"We are grateful to have reached a resolution that allows these police officers to continue their careers," PBA president Patrick Hendry said in a statement.

Two points and three days of rest were exactly what the Islanders needed for Christmas.

Texas Democrat announced her run for Senate earlier this month.

Is this the end of Pluribus Season 1?

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She's no match for him.

Deshaun Watson’s season is over before it started. 

"I have never felt burdened by those very dated, and I think out-of-touch standards."

Fowlie's sister was last heard from in November, according to a missing person flyer.

The country singer admitted in a recent interview that he went au naturel in Aldean's pool, and added, "I peed in it too."

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, praised President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for coordinating the deployment and predicted the Guard’s presence would have a positive impact.

Finding out you’ve just been traded is one way to throw off your golf game. 

A "Monday Night Football" hot mic showed Philip Rivers is still avoiding cuss words on the field.

A majority of Mets fans were upset by the franchise’s refusal to engage home run leader Pete Alonso in long-term contract talks.

A neighbor said the alleged killer looked "like a devil person."

Blackstone says it has agreed to buy popular Whitsundays island from Australian winemaking family

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Hamilton Island, a popular tropical holiday destination on the Great Barrier Reef, has been sold to a US private equity firm, reportedly for $1.2bn.

New York-headquartered Blackstone – which owns the casino-hotel chain Crown Resorts – released a statement on Tuesday night announcing it had entered into an agreement to acquire the Hamilton Island resort from the Oatley family, subject to customary regulatory approvals.

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This is the Bryce Hopkins St. John’s has missed. 

Last season’s 9-10 start put the tank behind the eight ball, forcing GM Sean Marks to trade Dennis Schröder and Dorian Finney-Smith. They finished with the sixth-best lottery odds and fell to eighth.

The Ghost of Contracts Past is not scheduled to make his annual January visit to the Giants.

The decision Doug Armstrong’s management group needs to make before the Canadian Olympic roster is announced on New Year’s Eve cannot be about letting Matthew Schaefer be around the group before he takes a leading role in the 2028 World Cup or 2030 Olympics. It cannot be about the irresistible story of Schaefer getting a...

Aaron Glenn’s wish is giving Jets fans a game they can remember in the home finale against the Patriots on Sunday. 

Video shows Gen Xu Qinxian explaining why he refused to deploy troops to crush 1989 student-led demonstrations

Rare footage of a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) general who defied orders to lead his troops into Tiananmen Square and crush the 1989 student protesters has been leaked online, offering a highly unusual glimpse into the upper echelons of the military at one of the most fraught moments in modern Chinese history.

General Xu Qinxian’s refusal to take his troops from the PLA’s prestigious 38th Group Army, a unit based on the outskirts of Beijing, into the capital has been the stuff of Tiananmen lore for decades.

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This time of year is stressful enough – but at least we don’t have to deal with seasonal depression on top of it all

If we have learned anything from the influx of holiday movies, mass-produced decorations, Mariah Carey and the smorgasbord of other jingle bell-infused songs that Big Northern Hemisphere has embedded into our lives, it’s that the cultural zeitgeist has determined that Christmas is a holiday best served cold. Whatever!

The bigwigs in the top of the equator might have convinced the world of such, but that’s only because they lack the innate knowledge that us southern hemisphere folk know all too well: a warm Christmas is simply superior. This time of year is stressful enough – regardless of temperature – but hey, at least we don’t have to deal with seasonal depression on top of it all.

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State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation

The state department has barred five Europeans from the US, accusing them of leading efforts to pressure tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints, in the latest attack on European regulations that target hate speech and misinformation.

Secretary of state Marco Rubio said the five people targeted with visa bans – who include former European Commissioner Thierry Breton – have led “organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose.”

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