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RICKY STENHOUSE JR., No. 17 Fifth Third Bank Ford Mustang -- TALLADEGA IS NEXT WEEK, HOW MUCH DO YOU LOOK FORWARD TO THAT FROM A RACING STANDPOINT? HOW MANY FRIENDS DO YOU THINK YOU’LL HAVE? “It felt like when we won our races at Daytona and Talladega we didn’t have any friends either."

NORMAN, Okla. — New Oklahoma quarterback Jalen Hurts learned at a basketball game just how much Sooners fans already had embraced him. The week Oklahoma announced that Hurts was transferring from Alabama, he was watching halftime festivities during the Sooners’ game against Vanderbilt. Seemingly out of nowhere, a long line of admirers developed. He smiled,

Hilary Fetch is pretty sure she broke her VHS tape of "The Lion King" from watching it one too many times.

The show and the sport are basically the same anyway.

The time is nigh for our national obsession, the thing in which tribal organizations whose supporters grew up together and hate their rivals with a passion will vie for supremacy despite widespread disagreement over who’s actually No. 1.

Indeed, Game of Thrones is back.

We have assigned a college football program to the major Thrones houses. Spoilers follow, so don’t scroll unless you’re a) OK with that, and b) kind of a dweeb. Читать дальше...

The Friday bombshell from late February regarding solicitation of prostitution charges against Patriots owner Robert Kraft included an ominous twist: The incidents allegedly occurred in connection with a human trafficking operation. In the time since then, it has become clear that there was and is no actual evidence of human trafficking. During a Friday hearing [more]

The first trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (the newly announced, official title for Episode IX, the upcoming conclusion of the Star Wars Skywalker saga) is here, and Lucasfilm has given fans a surprising amount of footage to dissect.

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Friday that the aspirational aspects of the "Green New Deal" are ok but warns that the specifics that some Democrats have championed "don't make sense."

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A teacher at Amos Comenius Memorial School in Hopedale has been awarded for using virtual reality to make learning more interesting for his students.

From Anthony Castrovince at MLB.com on April 12, 2019:

Fernando Tatis Jr. grounded a single through the left-hand side for his first hit, and, as the instant souvenir ball was rolled into the dugout, the Petco Park crowd gave the prized Padres rookie a raucous reception.

That was the first of Tatis’ two hits on Opening Day, the first of hundreds -- thousands, maybe -- in the big leagues. He has pedigree and promise, and, even if pitfalls loom in his performance, he’ll remain a prime piece of the Padres’ plans. Читать дальше...

An 8-foot alligator tried to sneak into a Florida resident’s back porch early Friday morning, police said.

Vice President Pence ripped Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass), Cory Booker (N.J.) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), all presidential candidates, for a recent failure to pass a disaster relief bill for Iowa, which is suffe...

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Robert E. Moffit

Economics, Americas

It would be disastrous.

Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described “socialist,” is doubling down on his efforts to give federal officials total control over Americans’ health care.

The senator has just unveiled the Medicare for All Act of 2019 with 13 leading Senate Democrats, including fellow contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination: Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York... Читать дальше...

Say goodbye to foundation melting off your face.

This week we talk about some more Google Pixel 3a and Google Pixel 4 leaks, the seemingly incoming Nest Hub Max, and a week of news from Google Cloud Next.

Buried in Ontario's budget bill are fines of up to $10,000 per day for gas station operators who don't display government-mandated stickers about the price of the carbon tax.

Ontario forward and captain Brett Sutter has been named as the 2018-19 recipient of the Fred T. Hunt Memorial Award, given to the AHL player who best...

IMAGINE turning your idea into a thriving multi-million pound business ? That’s exactly what husband and wife – Matt, 43 and Gail Waterman, 45, did, with the hair raising couple now expecting their growing shampoo business to turnover £5 million in 2019. The couple, from South Yorkshire, was desperate to find a product in the market […]

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – A 5-year-old child suffered significant injuries Friday after witnesses say a man either threw or pushed the child from the third floor of the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, according to local police. Bloomington Chief of Police Jeff Potts told reporters Friday that police were called to the Mall of America at 10:17 a.m. local time, and initial information suggested a child had fallen from the third level of the mall’s interior to the first level. […]

'Does a meme move?'

The post Scarlett Johansson finally learns about ‘Avengers’ memes appeared first on The Daily Dot.

It’s worth it at any salary level