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Having lost four straight, the Mudcats conclude a six-game, seven day, home stand tonight with the final game of a three game series versus the Winsto... - CarL Carolina Mudcats

Funeral services for deceased children can be even more challenging.

Wolves set up a Europa League play-off tie with Italian side Torino after beating Pyunik 4-0 at Molineux and 8-0 on aggregate.

WWE Superstar Ronda Rousey has joined Season 3 of “9-1-1” in a fiery recurring role, Fox confirmed to TheWrap Thursday.

OZARK, Ark. (KFSM) — Sheriff’s deputies have arrested an Ozark man in a connection with a stabbing last month, when a man showed up bleeding at the Franklin County Courthouse. Shane Walker was in custody Thursday (Aug. 15) afternoon, according to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office. No other details were immediately available. Walker had been wanted for questioning after Charles Casey Fisher showed up at the courthouse bleeding from several stab wounds. Fisher, 39, of Mulberry arrived at the courthouse... Читать дальше...

NASCAR superstar Dale Earnhardt Jr, his wife and daughter had a miracle escape after their private jet crashed at a local airport. Dramatic images show Earnhardt Jr’s private jet engulfed in flames and smoke billowing from the fuselage at Elizabethton Municipal Airport in Carter County, Tennessee. But thankfully, fire chief Barry Carrier an Carter County […]

NEW YORK — Preliminary findings from an autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein, the financier who apparently committed suicide in a New York City jail last week while facing sex trafficking charges, show that bones in his neck were broken, a person familiar with the autopsy report said Thursday.

Ghislaine Maxwell was spotted in public for the first time since Jeffrey Epstein’s death at a Manhattan prison. According to the New York Post, she was spotted at an In-N-Out Burger in Universal City, Los Angeles A regular of that In-N-Out Burger who is at the location “daily” went up to her to ask, “are […]

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. — Dale Earnhardt Jr., his wife Amy and their child were on a plane that crashed in Tennessee on Thursday afternoon, according to Mike Davis, with JR Motorsports. Earnhardt Jr.’s sister, Kelley Earnhardt Miller, said Dale and his family are all safe but were taken to the hospital for an evaluation. “I can confirm Dale, Amy & Isla along with his two pilots were involved in a crash in Bristol TN this afternoon. Everyone is safe and has […]

Miranda Lambert made her return to Boots and Hearts in a big way on Saturday night, showing thousands of country fans that a woman can be a headliner and that she is still at the top of her game.

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When president Donald Trump visited El Paso last week, he did more than simply force himself into ghoulish photo ops with a community still reeling from the August 3 mass shooting that left 22 people dead, he also made time to be an asshole to the city’s Republican mayor.

It seems like every story we write about HOAs involves them trying to rid their pristine neighborhoods of weird old cars (and sometimes planes), and this one is no different. Well, actually it is a little different, because this 1983 Pontiac Firebird wasn’t in a driveway, it was at the bottom of a lake.

1. Microplastics are everywhere, even in the Arctic snow  CNN
2. Microplastics in snow: Varnish and rubber found in Arctic snow indicates "significant contamination of the atmosphere," according to study  CBS News
3. Why is there plastic in Arctic snow? - BBC News  BBC News
4. Scientists find 'enormous concentrations' of microplastics in Arctic  New York Post
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Paul R. Pillar

Security, Middle East

Kabul must learn to grapple with its Taliban problem.

Anyone looking in Afghanistan for an easily understood story of good versus evil, or moderation versus extremism, will be disappointed. That war-torn country is a congeries of conflicts with diverse ethnic, sectarian, and ideological overtones. Battles are fought between antagonists who hate each other but each exemplify values far different from anything that Americans would identify with or want to defend. Читать дальше...

Much has been made of how "Good Boys" -- an R-rated comedy about a trio of sixth-grade nerds caught up in a misadventure involving drugs, sex toys, beer and slapstick mishaps -- looks like a junior varsity version of "Superbad," or, to cite a more recent precedent, "Booksmart," but with 12-year-old boys. Those comparisons are fair, and fairly accurate. The comedy, produced by "Superbad’s" writer/producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, hits all the expected marks for raunch and vulgarity, with the bonus that it is actually also kind of sweet.

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. — Dale Earnhardt Jr., his wife Amy and their child were on a plane that crashed in Tennessee on Thursday afternoon, according to Mike Davis, with JR Motorsports. Earnhardt Jr.’s sister, Kelley Earnhardt Miller, tweeted that Dale and family are all safe but were taken to the hospital for an evaluation. “I can confirm Dale, Amy & Isla along with his two pilots were involved in a crash in Bristol TN this afternoon. Everyone is safe and has […]

Mike Mackenzie’s daily analysis of what’s moving global markets

The two social networks appear to have amplified one another’s worst tendencies in the country, spreading conspiracies at a pivotal moment.

The Southern Nevada Health District on Thursday has confirmed a case of the measles in a visitor to Las Vegas who frequented Luxor and Mandalay Bay early this month.

Spaceport America is no longer just a shiny shell of hope that space tourism would one day launch from this remote spot in the New Mexico desert. The once-empty hangar that anchors the taxpayer-financed launch and landing facility has been transformed into a custom-tailored headquarters where Virgin Galactic will run its commercial flight operations. Two...

In July Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office announced they were considering denying Democrats Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar entry into Israel on their way to the West Bank in the coming weeks. This came after the two anti-Israel Democrats Tlaib and Omar introduced their radical BDS resolution that compares Israel to Nazi Germany and Imperialist […]