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NBA superstar Steph Curry and his restauranteur wife, Ayesha Curry, are among the newest members of one of President Biden’s councils promoting fitness and nutrition. The White House announced on Friday that the famed couple is among the nearly 30 new members that Biden intends to appoint to the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and...

The Republican-led House on Friday passed its so-called “Parents Bill of Rights,” 213-208. Framed as a positive piece of legislation, the bill actually aims to police teachers and school staff, and thus obstruct the independent flow of education for students.

The number of tuberculosis deaths in Europe is on the rise again after declining for almost two decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday.

The chest-thumping founder of Russia’s notorious Wagner mercenary group flexed his political muscle to get a local mayor to back down and allow the burials of Wagner soldiers. But Yevgeny Prigozhin’s influence may already be on the wane.

More than a thousand students from poor financial background studying at the Delhi University have received the benefit of the varsity's fee waiver scheme so far, an official said on Friday. Eighty per cent of them have received full waiver of their fees, the official told PTI, adding that the benefits amount to more than Rs 1 crore. The DU announced the fee-waiver scheme in November last year. The waiver includes all components of the fees paid by the students barring those for examination and hostel. Читать дальше...

This would serve as a guiding policy to all states and ensure a comprehensive and uniform growth of the EV sector

The Scottish Greens are clear they will not allow any first minister to ‘rip out’ parts of the Bute House Agreement.

EMMANUEL Macron has been ridiculed after he tried to subtly remove his £2,000 watch from his wrist on TV while discussing his bitterly contested pension reforms.

Everywhere (not to be confused with Everything) was a big fat question mark at last year’s Gamescom Opening Night Live. It comes from Build A Rocket Boy, the studio founded by ex-GTA boss Leslie Benzies, and despite its cryptic reveal trailer, AliceB theorised it was some kind of Robloxlike. Turns out her hunch was correct - Everywhere is a platform that allows players to create their own custom content. To show off what the tools can do, Benzies and the team unveiled MindsEye, an episodic “blockbuster”... Читать дальше...

For those of us who have been immune to the charms of Boris Johnson from the start, the psychological hold that the blonde has had over the Conservative party and a large chunk of the British people has always been hard to understand and fascinating to watch.

with Roger Stone

Bike rides, creating your own art, the history of Book Month and more.

Bike rides, creating your own art, the history of Book Month and more.

The Lions have brought back their backup quarterback. Detroit has re-signed Nate Sudfeld, the club announced on Friday. Sudfeld joined the Lions in late August after he was cut by the 49ers. He served as Jared Goff‘s backup, appearing in just two games and playing nine offensive snaps. Sudfeld has appeared in six career games [more]

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ratticusfinch wrote:

There are a few rules that certainly need tidying up. I would say, as someone involved in football refereeing, that RL is an extremely difficult game to ref - much, much harder than football. We may think that this current crop of referees aren't that good but I think they actually they do a pretty decent job of an almost impossible task.

We don't want to be going down the football route where managers and players all hold the ref to account, rather than themselves, after a loss. Читать дальше...

Suryukumar Yadav was dismissed for three first-ball ducks in the ODI series against Australia, leaving many in the Indian cricketing fraternity bewildered.

Post-finale, Williams talks about her new spin on the “Black lady therapist” trope and her many improvised moments — including that Mariah Carey riff.

There may have been more than one way to bring the biblical Goliath down, but David chose to attack using a small stone with a slingshot.

During the Thursday morning commute, a fire spread from a homeless encampment near the Broadway Bridge and created difficult conditions for firefighters, Portland Fire & Rescue said.

ANTIPOLO CITY — Rondae Hollis-Jefferson brushed off concerns of a groin injury sustained in TNT’s blowout win over Meralco in Game 1 of their PBA Governors’ Cup semifinal series. “I’m good,” Hollis-Jefferson said after the Tropang Giga’s 110-80 rout of the Bolts on Friday at Ynares Center here. The former NBA player was subbed out […]

A team of chemists and computer scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, the University of California and Institut des Sciences et Ingenierie Chimiques, Ecole, have developed an ecosystem of tools to boost machine-learning-based design of metal-organic frameworks.

After nearly 50 years, the Tulsa Drillers announced today the return of the iconic Tulsa Oilers character, Oily the Oiler!Originally introduced to... - TL Tulsa Drillers