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The II Open Internacional Chess Menorca will take place from 11-16 April 2023 in Ciutadella (Menorca), Spain. The time control is 90 minutes plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. The total prize fund of 2023’s edition of the tournament is 16 000 EUR with 3000 EUR plus trophy for the winner. More than 190 […]

The Supreme Court justice says he did not have to disclose luxury vacations and trips on private jets and superyachts while ethics experts and Democratic lawmakers demand investigations

It appears the Patriots are in the market for another quarterback.

NASA's powerful James Webb Telescope has returned a new image of an exploding supernova star, giving scientists never-before-seen details, the space agency confirmed Friday.

A woman has miraculously walked away with minimal injuries from the wreckage of a light plane crash south of Brisbane, Australia.

Two sisters who were today (April 7) killed during a horrific shooting in the West Bank in Israel were confirmed to have been British nationals by a UK official

Levels of carbon dioxide and methane continued their "historically high rates of growth" in our atmosphere during 2022, NOAA said this week.

Harvest Plus Nigeria in collaboration with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics and Lake Chad Research Institute has produced two iron-rich millet varieties christened as Jirani and Chakti. The country director, Harvest Plus Nigeria, Dr. Yusuf Dollah, made the disclosure on Thursday in Kano at a news conference on the newly released

Bengals running back Joe Mixon is being recharged with aggravating menacing, Cincinnati police announced Friday. An affidavit from a woman who alleged Mixon threatened her with a gun during a road rage incident on Jan. 21 initially had been filed in Hamilton County Municipal Court. Judge Curt Kissinger told The (Cincinnati) Enquirer on Feb. 2 that he signed off on the dismissal of the aggravated menacing charge but that

The Chicago White Sox designated pitcher Jose Ruiz for assignment on Friday following the right-hander's disastrous start to the 2023 season. In 3 2/3 innings pitched over four games, Ruiz gave up nine earned runs on eight hits and four walks for a 22.09 ERA. He surrendered three home runs and struck out three, and batters had a .421 average against him. In a corresponding move, right-hander Jesse Scholtens was promoted

The MVP will once again come down to Giannis Antetokounmpo, Joel Embiid and Nikola Jokic.

Jana Sena Party seeks action on the police official

Once upon a time, "branding" referred solely to the grotesque physical marking on skin or hide of a living creature as a means of connoting ownership. A brand was something you had designed for you and burned onto another to show you possessed that living thing completely—or it was the thing a creature bore to show he or she or it was an owned thing. As a word, it was at best purely descriptive and at worst a suggestion of something horrifying.

Tesla has had an interesting time figuring out its pricing, as new competition from more established competitors hits the EV market. The company is constantly decreasing, increasing, and generally messing with its MSRP in attempts to best meet this new competition and contend with shifting EV incentives. Now, Tesla is…

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers pardoned nearly 160 more people on Friday, most of them for relatively low-level offenses ranging from drug dealing and possession to theft.

It has been about (exactly) a month since the last Off-Topic Thread, and now felt like as good as a time as any to put up another! Once a month seems to be an appropriate release schedule. So, as we await the Mariners' start to a series in the great city of Cleveland, instead of punching yourself in the face, why not spend some time chatting here?

The Jammu and Kashmir BJP on Friday targeted Democratic Progressive Azad party (DPAP) chairman Gulam Nabi Azad for allegedly hurting the sentiments of Kashmiri Pandits in his autobiography Azaad. It said reasons identified by Azad as being responsible for the displacement of the minority community members from the Valley is to to bail out the real culprits. "We condemn Azad for abusing and hurting the sentiments of Kashmiri Pandit community in his autobiography as reported by the media. We blame... Читать дальше...

"Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app," Musk posted in October, weeks before completing a $44 billion acquisition of the social network.

“I cannot possibly overstate the importance of this action,” said a NJ activist who is mother to a trans child.

The number of small and medium business exporters in 2022 increased by 15%, from 53,000 to 61,000 companies, said Veronika Nikishina, general director of the Russian Export Center (REC, part of the VEB.RF) at the 3rd All-Russian Forum of business support infrastructure "My Business".

Union minister Nitin Gadkari is expected to inaugurate the four-lane road between Kiratpur in Punjab and Ner Chowk in Himachal Pradesh on May 15, Union Information & Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said on Friday. Addressing a workers' function at Swarghat, Thakur said that the Modi government at the Centre had strengthened the infrastructure of the state. The Modi government gifted the Bhanupali-Bilaspur railway line to a hill state of Himachal and also sanctioned a budget of Rs 1000 crore for it. Читать дальше...

“I definitely think I’m Defensive Player of the Year,” Jaren Jackson Jr told ESPN. “I just think I put together something special, and I want it bad.” Jackson’s case includes: Leading the league in blocks for the second consecutive season with a career-best 3.0 per game. Blocking 9.7% of opponents’ field goal attempts when he’s on the floor, the sixth-highest figure since blocks became an official stat in 1973-74.
Source: Tim MacMahon @ ESPN

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