Новости за 28.08.2019

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Outfielder Nick Martini was claimed off waivers by the Padres, the Oakland A’s announced Wednesday. The A’s had designated him for assignment to make room on the 40-man roster for fellow outfielder Seth Brown.

Oakland signed Martini prior to the 2018 season, and he made his MLB debut with the team that June just before his 28th birthday. He eventually earned regular playing time in the second half of the season and put up strong numbers in 55 games... Читать дальше...

Before space tourism can take off, we need to figure out how to handle crime.

BP's plan to pull out of Alaska could leave a big hole for nonprofits and other programs that benefited from the oil giant's donations and its employee volunteers.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Charles Tatelbaum, director at Tripp Scott law firm, about what the Purdue Pharma settlement would mean for the company, the plaintiffs and the Sackler family.

Everyone has heard politicians talk about the “Race to 5G” as various countries around the world are all pushing to be recognized as leaders in 5G networks. But who cares? If Telia builds an awesome 5G network in Estonia, it really doesn’t affect the revenue picture for AT&T in the USA. Telia simply doesn’t compete with AT&T or Verizon.

SportsLine simulated the 2019 NFL season 10,000 times and identified Fantasy football breakouts to target.

In the US nearly 1,000 children have died in hot cars since 1990.

OPINION As expected, a lot of Liverpool fans on Twitter are furious with Bobby Duncan’s agent after Saif Rubie released a statement on Twitter accusing the club of “mental bullying”. Duncan wants to quit Anfield but it seems as though sporting director Michael Edwards is unwilling to let the 18-year-old go for the money that is currently on offer. While that happens in football and Duncan has another year left on his contract, this is now at a point where the Reds should simply get rid of him... Читать дальше...

Leading up to the US Open, Schwarzman spent August competing in the ATP Master’s 1000 in Canada, where he lost in the second round, and at the ATP Master’s 1000 in Cincinnati.

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Microsoft has released a new set of official resources to help game devs port their DirectX 12-based games onto the Windows 7 operating system. Most notably this means that it will be possible to get Nvidia-supported DirectX Raytracing (DXR) games running on the older OS. To some Windows 10 users that might seem entirely unne...

London (AFP) – Historic football club Bolton, one of the founders of the English Football League, avoided the fate of their historic rivals Bury from being expelled from the league when a takeover was finally...

THE CARABAO CUP is back as teams go head-to-head in round two of this competition, looking to break Man City’s stranglehold. Last season Pep Guardiola’s men lifted the trophy after seeing off Chelsea on penalties in the final, having hammered Arsenal in 2018 – and will enter this term at the third round stage. Does […]

Corn has seen the biggest decline in the grain sector during the month of August, with prices down a second month in a row—marking a major turnaround from a 15% jump in the first half of the year.

Despite the results, some Trump officials question if costs outweigh benefits.

BORIS Johnson has created a “war games” strategy which could involve creating new bank holidays in a daring bid to force through Brexit, it has been reported. This comes as The Queen agreed to suspend Parliament in the run-up to the October 31 exit deadline thwarting Jeremy Corbyn’s plot to stop us leaving the EU. […]

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US Defense Secretary Mark Esper Thursday said he discussed future steps needed to be taken for India and US to work together more closely, during his conversation with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. Esper, who took office last month, had his first conversation with Singh over telephone on August 20. "We had a very warm conversation. We talked about our mutual strategic interest and discussed some next steps by which we can work together more closely," Esper told reporters at the Pentagon. However... Читать дальше...

'Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King' (ALL) Announced - Screens & Trailer

A fossil from Ethiopia is letting scientists look millions of years into our evolutionary history — and they see a face peering back. The find, from 3.8 million years ago, reveals the face for a presumed ancestor of the species famously represented by Lucy, the celebrated Ethiopian partial skeleton found in 1974. This ancestral species is ...

Purdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson and other drug firms accused of fueling the nation's opioid epidemic are in talks trying to reach legal settlements that could reach tens of billions of dollars.

USWNT soccer star Carli Lloyd was invited to play in an NFL pre-season game after nailing a 55-yard field goal during a Philadelphia Eagles practice.

Emmett Till's 1955 lynching propelled the civil rights movement, but telling his story underscores a reluctance for some in Mississippi "to come to grips with its history of racial brutality."