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Samsung has announced its new plus-sized phone, alongside a new watch and smart speaker, partnerships with Spotify and Fortnite.

Hope it wasn’t a Commando 8. An air conditioner fell out of Manhattan apartment window and struck a 60-year-old Bronx man who was sitting on a bench, a new lawsuit charges. Lorenzo Sidberry was sitting on a park bench on 1st Avenue on Oct. 27 when, “an air conditioner fell out of the window and...

Movie review First came the actor, then the British director. But if you live and die for fashion, a documentary called “McQueen” could tell only one story, that of designer Alexander McQueen, whose extraordinary gifts, dark preoccupations and tragic death make for a completely engrossing, compulsively watchable film. Even if the dramas and dictates of […]

Funny, the left’s anti-corruption campaign ignores Bob Menendez.

Stephen Warnock is backing Liverpool FC to finish in second place in the Premier League table this season. The Reds are looking to continue their improved form this term as they continue to make progress under new boss Jurgen Klopp. Liverpool FC earned plenty of praise for their performances last season after they ended up […]

ALBANY, N.Y. — Robert Danzig, who overcame abandonment and poverty as a toddler in Albany to become one of the city’s pre-eminent business leaders, and then served for more than two decades as president of Hearst Newspapers, died Wednesday in a Cape Cod hospital. He was 85. In recent years, after his retirement from Hearst, Danzig maintained a busy schedule as a motivational speaker. Even last week, aware of his impending death, he appeared on Facebook Live to recount some of the... Читать дальше...

The list is long, and detailed. Pat Shurmur was a first-time head coach when he got the job in Cleveland in 2011. He lasted two years with the Browns, winning a total of nine games for a franchise in flux, and left that experience knowing he would do many things differently if he got a...

Topshop, the British fashion brand majority owned by Philip Green's Arcadia group, said on Thursday it has ended its franchise agreement with Chinese partner Shangpin.

DONALD Trump was targeted with a Russian spy ‘honey trap’ on a visit to Russia 31 YEARS AGO, a bombshell new book claims. The US president would have been filmed in 1987 with Russian prostitutes according to author Craig Unger, with the material held by spies since then. Controversial author Unger claims that former head […]

News from WCC The Government’s decision to phase out single-use plastic shopping bags is being hailed by Wellington Mayor Justin Lester and local government leaders. This morning, the Prime Minister and the Minister for the Environment announced the intention to end use of the bags over the next year. The Wellington Mayor says the move […]

There literally will be a Player X on the field

I hate to break it to you, but the Chicago White Sox have taken a step back this year.

Wait, wait, that’s not any sort of breaking news. Obviously they’ve taken a step back. It’s “by design.”

Well, there’s another step back coming in August, and it’s an unfortunate one indeed.

Gone El Puchi and Big Pelf, arriving are DP and Bulldog. Sayonara to Dutch and El Chamaquito, howdy to Rey and Danish.

If the team has to lead the league in losses (OK... Читать дальше...

A bit of grumbling, on two fronts: •The most disheartening stretch of the Giants’ season came this week, when abject fear cost them two wins against Houston. Dereck Rodriguez and Madison Bumgarner were cruising through seven innings, not a single reason to call upon the bullpen, but it happened each time — and everything fell apart. To blame manager Bruce Bochy is to include him with every other manager (and general manager) in the game, all of them terrified by computer printouts. Читать дальше...

A woman in her 70s had to be rescued from her car after driving into the crater in pitch black conditions.

A series of bank employees told jurors about discrepancies and outright falsehoods contained on Manafort's applications for millions in loans.

Nearly five months after Russia’s nerve-agent attack on British soil, Washington this week finally came up with a meaningful response: major new sanctions on Vladimir Putin’s regime. The pain starts Aug. 22, with a broad ban on US exports of any technology with a potential national-security use. And further sanctions will kick in three months...

By entering McDonald's new contest, one winner will have the chance to live out many McDreams. Free McDonald's for life is up for grabs.

Students in the Army’s 91-series military occupational specialties completed training in the Regional Training Site-Maintenance’s Tracked Vehicle Recovery Course in mid-July at Fort McCoy.

University of Nebraska Coach Tim Miles announced Thursday that Dedoch Chan (pronounced DEE Doe-ch) will join the Husker program for the 2018-19 campaign.

Single-use plastic shopping bags will be phased out over the next year, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage announced today.

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Drag racing is a bad idea. It’s an even worse idea when you’re drunk, high and have fake pee in the car — a lesson one Indiana man learned the … Click to Continue »