Month: March 2021

source: www.f4wonline.com — Aside from the very top talent if they’re moving, nobody is being told about WWE’s plans for the draft. At last year’s show, the wrestlers were told literally seconds before the picks announced on television. This year, things have been even quieter. There is a feeling that the company really needs to …

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MJF has announced his stable will be going by the name The Pinnacle. The new name was established during tonight’s episode of Dynamite. Tully Blanchard mentioned that after they attacked and laid out The Inner Circle last week, they reached the pinnacle of the sport after climbing the mountiantop. MJF referenced Blanchard’s phrase later in …

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Nelson Mandela won a landslide victory in South African’s first election open to all citizens 25 years ago, marking the official end of brutal racist system of apartheid. CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker, who covered Mandela’s historic victory, described the day as “jubilant South Africans poured into the streets of Johannesburg, danced in the streets …

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The world’s stocks lost more than $1 trillion in value Monday after the U.S. and China increased tariffs on each other’s imports.The Dow and S&P 500 stock indexes lost 2.4% while the Nasdaq composite lost 3.4%.Trade-dependent sectors, including technology and agriculture, showed the biggest losses.U.S. stocks had their worst day in four months on Monday …

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Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro, the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, accused the Trump administration of covering up the death of a 10-year-old migrant girl from El Salvador by failing to inform Congress and the American public. CBS News learned Wednesday that the girl, whose death in September 2018 had not been previously reported, had died …

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The 40th birthday of Ironman was always going to be a special race, and so it proved with the Kona debut of Javier Gomez, course records broken, emotional stories of redemption and some heavyweights showdowns between the world’s greatest long-course athletes. Advertisement Grabbing the headlines in the men’s elite event was Patrick Lange, who broke …

Read more “Ironman World Champs 2018: Patrick Lange is the King of Kona”

This story was updated at 9:30 PM Eastern. WWE announced Monday that the WWE Network will launch on NBCU’s Peacock streaming service starting Thursday, March 18th with the standalone service ending on April 4th. However, the automatic migration for current Network subscribers that was thought to be part of the move is not happening after all, …

Read more “WWE Network launching March 18 on Peacock, standalone done April 4”

Some historians consider it the single most important day in the 20th century: D-Day. On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, and began to turn the tide in World War II, leading to the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany. President Trump is in Europe to take part in commemorations …

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Shortly after the crews of the two tankers attacked this week in the Gulf of Oman evacuated their stricken vessels, the ships that rescued them were surrounded by Iranian military boats and told to transfer the mariners into their custody, according to declassified U.S. intelligence reports obtained on Friday by CBS News. One of the …

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Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says pre-season testing is always an opportunity for a team to find “the hair in the soup” or unexpected issues such as those encountered by the Brackley squad in Bahrain. Mercedes wrapped up its three-day test at Sakhir with the lowest mileage of all teams, a shortfall owed to various reliability …

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