Residents should take necessary precautions despite the storm’s uncertain intensity The National Hurricane Center’s forecast for Tropical Storm Nate at 11 AM on October 6, 2017. NOAA/NHC Tropical Storm Nate will become the sixth major storm to hit the United States during this active hurricane season when it strikes the…
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People, it seems, have never been so afraid of their food -– and, say some experts, an obsession with healthy eating may paradoxically be endangering lives. Twenty-nine-year-old Frenchwoman Sabrina Debusquat recounts how, over 18 months, she became a vegetarian, then a vegan — eschewing eggs, dairy products and even honey…
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NORMAN, Okla. — Iowa State looked in no position to win Saturday at No. 3 Oklahoma. The Cyclones were playing with a walk-on senior quarterback who had played in just three games during his career going into Saturday after its starter at the spot took a leave of absence for…
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ANALYSIS/OPINION: I need to start out saying I’ve never been a fan of “Blade Runner.” Both times I’ve watched it I fell asleep; both times I left the experience feeling I either didn’t get it or was above it. Upon my second attempt in 2013, I found the three-hour making-of…
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Students at a Memphis public high school are performing better in boys-only and girls-only classes, the principal says. Booker T. Washington High School set up single-sex classes a decade ago and has no plans to reverse course. “What we know from research is that girls will take more chances when…
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Paul Finebaum has had some crazy callers on his television show, but every once in a while he gets someone insightful on there. On Thursday, Finebaum had a caller tell him that he was high school friends with Gruden’s wife and said he is hearing Jon Gruden is the top…
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The Trump administration says it will broaden the scope of an opt-out provision in the Affordable Health Care Act, allowing nonprofits and publicly traded companies to stop offering birth control coverage in the insurance they provide their employees. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the new set…
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by George Rasley, ConservativeHQ.com Editor “If we were wrong in our contest, then the Declaration of Independence of 1776 was a grave mistake and the revolution to which it led was a crime. If Washington was a patriot; Lee cannot have been a rebel.” Wade Hampton III Confederate General and…
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Suspended Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino received 98 percent of the money from the university’s current contract with Adidas, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported Thursday. According to the newspaper, Pitino got $1.5 million of the money as part of his personal services agreement with the shoe and apparel firm, with the…
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The fight over the legality of President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban consumed much of 2017. Get ready for a repeat in 2018. The federal government and plaintiffs who challenged the president’s executive order weighed in Thursday on the question of whether the case before the Supreme Court is now…
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