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Courthouse “SWAT teams” a futile and expensive exercise that will use Crown prosecutors as instruments of his ideological war.

Things got awkward at a book conference after a drunk librarian was caught gushing over her literary crush, John Green. Meanwhile, the author of “The Fault in Our Stars” was standing right behind her. This is “Weird Celebrity Encounters.”

The petitioners objecting to the Metro 3 route on Monday questioned the report submitted by the Veer Jijamata Technical Institute in the Bombay High

The Mets and 2B Neil Walker were never able to come to an agreement on a contract extension this offseason. Earlier in the season, Ken Davidoff of the [...]

A leading U.S. Jewish columnist said Monday that he was detained by Israeli authorities at Tel Aviv's airport and questioned about his political activity, the latest in a series of such incidents. Peter Beinart, a contributing editor at The Atlantic and a columnist at the liberal Jewish Forward daily, said on Twitter that he had been detained at Israel's Ben Gurion airport when he arrived for a family visit Sunday. In an article in The Forward, Beinart said he was taken into a room at the airport... Читать дальше...

Elon Musk's explanation for why he announced that he's "considering" taking Tesla private doesn't hold water for anyone wondering how he's going to pay for it, or how he's going to structure the deal.

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• In a blog post, Elon Musk attempted to explain why he said he had "funding secured" for a deal to take Tesla private last week.
• His explanation doesn't hold water for anyone who understands finance, sovereign wealth funds, or the passage of time.

Elon Musk has written a blog post explaining why he said he might take Tesla private at $420 a share on Twitter. "Funding secured," he declared in the tweet.

But after reading Musk's new post... Читать дальше...

ROME tourists at the Trevi Fountain were so desperate to snap the perfect selfie that they began furiously fighting until police officers arrived, a viral video has revealed.

Lucas Pouille stretches a valiant Andy Murray side to side before dropping the hammer to close out their first-round match at the Western & Southern Open. Photo Credit: Rob Carr/Getty Images. Watch ATP World Tour tennis live and on-demand on Tennis TV, available on a wide range of devices.

A viral 46-second clip showing a New Mexico State Police officers breaking a man’s window after he was pulled over for failing to wear his seatbelt is being disputed by police, who claim that that the video released on Facebook this week doesn’t show the half-hour alteration that occurred beforehand.

To state the obvious: J.D. Martinez is mashing in his first season with the Boston Red Sox. The All-Star outfielder... Read More »

1500 ESPN - Nick Anderson, James Nunnally, Twins GM Thad Levine.*Why Kohl Stewart over Stephen Gonsalves over Fernando Romero? The post The Scoop:...

Star Tribune - The Vikings signed a guard to take the roster spot left open by placing left guard Nick Easton on injured reserve.Kaleb Johnson, a...

Star Tribune - http://www.startribune.com/sports/soccer/490745311.html 08-13-2018 02:35 PM

A look at the large and growing homeless encampment near the Little Earth housing complex in south Minneapolis.

WASHINGTON, U.S. - A federal district judge on Monday, backed Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the federal Russia investigation, uploading not only Mueller’s appointment but also his constit

Diane Harkey, the Republican nominee for California's 49th District, spoke with supporters at her campaign office in San Juan Capistrano.

Brasileirão 2018 - Matchday 18 - Played 12-Aug-18 - Posted by FL

Amazing.

The European Commission has approved €145.5 million in funding to build the 168-kilometers gas pipeline Pogórska Wola-Tworzeń. The gas link is part of the North-South corridor of the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gaz (ENTSOG).

The first matches scheduled to be played in Tottenham Hotspur’s new stadium will be moved to Wembley. Tottenham Hotspur announced today that the first two Premier League games, as well as one NFL game, scheduled to take place in its new stadium have been moved to Wembley Stadium after “issues with critical safety systems,” according to the statement. Daniel Levy is quoted in the statement, saying: “We know this will be disappointing for all our season tickets holders, premium members and our fans worldwide. Читать дальше...

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