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Epic Games is locked in a legal battle with Apple after trying to dodge commission payments due to the tech giant, prompting the iPhone maker to pull Fortnite from its online store.

The Lucas County Commissioners are scheduled to decide on a replacement for Sharon Gaber’s seat on the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority Board during the commissioners’ meeting Tuesday.

In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, President Donald Trump and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson promised to “protect America’s suburbs” from “a relentless push for more high-density housing in single-family residential...

VIRUS LATEST * NZ has 123 active cases, with 10 people in hospital; worldwide there have been 23.5 million cases and 810,000 deaths * Level 2 is coming at 11.59pm on Sunday for Aucklanders - and they've ...

All four episodes of "Hillary" are available to stream on Hulu.

Once in a while, over the history of life, a new trait evolves that leads to an explosion of diversity in a group of organisms. Take wings, for instance. Every group of animals that evolved them has spun off into a host of different species—birds, bats, insects and pterosaurs. Scientists call these "key innovations."

The root causes of the ongoing conflict in Darfur are rising to the surface amid an influx of arms from Libya

In order to deliver drug particles to the right place in the body—a field known as nanomedicine—selectivity plays an important role. After all, the drug only has to attach itself to the cells that need it. A theory from 2011 predicts that selectivity is not only based on the type of receptor, but also on the number and strength of the receptors on the cell. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology are now proving this experimentally. They have published their results in the journal PNAS.

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Offering the promise of "healthy" booze.

Biofuel and bioenergy systems are integral to scenarios for displacing fossil fuel use and producing negative emissions through carbon capture and storage. But the net greenhouse gas mitigation benefit of these systems has been controversial, due to concerns around carbon losses from changes in land use and foregone sequestration benefits from alternative land uses.

Soil loss due to water runoff could increase greatly around the world over the next 50 years due to climate change and intensive land cultivation. This was the conclusion of an international team of researchers led by the University of Basel, which published the results from its model calculation in the scientific journal PNAS.

"It is not one of those f---ing comedy shows where it's like, oh, there's a lesson to be learned at the end of it. I hate that kind of s--t."

One new restaurant has already opened, one plans to open this week and at least two more are in the development stages.

The works in the artist’s latest exhibition, Near Distant, centre on ‘distance without it turning into nearness’

His road to the presidency was anchored in contention and acrimony, and if his bid is successful, Alassane Ouattara will have ruled for two decades when all is said and done.

Australia is facing its first recession in 30 years. The Covid-19 pandemic ended an unprecedented period for the country’s economy which expanded consecutively for decades. Even during the financial crisis of 2008, Australia managed to prevent the faith of other countries. The most obvious reason is the close economic relations with the world’s economic growth engine: China. Canberra, however, has become increasingly bellicose in its opposition to Beijing in numerous cases since the pandemic started. Читать дальше...

[This article is excerpted from chapter 3 of Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School. Footnote numbering differs from the original.]

10M4D is a combination of a house and two workshops. An embroider mother and her ceramist daughter wanted a place where they could live and work. They named this project ‘10M4D (Ten months, Four days)’ as they desired to be free of any commitment for two months a year, and three days a week. We sought to represent the multiplicity of life by combining three different spaces: a spacious ‘Madang’ (an outdoor space that has specific programmatic and climatic functions) that allows one to grow and utilize... Читать дальше...

FDA authorizes convalescent plasma for Covid-19 use, thousands evacuate as dueling storms take aim at U.S. Gulf Coast, and man finds his cat in a shelter while looking for new one.

As we search for any semblance of normalcy during this most un-normal of school years, might I suggest holding on to one routine that has traditionally eased the morning rush for parents? I’m talking about making the kids’ school lunches the night before.

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Sorry cry babies! It’s time for another of our infamous and patented Care/Don’t Care Podcasts, with your talent: the illustrious Eugene S. Robinson, the indubitable John S. Nash and our lovely & knowledgable co-host, Stephie Haynes. The format of the show is to review the prior weeks picks & then to announce each fight on the upcoming card, commenting on which upcoming fights are hot and which fights are not - for UFC VEGAS 8!

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Israel Adesanya sends a stern warning to Paulo Costa ahead of UFC 253.

Researchers have documented a case of Covid-19 reinfection, offering evidence that patients who have recovered from the viral disease could be infected a second time, months after the initial episode.

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: We’re highlighting some of the best movies of 2020 so far that we didn’t review.