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TORONTO — The Cleveland Cavaliers lost J.R. Smith to a left knee injury early in the game, though LeBron James wouldn’t allow his team to let up on the Toronto Raptors one bit.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — J.R. Holder had 18 points, Devin Harris made 5 of 7 from the field and scored 12 with seven rebounds and Jacksonville held off Bethune-Cookman for a 76-66 win on Monday night.

As park of respect to J Jayalalithaa, government offices and educational institutions in Kerala will remain shut on Tuesday.

Christmas comes once a year, but this style star serves up glamour all year long. Jennifer Aniston was the epitome of chic in a well-tailored jumpsuit at the New York City premiere of Office Christmas Party on Monday evening. The actress looked gorgeous in a black one-piece from Brandon Maxwell’s Fall 2016 ready-to-wear collection — and the celeb-loved designer thought so too!

Christmas comes once a year, but this style star serves up glamour all year long. Jennifer Aniston was the epitome of chic in a well-tailored jumpsuit at the New York City premiere of Office Christmas Party on Monday evening. The actress looked gorgeous in a black one-piece from Brandon Maxwell’s Fall 2016 ready-to-wear collection — and the celeb-loved designer thought so too!

Hailey Baldwin has made a bold comment about Taylor Swift’s squad. In an interview with Yahoo7 Be, the model said: “I don’t understand the Taylor Swift squad at all. I don’t know what having a squad means. I just have my friends and that’s it.”

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Despite evidence that certain drugs aren't always necessary, doctors are still prescribing these treatments, a new survey of doctors reveals.

From tear gas to Donald J. Trump: How the Dakota Access Pipeline protests have unfolded over the past several months.

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DEARBORN, Mich., Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Ford Motor Co. announced on Monday it plans to raise nearly $3 billion to increase its push into areas of transportation beyond making and selling vehicles.

The Turkish constitutional amendment package, which includes a new presidential system, is still being reviewed and is expected to brought to Parliament later this week, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Monday.

Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) of “Westworld” met a surprising end during the season finale of the sci-fi show. (Warning: Spoilers ahead!) After launching the new narrative he painstakingly created — even at the cost of several lives — Ford seemingly allowed Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood) to kill him the same way his former partner, Arnold Weber (Jeffrey Wright), asked her to end him many years ago.

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It’s already been two months since a number of Galaxy Note 7 units started catching fire, and now it looks like one of the major reasons why it happened was due to Samsung’s flawed design. Manufacturing company Instrumental tore down the handset and discovered that it may have been too thin for the battery.

ARLINGTON, Texas — Jalen Jones hit four 3-pointers and scored 18 points to help lead Texas-Arlington to an easy 99-49 win over Division III Texas-Dallas on Monday night.

Jim Cramer quickly provides his opinion to various stocks from callers, including this medical equipment company.

China appears unperturbed by Trump's insulting tweets, while netizens are getting some laughs from the Twitter-diplomacy.

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. — Xavier Lundy scored 20 points and Norville Carey had his first double-double of the season to lift Rider to a 71-69 win over Siena on Monday night.

Until 'Transformers' movies stop offering larger-than-life robot-on-robot action spectacle, they will keep being somewhat top-tier hits.

In the NFL, a great defense tends to beat a great offense.

That was the resounding message the Denver Broncos sent last season, anyway, as their top-ranked defense smothered the Carolina Panthers, who had led the league in scoring.

There wasn’t a weak-link defense in the conference championship...

This piece on Pearl Harbor and Baseball was the fifteenth of this series of essays on Sport and Society. It dates from December of 1991 the 50th Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor and was written as a radio commentary for WUCF-FM an NPR affiliate in Orlando.

It aired on December 6, 1991.

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Ben Runnels, technopop performer and jazz singer, among Oakland fire victims Ben Runnels, an Oakland musician who went by the name Charlie Prowler and whose latest project was with synthpop band Introflirt, was confirmed Monday to be among the dead in Oakland’s warehouse fire. Runnels, 32, had lived in Oakland for five years, according to family members, after being lured to the Bay Area by its vibrant music scene. “He was one of those people who could pick up any instrument,” said his sister... Читать дальше...