Craze for Masters gnomes is growing. Golf-centric statue is now a coveted collector item Gnomes, those quirky statues people often have in their gardens, are flying off the shelves at Augusta National. The Masters gnomes have been selling out within a couple of hours each morning. 04/13/2024 - 11:30 am | View Link
Morris claims feature win in late model debut Mitch Morris' first feature in a Late Model was a memorable one. The McCausland, Iowa, driver took the checkered flag in the first Late Model feature during Friday night's season-opener at Davenport ... 04/13/2024 - 11:30 am | View Link
This Pennsylvania county picks presidents. Here's what it can tell us about 2024 Erie County, Pa., is one of just a handful of places that boomeranged from supporting Obama in 2008 and 2012, to Trump in 2016, to Biden in 2020. It's worth watching in 2024. 04/13/2024 - 5:01 am | View Link
Trump boosting efforts to wrest Pennsylvania back to GOP victory Former President Trump is turbocharging his efforts to win back Pennsylvania with visits set in critical swing areas of the state on Saturday. It’s part of an aggressive push by the former ... 04/12/2024 - 10:59 pm | View Link
The Masters becomes a menace Scottie Scheffler, Bryson DeChambeau and Max Homa are tied for the lead after a brutal day at the Masters. The beauty of Augusta National was more of a beast with a raging wind that never stopped. 04/12/2024 - 1:40 pm | View Link
Decorated Chinese athlete He Jie had been stripped of his Beijing half-marathon win Friday after an investigation found that the three African runners who competed alongside him had “actively slowed down” to let him cross the finish line first during the race on Sunday, April 14.
He won the 21 km.
ISLAMABAD — An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying on Friday that it violates citizens’ right to speech and expression.
The ban on X has been in place since February, when the party of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan announced a nationwide protest against alleged election rigging ahead of the Feb.
BEIJING — San Francisco is the latest U. S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing’s famed “panda diplomacy.”
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the panda loan in Beijing on Friday, alongside officials from China Wildlife Conservation Association, or CWCA. It will be San Francisco’s first time hosting the beloved animals long-term—the result of a yearlong advocacy campaign, Breed said.
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San Diego previously announced it was receiving two pandas back in February.
China is home to the only natural habitat for pandas and owns most of the black-and-white bears in the world.
Earlier this month, two Indian writers published an ode to their Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Written in lyric form and titled “Forever In Our Hearts,” it recounts his achievements while singing his praises in highly effusive language. “With courage and wisdom/you show citizens the way,” it gushes. “Oh Modi, oh Modi/their hopes never sway/A people’s beacon, in whom they see light/Oh Modi, oh Modi, guiding day and night.”
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Such reverence captures the essence of Modi’s popularity.
The U. S. blocked on Thursday a draft resolution that would have allowed the United Nations General Assembly to vote on allowing a Palestinian state to become a full member state of the U. N. The move has triggered backlash from other states and pro-Palestinian groups, as global divisions continue to sharpen over Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Apple Inc. said that it removed Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp and Threads from its China apps store after an order from the country’s internet regulator, which said the services pose risks to the country’s security.
The order comes on the heels of a cleanup program Chinese regulators initiated in 2023 that was expected to remove many defunct or unregistered apps from domestic iOS and Android stores.