Ukrainian lawmaker Yevhen Murayev attends a session of parliament, Verkhovna Rada, in Kyiv, Ukraine April 25, 2019. Picture taken November April 25, 2019. REUTERS/Vladislav MusienkoKYIV, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Ukrainian former lawmaker Yevhen Murayev, who Britain named this weekend as a potential candidate chosen by the Kremlin to lead Ukraine after a military offensive, said…Continue Reading
2022-01-23 09:41:34 GMT+00:00 – Leon Draisaitl scored the game-winning goal as part of his four-point game and led the host Edmonton Oilers to a 5-3 victory over the Calgary Flames on Saturday night, snapping their seven-game skid.Evan Bouchard scored twice, Brendan Perlini also scored and Connor McDavid collected two assists for the Oilers. Goaltender Mikko…Continue Reading
By the time the Lions made quarterback Matthew Stafford the first overall pick of the 2009 draft, Tom Brady had already won three Super Bowls. When Stafford marches into Raymond James Stadium on Sunday with the Rams, he will face Brady, who is on a quest for his eighth Lombardi Trophy. Brady had already won…Continue Reading
A University of Washington language guide is calling everyday words used by Americans “problematic.” The University of Washington Information Technology department released an “inclusive language guide” that lists a number of “problematic words” that are “racist,” “sexist,” “ageist,” or “homophobic.” According to the guide, words such as “grandfather,” “housekeeping,” “minority,” “ninja,” and “lame” are considered “problematic words.”…Continue Reading
Yes, yes, yes. We get it. Patrick Mahomes won’t spend one second of Sunday night’s AFC divisional playoff game guarding Josh Allen. Allen will not spend one second of the game checking Mahomes. This isn’t a hoops game on West Fourth Street playground or Rucker Park — or 1953, for that matter, when single-platoon football…Continue Reading
A Texas junior high school teacher has been placed on administrative leave after she was caught on video calling her students “complete and utter morons.” An unnamed first-year teacher at Harry Wright Junior High School in the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District in Richmond recently unleashed a tirade where she said she wouldn’t save kids…Continue Reading
Lance Cpl. Jonathan Gierke (left) and Pfc. Zachary Riffle were pronounced dead after a tactical vehicle flipped over on a North Carolina highway. 2nd Marine Logistics Group The US military identified two Marines that were killed in a North Carolina tactical vehicle mishap Wednesday. Lance Cpl. Jonathan Gierke, 19, from Lawrenceville, Georgia, and Pfc Zachary…Continue Reading
When a man’s head has been blown off with a shotgun, you’d expect there to be more of a mess. But a 12-gauge to the temple, at close range, can be surgically precise. I was a third-year law student, still in my 20s, when I learned that. Our clinic director gave us a foot-thick, plain-brown…Continue Reading
At the end of last week, as many were readying for a long Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, Penzey’s Spices CEO Bill Penzey Jr. sent a spicy promotional email to customers. He dubbed the upcoming sale “Republicans are Racists Weekend.” With a $10 purchase, customers were offered ½ cup jar of China Cinnamon, Mexican…Continue Reading
A screengrab from Tucker Carlson’s Friday Fox News show. (FOX News) M&M’s — the beloved candy-coated chocolate candy made by Mars — unveiled a few changes to its longtime group of cartoon mascots this week: giving the brown M&M “kitten heels” rather than her signature stilettos and changing out the green M&M’s boots for sneakers. …Continue Reading