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Liverpool will coast into the UEFA Champions League semifinals if this year’s trip to Porto, Portugal, is as good as... Read More »

Cameron Bancroft hit an unbeaten 151 on his one-day debut for Durham as the disgraced Australia batsman started to repay the English county's faith in him. Bancroft was banned for nine months after being caught in the Australia ball-tampering scandal during their tour to South Africa last year The 'sandpaper-gate' incident during the Newlands Test against South Africa also led to Bancroft's Australia team-mates Steve Smith and David Warner receiving year-long suspensions. After returning in Australia's Big Bash League in December... Читать дальше...

Home Depot opened its first two stores in Atlanta in 1979, but the business didn't take off right away.

Home Depot first opened its doors in 1979. Founders Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank launched two different stores in Atlanta. Home Depot struggled to attract customers at first, but it ended up finding its groove. More »

• Home Depot first opened its doors in 1979.
• Founders Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank launched two different stores in Atlanta.
• Home Depot struggled to attract customers at first, but it ended up finding its groove.

Home Depot is one of the biggest names in home improvement retail today.

FedEx Office is adding a new kind of worker in North Texas: A robot that can deliver a hot pepperoni pizza, a bag of groceries or a prescription to a customer's home. The bot could bring a swab for a strep test to a sick person's door and return hours later with medication, cough drops and a cup of chicken noodle soup.

With Taurasi talking to Conley, and Kidd talk to Taurasi, the web continues to get tangled for the crooked characters of the story. Who can they really trust?

Ivanka Trump isn’t the first lady. In fact, she’s merely the daughter of the president, and though he makes really weird and inappropriate comments about her, she’s not the first lady. Ivanka has an office in the West Wing. She also accompanies her father to very important meetings with world leaders. Sh…

RIO DE JANEIRO — Anderson Silva discusses his upcoming fight with Jared Cannonier at UFC 237 and welcoming tough challenges at age 44, Israel Adesanya’s interim title win over Kelvin Gastelum and Adesanya’s comments about Jon Jones, his longtime friend Lyoto Machida’s fight with Chael Sonnen at Bellator, and more.

A George played a role in the return of Game of Thrones this past weekend. Just perhaps not the George you may have presumed.

Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing was like a mammoth Rorschach test for the nation: What you see depends on who you are. For some, it was a grueling, grotesque spectacle in which Republicans steamrolled accuser Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. For others (Republican men), the hearings were a solid affirmation of their…

Indian Wells, CA - This is a year for many firsts for the Marymount California tennis program and yesterday was another one. The Mariners competed for the first time in the 2019 GSAC Tennis Championships at Indian Wells Tennis Gardens where No. 4-seed Marymount defeated No. 5-seed Hope International, 5-3.  

More fitfully funny than it is frightening, The Curse Of La Llorona might be the first film in the Conjuring universe to remain a standalone. In his attempts to adhere to James Wan’s style, first-time feature director Michael Chaves fills the 93-minute runtime with enough jump scares and things going bump in the night…

Jeff Rose details how you can make more time for the tasks that really matter.

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Moira Barton fears the worst when she sees a nurse running to the operating theatre in Thursday's Emmerdale

“Quinton knows how we work, and he has been here before, and I think he would be a great addition,” Baxter said.

Taylor Swift, BTS, Rami Malek, Ariana Grande and Chrissy Teigen are among the famous faces named in TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2019.

People are expected to descend on KZN during the Easter weekend as the province continues to cement its pole position as a tourism destination of choice.

Late last week, a Twitter account highlighting one of the cardinal sins of bad science journalism popped up online, catching the eye of scientists, reporters, and the public: @justsaysinmice.

Selected editorials from Oregon newspapers:

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Medford Mail Tribune, April 17, on Senate taking it easier on juvenile offenders:

Oregon's initiative process allows the people to enact laws directly when the Legislature cannot or will not do so. On Tuesday, the Senate voted to change Ballot Measure 11 to be ...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A 42-year-old Kansas man has been sentenced to probation and ordered to pay about $384,000 restitution for stealing copper from his employer.

Barr said he will redact four categories of information from the report. He has refused to release an un-redacted version to Congress or the public.

• A federal judge said Attorney General William Barr has created public distrust about the special counsel Robert Mueller's final report in the Russia investigation.
• "The attorney general has created an environment that has caused a significant part of the public … to be concerned about whether or not there is full transparency" about Mueller's findings, US District Court Judge Reggie Walton said during a hearing Tuesday.
• The hearing was about a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit BuzzFeed News had filed... Читать дальше...

Recent editorials from Louisiana newspapers:

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The Advocate on bidding wars for economic development projects:

Now that Louisiana lawmakers have convened for another session, we'd suggest that they tackle a recent Wall Street Journal piece by Barton Swaim as required reading.

Swaim, once on the staff of former South ...