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When Lance LeGendre committed to Maryland, the former four-star prospect was seen by many as the quarterback of the future in College Park. For a team that has gone through quarterbacks at a breakneck pace — be it for injuries or ineptitude — there was hope LeGendre would stabilize things.

BJP president J P Nadda accused Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee of "boycotting" the centenary celebrations of Visva-Bharati due to her "jealousy, and political malice and rivalry"

State-owned CIL's coal allocation to the power sector under the special e-auction saw a 5.9 per cent rise to 17.96 million tonnes (mt) in the first eight months of the current financial year.

Online fashion retailer Myntra Designs saw its loss widening to Rs 744.4 crore for the financial year ended March 2020, according to regulatory documents.

U.S. stocks edged higher, putting major indexes on track to finish the holiday-shortened week little changed.

CINDERELLA will be getting a Zoom makeover this evening when Comic Relief airs a special one-off virtual pantomime for viewers on the BBC. But who in the cast of the Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas?

U.K. and EU reach historic post-Brexit trade deal after marathon talks

The United Kingdom is set for a much more distant relationship with its biggest trade partner than almost anyone expected at the time of the 2016 referendum.

“Such an amount of liquid diesel fuel has never been spilled in the history of mankind,” a top emergencies official said of the May 29 spill.

BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) - Kitsap County Jail officers involved in the death of a mentally ill inmate after a violent struggle were not properly trained to use the restraint chair linked to the man’s death, according to Washington State Patrol detectives.

CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss President Trump's final weeks in office, the slew of pardons and commutations he announced and the COVID-19 stimulus bill.

I have a Ph.D. in Women's Studies, but I'm not woke anymore. I write under a pseudonym because, if my colleagues were to find out about my criticisms of this field, I would be unable to find any employment in academia. That someone who critiques the axioms of a field of study feels compelled to write under an assumed name tells you everything you need to know about the authoritarianism underpinning this ideology. I no longer believe that the fundamental ideas of Women's Studies, and of Critical Social Justice more generally... Читать дальше...

Britain and the European Union have struck a provisional free-trade agreement that should avert New Year’s chaos for cross-border commerce and bring a measure of certainty to businesses after years of Brexit turmoil

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Now comes the race to approve and ratify the deal before the U.K. leaves the EU’s economic structures at the end of the year.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had the luxury of resting several key players for Wednesday night’s Carabao Cup win over Everton - and could welcome them back against Leicester. 

Joe Prince-Wright, Nick Mendola, and Andy Edwards preview the festive fixtures in the Premier League, select their Best XI of 2020 and look ahead to the transfer window.

A THIRD mutant strain of Covid appears to have emerged in Nigeria, Africa’s top public health official revealed. The discovery comes after similar supercharged variants of the deadly virus were recorded in Britain and South Africa. John Nkengasong, head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, revealed the existence of the new P681H […]

Electricity is a key ingredient in living bodies. We know that voltage differences are important in biological systems; they drive the beating of the heart and allow neurons to communicate with one another. But for decades, it wasn't possible to measure voltage differences between organelles—the membrane-wrapped structures inside the cell—and the rest of the cell.

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For moms who were already tired and stretched thin before 2020, living through a global pandemic has been the last straw. The only problem: most moms don't have the option to put down their load — they have to just keep trudging along. 

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Germany has developed new chemistry for improved control of the volume of liquid in volumetric additive manufacturing. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes their process and how well it worked when tested.

Navy Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt, who was selected earlier in December to be the first woman to command a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, has been assigned command of the San Diego-based USS Abraham Lincoln, the Navy announced Wednesday.

Navy Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt, who was selected earlier in December to be the first woman to command a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, has been assigned command of the San Diego-based USS Abraham Lincoln, the Navy announced Wednesday.

THE European Union has claimed it has the "tools" to maintain its fishing rights in British waters, Ursula von der Leyen today claimed.

Exchange-traded funds with exposure to Great Britain rallied Thursday after news reports that the country had reached a trade deal with the European Union. The Invesco CurrencyShares British Pound Sterling Trust and the Franklin FTSE United Kingdom ETF were both up slightly more than 0.6% mid-morning, and the iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF gained 0.5%. The pound also jumped 0.5% on the news. Britain is set to leave the EU's economic bloc Jan. 1, but few details about the post-divorce trade configurations had been set until now. Читать дальше...