July 2019

USWNT Head Coach Jill Ellis Steps Down After Second World Cup Title

Jill Ellis is stepping down as the head coach for the U.S. Women’s National Team, fresh off the soccer team’s epic FIFA Women’s World Cup title win.  Ellis, 52, will officially leave her post in October after leading the team to back-to-back World Cup wins for the first time in USWNT history. The women’s team beat […]

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It’s Steve Bullock’s First Time on the Democratic Debate Stage. Here’s His Big Idea.

If you watched last month’s Democratic debates, the people onstage Tuesday evening will be familiar — except for one. Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana just missed qualifying for the first set of debates, falling one poll short of the three 1 percent results he needed. But he later got his third poll and earned the

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Where Floods of ‘Biblical Proportion’ Drowned Towns and Farms

Floodwaters swamped more than half a million acres of forest and farmland in the lower Mississippi Delta more than six months ago, gulping up highways and homes, livestock and tractors. This week, for the first time since, the river gauge at Vicksburg on the Western border fell below flood stage. “This is biblical proportion,” Paul

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Jeremy Lin Breaks Down: ‘I Feel Like, In Some Ways, The NBA Has Given Up On Me’

Jeremy Lin showed his vulnerable side at a recent appearance in Taiwan.  The NBA star got emotional about his ongoing experience with free agency while speaking in front of an audience to Christian station GOOD TV over the weekend. Lin entered free agency after winning the league championship with the Toronto Raptors in June and

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Events look at balancing security, ambiance after shooting

Event organizers should review their emergency plans after a deadly shooting at a California food festival to see if they can make additional safety improvements as the peak of summer and fair season culminates with a series of open-air events that are notoriously difficult to secure, law enforcement experts said. The weekend shooting at the

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‘Moscow Mitch’ Tag Enrages McConnell and Squeezes G.O.P. on Election Security

For once, Democrats seemed to be getting to a man who has embraced his portrayal as Darth Vader. When an unsubstantiated West Virginia Senate campaign ad in 2018 called him “Cocaine Mitch,” he began answering his Senate telephone with that identifier. “Moscow Mitch”? Not so much: “I was called unpatriotic, un-American and essentially treasonous,” he

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The Radical Way Bruce Lee Redefined Asian American Masculinity

Bruce Lee is portrayed only briefly in Quentin Tarantino’s new film, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” He’s relegated to a punchline, really ― a surprise, given that Tarantino is an unabashed Lee fan. But at the showing I saw this weekend at a Regal Edwards theater in Alhambra ― a Southern California city with a considerable

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