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CLIFTON, NJ — Taras Petryshyn started out in Clifton Public Schools as a high school student, then a custodian. Now, he’s about to start his first school year as an assistant principal in the same district. “I cannot really explain how special it is,” he told CNN. Petryshyn moved to Clifton, New Jersey, from Ukraine in 1997 after his family unexpectedly won a green card lottery. Then a sophomore in high school, he learned English within a year of his […]

Entering their nationally televised dress rehearsal Sunday night on the road against the Tennessee Titans (NBC, 8 p.m.), the Pittsburgh Steelers are one of the more fascinating dark horse threats in the NFL. Some pundits believe opportunity has passed by head coach Mike Tomlin and future Hall of Fame quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Others are sure...

At least three armed men tied up employees and cleaned out a jewelry store Sunday in a “massive” mid-day heist in Midtown, police said. The robbery was reported at 12:02 p.m. at 28 West 47th Street, which is listed as Avianne and Co., a store that advertises itself as a diverse men’s jewelry featuring diamond-studded...

Emergency services have been called to the seafront in Essex.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Hartford Public Library is showing a documentary film this week about the life of the Puerto Rican nationalist who founded the group that carried out a record-setting heist of a Connecticut armored car depot in 1983.

Edmonton's Madison Willan hit a three-run homer as Canada's women's baseball team beat host Mexico 11-1 to capture the bronze medal on Sunday at a World Cup qualifying tournament.

Two important steps in developing an effective response to the shared crisis of housing stability and homelessness.

Netflix subscribers and theatergoers can now watch “American Factory,” a powerful new documentary about what happens when a manufacturing plant opens in a job-deprived town but the plant’s owners are callous to workers, hostile to unions and obsessed with profits at any cost. It is a story that has played out in towns and cities […]

Journalists should not be — and cannot be — kept from seeking the truth by officials using the government's power to block their investigations.

REJOICE, football fans – La Liga returns this week. Home to some of the most attacking teams in Europe, the Spanish t0p-flight never fails to entertain but fans in the UK were worried they’d be unable to watch this season after Eleven Sports lost the rights. Eleven Sports had the coverage last season with a […]

I didn’t understand the appeal of driving around for the fun of it until the exact moment that I laid eyes on Drive Me To The Moon, a game which is all about cruising the open road with your girlfriend in the passenger seat. Suddenly, yes, I would quite like to just hop in a […]

One of the saddest things about the conclusion of “Game of Thrones” — apart from who died, who said goodbye and who was exiled — was that it meant the end of “Gay of Thrones,” the Funny or Die web series in which “Queer Eye” star Jonathan Van Ness recapped the show through his uniquely […]

MG PHILIPPINES said two of its models can be purchased via down payments as low as P18,000. Available through the “Make it Great, Make it MG” promo, offered now until the end of September, are the top-spec MG RX5 Alpha compact SUV and the MG ZS A/T Style Plus. MG Philippines said the RX5 Alpha […]

SANTA CLARA — As the first player on the U.S. Squash national team to compete in a hijab, 12-year-old Fatima Abdelrahman is aware that her presence is a statement of sorts. Currently ranked fifth in the country for her age group, she’s been competing since she was five and wearing the hijab in competitions since […]

Steve Bruce is up and running as Newcastle United head coach after a fine win at Tottenham, while Manchester City beat Bournemouth.

DAVID Beckham gave wife Victoria an affectionate kiss on the lips aboard Elton John’s luxury yacht on a family holiday in the south of France. Football legend David, 44, showed off his heavily tattooed body as he leaned in for a peck as sultry Victoria, 45, perched on the side of the boat wearing a […]

"I want it, I got it." —Ariana Grande, and apparently all of our readers shopping these products.

August 24, 2019
Cambridge Bay
Nunavut

The blow blew itself out overnight, but weather has continued to be unsettled. Today, strong winds from the SE, rain and a heavy, ragged cloud. In the morning I shifted Mo to the pier in town for fuel only to find the wind increasing still and the pier foaming with chop. 

Thinking I could dinghy in for fuel, I anchored near town and just off where Amundsen’s Maud came to rest so many years ago. But the berth was too small, and it felt... Читать дальше...

THE LATE POET AND TEACHER Tony Hoagland admits early in The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice (written with Kay Cosgrove) that voice is a somewhat nebulous, mysterious element — “like the womb around an embryo,” a slightly uncomfortable analogy. Hoagland was a poet whose own writing was immersed in the vernacular, his ear tuned to […]

A young family claims they were accosted and attacked by a group of armed assailants after their vehicle was stopped in broad daylight on their way to a Waiheke Island beach. The shocked mother says ...

Security consultants are getting more inquiries and requests for training sessions on how to stay safe.

More than one year after Ruth Wilson left The Affair under mysterious circumstances, Maura Tierney is speaking out in defense of her co-star’s choice. In a new interview with Vanity Fair, the ER vet suggests that she was not surprised by Wilson’s decision to vacate her starring role ahead of the fifth and final season […]

Australia will establish a mechanism for internet providers to quickly and effectively block websites hosting terror attacks in the wake of the Christchurch shooting, according to an emailed statement.

Pakistan said on Sunday that at least three persons, including a policeman, were injured in a blast outside its Consulate General in the volatile Jalalabad city in Afghanistan. Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Faisal said an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded outside the consulate in Jalalabad. "IED exploded outside holding area of our Consulate General in Jalalabad. All Pakistani staff are safe. One policeman and two applicants are reportedly wounded," he said in a tweet. "We are in contact... Читать дальше...

Put down your phone and let your Amazon Echo call and text your friends instead  CNET

All the ways Amazon's Alexa assistant can step in to broadcast messages around your house and place calls and texts on your behalf.