President Biden is determined to plow ahead with his campaign to try to defeat former President Trump in November, he and his surrogates said over the weekend. They spoke ahead of expected new polling that will gauge the thinking of an estimated 51 million viewers who watched portions of Biden’s jumbled, raspy, blank-faced performance Thursday, plus the millions of potential voters deluged with news...
The council said numbers have increased since the last national poll back in 2019
"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously," declared Noam Chomsky in 1957. It's a sentence which could be described, with the philosopher of language Donald Davidson, as "a nice derangement of epitaphs." These are examples of bits of the English language that have the form or appearance of being meaningful, but aren’t. Is it true that colorless green ideas sleep furiously? No. False, then? Well, no. Calling it false would be to indicate that colorless green ideas are wide awake, or that they sleep gently. Читать дальше...
Keswick Mountain Rescue Team was called out to Blackmoor Pols, Gillercomb, after a German shepherd became too injured to walk back to flat ground.
After months of hard work, collaboration and grit, 380 young people, aged 12-18, stepped onto a national stage to be crowned champions at the FIRST Tech Challenge UK Championship in Cambridge held on Friday, 21 June.
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Gareth Southgate's side were just seconds away from elimination when Bellingham (right) scored an acrobatic effort to take the game to extra time, before Harry Kane (left) netted the winner.
A group of Palestinian detainees meanwhile returned to the Gaza Strip, including the director of its biggest hospital who recounted "severe torture" in Israeli custody. The Israeli military said that about "20 projectiles were identified crossing from the area of Khan Yunis" in a rare salvo after nearly nine months of devastating conflict. The rockets were aimed at Israeli communities near the Gaza border and were fired in retaliation for Israeli "crimes... against our Palestinian people", said Al-Quds Brigades... Читать дальше...
July's £1m winners come from Hertfordshire and Cumbria, with the winning bonds bought in November 2016 and October 2021 respectively.
The fire broke out in the home on Avenue C just after midnight.
Local administration in Cyprus entered a new era on Monday, with newly elected district governors leading this huge step in the long-awaited reform. To mark what has been hailed as an “historic day”, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou held a press conference, during which he announced that President Nikos Christodoulides was planning a tour of the […]
Movies about male geniuses behaving badly are a dime a dozen. They make up a staid genre with straightforward conventions. But a staid genre can yield results. In 1972, came Ken Russell’s Savage Messiah, a biopic with the usual Russell mix of explosive creativity, lack of restraint, and quiet humanism—all embodied in its dual protagonists.
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Beginning Monday, a California law will require credit card networks like Visa and Mastercard to provide banks with special retail codes that can be assigned to gun stores in order to track their sales.
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Investigator Mark Williams-Thomas has hit out at online detectives for posing new challenges to the Jay Slater investigation by circulating bogus 'ransom demands', fake messages and doctored images
Trent Alexander-Arnold was an unused substitute in England's 2-1 extra time victory over Slovakia on Sunday, much to the bemusement of both Gary Lineker and Gary Neville
The Rouse Avenue Court of Delhi on Saturday sent Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to Judicial custody in connection with Excise policy case
“Having primarily grown organically until FY2022 and later on aided by benefits from acquired brands, JB has handsomely outperformed the IPM in the past decade by ~600 bps and currently ranks 22 in the IPM,” said Alankar Garude, Analyst at Kotak Equities.
A US-dominated monetary framework was put into place 80 years ago in Bretton Woods. It bred everything ranging from chronic deficits and speculative bubbles to politically-motivated sanctions, while allowing the greenback to reign supreme. Since the system’s collapse, global economies have been dealing with the blowback of its inherent failings.
Three Lions dramatically secured a place in the last eight against Slovakia on Sunday, despite once again failing to live up to their pre-tournament billing.
Sony Sports Network will live telecast the France vs Belgium match in India on Sony Ten 2 HD/SD with English commentary.