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Bergoust follows that by jumping off two-and three-foot platforms and springing right back onto them. To achieve the power and agility he needs for his midair acrobatics at the Olympics in February, says Bergoust, “I train like cats would if they wanted to be better cats.” Olympians of yesteryear shared the same goal, but they would hardly recognize today’s training techniques. To achieve the Olympian ideal of “faster, higher, stronger,” coaches now realize, athletes don’t have to train more but they do have to train smarter....

The image was originally posted to Twitter in 2021 by Polly Burns. On Friday, however, it was reposted in Reddit’s “Interesting as F**k” forum by an anonymous poster. Friday’s post has garnered more than 36,000 upvotes and over 600 comments from Redditors who joked that the retriever had found “dog heaven.” In her original tweet, Polly Burns explained that the photo was captured by her sister Hannah Burns on South Uist—one of the many islands that make up Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, said Britannica....

MORE: Henrik Stenson wins Race to Dubai | Liang wins Manila Masters "It is still taking a little time to sink in what I've achieved this week as was the case when I won the FedEx Cup but then it just kept getting better and better as the days went on and I am sure this will be the same," he said. Stenson was consistent throughout the season but produced his best form at the final tournament, where he outclassed his nearest rivals with some excellent play....

If we remember Mexico’s 1-0 win against Bosnia and Herzegovina, it will not be for the action on the field as much as the faces we saw on the Alamodome pitch. Just like a 2014 friendly win over South Korea at the Alamodome stays in the memory as Alan Pulido’s breakout party, the individual performances on the non-FIFA date will prove more memorable than the collective. Nobody scored a hat trick like Pulido did four years ago, but it’s possible someone will do enough going forward to sneak onto the Russia roster as Pulido did and we’ll remember this win over Bosnia as the launching pad to their inclusion....

Bellhops aren’t the only ones whose love affair with the dollar is over. Since the dollar’s peak in February 2002, it has now fallen 20 percentage points against a basket of global currencies including the rupee, Canadian dollar and real, with 3 percent of that fall coming in the past three months. Countries all over the world are dropping their local currency pegs to the dollar, and eurobonds are beginning to compete with the almighty T-bill as a reserve currency in places like Russia and Sweden....

title: “Good News For Spam Lovers” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-19” author: “Vincent Hill”

Bogle, whose previous works include “Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films” and a biography of the actress Dorothy Dandridge, has turned his early fascination with TV into a sweeping social history of the medium’s representations of African-Americans. Organized by decade, “Primetime Blues” begins in the ’50s with images of shiftless clowns and improbably loyal servants; by the book’s end, the small screen has been transformed, as the stunning success of “Roots” and the unexpected reigns of Cosby and Oprah suggest....

The 10 semifinalists will be named Nov. 17, three finalists announced Nov. 24 and the winner will be named at the Dec. 11 Home Depot College Football Awards Show. Last year, Oregon State’s Brandin Cooks won the award. Past winners also include Michael Crabtree (2007-08), Calvin Johnson (2006), Larry Fitzgerald (2003) and Randy Moss (1997). The Biletnikoff Award watch list members: Nelson Agholor, USC; Dres Anderson, Utah; Kenny Bell, Nebraska; Tyler Boyd, Pittsburgh; Da’Ron Brown, Northern Illinois; Rashon Ceaser, Louisiana Monroe; Sammie Coates, Auburn; Amari Cooper, Alabama; Jamison Crowder, Duke; Titus Davis, Central Michigan; Geremy Davis, Connecticut; Devante Davis, UNLV;...

The move would revolutionise corporation tax, allowing authorities to collect up to 4 percent more tax. This could potentially raise $100 billion in extra tax revenues around the world. Governments have been under an increasing amount of public pressure to clamp down on the tax avoidance strategies over the last few years. The new system is ready to be implemented if political agreement can be reached next year, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said....

