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Abercrombie

• Abercrombie has launched a gender-neutral collection for kids.
• Its pieces cost between $19.95 and $69.95.
• It's a completely new direction for the brand, which in the past was known for its highly sexualized ad campaigns. 

Abercrombie is making big moves to become relevant again. This week, the retailer announced that it launched a collection of gender-neutral clothing for kids.

Aptly named the "Everybody Collection," the 25-piece... Читать дальше...

Sixers big man Joel Embiid dropped 26 points on the Celtics last night in road victory — and then proceeded to dunk on Rihanna. In a post-game interview with TNT, Embiid was asked if he wanted to say anything to the young woman “who told you to come back when you’re an all-star.” After making the all-star team earlier on Thursday, Embiid didn’t feel like giving his celeb temptress — long speculated to be Rihanna — a second chance. “She denied me back then, so why go with her again?” said an amused Embiid. Читать дальше...

Brighton and Hove Albion have parted with a club-record fee reported to be in the region of £16million to sign PSV striker Jurgen Locadia. The forward has penned a deal to 2022 at the Amex Stadium, as Chris Hughton looks to add goals in the Seagulls' attempts to retain their Premier League status. Brighton are 16th in the table, three points above the drop zone, but only rock-bottom Swansea City have scored fewer than their 17 goals this term. Locadia arrives on the south coast with nine goals... Читать дальше...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The Latest on the government's announcement that it will retry Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez on corruption charges (all times local): 3:45 p.m. Sen. Bob Menendez, whose 11-week corruption trial ended in a hung jury in November, says he expects to be "vindicated again" in a retrial. The New Jersey Democrat put out a statement Friday after the government announced it will retry Menendez and Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen (MEHL'-genn) on fraud and bribery counts. Menendez's... Читать дальше...

SAN DIEGO — Recent assaults by tactical teams on prototypes of President Trump’s proposed wall with Mexico indicate their imposing heights should stop border crossers, a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the rigorous assessment told the Associated Press. Military special forces based in Florida and U.S. Customs and Border Protection special units spent three weeks trying to breach and scale the eight models in San Diego, using jackhammers, saws, torches and other tools and climbing devices... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Tebow will be at spring training with the New York Mets. The 30-year-old outfielder was among nine spring training invitees announced by the team Friday. The former Heisman Trophy winner and NFL quarterback is preparing for his second professional baseball season. He hit .226 with eight homers, 52 RBIs and 126 strikeouts in 126 games last year at Class A with Columbia in the South Atlantic League and Port St. Lucie in the Florida State League. Tebow was 4 for 27 (.148) with no extra-base hits... Читать дальше...

Wikicommons

• Shares of Lowe's jumped after news that an activist investor that recently bought a stake in the company sees the company as worth triple its value.
• Activist investor D.E. Shaw believes the home retailer can measure up to its rival Home Depot if it makes the right changes, anonymous sources told Bloomberg.
• The company has paled in comparison to Home Depot in terms of revenue, earnings, and costs despite close similarities between the two companies, according to reports. Читать дальше...

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Yesterday Jim Hansen, now with Columbia University, and several of his colleagues released their summary of 2017 global temperatures. Their history, published by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has constantly been evolving in ways that make the early years colder and the later years hot. I recently posted on how this can happen, and the differences between these modified datasets and those determined objectively (i.e. without human meddling).

Target Field opened in 2010 as the home of the Twins and was almost universally  hailed as one of the best ballparks in Major League Baseball. Minnesotans who had spent 28 years watching indoor baseball at the multi-purpose Metrodome rejoiced at the modern, outdoor space. Those who visited Target Field enough times, though, grew to have a handful of complaints. They were relatively minor, but the most significant among them went something like this: the concourse in right field gets pretty crowded... Читать дальше...

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The length of all government shutdowns, who was in control of the White House and Congress, and whether employees were sent home, all in one chart.

The length of all government shutdowns, who was in control of the White House and Congress, and whether employees were sent home, all in one chart.

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• The deadline to avoid a government shutdown is fast approaching.
• The federal government has entered a shutdown 17 times since the modern budgeting process began.
• Most of those times the shutdown has been short and not involved employees being sent home, but that has changed in recent shutdowns.

With the Senate at an impasse and the Friday-night deadline looming, the odds of a partial shutdown of the federal government are growing by the minute. Читать дальше...

Brothers Eric Kendricks of the VIkings and Mychal Kendricks of the Eagles will be on opposite sides in the NFC Championship Game.

The Mexico striker had been linked with a second stint at Old Trafford, but his next career move is to take him away from England and over to Turkey

BIRKIRKARA 2 Dimitrov 72, Carlos Alberto 104 SAN ĠWANN 1 Henshaw 12 Birkirkara struggled much more than expected to eliminate Division One side San Ġwann, beating them 2-1 after extra-time to reach the FA Trophy quarter-finals. San Ġwann surprisingly managed to take the lead on the 12th minute. Alan Borg released Godwin Blessing Henshaw inside the area and the latter controlled the ball before beating goalkeeper Kristijan Naumovski with a powerful shot which gave the Macedonian goalkeeper no chance. Читать дальше...

Greenpeace activists who hung a banner from the Eiffel Tower in protest against far-right leader Marine Le Pen should be given 500 euro fines and suspended sentences, French prosecutors said Friday.

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Jim Mecir pitched professionally for 15 years, from 1991 to 2005, including all or part of 11 seasons in the major leagues, with a permanent disability that would have kept most people on the sidelines. Mecir (pronounced Mah-sear) was born with a club foot, a condition that was only partially corrected by medical procedures in common use when he was an infant. He defied the opinions of doctors and coaches by successfully competing in sports at all levels... Читать дальше...

Backlash from a certain segment of the Internet to blockbuster movies that cast women (as well as people of color) has led to some pretty horrible things, like online harassment. It also leads to ridiculous, even hilariously stupid things, like someone editing “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” to remove all the women. That edit of “The Last Jedi,” which was made from a bootleg recording of the movie made by someone watching it in a theater, purports to be “basically The Last Jedi minus Girlz Powah and... Читать дальше...

An ironic, knowing laugh rippled through the audience Thursday night as the immensely engaging musical “Yank! A WW II Love Story,” received its Chicago premiere by Pride Films and Plays. And that laughter instantly suggested the long, painful history of homosexuals in the U.S. military. The moment occurs when two of the story’s principal characters, […]