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content The Lineup During an Oct. 9 court hearing, Blazs denied Boyle’s request to toss the photo spreads. The judge also decided, Boyle said, that the state hadn’t violated any discovery rules or laws primarily because he didn’t find the discovery and document delays to be deliberate. But the defense’s ongoing complaints about discovery had…
end of ShanesHouse1 Moviegoers love a nice cliché. At least, if ticket sales for superhero comic films are any indication. See what I did there? I just used one myself. (Actually, two.) As a writer, I’m obligated to turn my nose up (three!) at clichés, wherever I see them. But my snobbery is hypocritical: I…
This article is part of a collaboration with iQ by Intel. We tend to talk about the boys when we talk about esports. Competitive gaming is driven by talented young men whose skills at videogames are second to none. They are incredible with a keyboard and mouse, and they have XY chromosomes—or at least, the vast…
La Vanguardia, August 4, 2015 Catalonia is set to go to the polls next month, as regional President Artur Mas called early elections for Sept. 27, intending to use the vote as a fresh bid for independence. He announced the election as “an exceptional measure,” says Tuesday’s front page of La Vanguardia. In a televised…
Few banks are as close to the industries they serve as Silicon Valley Bank is to the technology world. An industry mainstay since the 1980s, the bank veers far from the course of conventional financial institutions. Part lender, part consultant, part cheerleader and part investor, Silicon Valley Bank has been a nursemaid to countless start-ups…
Photo Hillary Rodham Clinton, campaigning for president, attended a town hall event in Nashua, N.H., in July to speak with potential supporters. Credit Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist for The New York Times WASHINGTON — Earlier this summer, the inspector general of the nation’s intelligence agencies contacted the longtime lawyer for Hillary and Bill Clinton with a…
SeaWorld has suffered a 84% collapse in profits as customers have deserted the controversial aquatic theme park company following claims it mistreated orca whales. The company, which trains dolphins and killer whales to perform tricks in front of stadiums full of spectators, on Thursday reported declines in attendance, sales and profits because of “continued brand…
Related Editor’s note: This post has been updated. A 49-year-old police trainee killed an unarmed teen burglary suspect who drove an SUV into the showroom of an Arlington car dealership early Friday. Officer Brad Miller shot 19-year-old Christian Taylor about 1 a.m. after officers responded to a burglar alarm at Classic Buick GMC near Interstate…
ASSOCIATED PRESS The new Drug Enforcement Administration chief has finally made it clear: Marijuana is safer than heroin. DEA head Chuck Rosenberg told reporters Wednesday morning at the administration’s headquarters that “heroin is clearly more dangerous than marijuana,” clarifying a less definitive statement he made last week, when he said marijuana is “probably not” as dangerous as…
Donald Trump has been officially banned from one of the biggest gatherings of conservative activists after implying he received hostile questioning during the first Republican presidential debate because the television moderator was menstruating. Trump was uninvited from the RedState Gathering late on Friday after saying in a CNN interview that Fox News’s Megyn Kelly “had…