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Facebook and Twitter moved quickly to restrict the reach of the Post article on Wednesday. Facebook said it was restricting the article’s reach until it could undergo a rigorous fact-checking process. Twitter cited its policies about hacked material and doxing to justify its decision to limit the article’s spread, blocking links to the article and images from the report from being shared. Meanwhile, both the authenticity and accuracy of the article remained in question....

In Horizon Forbidden West, Coils are used to upgrade weaponry, boosting certain stats and allowing players to make aspects of their weapon stronger. A bow with fire arrows can be upgraded to make the flames more potent, for instance, while players can also get coils that allow them to tear machines off enemies with ease. However, while the system makes sense in theory and the core idea works well, the way Coils are acquired leaves something to be desired....

Local 2-player multiplayer is a longtime traditional facet of Traveller’s Tales’ LEGO games, allowing friends and family to battle foes and solve puzzles as a team. The Skywalker Saga preserves the feature, but unfortunately it’s held back by several flaws that unfortunately make the game more optimal in singleplayer. Traveller’s Tales is apparently already working on the next LEGO game, and if that’s the case, it must remember to strike a balance between The Skywalker Saga’s innovations and a more satisfying co-op experience....

When the bases are loaded with two outs while your team trails by two runs. When you’re returning from injury, struggling to get into a groove, and your team is in a slump. When you’re at the plate with a chance to win the game and one good swing can make you the night’s hero. These are the moments when all you need is one dud from a shaky bullpen pitcher, like the litany employed here by the home team, to erase an otherwise poor game....

It was a plausible cover story, but it lasted less than 48 hours. Tribesmen told journalists they had seen a helicopter flying near the scene of the explosion. In Washington, reporters suspected that the “helicopter” was in fact a Predator, a low-flying, missile-firing unmanned drone. Had the United States taken out the terrorists with a well-aimed Hellfire missile? By Tuesday morning, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz was not only confirming the story, he seemed to be boasting about it....

Why did Clinton suddenly change tack? The answer, according to a NEWSWEEK reconstruction, is a surprising Washington tale of the pressures that influence White House foreign policy in an election year. No one doubts that Colombia is a serious policy challenge, and many strongly believe the aid package is a vital response. But a series of other factors also came into play. Domestic politics was one–and lobbying efforts by arms producers may have been another....

Slim’s murder is not an isolated event, nor even simply part of a pattern. Dissidents in the Middle East are being killed on an industrial scale. According to Lebanese human rights institutions, assaults on journalists by state actors have increased from 20 in 2019 to 60 in 2020. The killing of dissidents and next-generation political leaders by governments and militias is no longer a niche human rights issue, and it is not limited to Lebanon....

Over the years between shooting The Other Me and its release, Pejić has found herself traveling the world. During our conversation, she shared that recently returned to Australia, following a trip to New Mexico. The model-actor was visiting the rocky state for six months and during her time there, she worked as a waitress. Pejić shared, “I just got a job as a waitress, and I was working in this restaurant called El Nido in Santa Fe....

The question is whether she can be their trailblazer, too. As one of 10 independent swing votes in the new legislature, which is divided between the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of President Chen Shui-bian and the opposition Kuomintang (KMT), she will have an outsize influence on the DPP agenda. In fact, many analysts say she holds the key to President Chen’s political future: if he continues to be stymied by the legislature even after gaining a plurality of seats in the Dec....

Also, he might have added, educated in how the power of the pen can be leveraged by the power of the purse. His scoop would have likely joined the piles of the ignored and the unread without the backing of L&T’s publisher – the Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc., a $3.5 million conservative organization dedicated to purging “the pervasive forces of multiculturalism” from the nation’s campuses. Yale is not ISI’s only target....

Iron Man 3 director Shane Black called the shots on this sequel that brings the action into American suburbia and hopes to prove that the universe’s greatest hunters have more than one great film in them. Here’s everything you need to know about The Predator. When is The Predator out on Blu-ray and digital? The Predator arrived in cinemas in September, which means the Blu-ray release is next on the agenda....

