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The A's are getting a little tired of Wild Card games, but the team's brass break down the past, present and future (in vague terms) of the team.

There is a perception that 'loot boxes' are a problem, with research finding a link between in-game video game purchasing and problem gambling

Many Washingtonians seeking mental-health care have signed themselves in to private psychiatric hospitals thinking they can check out when they want to. Yet when they ask to leave, these patients have faced intimidation to stay, and in hundreds of cases have been held against their will to be evaluated for involuntary commitment.

Nir Eyal, who wrote the industry manual for hooking people on tech, now has a recipe to free you — even though it was your fault to begin with.

Financial advisers discuss the real cost of free stock trades.

RANT AND RAVE Rave to the anonymous person who replaced an elderly resident’s walker in my building after it had been stolen. Rant to the person who stole the original walker. How could you? RANT AND RAVE Rant to the medical-transportation company that charged more than $2,000 to transport my husband from the Harborview Medical Center heliport […]

A reader, alone, in the quiet, is the perfect setting for a serious fright. Experience true terror with books that inspired favorite horror films.

Washington state has approved or expanded 10 private psychiatric hospitals since 2012, promising to transform the way mental-health care is delivered in a state with a chronic shortage of treatment options. Yet on the inside, these new institutions have failed patients in ways both known and unknown to regulators and all but invisible to the […]

It can be tricky to make it look like people are doing things they never did. Alexander Sobol/Shutterstock.com

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The former Wakefield Trinity director Chris Brereton is heading up a consortium leading a takeover of Championship side Bradford Bulls. The Championship side announced on Sunday that they had conditionally entered into an agreement for the club, which will see Andrew Chalmers vacate his role as director of the Bulls. Chalmers said the individual heading up the UK investor group…

Disneyland rules typically forbid costumes and masks worn by guests 14 years of age or older. But the rules clearly do NOT prevent adults from dressing in stylish trash can cosplay:

The choir, who made it to the finals of the America's Got Talent, had their first international gig since the show and it was a massive success.

In Romanshorn, a small town located at the Lake Constance in Switzerland, a centrally located educational, sports and leisure campus is developing. At its entrance one finds the building complex of the secondary school. The new construction replaces two outdated buildings and links future and past developments. Together with an existing building from the year 2000 it forms a spatial and functional unit, while a new gallery along the entrance façade creates a connection with the existing building positioned on the opposite side. Читать дальше...

Rashida Tlaib, congresswoman of Michigan's 13th District and distiguished member of the "squad," believes that Detroit needs to hire all African-American crime analysts to work with the city's new facial recognition program.

Matviyenko's visit to Armenia is also expected in the near future.

A new study found that participants' finishing times barely differed, whether they had been training for 30 years or fewer than 10v

Theodore Levick has been sentenced to two years behind bars for criminal negligence causing the 2016 death of Meaghan Brown in Trail, B.C.

Addicted to Screens? That’s Really a You Problem  The New York Times

Peterborough United photographer Joe Dent’s top 10 images from Peterborough United’s 3-3 draw at Wycombe Wanderers.

Plus: A new “flying car” from Kitty Hawk.

A moat stocked with reptiles was apparently one of the ideas that President Trump had for fortifying a wall along America’s southern border.

A Whitehorse man known as Garbage Truck Santa is fundraising to fix up his new truck in time his annual rounds in December.

Age reader discuss the recent anti-Semitic attacks on schoolchildren in Melbourne schools.

Boise State rolls over struggling UNLV, 38-13. For UNLV, switching quarterbacks was an attempt to jump-start its football season that is rapidly disintegrating.

Success truly is a state of mind.