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The Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC) announced Jackie Rozell, Karly Morris, and Kali Crawford of Aquinas as its final weekly award winners for women's volleyball. Rozell picked up Attacker of the Week with 4.5 kills per set and five blocks. Morris repeated as Defender of the Week with 5.83 digs per set and 3 serving aces. Crawford was named Setter of the Week as she handed out 11.67 assist per set and had 9 digs. 

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Middle Georgia State swept the SSAC Women's Soccer Player of the Week awards, with Miagh Downey being named SSAC Women's Soccer Offensive Player of the Week and Courtney Link being named SSAC Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week, the conference office announced Monday.

1. How Fake News and Rumors Are Stoking Division in Hong Kong  Bloomberg
2. Hong Kong protester shot at close range, counterprotester set on fire in latest escalation of violence  Fox News
3. Hong Kong on edge as police fire tear gas at university campus  Reuters
4. What's behind the escalation in Hong Kong  Washington Examiner
5. The Latest: Hong Kong leader refuses to accept demands  Sacramento Bee
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1. Scientists find which exoplanets could host alien life with pioneering ‘3D chemistry’ experiment  The Independent
2. Scientists discover which planets could be home to alien life in shock breakthrough study  Express.co.uk
3. Study Refines Which Exoplanets Are Potentially Habitable  Astrobiology News
4. Humans have 1 in 14,000 chances of going extinct next year - more than getting struck by lightning  Daily Mail
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Ibraheem Yazeed was out on bond and awaiting trial on kidnapping and attempted murder charges when he was arrested under suspicion of abducting Walt Harris’ stepdaughter Aniah Blanchard.

In Mati Diop’s Atlantics, discontent reigns over the port city of Dakar, where a futuristic high-rise towers like some cruelly conceived lighthouse. When first introduced, Souleiman (Ibrahima Traoré), one of the construction workers of this building project, is agitating for three months of backpay; when he and his…

Leicester City latest | While James Maddison and Jamie Vardy hog the headlines, Cundy believes that the performances of this Foxes star is going under the radar

Natural gas has been hailed as the bridge fuel between the fossil fuel economy of the past and present, and the renewables economy of the future. With renewable energy costs falling steadily and considerably, some are beginning to worry that gas is facing increasingly fierce competition amid fast-growing supply. A recent couple of reports from a nonprofit organization promoting renewable energy suggested solar and wind, plus storage, could become cheaper than most gas-fired power plants in the United States in just 16 years. Читать дальше...

I am a strong believer in the idea that you can never have too many turtlenecks. I may be the only person who thinks like this, but just go with it. This time of year you could easily find a way to wear a turtleneck every single day.

Were an American from the mid-nineteenth century to time-travel to modern America, he'd be truly amazed to find that Americans are often expected to thank soldiers "for your service" and to act as if the military was doing the taxpayer a favor.

Move over, Fenty Beauty and Pat McGrath, there’s a new black female-owned beauty empire on the rise. Hot on the heels of their acquisition of Black Opal cosmetics in September, the powerhouse team of company CEO Desiree Rogers and President Cheryl Mayberry McKissack have announced the purchase of pioneering beauty…

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Watch out China.

Key point: Tokyo's use of flatops with fixed-wing planes is major step towards power projection.

Japan's cabinet on Dec. 18, 2018 approved a plan to modify the Japanese navy's two Izumo-class helicopter carriers to embark F-35B stealth fighters.

The modifications should result in the Japanese fleet operating, for the first time since World War II, flattops with fixed-wing aircraft. With the two ships and their new planes... Читать дальше...

For a wonderful stretch of days in late October, every short workout I did with Nintendo’s Ring Fit Adventure revealed it to be a better game. Then I just stopped playing. These are the best and worst things that can come from a video game combined with exercise.

We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.

Tones And I will make her U.S. TV debut next week. The Aussie singer behind the global hit “Dance Monkey” is booked to appear on NBC...

(Bloomberg) -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in -- swept into office on a vow to clean up government after his predecessor was ousted for graft -- wanted a prosecutor who wouldn’t hesitate to go after the most powerful.Problem is, Moon may have gotten what he wished for in Yoon Seok-youl.Almost immediately after being appointed as the nation’s chief prosecutor in July, Yoon launched a series of probes that have rocked Moon’s two-year-old administration. The scandal has forced one justice minister... Читать дальше...

BREXIT is causing chaos across the UK, politically and financially. Surveys have revealed how Britons are putting of selling.

A lawyer who has been living under the policy’s protection from deportation will argue in its favor at the Supreme Court.