The show, a collaboration between the IMA and the Met (where it travels next March), presents some 200 objects borrowed from 68 different collections to illustrate Venice’s links with three Oriental dynasties: the Mamelukes of Egypt, the Safavids of Persia and Turkey’s Ottomans. From the exquisite ceramics decorated with traditional Ottoman blue-and-white floral motifs to the sumptuous silk carpets from Anatolia and rich gold and silver-threaded textiles made in Venice, the exhibit vividly depicts how the city’s contact with the Islamic world catalyzed intellectual, esthetic and technological changes....

It could never happen today. But Hillary Clinton’s idol, Eleanor Roosevelt, was permitted a zone of privacy modern politicians can only envy. In 1992, the first volume of Blanche Wiesen Cook’s biography of Eleanor Roosevelt (also known as “ER”) caused a flap when Cook, a feminist historian, asserted what others had hinted at or gossiped about–that the First Lady had both a male lover (her former bodyguard Earl Miller) and a female lover, Lorena Hickok....

As indoor exercise bikes continue to gain popularity, it’s worth asking: do the pros exceed the cons, and should you add one to your home fitness setup? Indoor Cycling Pros Jumping on an indoor exercise bicycle could be the perfect way to jumpstart your fitness journey, as indoor cycling is an effective and incredibly convenient way to stay active. Here are the pros of buying an indoor exercise bike....

However, we have a model that we are confident in, a model that has done well in out-of-sample backtesting, a model that's been on the right side of the line moves, a model I still put my own money behind. One of the trends I've noticed is that we do seem to like a lot of big underdogs. The way the model is created, we have ratings for each team in a few different statistics (play efficiency, rush efficiency, play success, scoring efficiency)....

Massey-Peabody (“The Quants”) are coming off a perfect 4-0 week with their official picks in the NFL, nailing Miami (+7), Baltimore (+3.5), Indianapolis (-13.5) and Washington (+9). They have four Big Plays (best bets) for Week 13, and on several of them, The Linemakers on Sporting News are on the same side: The Quants’ Big Plays (14-8 YTD) – Chicago +7 at Detroit [MP Line: CHI +2.7]. – Buffalo -2....

The 2020 Neflix miniseries has been a runaway scripted hit for the network since it premiered last Oct. 23. “The Queen Gambit” tells the story of chess prodigy Beth Harmon through the tumultuous 1950s and 1960s, from learning the game as an orphaned girl through her rise into a world-renowned champion, defeating drug and alcohol addiction along with several grandmasters along the way. “The Queen’s Gambit” has been well received by audiences and critics alike for its wonderful script, great acting, dramatic direction and cinematic brilliance....

Guan gave up the chance to qualify for this year’s US Open after accepting an invitation from Jack Nicklaus to play in this week’s Memorial Tournament in Ohio. Despite a solid even par first round that left him tied for 41st, his 7-over-par 79 on Friday left him four shots away from playing the weekend, tied for 90th in a field of 120. When the greatest player of all time gives you a personal invitation to his tournament, it’s pretty hard to say no (I would imagine), but Guan gave up his previously stated aim of qualifying for his second major of the year....

Gurley wasn’t sure, so he turned to a team staffer. “Ninety-seven yards; 6.9 yards per carry,” the staffer told both Gurley and Peters. Close enough. Gurley got his bite of cake. Peters’ doubt about Gurley’s rushing output Sunday was fair, because there was a point during the game when nobody could have guessed the 25-year-old would have ended up anywhere near triple digits on the ground. Then the fourth quarter arrived, and the Panthers were reminded why Gurley is a two-time All-Pro selection....

Yes, both holidays commemorate events in the vicinity of Jerusalem: in the case of Hanukkah, the rededication of the Temple in 165 BC and for Christmas, of course, the birth of Jesus more than 150 years later. Both festivals emphasize the gift of light in the darkest of earthly seasons, as the multi-colored bulbs of modern Christmas decorations and the flickering candles of the traditional Hanukkah menorah readily attest. Christians indulge in celebratory food and drink, like the plum pudding glorified in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, or modern candy canes and egg nog, while Jews famously gorge themselves on tasty fried potato pancakes (latkes) or, in the Sephardic tradition, jelly donuts known as sufganiyot....