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This is an intuitive way to play, although controls can get confusing. Here's every control you'll need to know in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.

Dalton Keene is gone, but Virginia Tech returns a very good tight end in James Mitchell. What can we expect from rising sophomore Nick Gallo?

White House adviser Jared Kushner will be aboard the first commercial flight between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, according to a report. Kushner, who is married to first daughter Ivanka Trump, helped orchestrate the UAE’s normalization of relations with Israel this month after previously working on an Israel-Palestinian peace plan. “Jared Kushner & other...

Almost half of Democrats in the 116th Congress have used the progressive neologism "Latinx" on social media, a new analysis from the Pew Research Center shows, a doubling of its use since the last session alone.

The US State Department pointed out that Hamas is a designated terrorist organization and that the officials that Erdoğan met with are “special designated global terrorists.”

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The next Dungeons & Dragons book will offer rules that change how race works in the game, allowing for greater levels of character customization.

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A pedestrian is suffering serious injuries after being struck by a car in Hamilton. Emergency services were called to the crash scene along Willoughby St, Whitiora, around 6.40pm, police say. "A car ...

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ASKED WHAT he makes of his new home, Safwan Daher, a Syrian refugee, chuckles: Duderstadt, a town near Göttingen that few Germans could find on a map, is “boring”. No matter. Mr Daher has an enjoyable computer-programming job that pays for a flat with three bedrooms. He keeps one empty, hoping his parents will leave Syria and join him. In his spare time he hangs out with his brother, a student at Göttingen University. The next step is German citizenship, for which he has just applied.

Here are 6 tips to know before you book your flight during the COVID-19 pandemic.

39-year-old Fabiana Pierre-Louis is set to become the youngest member and first Black woman ever to serve on New Jersey’s Supreme Court. On Monday, a state judiciary committee confirmed her nomination and stated they were pleased to vote for a new balance on the court system.

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The perfect killing machine. That’s what we called COVID-19 when we saw residents in nursing homes becoming infected nearly six months ago. This crisis was unlike anything the health care sector had ever seen. Even with the most rigorous infection...

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Aug 25 (Reuters) - J.Crew Group Inc said on Tuesday it expects to emerge from Chapter 11 in early September, after a bankruptcy court accepted is restructuring plan.

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Newsroom reports: A Newsroom investigation reveals a Ministry of Social Development initiative to provide emergency housing made the housing crisis worse and enriched a small set of landlords and real estate agents. A former Harcourts property manager in South Auckland has blown the whistle on an emergency housing scheme where a group of landlords were […]

Christopher Nolan’s new movie can feel like Timecop with a superiority complex. It’s mostly entertaining and entirely baffling.

Football.London’s Alasdair Gold has claimed that Tottenham Hotspur are keen on signing Wolves right-back, Matt Doherty this summer. Serge Aurier […]

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I used to play a lot of hoops with my friends. I also used to smoke a lot of weed. Usually not a good mix, but everytime before the game, I'd yell to my buddies, "The rim looks like the size of the ocean. Just keep feeding me. And feeding me. And feeding me." More often than not, it was but a figment of my imagination. That's what happens when you're high. But, but, but....Every once in a while, the heat checks would get cashed and all everyone would hear was, "Splash, splash, and splash" reverberating off the walls inside the gym. Читать дальше...

High-resolution NASA satellite data have made it possible for scientists to develop maps showing the "quality" of tropical forests.

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It was 101 years ago on April 12, 1910, that William Graham Sumner died. He had been born nearly 70 years earlier on October 30, 1840, almost 30 years to the day before the birth of another American libertarian, Albert Jay Nock, whose career bears a striking, if superficial, similarity to Sumner's. Like Sumner, Nock began his career, while still in his 20s, as an Episcopal clergyman. Like Nock, Sumner went into such work largely to please his family. But the job was a poor fit for both men. Читать дальше...