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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Breanna Stewart scored a season-high 30 points and the Seattle Storm snapped a three-game losing streak with an 89-69 victory over the Dallas Wings on Saturday night.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Breanna Stewart scored a season-high 30 points and the Seattle Storm snapped a three-game losing streak with an 89-69 victory over the Dallas Wings on Saturday night.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Breanna Stewart scored a season-high 30 points and the Seattle Storm snapped a three-game losing streak with an 89-69 victory over the Dallas Wings on Saturday night.

Former President Barack Obama speaking Saturday in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, at the end of a 10-day visit to the country.

No injuries were reported.

BRIDGEVIEW, Illinois (AP) - Nemanja Nikolic scored two early goals, pushing his MLS-leading total to 16, and the Chicago Fire beat the Vancouver Whitecaps 4-0 on Saturday to take the Eastern Conference lead.

BRIDGEVIEW, Illinois (AP) - Nemanja Nikolic scored two early goals, pushing his MLS-leading total to 16, and the Chicago Fire beat the Vancouver Whitecaps 4-0 on Saturday to take the Eastern Conference lead.

Warfare History Network

History,

The size of the U.S. military exploded in World War II, as army numbers alone soared from 174,000 to over 11 million.

During World War II about 16,000,000 personnel served in the U.S. Military: approximately 11,200,000 in the Army, 4,200,000 in the Navy, and 660,000 in the Marine Corps.

On 1 July 1939, the strength of the active Army was approximately 174,000, three quarters of whom were scattered throughout the continental United States; the rest stationed overseas. Читать дальше...

​Old pictures of drug peddler Sunny Doda were uploaded on his Facebook page with a message ‘Miss me’. Already facing scrutiny for the use of mobile phones inside the jail, officials lost no time in ordering a probe.

Jared Keller, Task and Purpose

Security,

Enemy missiles won’t know what hit them.

As part of its proposed $171.5 billion fiscal year 2018 budget request, the Navy carved out a hefty $2 billion for a suite of futuristic weapons systems ripped straight from the pages of a science-fiction flick. And a good part of that cash is going toward the service’s much-touted electromagnetic railgun: According to a new report from the Congressional Research Service, the service is on... Читать дальше...

A look at what's happening all around the majors Sunday:

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CALLING ALL STARS

Major League Baseball announces starters and backups for the All-Star Game in Miami on July 11. And while Yankees rookie Aaron Judge and Washington slugger Bryce Harper will undoubtedly be elected by fans, other selections and ...

A look at what's happening all around the majors Sunday:

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CALLING ALL STARS

Major League Baseball announces starters and backups for the All-Star Game in Miami on July 11. And while Yankees rookie Aaron Judge and Washington slugger Bryce Harper will undoubtedly be elected by fans, other selections and ...

Cara Delevingne talks on stage during the press conference for her new movie Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets on Friday afternoon (June 30) in Los Angeles. The 24-year-old actress and model showed off her cool shaved head as she and her co-star Dane DeHaan promoted their upcoming movie. PHOTOS: Check out the [...]

Russia won some praise, but they now face new questions about past doping issues.

David V. Gioe

Politics,

Why can’t America reliably separate out fact, falsehood, opinion and reasoned analysis?

It was a clear autumn day in Washington, DC on October 27, 1941, when President Franklin Roosevelt delivered his Navy Day speech to the American people. Halloween was later that week, but Adolf Hitler and his Wehrmacht war machine were scaring the administration. Roosevelt used his address to highlight the threat posed to the Western Hemisphere—America’s hemisphere—per the longstanding Monroe Doctrine. Читать дальше...

Critics of the bill in question say that such a law would be a major and irreversible stumbling bloc on the way to a peace agreement.

Straddling the road from Jerusalem to Ramallah, the Palestinian neighborhood of Kafr Aqab is a confusion of illegally built apartment buildings, potholed streets lined with trash and snarled traffic.

Yankees counting on their new, young slugger

Daniel Serwer

Security, Middle East

A public red-line warning to Assad has more weight because it brings into the equation the issue of U.S. credibility.

Monday night the White House issued a warning to President Assad that if “Mr. Assad conducts another mass murder attack using chemical weapons, he and his military will pay a heavy price.” U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley added that the White House message was also intended for Assad’s Russian and Iranian allies.... Читать дальше...

Soon, complaints from people about police being inactive will be resolved, as under the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS), all 28 police stations of Ludhiana Commissionerate will put all the First Information Reports (FIRs) and Daily Diary Reports (DDRs) online, which would be accessible to senior officials like commissioner of police (CP), deputy commissioner of police (DCP), and all four additional deputy commissioners of police (ADCPs).

"It's not Cali. That water 80 degrees."