta has learnt. The former foreign affairs minister had apparently set such a role as a condition for accepting to become President, sources said. The steering committee is tasked with laying out the ground work ahead of a highly-anticipated reform of the Constitution. President Coleiro Preca had previously signalled her intention... Читать дальше...

The Texans defensive end sparked a debate Thursday on Twitter that saw other NFL players chime in with their top choices.

"It’s not about her, it’s about these forms of hatred," Pelosi told reporters at her weekly news conference. The House originally was planning to vote Wednesday on an anti-Semitism resolution that didn’t name Omar but would serve as an indirect rebuke to comments she made about Israel’s influence on U.S. policy.

Nearly an inch of fresh snow fell in parts of the Tacoma-Seattle area by Thursday morning, and off-and-on flurries are possible through the end of the week. A winter weather … Click to Continue »

Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah on Thursday accused the Congress-led Madhya Pradesh government of cheating the farmers, saying this is a middlemen's government that cares only for its luxury.

Kabul, March 7, IRNA – Multiple explosions rocked ceremonies commemorating the anniversary of martyrdom of Abdolali Mazari, leader and founder of Afghan Vahdat Islami Party.

Florida man faces multiple charges after being accused of using brick to bust through pop star's second-floor window.

Charlotte Russe is going out of business. The cheeky fast-fashion retailer, which filed for bankruptcy in February, couldn’t find a buyer in time to save the chain from closing and will now shutter all remaining stores, according to the Wall Street Journal. Charlotte Russe operated more than 500 stores at the time it…

BOUNTIFUL, Utah — A fourth grade student says he wasn’t allowed to wear an important religious symbol to school. Like millions of Catholics and other Christians around the world, William McLeod received an ash cross on his forehead to commemorate Ash Wednesday. When he arrived at school, he noticed he was the only student in his class wearing the ash cross. “A lot of students asked me what it is. I said, ‘I’m Catholic. It’s the first day of Lent. […]

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Dil Bechara is a Hindi remake of Hollywood movie The Fault In Our Stars.

Essa Ramadhan, a local metereologist announced yesterday that winter in Kuwait is officially over and spring has begun. For weeks we’ve been treated to the beautiful blooms of the sparkling yellow Al-Nowair. Along with these bonny yellow flowers have come butterflies, ladybugs and other spring insects and warmer weather. – Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Researchers at Google and ETH Zurich have developed novel methods for training generative machine learning models with fewer labels.

Blizzard and GOG announced today that the original Diablo is now for sale at GOG's digital store.

Charles Burnett’s family drama was one of the best movies of the 1990s, but it never received the attention it deserved.

BETHEL ACRES, Okla. – A senior dog is now learning to adjust to her new life at an Oklahoma rescue after she was found by her dead owner’s side on Thursday. “We allowed her to say goodbye. She had been trying to wake him up. Just trying to figure out what was going on,” Maeghan Olsen, Founder and Director At 1 Day Ranch, told KFOR. Olsen said she was called in to care for Sam after the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s […]

Foreign leaders gave Trump and his family gifts valued at more than $140,000 in 2017, according to an annual report.

Political will is integral to the tackling of India’s hazardous air pollution

If you live here now, you might have to move soon.

“Southern Comfort” manages to be commendable, invigorating, and insufficient all at once.

The cornerback announced his retirement less than five months ago after seeing a significant drop off in his role with the Raiders.