NEW YORK CITY — New York City filed a federal lawsuit against companies that flout city, state and federal law by selling flavored nicotine vapes to local businesses, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday. And the mayor said he won’t just be content with snuffing out sales of popular vapes. “I believe that we need to …
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“Il est inenvisageable que les [soldats] français continuent à intervenir sous les ordres d’une junte militaire inconstitutionnelle” au Niger, estime lundi 31 juillet sur France Inter Niagalé Bagayoko, politologue et directrice de l’African Security Sector Network, après le coup d’État militaire survenu la semaine dernière. Depuis mercredi dernier, le président nigérien Mohamed Bazoum est retenu …
SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… -Chris Jericho resumed touring with his band Fozzy last weekend with dates scheduled for North Dakota, South Dakota, and Iowa. On the Saturday edition of Jericho’s Saturday Night Special, Jericho discussed his band resuming their tour despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We actually did four …
SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… Velveteen Dream (Patrick Clark) returned to NXT TV last week after months off TV and is featured on tonight’s show against Finn Balor. His return has renewed questions about allegations made against Velveteen Dream and what WWE did to investigate the situation. Dream was accused …
LOS ANGELES, CA — A prolonged heat wave creeping in on Southern California will usher in the summer beach days as forecasters predict temperatures hitting triple digits in some areas next week. According to the National Weather Service, the cooler SoCal summer is coming to an end with heat cranking up starting Monday. Though confidence …
Des “travaux de précaution indispensables pour éviter” qu’un lac glaciaire “déborde” sont en cours cet été à Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, indique le maire Eric Fournier dimanche 30 juillet sur franceinfo. Le lac, qui s’est formé avec la fonte du glacier des Bossons, pourrait sinon “provoquer des inondations dans le village en contrebas“, selon lui. “La formation de …
SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… On a special Super Tuesday episode of NXT, history will be made as Adam Cole, Finn Balor, Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa will compete in a Fatal-4-Way Iron Man Match as one of these four wrestlers will look to become a 2x NXT Champion. Plus, …
In an article published in the March 2018 Stereophile, I wrote that critics have been attacking MQA, the audio codec developed by J. Robert Stuart and Peter Craven, by accusing it of being lossy. The critics are right: MQA is, in fact, a lossy codec—that is, not all of the data in the original recording …
Minoru Suzuki made a surprise appearance on AEW Collision. Saturday’s show started with Allin appearing in a backstage promo saying he was ready to fight anyone tonight in an impromptu match. After Allin came to the ring, Suzuki made his appearance, accepting Allin's challenge. The two proceeded to have a match, the finish coming when …
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The WWE SummerSlam Battle Royal will be presented by Slim Jim. Sheamus and LA Knight are the first two confirmed competitors, and they will do battle in singles action on next Friday’s go-home SmackDown. Adam Pearce noted that he will have the full match line-up finalized next week. There’s no word yet on what …