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The president is bestowing favor on his loyal defenders, and visiting revenge on those he feels have betrayed him.

Love Island 2020 star Shaughna Phillips admitted that her first celebrity crush was a hunky EastEnders character during tonight's episode of the ITV2 dating show

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Today's major tech stories include all the new Samsung announcements, including the foldable Z Flip, S20 series phones and much more.

Photo by Pigi CipelliArchivio Pigi CipelliMondadori via Getty Images One man’s journey to find himself. “What’s your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It’s an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?” — Jack Kerouac, “On the Road” Run to the desertYou will see all that you need to seeRun to the desertYou will be all that you need to be... — Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros The landscape stretches before him, a seemingly endless expanse of hard... Читать дальше...

Some sources indicate that Concacaf qualifiers will begin in Sept 2020 and there will be no hex. The announcement of the format would be in the next days:

https://www.diez.hn/laseleccion/122...-inicio-eliminatorias-mundial-2020-qatar-2022

Atención, el formato para las eliminatorias al mundial de fútbol Qatar 2022, en la @Concacaf, será anunciada en los próximos días. Iniciarán en septiembre del 2020 y desaparecerá el hexagonal. De nuevo nos puede sorprender con una baja posición en el ranking. Читать дальше...

Paul Lasslett had only met his grandchild for the first time a few days before he was shot dead in his Omanawa property, a grieving family friend says. The 44-year-old was one of the two men found dead ...

Jamie Murray/Neal Skupski were pushed to the limit on Tuesday at the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, but reached the quarter-finals in Rotterdam with a 7-6(4), 5-7, 10-7 win over Jurgen Melzer/Edouard Roger-Vasselin.

Downtown Beirut often resembles a ghost town these days. When it does get busy, it’s usually because anti-government protesters have gathered, chanting slogans such as: Eat the rich!

Kenya has seen an uptick in the number of attacks by Islamist al-Shabab insurgents, including on a base housing U.S. troops. That has left Kenyans in the northeast of the country very nervous.

The federal prosecution of Larry Ray stemmed from a New York investigative story.

Sal Johnson nailed the Masters and PGA Championship last year.

Secret control of a Swiss device enabled the US and Germany to collect classified information, reports say.

State Sen. John Liu ripped city schools chief Richard Carranza in Albany Tuesday for the chancellor’s treatment of Asian New Yorkers. “You’ve got a city of 8.5 million people, you’ve got 1.2 million school kids, you’ve got to be chancellor for everybody,” Liu, the Senate’s Education Committee chair, told Carranza at a hearing. “You think...

78 Basketball Summer Clinics is hosting its annual series of summer basketball clinics. These co-ed week-long clinics are open to players 9-12 years old (age as of 8/31/20). Participants will be placed in a supportive, but competitive, atmosphere. Players … read more

Hilton Als on the photographer Anthony Barboza, whose portraits of black stars, culled from theatre, film, and publishing, included Owen Dodson, Debbie Allen, Miriam Makeba, Toukie Smith, and others.

“Expect prices to rise and service to suffer,” warned Public Citizen. Consumer advocacy groups on Tuesday sharply condemned a federal judge’s decision to approve the planned merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, the nation’s third- and fourth-largest wireless carriers, warning that the $26.5 billion deal could lead to higher prices and worse service. The group Public […]

The Statehouse podcast is SDPB Radio's legislative podcast that features a compilation of the top stories coming from Pierre. Today you'll hear about the failure of House Bill 1057, and provisions for replacing long-term care facilities. Politics and public policy reporting is supported by The Center for Western Studies at Augustana University

The NFL’s daily transaction report for Monday brought word that wide receiver Gehrig Dieter’s contract with the Chiefs expired, but he won’t be moving on to another team this offseason. Field Yates of ESPN reports that the Chiefs have re-signed Dieter to their 90-man offseason roster. Dieter joined the Chiefs as an undrafted free agent [more]

A family friend disputes claims that the Queen’s grandson was blindsided by the separation: “things haven’t been going well since last autumn.”

In an interview with Sports Illustrated, Philippe Coutinho has hailed former side Liverpool as ‘fantastic’, whilst also admitting that he’s ‘so happy for them’ following their massive progress since his exit. The attacking midfielder spent five years with Liverpool before sealing a dream move to Barcelona in January 2018. At the time Coutinho had established […]