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BOWLING GREEN – To use the parlance of football coaches, the Bowling Green State University football team’s scrimmage Saturday was filled with “teachable moments.”

Trump still thinks Pruitt has done “a great job.”

There are few officials in the Trump administration who’ve delivered wins to the president like Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt.

While steadily carrying out the conservative agenda to undo environmental regulations, he’s managed to stay on the president’s good side, lavishing praise and providing him with great photo ops. As a result, Pruitt has been one of Trump’s favorite Cabinet members.

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The Bowling Green State University football team conducts their annual spring scrimmage: Scroll through photos by clicking left and right arrows.”

WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A former Ohio elementary school teacher accused of faking her husband's death and falsely claiming to have leukemia to collect paid leave has been sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay over $57,000 in restitution to the school district. The Columbus Dispatch reports an attorney for 47-year-old Christine Gill said the former Westerville teacher's actions resulted not from greed but from mental illness and disorders for which she has received treatment. Gill... Читать дальше...

Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has told thousands of supporters that he will turn himself in to police. However, he also maintained his innocence and argued his corruption conviction was simply a way for enemies to make sure he does not run for - and possibly win - re-election in October. The public comments were da Silva's first since the Supreme Federal Tribunal, the country's top court, ruled against his petition on Thursday to remain free while he continued to appeal against his conviction. Читать дальше...

Full contact drills, drive-the-player-to-the-ground? Dude, that’s so 1992.

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Smart speakers — Amazon's Echo, for example — are the latest device category poised to take a chunk of our increasingly digital lives. These devices are made primarily for the home and execute a user's voice commands via an integrated digital assistant. These digital assistants can play music, answer questions, and control other devices within a user's home... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was having it both ways over the past week, portraying a "crisis" at the Mexico border that demands the use of National Guard troops while boasting of a huge drop in illegal border crossings there. A border crisis is in the eye of the beholder, but his claims about illegal entry into the U.S. were off. Also in recent days, the president misrepresented his tax package's place in history and the size of the U.S. trade deficit with China, a number at the heart... Читать дальше...

Are you running a company or business organization that has loads of equipment & tools? Then proper preventive maintenance should be one of your major concerns in order to keep all your equipment in good working condition.

The split comes after less than three years of marriage. Garth, 46, and Abrams, 36, wed in July 2015.

Conor McGregor is facing legal troubles after he was involved in an attack on a bus filled with UFC fighters on Thursday at media day for UFC 223.

Harry Kane is disputing the Premier League's decision to award Tottenham's second goal to Christian Eriksen in his team's 2-1 win away at

A Christian Eriksen brace gave Tottenham a battling victory over relegation-threatened Stoke City. Mauricio Pochettino says Harry Kane is claiming Tottenham's second goal in Saturday's 2-1 win at Stoke despite the Premier League awarding it to Christian Eriksen. Eriksen's inswinging free kick bounced past Jack Butland at the far post, but it was Kane who raised his arm in celebration after appearing to get the faintest of touches. After review, the Premier League officially awarded the goal to Eriksen... Читать дальше...

Everton remain without a Merseyside derby win since 2010 after playing out a tame goalless draw with Liverpool. Everton remain without a Merseyside derby win since 2010 after playing out a tame goalless draw with Liverpool. English Premier League: Seamus Coleman (87') Everton 0-0 Liverpool English Premier League: Loris Karius (22') Everton 0-0 Liverpool Liverpool's struggles with early kick offs continued as they never really got going in what was one of the tamest Merseyside derbies in recent memory. Читать дальше...

EARLY IN Ann Leckie’s Provenance, a character offers the protagonist, Ingray Aughskold, a brief précis of the galaxy-spanning political upheaval that followed the events of Leckie’s earlier novels. Ingray’s response to the wide-reaching turmoil? “It’s not our problem, I guess.” At first glance, this attitude seems to perfectly encompass Provenance’s relationship with its trilogy of […]

If the season were to end today, the Warriors would match up with the Thunder in the first round.

There’s a reason, by and large, that fighters fight and promoters promote.

The two most vital concepts in most video games are learning and dying. Only by learning can you avoid death, and only through death can you learn. It’s a loop that has existed since the earliest days of the medium. By leaning into and toying with that fundamental relationship, indie game Minit achieves something that feels referential and nostalgic and yet unique and exhilarating all at once.

HOUSTON — Since he launched his run for president, Donald Trump has said things about immigrants and the U.S.-Mexico border that no other U.S. president has. But now he’s reached directly into his predecessors’ playbook by sending in the National Guard. When former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama deployed the Guard to the...

When I was a teenager growing up in West LA, a friend of mine from a different part of the city derisively called my neighborhood "Scooter-Ville" because it was so "wholesome." He'd look out of my big bedroom window to see the neighborhood kids riding their Razor scooters up my empty block, around the cul-de-sacs, over and down the circular driveways.