The first question – Did the NBA forget about Rookie of the Year? – was answered yesterday. No. The second question – did Karl-Anthony Towns win unanimously? – was answered today. Yes. Towns took all 130 first-place votes to become the sixth player to win a major NBA award unanimously, joining Rookies of the Year […]
A gauge of home-builder sentiment was unchanged in May— coming in at 58 for the fourth straight month—in a sign of steady growth for the housing market.
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The benches and bullpens cleared in the 8th inning of the Rangers and Blue Jays game on Sunday afternoon after a hard Joey Bautista slide into second base led to good, old-fashioned base-brawl.
Before players from either team could intervene, Rangers second-baseman Rougned Odor landed a hard punch square in Bautista's cheek, knocking off his helmet and sunglasses.
The Jays and Rangers, remember, met in last season's playoffs, during which Bautista unleashed the most controversial bat flip in MLB history. Читать дальше...
EIBERGEN - Wie Douwe Bob en zijn band op 9 september in Eibergen wil zien en nog geen kaarten heeft, moet niet te lang wachten. Nadat de populaire zanger zich plaatste voor de finale van het Eurovisie Songfestival en hij zaterdagavond opnieuw een geweldig optreden neerzette in Stockholm, begon de kaartverkoop flink te lopen.
Amazon worries unions will burden its operations with red tape, The New York Times reports.
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You know, it was almost funny. It was the biggest party on Wall Street — a three-day fete that involves heads of state, celebrities, party after party, and tons and tons of casino time — and the entire time it felt like the world was falling apart.
Watching about 1,000 sleep-deprived dad-bros of the 1% bounce up and down to the sounds of a private concert given by The Killers at The Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, there was an acute sense of dread. After... Читать дальше...
Against all odds and despite fighting in the ongoing war against Boko Haram, Nigerian soldier Henry Edobor is grateful he is alive to celebrate his birthday Henry Edobor who hails from Igbanke, Rivers state, is currently serving Nigeria in Borno state, where he along with other soldiers are waging a war against Boko Haram. Edobor […]
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Kyle Lowry scored 35 points and added nine assists and seven rebounds as the Toronto Raptors beat the Miami Heat 116-89 on Sunday in the seventh game of the Eastern Conference semifinals.
The Italian’s joke about the London mayor reveals the issues facing the movement, writes Tony Barber
Babies are adorable! They bring joy and they bring some trouble, too. Taylor Hanson once said: “Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.” But babies grow up fast. Faster than we imagine. They navigate their way to adulthood, but carry there the […]
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GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended a search for a cruise ship passenger who apparently fell overboard into the Gulf of Mexico a day after leaving Galveston, Texas.
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended a search for a cruise ship passenger who apparently fell overboard into the Gulf of Mexico a day after leaving Galveston, Texas.
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox's fall schedule will feel like a trip to the multiplex, with its two new dramas being remakes of the popular movies "Lethal Weapon" and "The Exorcist" and a one-time new version of "The Rocky Horror…
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox's fall schedule will feel like a trip to the multiplex, with its two new dramas being remakes of the popular movies "Lethal Weapon" and "The Exorcist" and a one-time new version of "The Rocky Horror…
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox's fall schedule will feel like a trip to the multiplex, with its two new dramas being remakes of the popular movies "Lethal Weapon" and "The Exorcist" and a one-time new version of "The Rocky Horror…
French humourists now wear bulletproof vests under their clothes, the Médecins Sans Frontières co-founder said.
The White House's actions against Iran run counter to all norms of international law, Hossein Sheikholeslam, advisor to the Iranian parliament speaker, told Sputnik.
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Lawyers can get a bad reputation for being slimy and conniving, but ROSS has neither of those qualities.
Ask ROSS to look up an obscure court ruling from 13 years ago, and ROSS will not only search for the case in an instant — without contest or complaint — but it'll offer opinions in plain language about the old ruling's relevance to the case at hand.
Just about the only thing it can't do is fetch coffee.
Not that anyone should blame it, seeing... Читать дальше...
In an interview with a U.K. morning show on Monday, Donald Trump said he is unlikely to have a good relationship with U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron if he becomes the next U.S. president because of Mr. Cameron’s earlier criticism of him. Photo: AP.
The justices declined to take up a student debt-collection case that asked the court to overrule a 1997 precedent, Auer v. Robbins, that said the judicial branch should defer to a federal agency's interpretation of its own regulations.
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On Sunday, "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" looked into the lack of support given to 911 dispatchers, and it's quite scary.
Dispatchers get a lot of calls: 240 million a year, according to the show. And though 84 million of those are butt dials, there are still many that are very serious, and because of underfunding, understaffing, and a lack of technology upgrades in the cell phone-obsessed era we live in, depending on what state you live in, the accuracy of the 911 dispatcher finding your location is very low.
A poignant image uploaded by Kesha reveals the personal battle she has been fighting these past few months.