Monthly Archives: April 2019

Tokyo Opens Bidding for Sports To Be Added to 2020 Olympics

TOKYO – Japanese Olympic organizers opened the application process on Monday, May 11 for sports hoping to be added to the 2020 Tokyo Games. The Tokyo organizing committe launched a two-stage procedure that gives the host city a chance to add one or more sports to the program.   Baseball and softball, which have been […]

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Xavier Dolan's Long-Awaited 'The Death and Life of John F. Donovan' Premieres At TIFF

Quebec filmmaker Xavier Dolan’s “The Death and Life of John F. Donovan” has had a complicated death and life of its own. Expectations were high for Dolan’s English-language debut film, and his first featuring major Hollywood stars. It was shot in Montreal in 2016, and was initially slated to come out in fall 2017, but […]

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe granted rare diplomatic protection by Britain to help secure release from Iran

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British charity worker being held in Iran on spying charges, has been granted exceptionally rare diplomatic protection by the UK government in an attempt to secure her release. The decision escalates Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s case from a consular matter to a formal legal dispute between Britain and Iran and one that Jeremy Hunt, […]

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Settles, England and Belknap Named MaxPreps/NFCA National High School Players of the Week

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Sophomore Mikaelyn Settles (Harmony (Texas) HS), senior middle infielder Jessica England (Stoneman Douglas (Parkland Fla.) HS) and senior infielder Mallory Belknap (Xavier College Prep (Phoenix, Ariz.) HS) have been selected as the MaxPreps/NFCA National High School Players of the Week for games played March 9-15. South Central Settles clubbed her way to […]

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After Losing Her Job, Calgary Woman Paid Off Nearly $71K In Debt In 3 Years

The average Canadian owes about $20,000 in non-mortgage debt. Adeola Omole owed more than three times that— $70,800— in mountains of credit card debt, lines of credit, a personal loan for car payments, and student loans. Then she lost her job. Coming to terms with her debt would mean changing her whole mentality about shopping, […]

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Update: Netflix, Warners Hit With $50 Million Lawsuit Over Sabrina Satanic Temple

Update as of 11/08: The Satanic Temple has filed a $50 million copyright suit against Netflix and Warner Bros. that they publicly threatened at the end of October, Variety reports. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in New York, and states that Netflix’s new series, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, has copied the organization’s […]

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Hearthstone Rastakhan’s Rumble Expansion Revealed – BlizzCon 2018

Hearthstone’s next expansion will be a Troll-themed set called Rastakhan’s Rumble, Blizzard announced during the BlizzCon 2018 opening ceremony. Early reports say the expansion will add 135 new cards to Hearthstone, all themed around a massive Troll competition where nine tribes (one for each class) fight for dominance at the behest of Troll King Rastakhan. […]

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Justin Trudeau facing renewed calls to resign as secret tape escalates SNC-Lavalin corruption scandal

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing renewed calls to resign after a secretly recorded telephone call between two senior figures in his administration was made public, escalating claims he tried to shield an allegedly corrupt firm from prosecution.  The 17-minute call took place in December between Jody Wilson-Raybould, then the attorney general, and Michael […]

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Perryman, Poole, Trautmann Selected as Finalists for Inaugural Schutt Sports/NFCA Division II National Player of the Year

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The National Fastpitch Coaches Association is proud to announce the top three finalists for the inaugural Schutt Sports/NFCA Division II National Player of the Year award, which will be presented prior to the start of the Division II National Championship in Oklahoma City.   Missouri-St. Louis junior Hannah Perryman, North Georgia junior […]

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New Zealand shooter to represent himself in court as former lawyer says he appears ‘lucid’

The Australian terrorist who filmed himself slaughtering 50 worshipers at two mosques in New Zealand has asked to represent himself in court, prompting concerns the trial could become a platform to promote his far-Right ideology. Brenton Tarrant, a white supremacist who gunned down his victims with a semi-automatic rifle at the Al Noor and Linwood mosques in Christchurch, […]

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