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With a push from campaigners and some parent groups, more British schools are allowing pupils to explore their gender identities in a bid to be more inclusive and stop bullying.

Just a quick update from Portland, Oregon, folks. After the city engaged in some truly impish behavior by trying to bully aside a local brewery that has a trademark on Portland's iconic jumping-deer sign, there have been no further negotiations on a resolution between the two sides. See, the city of Portland really wants to license the trademark for the image of the sign to national and international macrobrewers, whereas Old Town Brewing just wants to have the same trademark rights it has legally... Читать дальше...

Rio Grande Sports Information
    RIO GRANDE, Ohio - Midway through the third quarter of Tuesday night's River States Conference battle at the Newt Oliver Arena, a win for the University of Rio Grande women's basketball team over 12th-ranked Indiana University East appeared to be a done deal.
    As things turned out, though, a win over the Red Wolves was anything but easy for head coach David Smalley club.
    The RedStorm saw a commanding 21-point lead whittled down to two inside the final two minutes... Читать дальше...

Todd Bowles and the Jets are deep into the portion of their schedule when every move the head coach makes and every game his team plays is going to be a referendum on whether he should stay or go as Jets coach. Sunday was a mark against Bowles. The 23-0 loss to the Broncos featured...

Recently on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” Mark Hamill called his “Star Wars” films “space westerns.” And that’s exactly right. Nothing wrong with that, but it’s too bad that franchise’s massive success has made true science-fiction films — conceptual works that question our society and our direction — relatively rare. So it’s good news that Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” is invading the space of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” this weekend at the Clay Theatre. Nearly 50 years after its release... Читать дальше...

High-tech shark-spotting drones are patrolling dozens of Australian beaches this summer to quickly identify underwater predators and deliver safety devices to swimmers and surfers faster than traditional lifesavers.

In a stunning victory aided by scandal, Democrat Doug Jones won Alabama's special Senate election on Tuesday, defeating Roy Moore.

In a stunning victory aided by scandal, Democrat Doug Jones won Alabama's special Senate election on Tuesday, defeating Roy Moore.

Democrat Doug Jones has scored a stunning win against Republican Roy Moore to win the Senate seat in Alabama. The dramatic win comes after allegations against Moore of sexually abusing teens and his history of controversial comments about women and minorities. It will be enough for a reliably red state to elect its first Democratic senator in a generation. Democrat Doug Jones wins election to US Senate from Alabama, beating Republican Roy Moore who had been accused of sexual misconduct […]

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Peter Strzok, the lead investigator in the Clinton email scandal, was sending pro-Clinton and anti-Trump messages during his extramarital affair with a woman working for FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe. McCabe’s wife had received a sizable amount of money from a Clinton ally. Strzok was on Mueller’s team until he had to be removed because of his shenanigans. Instead of coming clean about his removal, the FBI stonewalled Congress about what really happened. 

With its 2003 album, “Wintersongs,” the women’s chorus Kitka explored a repertoire of music suited for the colder parts of the year (assuming you don’t live in California, that is). It featured Christmas and Hanukkah music from Bulgaria, Ukraine, Latvia and elsewhere. Now, to the delight of patient fans, the group has prepared a sequel, “Evening Star,” which promises a wide array of songs in Greek, Yiddish, Serbian and many another language. Kitka plans to celebrate... Читать дальше...

Dozens attended a candlelight vigil Tuesday night to remember three people whose bodies were recovered from a house fire in northeast Kansas City, Kan., earlier in the day. Police did not identify the victims but family members of 53-year-old Gwinn Green said they believed she was one of them. Firefighters arrived at the house at Troup Avenue and North Mill Street around 3:20 a.m. to find it fully engulfed in flames. Police are investigating the deaths as potential homicides. Video by: ALLISON LONG... Читать дальше...

Democrat Doug Jones will be the next senator representing Alabama, The Associated Press, Fox News, and The New York Times project.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Building a team is about understanding what you have, what you need and what you can acquire. By now, the Giants hoped to have more information on Christian Arroyo, Tyler Beede, Austin Slater and Jarrett Parker through their competition in winter ball and the Arizona Fall League. Instead, they all got hurt, or in Parker’s case, got sick, setting back the front office’s evaluation ahead of the winter meetings. Parker got an eye infection that prevented him from going to the Dominican. Читать дальше...

TOKYO (AP) — Toshiba Corp. and its joint venture partner Western Digital have made peace over the embattled Japanese electronics giant's plan to sell its flash memory unit to raise cash to stay afloat. The agreement allows Western Digital to participate in future investments in their joint venture, clearing the way for a consortium led by Bain Capital to buy Toshiba Memory Corp., the companies said Wednesday. The deal also addresses concerns over protection of valuable patents and other intellectual... Читать дальше...

TOKYO (AP) — Toshiba Corp. and its joint venture partner Western Digital have made peace over the embattled Japanese electronics giant's plan to sell its flash memory unit to raise cash to stay afloat. The agreement allows Western Digital to participate in future investments in their joint venture, clearing the way for a consortium led by Bain Capital to buy Toshiba Memory Corp., the companies said Wednesday. The deal also addresses concerns over protection of valuable patents and other intellectual... Читать дальше...

TOKYO (AP) — Toshiba Corp. and its joint venture partner Western Digital have made peace over the embattled Japanese electronics giant's plan to sell its flash memory unit to raise cash to stay afloat. The agreement allows Western Digital to participate in future investments in their joint venture, clearing the way for a consortium led by Bain Capital to buy Toshiba Memory Corp., the companies said Wednesday. The deal also addresses concerns over protection of valuable patents and other intellectual... Читать дальше...

Democrat Doug Jones knocked off Republican Roy Moore in the race for an Alabama Senate seat — dealing a stunning blow to President Trump, who endorsed the accused pedophile, saying he was a better choice than a liberal Democrat. Jones’ jubliant supporters broke out in cheers at his headquarters in Birmingham at about 10:27 p.m....

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In a stunning upset, Democrat Doug Jones defeated Republican Roy Moore in Alabama’s Senate special election Tuesday.

With 89 percent of the votes counted, the Associated Press declared Jones the winner.

Jones, a former U.S. attorney who prosecuted Ku Klux Klan members for an infamous 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, will be the first Democrat to represent Alabama in the Senate in 20 years. He fills the seat left vacant by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Читать дальше...

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Too Soon?

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Last year coming out of the All-star break, the Sabres had 60 points and 22 games remaining. Working on assumption that 93 points is roughly where the playoff bubble sits at the end of the season, the Sabres needed 33 of 44 available points to have a reasonable shot at the playoffs. Starting out the year, there are 164 points available minus 94 points (I'm moving the bubble up a point) == 70 points that can be lost before making the playoffs becomes rather unlikely. Читать дальше...

Republicans are now in trouble everywhere.

The easy thing for Republicans to tell themselves after the stinging loss of a Senate seat in Alabama is that they only went down to defeat because the party had the misfortune to nominate someone accused of preying on teenage girls.

And there is something to that. But the Republican Party nominated a man accused of sexual misconduct to run for president in 2016, and that didn’t stop him from winning 62 percent of the vote in Alabama. Donald Trump didn’t just win Alabama a year ago ... Читать дальше...

The upset in Alabama gives the party a plausible path to a takeover for the first time.