Новости за 19.04.2024

Almost every professional athlete hopes to be famous one day—to shatter records and break streaks; to enshrine themselves in their sport’s history. On Wednesday, Jontay Porter achieved fame in perhaps the most ignominious way he could: He became the first athlete in the North American major leagues to receive a lifetime ban for gambling since Major League Baseball excommunicated Pete Rose, a player-manager for the Cincinnati Reds, in 1989.

Of all the individuals and institutions implicated in the global migration crisis, you’d be hard-pressed to find a figure more universally detested than the human smuggler. U.S. immigration authorities routinely vilify the “ruthless smugglers and transnational criminal organizations who exploit vulnerable migrants” with “disinformation.” Smugglers, one Customs and Border Protection officer recently claimed, treat migrants as a “commodity” no different from “vegetables or drugs.” In these polarized times... Читать дальше...

“We’ll get every kind of root beer and then blindfold my kid …”

I know that many of my fellow pro-Israel activists fear that we cannot abide any politician who calls for conditioning aid to Israel.

Discover practical tips for renting a car in a foreign country. Make your next trip smoother with expert advice.

Alvin Bragg, Manhattan's District Attorney, has great friends and determined critics

A Trump foe's legal twist, a major media figure's pro-Biden 2020 tweet raising eyebrows and much more in this week's News Quiz. Try to get a perfect score!

The Cavendish Blvd. extension will play an essential role in the project, she says. Plante promises a major announcement on the issue Friday.

Qubits can be made by floating a suspended electron over a pool of liquid helium rather than being embedded them a solid-state crystal — which leads to impurities and errors.

Tech guru Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson explains an easy trick to avoid squinting while working or surfing the web by zooming in on your personal computer.

The do’s and mostly don’ts — especially if you’re in government

Shoemaker has issued five profit warnings since private equity firm Permira listed it in London in 2021

One-year-old French start-up approached by multiple investors who view it as Europe’s answer to OpenAI

Rhys Cornwell looks to the weekend as Farnborough tackle Weymouth in The Vanarama National League South.

It is hard to believe that one would be forced to ask a sitting senator — especially one from the great state of Maryland — to stop appeasing and coddling terrorists.

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With longer life expectancies and a changing landscape of retirement planning, it’s normal to have some questions about how to fund your retirement years. 

The Leicester City manager reveals he worked on a new tactic during the international break - but that he's not needed to use it yet, despite the club's stuttering form and defeats at Millwall and Plymouth last week

10 essentials to get your garden ready for the coming growing season and our meteorologist dishes on the best time to start planting.

Attacks on Metro bus drivers highlight dangers that operators face. Serious attacks on transit workers have tripled nationally over the last 15 years.

Expanding on Gov. Wes Moore’s assertion that “This is Maryland’s decade, and Baltimore’s time,” this is unquestionably Downtown’s moment. Together, with our public and private partners — our many Downtown stakeholders and those well beyond our perimeter — we intend to make the most of it.

CPS is finalizing a budget and funding plan they claim will benefit all of the district’s schools - neighborhood and selective enrollment - in the 2024-25 school year.

A mischief-maker appears keen to pit the King versus the Duchess in the jam stakes