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The woman tapped to be the United States' first female spymaster is proving to be a lightning rod, earning praise from many from across the intelligence community and suspicion from lawmakers and others who question her role in the use of tactics that some say amounted to torture. U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted his choice of Gina Haspel to run the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday, taking over for outgoing CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who has been nominated to lead the State Department. Читать дальше...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — House Speaker Scott Bedke warned that addressing the state's reading test will likely be the final legislative battle of the session before lawmakers can go home for the year. Bedke told reporters on Tuesday lawmakers are still working behind the scenes on redesigning or replacing the so-called Idaho Reading Indicator — an early reading test for kindergarten through third-graders. Idaho schools have been using the test for nearly 20 years, but critics have begun speaking out that it needs an update. Читать дальше...

Nancy Dubuc, a veteran TV executive, will replace Vice co-founder Shane Smith.

LONDON – Southampton have approached former Stoke City boss Mark Hughes about taking charge at the struggling Premier League club, according to reports on Tuesday.

The apparent success of MoviePass raises a whole bunch of interesting business model questions — and privacy concerns about the data-harvesting portion of that business model add another layer of complexity. So this week, we're going back to a good old-fashioned formula for the podcast, and dedicating an episode to examining the company in detail and trying to figure out where it might be headed.

Manolo Zubria is encouraged by the increased attention the tournament has gotten after MLS teams won the first legs of their CCL quarterfinals

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Phil Lyman, a rural county commissioner who became a cause celebre in the movement challenging U.S. management of Western public lands when he led an all-terrain vehicle protest ride in 2014, said Tuesday he is running for the Utah Legislature. Lyman said he will run for the seat of Rep. Mike Noel, who is retiring after 16 years, and hopes to take over Noel's role of being the outspoken voice for states' rights and rural southern Utah residents. Lyman, a Republican, said in... Читать дальше...

Given this a bit of thought.

Orta has been universally panned all season, fair enough, he didnt do what was necessary this season.

However.

Who are our top 5 performers this season?

Jansson will be there, Saiz will be, there two fan golden boys regardless so there in.

Whose the next 3?
Forshaw? Yet to have a bad game, a class act in the middle.
Alioski? Divides opinion but its hard to argue he hasnt been one of our better players
Lasogga? Similar to Ali but again, who has shone more in attack? Читать дальше...

BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on a third nor'easter in two weeks to pound the storm-weary Northeast (all times local): 4: 05 p.m. Power outage totals from a Northeastern storm have climbed to more than 250,000 just in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. The vast majority are in Massachusetts, where more than 237,000 utility customers were without power Tuesday. The National Weather Service reports that snowfall rates are elevated to 2 inches per hour across southern New England. In Connecticut... Читать дальше...

InfoWars boss Alex Jones has been hit with a lawsuit by a man who says that he witnessed the deadly rally attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August, and was harassed and threatened after being painted as “a CIA or ‘deep state’ operative” who helped orchestrate the attack as a “false flag.”

Courtney Stodden is sharing part of her own #MeToo story.

During an appearance on Monday’s Tomorrow Show with Keven Undergaro, the 23-year-old Celebrity Big Brother alum revealed she was sexually abused twice during the time she was separated from her husband Doug Hutchison.

Stodden, then 16, and Hutchison, then 51, wed in 2011. They briefly parted ways in 2013 but reunited nine months later. The two ultimately called it quits in 2016; Stodden officially filed for divorce last week. Читать дальше...

Gina Haspel's gender is the least important fact about her.

If you’ve paid more attention to Shia LaBeouf’s alcohol-related arrests than to his films lately, his new Esquire profile is well worth a read: Though LaBeouf makes no excuses, the piece lays out how addiction and childhood trauma have made his last several years very hard ones.

BALTIMORE (AP) — A member of a Baltimore-area gang has pleaded guilty to racketeering and drug trafficking conspiracy. Prosecutors say 39-year-old Takuma Tate was one of 26 alleged gang members and associates charged in a racketeering conspiracy centered on the Murdaland Mafia Piru. It's a subset of the Bloods gang and controlled the drug trade in parts of northwest Baltimore and neighboring Baltimore County. A 32-count indictment alleges that the defendants engaged in everything from murders to... Читать дальше...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas House panel advanced a proposal Tuesday to regulate pharmacy benefit managers, as lawmakers began a special session focused primarily on addressing a cut in reimbursements rates pharmacists have seen. The House Insurance and Commerce Committee endorsed a proposal that would also allow the state Insurance Department to require the pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, to license with the state. PBMs run prescription drug plans for employers, government agencies and insurers, among other clients. Читать дальше...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — While students across the country plan walkouts to protest gun violence, teens at a New Mexico high school still reeling from a deadly shooting in December have organized a "walk-up" to help unify a rural campus with varied ideas on school safety. Students at Aztec High School asked administrators if they could gather around the flag pole Wednesday to honor the 21 students killed in recent months in school shootings — 17 in Florida, two in Kentucky and two of their own. They... Читать дальше...

A dog died on a United Airlines flight Monday after a flight attendant insisted that the dog be stored in its carrier in an overhead bin.

Easter is a busy time for chocolatier Andy Karandzieff (aka "Andy Candy"). He expects to sell over 10K chocolate bunnies this month at his candy shop, a St. Louis institution since 1913.

Less than 2 percent of title deeds issued in Kenya since 2013 went to women, campaigners said on Tuesday, dashing hopes raised by constitutional reform granting them equal property rights. Kenya’s land minister Farida Karoney said it does not yet have data on women’s land ownership, which campaigners say is key to reducing poverty and exposure to domestic violence, as well as providing collateral for loans and security in old age. “The percentage of women owning land has not improved that much,” said Odenda Lumumba... Читать дальше...

As costs spiral and traditional boundaries blur in health care, insurers are taking more control over monitoring customer health and delivering care.

Vienna (dpa) - Austria‘s far-right leader and Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache has backtracked from a recent attack on public broadcaster ORF, the station‘s top news anchorman Armin Wolf said on Tuesday.Strache‘s Freedom Party (FPOe) has been putting pressure on ORF since it joined a rightist coalition government late last year, accusing the broadcaster of anti-FPOe coverage and calling for scrapping mandatory viewer fees.In February, Strache had posted the following on Facebook: "There‘s... Читать дальше...

BOWLING GREEN — Sophomore point guard Rodrick Caldwell announced that he will be leaving the Bowling Green State University men's basketball program.

Italy's far-right League party and the 5-Star Movement, which both performed strongly in this month's inconclusive national election, attacked European Union budget rules on Tuesday, saying they must be overhauled. The March 4 election ended in gridlock, with the League becoming the biggest member of a right-wing coalition that took a combined 37 percent of the vote, and the anti-system 5-Star emerging as the largest party in parliament on 32 percent. Neither of the two has enough seats to govern alone... Читать дальше...

For many of us, our first exposure to pornography was surreptitious: a sneak peek at someone else's copy of Playboy or the viewing of a worn VHS tape stolen from an older sibling.