When the grandest of racing events are mentioned in any conversation, one name never misses out, the Cheltenham Festival.
The Hooters restaurant chain, with more than 410 establishments in 38 states, recently announced a partnership with KonekTV and BetRivers.com Sportsbook.
If they did a cardiogram on the city of Las Vegas, an analysis of the findings might resemble a scene out of M*A*S*H.
This is a beautiful memoir/essay by Brandon Taylor, a novelist and a former graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison:
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The president has three days to sign it.
Televised presidential debates have been a mainstay of modern American politics for the past sixty years. In this video, Wall Street Journal Executive Washington Editor Jerry Seib breaks down how they’ve changed over time and what we can expect in 2020. Photo: Elise Amendola/AP
RALEIGH, NC - NOVEMBER 1983: Coach Jim Valvano of North Carolina State poses with cheerleaders in November 1983 in Raleigh, North Carolina. | Photo by Ronald C. Modra/Getty Images
A wonderful blast from the past
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Domestic prices for ferrous scrap in Italy have declined over the past month in line with the fall in international scrap prices, sources told Fastmarkets.
Income share agreements first gained popularity with tech bootcamps. Now some traditional universities are offering the tools as substitutes for student loans.
To date, perhaps the most significant number in Millie Bobby Brown's life has been Eleven. But she can now add 16 to the mix. The Stranger Things star is celebrating the...
It's time to say goodbye to the BAU. After 15 seasons and over 300 episodes, Criminal Minds is about to air its swan song, with its two-part series finale coming to CBS on Wednesday,...
Dwyane Wade can recall each salient detail. His now-12-year-old daughter Zaya (with ex-wife Siohvaughn Funches) had spent nearly the whole of her life working through questions about her...
In 1999, the German colossus Deutsche Bank was poised to acquire Bankers Trust. This purchase would give Deutsche a foothold in the United States and dramatically expand its investment banking business. The price was $10 billion, the largest foreign takeover of a U.S. bank in history. It would make Deutsche one of the largest financial institutions in the world. But there was a problem.
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Not long after he began contemplating running for an unconstitutional third term as mayor of New York City in 2008, Michael Bloomberg made a strategic decision: He wouldn’t move forward without first wooing the owners of New York City’s biggest newspapers. Those very papers had helped block Rudy Giuliani’s quest for a three-month extension of his second term back in 2001. America’s Mayor felt that he needed to stick around to shepherd a city still reeling from the September 11 attacks. The editorial... Читать дальше...
In 2016, Americans who hoped to make sense of Donald Trump’s election could have done worse than turn to a book released earlier that year: Dark Money by Jane Mayer. In this extraordinary—and extraordinarily disturbing—work of nonfiction, Mayer, a veteran investigative journalist, laid bare the tremendous political influence of a handful of far-right billionaires: banking and oil heir Richard Mellon Scaife, chemical industry magnate John M. Olin, electronics barons Harry and Lynde Bradley, and... Читать дальше...
In his State of the Union Address this year, Donald Trump boasted that the United States “has become the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world, by far,” giving credit to his administration’s “bold regulatory reduction campaign.” Whether an increase in oil exports deserves praise or censure depends on your view. Either way, Barack Obama’s White House is probably the one responsible for the trend, as Obama himself boasted to an oil industry-sponsored gala after leaving office.
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Unlike other rom-com reboots that prioritize feel-good nostalgia, Hulu’s High Fidelity takes the time to examine the messiness of dating today.
Solving the housing crisis means organizing everyone who suffers when communities block the construction of new apartments.
Governments may use disease emergencies to expand their power and target their enemies.
The Oakland A’s are the first team in Major League Baseball to opt for streaming-only of their radio play by play, but the move is more likely to lose fans than gain new ones.
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There’s a recap of last night’s game, Aston-Reese is out, and a local rink will be upgraded. All that and more in today’s Pens Points!
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