Now that he is a couple months into the job, Ron Francis has gained a little more appreciation for the task he signed up for. The easy decision for the 56-year-old Hockey Hall of Famer would have been to take a consulting or scouting gig, keep his family settled in North Carolina and avoided the […]
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WASHINGTON — For Representative Pramila Jayapal, there was no better party during her childhood in Jakarta, Indonesia, than the one that took place on Diwali, the Indian festival of lights. Jakarta didn’t have a large Indian population in the 1970s and ’80s, so the 100 or so people who lived in her area would meet
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe presenter opens up to 5 Live’s Hooked podcast about his alcohol use. Richard Bacon has said that there are “probably times I should have gone to rehab” because of his drinking. Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live’s Hooked podcast, which focuses on addiction and recovery, the
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Image copyright Getty Images Getting fracking up and running in England has been slower than expected, an official report has found. In 2016, the government forecast up to 20 wells would be fracked by mid-2020, but only three have been so far. “Low public acceptance” of the controversial oil and gas extraction technique is partly
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Survivors of a deadly air strike on a migrant detention centre in Tripoli in July have told the BBC they feel abandoned by the United Nations, and are desperate to escape Libya. Fifty-three migrants and refugees were killed in the air strike which was blamed on rebel forces trying to get control of the capital.
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He could have been Mad Max on a night his best was missing. Instead, he fenced and fought, shuffled and juggled. And so did the Washington Nationals bullpen. As the Houston Astros kept clawing within one big hit of a comeback, Scherzer and the Nationals just held on. Scherzer got through five innings of Max-imum
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A 17-year-old gunman shot a schoolmate twice in the torso outside a high school in Santa Rosa, Calif., on Tuesday morning and then walked calmly into class, where his teacher did not realize anything was amiss, the police said. “He pretty nonchalantly walked into class and was talking to friends,” Capt. John Cregan of the
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is again appearing before Congress to face questions about his company’s massive market power, privacy lapses and tolerance of speech deemed false or hateful. Zuckerberg has been summoned to testify at a hearing Wednesday by the House Financial Services Committee on Facebook‘s plan to create a global digital currency, which has
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Jessica Biel may need to have a word with her husband, Justin Timberlake, after her Tuesday night appearance on “Fallon Tonight.” Host Jimmy Fallon surfaced a 1999 clip of Biel ― who tied the knot with the former *NSYNC singer in 2012 ― giving her two cents on the boy band in an interview. “To be
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Image copyright Getty Images When he was out of money and stealing the milk in student digs, he decided there was only one option to earn some cash. The individual, who does not want to be named, said he visited men when he was a teenage student to earn between £20 and £120 a time.
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