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Until Sunday Pep Guardiola had won all 10 of his previous Premier League meetings with Eddie Howe but after their 11th encounter resulted in a 3-3 draw of the highest calibre at St James’ Park, the Manchester City manager’s praise for his Newcastle counterpart proved unstinting. “He’s has done a top-class job,” said Guardiola, whose […]
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Parents who identified as Hispanic/Latinx or Black were less likely to have reliable, high-speed internet than White parents, according to a survey from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago published in the journal JAMA Network Open. However, after adjusting for income, the disparity in access to high-speed internet persisted for Hispanic/Latinx families […]
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Central banks around the world risk losing public trust and must now act forcefully to combat inflation, even if that drags their economies into a recession, European Central Bank board member Isabel Schnabel said on Saturday. Inflation is close to double-digit territory in many of the world’s top economies and any decline is likely to […]
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Microsoft has started putting more ads in Outlook mobile for iOS and Android in recent months. The Outlook mobile app gives users two options for organizing their inbox: a single inbox with everything in it or a tabbed inbox split into two categories — “focused” with important mail and “Other” with all the rest. Previously, […]
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A Michigan man won a $100,000 jackpot from a second chance lottery drawing without even being aware that he had entered. The 58-year-old Oakland County man told Michigan Lottery officials he used the lottery’s app to scan a few non-winning $300,000,000 Diamond Riches tickets without realizing he was setting himself up for a jackpot. “I […]
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles says he expect Tom Brady to return to the team in the coming week, after the quarterback’s recent absence from the team. “It’ll be this week, early,” Bowles told reporters on Sunday. Brady has been away from the team since 11 August to deal with what Bowles had […]
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Long-term survivors of stroke in Australia have “fallen into a black hole,” left with lifelong disability with “inadequate” ongoing services and support, according to the authors of a Perspective published today by the Medical Journal of Australia. “People living with ongoing disability after stroke may not have the opportunity to achieve their preferred life goals. […]
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European Central Bank policymakers made the case on Saturday for a large interest rate hike next month as inflation remains uncomfortably high and the public may be losing trust in the bank’s inflation-fighting credentials. The ECB raised rates by 50 basis points to zero last month and a similar or even bigger move is now […]
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Fresh off the success of Uncharted and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 respectively, Sony and Sega are planning film adaptations of even more of their franchises. Deadline reports that Sony is developing Days Gone for the big screen, while Sega says it’s developing adaptations of Space Channel 5 and Comix Zone. These join a dizzying number […]
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Sheriff’s deputies in Washington assisted an animal control officer with wrangling five chickens spotted wandering loose around a vacant property. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department said deputies assisted the department’s animal control officer with the capture of five chickens found running loose outside a vacant house in Puyallup. The department’s Facebook post showed photos and […]
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