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Vic Willis is credited with throwing the second no-hitter for the Braves franchise 121 years ago today. He probably shouldn't be.

Brent Crude prices are set to average $42.35 a barrel this year and $49.25 per barrel in 2021, according to IHS Markit’s latest price forecast, which was raised by $7 a barrel for next year compared to the previous projection in May. After the worst of the demand crash in April, oil markets are now “at a delicate pivot point as they transition to phase II” of the recovery expected by IHS Markit. In recent weeks, oil prices have been relatively stable, with Brent Crude trading in the narrow $40-$45 per barrel range. Читать дальше...

The most famous shipwreck in all of history was still a needle in a haystack at the bottom of the ocean when Discover's debut issue hit newsstands in 1980.

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Kalamazoo Industries offers the BG214 backstand grinder. It features dual 3- by 132-in. belt grinding heads to enable running multiple belt grits at 6,300 SFPM simultaneously on a single grinding unit. The machine allows simple access to the 14- by 3-in., 70-durometer, serrated contact wheel,...

Soumya Swaminathan, MD, DNB, chief scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), discusses the global coronavirus pandemic and the WHO response. Recorded August 5, 2020.

Feeling anxious? Even if this moment is a non-anxious moment for you, chances are good that at some point in the Year of the Pandemic, you have felt some anxiety; and chances are you’ll feel it again. If you do, might I suggest you try giving yourself a hug. A havening hug.

With the coronavirus still very much a thing, the NFL and NFL Players Association set a deadline of Thursday for players to decide whether or not they would be opting out of the upcoming season. Now that that deadline has passed, we know exactly which players we won’t see on the field this year.

Jeffrey Epstein was a monster, a smirking sociopath who believed he was superior to everyone around him. It’s no wonder he appealed to so many powerful people, including princes and presidents. Film and TV have an unfortunate tendency to romanticize monsters, especially if their lives boast a veneer of glamour.…

Esther Lin, MMA Fighting

Just a few weeks away from his return to action on Saturday, former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman admits he was starting to panic a little bit when he stepped on the scale.

We are delighted to inform you of our new policy regarding Teacher Replacements Should The Worst Outcome Occur. Effective immediately, all faculty are invited to name up to three replacements to teach their 2020-2021 courses. Should the worst outcome occur, teachers can die with the comforting knowledge that their courses will continue to meet on Facebook Live.

London – The BBC has received more than 18 600 complaints about the use of a racial slur in a TV news report. The N-word was used in a report about a racially-aggravated attack in Bristol, broadcast...

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Manish Mallick, owner of the Indian restaurant ROOH, poses for a portrait outside the West Loop restaurant in Chicago in July. | AP

Manish Mallick’s restaurant, ROOH Chicago, is one of more than 2,400 eateries, from New York City to Oakland, California, working with the non-profit World Central Kitchen to provide meals to the hungry.

With San Diego Comic-Con being mostly a bust and Star Wars Celebration canceled, fans hoping for a weekend of fun geek news turn their heads to Warner Bros. On August 22, it’s hosting DC FanDome, a 24-hour online event that promises to be as close to a Hall H experience as one can get.

TN Prathapan, the party's Lok Sabha MP from Kerala, in a letter to Sonia Gandhi, questioned the support senior Congress leaders Kamal Nath and Digvijay Singh extended to the construction of the temple

Clubs in the third and fourth tiers have voted in the salary caps, of £2.5million and £1.5million respectively, but the PFA have angrily hit back

1. Lebanon president: Beirut explosion either due to negligence or missile, bomb  USA TODAY
2. ‘Now You Are Going to Die’: Beirut Bride Recounts Moment of Blast [Video]  The New York Times
3. Inside Beirut After the Explosion | WSJ  Wall Street Journal
4. Lebanon is on track to become a failed state  Al Jazeera English
5. Will Macron Deliver on His Lofty Promises to Help Beirut?  Bloomberg
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The Queensland border has closed to anyone from New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory