Somerset close in on victory over Warwickshire
Warwickshire were 103 for six needing 239 to win.
Warwickshire were 103 for six needing 239 to win.
An author from Oman has won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for "Celestial Bodies," the story of three sisters and of a desert country moving from slave-owning traditional society and complex modern nation
Former Mic Publisher Cory Haik has been named Vice Media's new chief digital officer and will prioritize audience growth, platform partnerships and "digital product innovation" for the media company, Vice said today. Haik will report to CEO Nancy Dubuc and work out of Vice's Brooklyn office. She will oversee the updated vice.com, where the site's...
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Jeff Daniels predicts that if “toddler-in-chief” Donald Trump is re-elected in 2020, it will be the “end of democracy."
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Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Tuesday appeared to think that a freshman Democrat was questioning him about Oreo cookies during his congressional testimony, when she was in fact asking him about foreclosure properties.
LONDON (AP) - An author from Oman has won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for "Celestial Bodies," the story of three sisters and of a desert country confronting its slave-owning past and a complex modern world.
Читать дальше...The agency asked the House Intelligence Committee not to hold the attorney general in contempt — a move one Democratic-led panel has already taken
After last Thursday’s heartbreaking defeat, members of the St. John’s Edge are taking some time to figure out what went wrong and decide what their next move is.
It starts with self-responsibility
Some residents of South Sudan's Wau town say relations between the army and civilians have improved significantly over the past few months thanks to steady confidence-building efforts. Many civilians say they no longer fear men in uniform, but residents are also urging the government to pay soldiers their salaries on time so they don't resort to looting in order to feed their families. Relations between the two sides deteriorated in 2016 when violence broke out in Wau, forcing thousands to flee to churches... Читать дальше...
Internet trolls have passed a brutal verdict on a young man who was filmed on camera as he surprised his fiancé with a proposal while she was on stage receiving her certificate at her graduation ceremony.
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The company announced Tuesday it has seen positive results from its program to address addiction.
Democratic Rep. Katie Porter tweeted that she asked Carson about "REOs - a basic term related to foreclosure - at a hearing today. He thought I was referring to a chocolate sandwich cookie."
CNBC's Diana Olick reports on homebuilder Toll Brothers' quarterly earnings report.
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has slammed the official narrative surrounding an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria last year, citing a report that states no such attack took place.
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Reynaldo “Rey” Ordóñez Pereira defected from Cuba at the age of 22. He spent two years in the minor leagues after being signed by the New York Mets before he became their everyday shortstop in 1996. He developed a reputation as a stellar defensive shortstop over the course of his career. But his struggles to become a better than mediocre hitter created frustration and likely shortened his career.
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Former vice president Joe Biden's policy reversal on marijuana, which he just a few years ago called a "gateway drug," came just a few days before a Tuesday night fundraiser with Florida mega-donor and marijuana legalization advocate John Morgan.
Читать дальше...Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister NChandrababu Naidu on Tuesday discussed forging a non-BJP alliance after the results of the Lok Sabha elections on Thursday with Janata Dal-Secular supremo HDDeve Gowda...
Washington on Tuesday became the first US state to legalise human composting after its eco-friendly governor signed a bill to that effect in a bid to cut carbon emissions from burials and cremations. Under the new law that will go into effect in May of next year, people who die in the state will have the option to have their bodies transformed into soil suitable for use in gardening. The process is called recomposition. "Recomposition offers an alternative to embalming and burial or cremation that is natural... Читать дальше...
This week IntelliFarms announced its release of the new WISP-2 Soil Probe. The new tool provides accuracy and ease of use in the field.
Over five million Americans suffer from a severe and debilitating mental health condition called nightmare disorder, but help is on the way.
Hedge funds are gaining steadily this year but still lagging well behind the broader market. The $3.2 trillion industry gained 7 percent through April, when the S&P 500 popped 17.5 percent, according to data released Tuesday by Preqin. While hedgies like to blast comparisons between hedge fund performance and the S&P 500, Preqin’s data shows...