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Perhaps no one deserves as much credit for the Raptors’ new-found status as Masai Ujiri, the Raptors’ president, who made a couple controversial decisions last year that are paying off in a big way in the finals.

The Herald reports: Kiwi consumers will miss out on access to more than 400 million products if the Government’s online GST crackdown backfires and Amazon blocks New Zealanders from accessing its services like it has in Australia.The e-commerce juggernaut is set to ban Australian consumers from using its global websites including its flagship Amazon.com as […]

The first winner of the grant is Maisie Schloss who will be debuting her new brand in Los Angeles and Paris.

House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn said he believes the president will face impeachment in the days to come.

There’s a long list of celebrities who deserve to compete on “Dancing with the Stars” when the series returns this fall for its 28th season, and ABC entertainment president Karey Burke recently said they’re “going after bigger stars than we have in a long time.” Below is a list of male celebs I think the […]

Add this to worries about Wall Street: The index of planes, trains and trucking companies, considered an important stock barometer of the U.S. economy's health, is struggling. The Dow Jones Transportation Average has swooned 10% this month, a far steeper decline than that of the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the S&P 500. For analysts who closely watch the transports, this could be a sign of deeper market stress.

As the U.S.-China trade war continues to escalate, Beijing and its energy giants appear to be bracing for a worst-case scenario where the spat would drag on for years and possibly result in Chinese foreign oil supply stifled.    The idea that the world’s top oil importer could see some of its overseas crude supply blocked has always been an unthinkable notion, but now some analysts and Chinese industry executives suggest that China should prepare for the very worst of the worst, such as its oil supply... Читать дальше...

The design grew from the client’s desire to ‘re-set’ each time he returned from work. He would arrive by car straight from the airport, without the time to adequately slot back into society. Our client was a single FIFO worker at the start of the project, who wanted a laid-back and robust sanctuary back home. He would arrive by car from the airport after a month off-shore and wanted the house to be instrumental in readjusting his mindset back into an on-shore, city-based existence for the ensuing month. Читать дальше...

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference officially kicks off on Monday in San Jose, California. If you weren’t able to snag a ticket to this year’s conference (or you’re just interested in the software announcements), you can catch a lot of the action online.

Selling a car is a hard thing to do, unless that car is a piece of crap like my 1995 Honda Accord was. Especially if you’ve had some great memories with it, letting go can be tough. But sometimes you have no choice, and time, money, or just generally crappy circumstances force your hand. In that case, who is the ideal…

Read the tea leaves carefully because Sam's Club may be on the brink of retail innovation greatness.

Michael Peck

Security,

Maybe. 

India’s two existing carriers use a Short-Takeoff But Arrested Recovery, or STOBAR, system in which short-takeoff aircraft are launched off a ski jump flight deck, but are recovered using arresting wires like an American carrier. While simpler and cheaper than CATOBAR, it requires aircraft to be lighter and carry less payload.

Will India’s next aircraft carrier be a British design?

(This first appeared last month.)

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The water utility stock beat the S&P 500 by more than 11% last month.

THE BEST MOMENT, HONESTLY. In a sea of emotional moments Saturday as Liverpool secured their sixth ever European Cup in Madrid (it doesn’t get old saying it), a couple cameras caught a tender moment with captain Jordan Henderson. After receiving his winner’s medal, Hendo made his way to the crowd, …

1985 India team fitter than Virat Kohli's side: Sunil Gavaskar at Salaam Cricket 2019

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This week, both our winners on the insightful side come in response to our post about Twitter banning the Krassensteins, despite the ongoing accusations of anti-conservative bias at the platform. In first place, it's Stephen T. Stone responding to an old, tired, incoherent argument that banning people violates "common law":

The foot of an emu, a living dinosaur.

The suit alleges the bird attack caused traumatic brain injury and two herniated discs in the victim's neck. Continue reading…

Yoel Romero got paid and MMA Fighting lost some good folks. Let’s talk about that. Plus, one of my favorite questions I’ve ever received.

The ability to pull one’s head inside a turtleneck and just hide out for a while is arguably the only good reason for wearing a turtleneck, and I would very much like the option to turn all of my clothing into a personal meditation tent.

Macauley Negus, 23, from Plymouth, is missing in Madrid after travelling to the Spanish capital with his dad

Following the Virginia Beach shooting, eyes are once again on Congress to pass gun control reform. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) joins Alex Witt to urge her colleagues to work together and “do something” to help prevent future mass shootings. Plus, she