The January 5 election will see Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock contend for Senate seats currently occupied by Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. In the aftermath of last week’s congressional elections, how the upcoming races unfold will determine if Democrats are able to gain control of the U.S. Senate or if Republicans will maintain their majority. Democratic politicians have launched fundraising efforts to support Ossoff’s and Warnock’s campaigns throughout the week....

Kelly accused Trump’s progressive “Squad” critics of being anti-Semitic and described how his ancestry as a white man of Irish and German ancestry makes himself a “person of color.” VICE News reporters Daniel Newhauser and Cameron Joseph engaged in a mildly testy exchange with the GOP congressman Tuesday evening and asked him about the 240-187 passage of a House resolution which condemned Trump’s remarks toward four congresswomen as racist. Kelly complained Trump is unfairly held to a “much higher standard” than a “regular citizen” and later issued a statement claiming the audio of his own words were “mischaracterized” by the reporter....

In an interview on CNN’s State of the Union host Dana Bash asked Sununu about the House’s recent vote to censure Arizona GOP Congressman Paul Gosar and strip him of committee assignments. The move came after Gosar shared an animated video that depicted him killing New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Only two Republicans joined Democrats in voting to censure Gosar. Bash also asked Sununu about the backlash towards the congressional Republicans who supported the bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the House earlier this month....

On Wednesday, Cheney was ousted as chair of the House Republican Conference—the party’s No. 3 position in the lower chamber—after she voted to impeach former President Donald Trump in January and repeatedly condemned him and his claim the 2020 election was stolen. Hogan has frequently criticized Trump as well, calling out the former president on numerous occasions. In a Sunday morning interview with CNN, the GOP governor said that there is an ongoing “battle for the soul of the Republican Party....

Rep. Fred Deutsch, a Republican in the South Dakota House of Representatives, made the remarks while trying to introduce a law to ban doctors from performing gender confirmation procedures. The legislation would also ban doctors from prescribing puberty-blocking or hormone drugs for children under the age of 16. Speaking to the radio show of the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, Deutsch described feeling driven to introduce HB1057 after seeing pictures on the internet of children with scars from undergoing gender confirmation surgery....

Speaking to MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson during an interview Thursday morning, Meijer said GOP House representatives are operating under the assumption “that someone may try to kill [them]” over their support for Trump’s early White House dismissal. The Michigan congressman, who was one of 10 Republicans to cast a vote in favor of Trump’s impeachment, told Jackson that he is looking to acquire bulletproof attire and a security detail while adjusting his usual transit routes....

Lieu praised Democratic leadership for working to pass President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan last year during a House speech on Friday. He then turned his attention to Republican leaders, remaining silent after promising to list the ways that Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona were punished for speaking at the white nationalist America First Political Action Conference in Florida. “What are Republicans doing?” asked Lieu....

In late January, Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky pushed through a Senate vote to put lawmakers on the record as to whether they viewed the pending trial for Trump to be constitutional. Only GOP Senators Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania voted with Democrats—rejecting the suggestion from Paul and some other conservatives that the trial would be unconstitutional....

Due to term limits, the Republican leader is unable to pursue a third term as governor. He has endorsed Karrin Taylor Robson, a former member of the Arizona Board of Regents, for the Republican nomination in opposition to Lake, who is a former TV journalist and local media figure. Ducey’s criticism of Lake came during an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union when he called her commitment to Trump “an act,” and denounced her candidacy as opportunism while conversely lauding Robson’s conservative background....

Meijer, who represents Michigan’s 3rd district, is one of a number of lawmakers who are calling for current policies to be scrapped and allow Congress to claw back their power to permit the use of military force over concerns that successive presidents have used “outdated” legislation to justify wars across the world. The GOP lawmaker is one of the harshest critics of Joe Biden’s planned withdrawal from Afghanistan following a 20-year-war, with the president attracting further scrutiny after the Taliban took over the capital of Kabul after just days after U....