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MANILA, Philippines – From being cellar-dwellers in the UAAP, the University of the Philippines (UP) Fighting Maroons have risen to become one of the collegiate league's more formidable teams.

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Several Rays swung hot bats in Australia last week.

Exec will retain current role while broadening responsibilities across the U.S. and Canada.

Responding to a question, Gopinath said India's medium-term vision to reach a USD 5-trillion economy which focuses on boosting investment is appropriate.

1. John Durham has a stellar reputation for investigating corruption. Some fear his work for Barr could tarnish it.  Washington Post
2. Comey: 'I was wrong' to say FISA process was 'followed'  Fox News
3. Comey admits ‘I was wrong’ on FISA conduct, remains defiant on dossier in tense interview  Fox News
4. James Comey still won't admit the truth  New York Post
5. Russia collusion investigation did become a witch hunt, the inspector general report shows  USA TODAY
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Free NFL Betting Pick from W.G. Ramirez | We're approaching Week 15 in the NFL, here's W.G.'s free pick of the week!

Jared Johns found out too late that swapping messages with the pretty girl from a dating site would mean serious trouble. If only he had known who she really was.

No, this isn’t the oldest Santa photo in the Blade’s archives of Toledo histories macro and micro, but it is one of the more timeless.

Today, Glenn Beck looks almost nothing like the clean-shaven pundit who became famous delivering tearful Fox News monologues and emceeing Tea Party rallies. He has traded his signature dress shirts for scholarly sweater vests, horn-rimmed glasses, and a sage Vandyke beard. He also has a new role to match: as an anti-impeachment conspiracist who, for much of October and November, used his show on BlazeTV to unravel a bizarre theory about the Democrats’ alleged misdeeds in Ukraine—a mystery story... Читать дальше...

Whenever I catch myself proselytizing about the work of Patrick Modiano—which happens, it turns out, quite often—I realize I sound, like every evangelist, a little crazy. I’ll say, “His books are mysteries without solutions!” or “They’re stories where nothing really happens!” and mean this as an endorsement.

Ever since Rudy Giuliani decided to torch his legacy, by gallivanting across Europe in search of potential “dirt” on former Vice President Joe Biden, the repercussions have been as swift as they’ve been mind-boggling.

From the mid-1920s, when Hugo Gernsback coined the term “science fiction,” several fallacies became associated with the increasingly vigorous commercial genre and never entirely went away. The first was the “Taught Me Science Fallacy,” which goes something like this: Isaac Asimov writes about science and particle physics, so if I read the Foundation trilogy, I might learn what a neutrino is. (Kingsley Amis argued in his influential New Maps of Hell in 1960 that, at the very least, the “aim” of sci-fi was to do “justice to the laws of nature.

In every stump speech, Amy Klobuchar uses a joke sequence that invariably gets chuckles and knowing nods from Iowa Democrats. She begins by saying that many caucus-goers believe that the best thing a presidential candidate can hear is, “You’re in my top three.” The three-term Minnesota senator gets an even bigger laugh when she recounts how she once successfully wooed a former mayor of Cedar Rapids who, when they first met, told her with absurd precision that she was only “78 percent of the way there.”

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Retailers adding free shipping has helped more shoppers opt for purchases they might not have made otherwise.

The candidate represents a new age of Democrats without representing its politics.

Shintaro Kojima has left Capcom. Kojima produced Monster Hunter: Generations and has worked on a number of Monster Hunter games including the franchise’s debut PlayStation 2 title. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to close down two U.S. military bases in Turkey if sanctions against the country are approved by President Donald Trump. One of the U.S. bases, known as Incirlik, is believed to house roughly 50 nuclear bombs.

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Joseph Blandisi was a busy Penguin, Jack Johnson is becoming a leader, and we give thanks for Bryan Rust. All that and more in today’s Pens Points!

EZVIZ's latest weatherproof camera delivers crystal-clear audio and 1080p video for just $50.

If you’re a Windows 7 user, your deadline is nearing: Windows 7 officially exits support on Jan. 14, 2020, so it’s getting very close to the time you need to upgrade to Windows 10.

We compare the streaming platforms most popular with cord-cutters: Fire TV and Roku.

Mike McClain, Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan, Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s chief of staff Anne Caprara and Pritzker | Sun-Times file photos

Mike McClain, a former top lobbyist and close adviser to House Speaker Mike Madigan, was blacklisted from Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office after orchestrating behind-the-scenes efforts to oust the gov’s pick for chief of staff, sources say.

For 62 years, Mark Behnke has wondered where his father's plane crashed in northern New Brunswick. The mystery has been solved.