U.S. troops and their allies on a military base in Iraq were told in late December that special showings of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” slated to coincide with the movie’s U.S. theatrical release just before Christmas, would be delayed indefinitely. It was a dark time for the forces.
On Episode 2 of the Husker Extra podcast, the crew discusses the Mark Banker firing and more.
The Lincoln chapter of M.A.D. Dads is moving on without the everyday presence of its founder and board president, the Rev. Don Coleman.
LCC Baseball coach Eddie Smith presents "Athletic Recruiting and American Colleges"
Donald Trump calls BuzzFeed garbage and CNN fake news, Senate makes first step to dismantle Obamacare and the least stressful jobs in America.
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Millennials tend to do a lot of things differently than their parents. They'd rather pay for an Uber than a new outfit. They're cutting cable. And, apparently, they hate napkins.
These spending habits continue to fascinate — and frustrate — retailers as 20- and 30-somethings defy the consumption patterns that previous generations followed for years. One major difference: Millennials are far less likely to buy something because it's convenient, something many companies capitalize on. Читать дальше...
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A month before her 26th birthday, Nina Ragusa landed in Bangkok, Thailand.
She had been living in Tampa, Florida, preparing and saving for open-ended travel for the past two years.
During the day, she worked at a foreclosure law firm, and a few nights a week, she moonlighted at bars and promotional events.
About five years later, Ragusa has only been back to the US twice.
In the meantime, she told Business Insider via email from her current home in Darwin... Читать дальше...
We should have felt this romance coming. Selena Gomez and The Weeknd may have seemed like a match made out of nowhere when photos recently emerged of them smooching on the...
Remember when they were 10p? Those days are gone.
If you're a human with eyes and/or a heart, it's likely that you miss Parks and Recreation. The NBC comedy ended in early 2015 after seven seasons, and with so many shows...
Ready in about a half hour, this creamy shellfish stew from chef Ashley Christensen of Poole’s Diner in Raleigh, N.C., contains succulent cubes of turnip and some zesty greens, too.
The team will begin the 2017 season in Los Angeles, but tough talk between its owner and San Diego made the move unsurprising. But that didn't stop the Internet from giving the team a little ribbing.
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It’s never a dull day on Reddit. A boot manufacturer recalled one of its products following the discovery by a Reddit user that its imprint leaves swastika marks. The user, who goes by the name FRSHFSHFCKR, posted a photo Monday to Reddit with the caption, “There was an angle I didn’t get to see when ordering my new work boots…”
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The FOG Art + Design fair was planned by Stanlee Gatti, and at its opening event on Wednesday, Jan. 11, plenty of men there seemed as elated as their sisters by both the art itself and the art-community camaraderie. The event is for everyone, a party like a buffet, said Jennifer Beiderbeck of Sotheby’s, “where you like everything on the table.” Between the giant panels, which were suspended from the top to the floor of the space, working flower artists, all women, created exquisite floral likenesses from paper and glass... Читать дальше...
Faced with sharply deteriorating economic conditions in 2011 after ending their second bond-buying program, Federal Reserve policymakers made an unprecedented bid to shore up the recovery by promising to keep rates low until at least mid-2013.
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The sisters of the Fraternite Notre Dame Mary of Nazareth Soup Kitchen have been hoping for nearly a year that Robbins and other powerful friends who jumped in to help them when they were served an eviction notice in the Tenderloin can prevail. Robbins got involved in the nuns’ plight in February after being moved by a story in The Chronicle about how the landlord of their soup kitchen intended to raise their rent more than 50 percent and then evict them out a short time later. [...] the nuns... Читать дальше...
Italy coach Conor O'Shea kept most of his November internationals squad intact when he named his 32 men for the Six Nations.
(AP) — A McComb man has been arrested on a homicide charge for a weekend accident that left a toddler dead and her mother injured. The Enterprise Journal (http://bit.ly/2ieGVMI ) reports Stephen Jeanson was pulling his daughter in a wagon and his wife was walking alongside it when McCaskill's truck struck her and the wagon. Coroner Percy Pittman says she died of blunt-force trauma.
Washed up actor Charlie Sheen has called on his fellow Hollywood pals to actively campaign for a Donald Trump impeachment, even though the President-elect is yet to take office. The actor heaped praise on Meryl Streep’s anti-Trump rant at the Golden Globes on Sunday, saying that Americans will soon see their President-elect impeached. “Everything that Dame Streep orated is beyond the pale of truth, and we’re all responsible to heed and honor those words,” Sheen told TMZ. “Those words of wisdom.” Breitbart.com reports... Читать дальше...
Status of peace negotiations, planned for Jan. 23, is not clear