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Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow is now pursuing a career in professional baseball and will hold a workout for major league teams later this month, according to agents Jimmy Sexton and Nick Khan.
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Bangladeshi investigators probing the brazen terror attack on a cafe here say they have identified five businessmen who have allegedly financed a new Islamist group to carry out operations and are now trying to arrest them.
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It goes without saying that choosing your college degree is a major decision.
It's a choice that likely will impact your entire college experience, not to mention your future career.
Some students arrive on campus knowing exactly what they want to major in. Others have a vague idea, but leave some room for themselves to explore. Many have no clue and sample a few different options before declaring.
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Last week, Apple unveiled a new update to its Limit Ad Tracking on the next version of iOS 10, which will give users much greater control over their Identifier for Advertising (IDFA).
Right now, Limit Ad Tracking alerts mobile developers and advertisers that users do not want ads targeted based on their behavior, but it sends the alert with their IDFA attached. Читать дальше...
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday dealt another defeat to New Jersey's yearslong attempt to legalize sports betting, setting aside the state's challenge to a federal betting ban. The court found New Jersey's law repealing prohibitions against sports gambling violated the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, which forbids state-authorized sports gambling. "Because PASPA, by its terms, prohibits states from authorizing by law sports gambling, and because the 2014 law does exactly that... Читать дальше...
The supercar was driven at 63mph in a 30mph zone.
Exelon Generation agreed to buy a nuclear power plant that Entergy had slated to close after subsidies were approved by New York state regulators to keep it open.
– PDP governorship aspirant, Friday Nwosu, says Ogah lacks the locus standi to appear in court because he protested the process of the primaries – Argues that there is an abuse of court process which cannot be neglected One of the aspirants of the Abia state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary election, Friday Nwosu, has filed […]
Читать дальше...A man armed with a blowtorch and his female accomplice are accused of stealing hammocks from a south Minneapolis park, authorities say.
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Want to become a Chick-fil-A franchisee? Good luck — the company only accepts about 0.4% of applicants who apply every year.
The chicken chain reports that it receives more than 20,000 inquiries from franchisee candidates every year. Of those candidates, Chick-fil-A selects just 75 to 80 new franchisees annually, according to spokesperson Amanda Hannah.
“[Chick-fil-A] is probably the most particular franchisor out there,” franchise business expert Joel Libava told Business Insider. Читать дальше...
The parents contend in their lawsuit that it is “highly probable” that Hillary Clinton sent and received information about U.S. Department of State activities and covert operations in Benghazi via the email server she used during her four years as secretary of state.
Russia will use its aerial combat experience in Syria to replace classic metal helicopter rotor blades with ones made from composite materials.
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Michael Phelps' diet is the stuff of legend.
The most successful Olympian of all time says he doesn't eat the crazy amount that he reportedly did as a 23-year-old before the 2008 Beijing Olympics. But even though the swimmer now claims "I don't eat many calories a day," he's still almost certainly downing an amount of food that would have most of the rest of us running to the store for new pants.
Before the Beijing Games, Phelps said he was chowing down on an insane 12,000 calories a day... Читать дальше...
By Song Sang-ho SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Yonhap) -- President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday stepped up her efforts to curb the continuing criticism of the planned deployment of an advanced U.S. anti-missile system to the peninsula, reiterating the crucial security i
“It’s a Hail Mary!” the model and actress told People about her pregnancy. “I’m so happy — we’re so blessed. We were so shocked but thrilled.”
On July 25, 43 Democratic members of the US House of Representatives wrote to Secretary of State Kerry. The letter began:
We write to express our deep concern regarding recent developments in Brazil that we believe threaten that country's democratic institutions. We urge you to exercise the utmost caution in your dealings with Brazil's interim authorities and to refrain from statements or actions that might be interpreted as supportive of the impeachment campaign launched against President Dilma Rousseff. Читать дальше...
Tim Curry, the English actor known for his portrayal of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 cult film “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” gave his seal of approval for the rebooted TV movie. When Deadline asked if Curry gives the Fox version his “unconditional endorsement,” he answered, “I do indeed.” Curry added that he remembers “quite a lot” about making the original, since it was his first movie role. “I didn’t miss much,” he said.
Shares of Chevron Corp. climbed 0.6% in midday trade Tuesday, despite some broader weakness in the energy sector, after Piper Jaffray turned bullish on the oil giant. Analyst Guy Baber at Piper Jaffray's Simmons & Co. raised his rating to overweight from neutral, and boosted his stock price target to $117--15% above current levels--from $110. He said execution remains a concern given ongoing uncertainty in the commodities markets, and the stock doesn't offer the deepest valuation discount in the sector. Читать дальше...
Doctor Antony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases outlines the current Zika situation in Florida and the surrounding area. He also comments on the actions that are being taken to the prevent the spread of the disease.
– Funke Egbemode, the managing director of Telegraph newspapers, became the president of the guild at the weekend in Port Harcourt – Speaker of the Lagos state House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has sent his congratulatory message and also advised her and the association The speaker of the Lagos state House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, […]
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Direct tax collection registered a growth of 24.01 per cent to Rs 1.59 lakh crore during the April-July period of the current financial year.