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Paul Ryan gave a pitch ideal speech on the baseball shooting
We are all imperfect. "Paul in the gym, who had been there, and he told me had these two Capitol Police officers, who were part of Congressman Scalise's detail, not been there, it might have been a massacre, 'cause there would have been no one to respond", Sen. [Full Article...]
LeBron James: Cavs didn't fail against Warriors in NBA Finals
Sure, the Warriors missed becoming the first undefeated champion, but 16-1 still gave Golden State the best winning percentage of any title team at.941. Durant and Curry were always right in the middle, yet they stayed loose and focused by building their own relationship - not to mention shooting skills - through regular shooting contests that were oh so close. [Full Article...]
Golden State Warriors Get The Best Of The NBA's First Finals Trilogy
Wanda interrupted a live TV interview with KD to tell her son just how proud of him she was in an emotional moment for everyone watching. "Pretty much all their big-name guys are in their 20s, and they don't show any signs of slowing down". [Full Article...]
Fire engulfs tower block in west London
Residents said the blaze appeared to start in an apartment on a lower floor and spread upward quickly. "It had completely spread within half an hour". "I'm lucky to be alive". "I got dressed, went downstairs and saw a neighbor". "I consider this mass murder". Rydon Construction, the company behind the refurbishment in 2016, has claimed the work it carried out met all fire safety standards. [Full Article...]
Grammy Awards Switch Up Voting Procedures
The 2018 Grammy Awards will be broadcast Sunday, January 28 from New York's Madison Square Garden . Year-in, year-out the artist with the most cutting edge, critically-beloved album has had to sit and watch the biggest awards of the night go to albums that are safer, more marketable or more reminiscent of music industry golden ages long past. [Full Article...]
Was Dylan too freewheelin' in borrowing for Nobel lecture?
The news was broken by Slate's Andrea Pitzer , who took on the thankless but fruitful task of comparing Dylan's musings on Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" to those put forward by the website, which, by providing chapter-by-chapter summaries and analyses of commonly assigned books, has become the crutch for lazy students and bane of literature teachers everywhere. [Full Article...]
Big Brother: Marnie Simpson feuds with Kayleigh over Charlotte Crosby
In the Diary Room, Kayleigh later reveals her boyfriend also has a surprising connection to Charlotte. 'I just don't like her as a person, I think she's very busy, she's got a lot of things to say about people... I think she is a disgusting human being". Kayleigh references Charlotte, saying: "Her best mate is someone I'm not allowed to go anywhere near". In the diary room Kayleigh divulges ... [Full Article...]
Jessica Chastain in Talks to Play Villain in 'X-Men: Dark Phoenix'
The Phoenix Force overtakes her personality and leads to her unleashing her power on the world, leading the rest of the X-Men to come together and stop her. A complaint about X-Men: Apocalypse was that the X-Men movies had evolved in almost a decade and fresh blood was needed. X-Men: Dark Phoenix will be a direct sequel to X-Men: Apocalypse . [Full Article...]