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Our tipster is backing both teams to find the target when the Seagulls play host to Mauricio Pochettino's team at Amex Stadium on Tuesday night

A social media campaign compared to the #MeToo movement has erupted in Thailand after celebrity Sirinya Bishop responded to the call from authorities in Thailand for women to dress modestly to avoid unwanted sexual attention during its water festival.

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Apple reportedly slashed production of its HomePod smart speaker and lowered sales forecasts for the device in late March, amid its ongoing struggles to make significant gains on Amazon and Google in the AI-powered speaker market, according to Bloomberg.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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On April 8, President Donald von Putinlecher signed an executive order mandating federal agencies exert MORE pressure on the poor and sick in this country. Mind you, these laws were already in place. President Enforcer just wants to make sure any agency who can have their boot on the neck of a poor or sick person is putting as much weight as possible on that person's windpipe.

Exchange-traded funds that track the home-building sector rose on Tuesday, as data on housing starts rebounded in March. The SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF rose 0.6% while the iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF was up 0.7%. Housing starts ran at a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 1.32 million in March, up 2% compared with February, and above analyst forecasts. Permits were at a seasonally adjusted annual 1.35 million rate. Among specific stocks, Toll Brothers Inc. rose 1.6% while Beazer Homes USA Inc. Читать дальше...

Jurors were also allowed to hear his admissions that he'd used the sedative with at least one woman before sex.

Over 80 years of drafting has led the Bears to some major successes, even if they're never hit it big on a No. 1 overall pick.

Puerto Rico has been focused on its recovery since the devastation of Hurricane Maria. This week, MLB comes to San Juan for what will be a welcome distraction.

The French President has been widely criticised after his call for pan-European unity provoked division and dissent.

Widnes Vikings vs Coventry Bears - Widnes by 34
Warrington Wolves vs Bradford Bulls - Wire by 20
Doncaster vs Featherstone Rovers - Featherstone by 12
Leigh Centurions vs London Broncos - Leigh by 8
Oldham Roughyeds vs Hull KR - Hull KR by 12
Toronto Wolfpack vs Barrow Raiders - Barrow by 2
Whitehaven vs Rochdale Hornets - Whitehaven by 12
York City Knights vs Catalans Dragons - Catalans by 18

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The government withdrew two-count criminal charge it filed against the director of finance and account in the federal ministry of power, works and housing Tumsah over his alleged failure to declare his ownership of 86 exotic car.

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I've just seen the setlist from the Berlin show:

Turn the Page
Let's Push Things Forward/ Urban Hero
Don't Mug Yourself
Never Went to Church
Has It Come to This?
Everything Is Borrowed
It's Too Late
Could Well Be In
Going Through Hell
Too Much Brandy
The Escapist
Heaven for the Weather
Dry Your Eyes

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Boys Will Be Boys
Weak Become Heroes
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• Caffeine has a number of health effects on the body and brain.
• Depending on how you consume it, caffeine could improve memory, boost athletic performance, and be good for the heart.
• But too much of it may also cause irritation or anxiety.

Many of us can't start our day without a jolt of caffeine.

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• Ordinary Russians joke that watching Putin's propaganda is like seeing a "battle between the TV set and the fridge."
• The idea is that the Kremlin keeps lauding Russia's greatness on TV, while fridges remain empty because the country's economy is so bad.
• Olga Ivshina, a BBC journalist in Russia, repeated the joke while explaining Russia's efforts to deny involvement in the Sergei Skripal attack.
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• Rafael Nadal believes Roger Federer is scared of competing against him on a clay court.
• Roger Federer said last month that he will skip the clay season but will return to tennis in time for the 2018 Wimbledon Championships.
• Nadal says it is "controversial" — but the stats show the Swiss is right to do so.

Roger Federer is avoiding Rafa Nadal.

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Technology companies such as Google, Microsoft and Facebook will be forced to hand over users' data to European law enforcement officials even when it is stored on servers outside the bloc, under a law proposed by the EU on Tuesday. The law would allow European prosecutors to force companies to turn over data such as emails, text messages and pictures stored online in another country, within 10 days or as little as six hours in urgent cases. The European Union executive says the proposed law... Читать дальше...

Things have been a little crazy at the Fox News HQ ever since it was revealed that Michael Cohen's third mystery client is none other than the network's own Sean Hannity. "Did Hannity disclose his Cohen connection to his bosses?" wondered CNN's media critic Brian Stelter while Alan Dershowitz told Hannity to his face on Monday night that "it would have been much, much better had you disclosed that relationship."

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian leadership has not ruled out the possibility that Washington may take a hard line on new anti-Russia sanctions to inflict the maximum amount of harm on the country’s economy and is considering safeguard measures to be prepared for the worst-case scenario, a Russian news outlet reported, citing government sources.

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John Amirante, the longtime Rangers singer of the national anthem, died Tuesday morning, the team announced. He was 83. “Our thoughts are with his wife Ann, his children and the entire Amirante family,” the Rangers said in a statement. “We will forever remember and miss John @TheGarden.” Amirante was a fixture at Madison Square Garden...

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• EA executive Patrick Söderlund said EA "got it wrong" with "Star Wars Battlefront 2."
• The game launched in late 2017 and was met with anger from fans, who felt that the game's loot box system took advantage of them.
• EA has since altered the game's loot box system, and Söderlund says future EA games will learn from the company's recent mistakes.

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