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The Last of Us Part 2 is focused on Ellie, but it also spends quite a lot of time focused on her rival, Abby. It takes a while for players to eventually sympathize with Abby after the heinous act she commits, and for some players, the moment never comes. If the sequel receives a television adaptation, it will need a lot more episodes to do the narrative justice. RELATED: Ashley Johnson is a Perfect Fit for Her Rumored Role in The Last of Us HBO Series...

There were plenty of other horrifying sights that night, sights that seared themselves into the collective memory of hundreds of families affected by the Lockerbie tragedy. Halfway up a wee hill, the fuselage had landed in the backyards of Rosebank Crescent. Bob Edgar ran out to see a baby boy’s body snagged in a tree; Maxwell Kerr saw a young girl still belted into her seat, propped against the chimney atop a roof....

9:40 a.m. A day after he was charged with trying to extort millions of dollars from Nike, attorney Michael Avenatti has launched a new public attack on the company. In a string of tweets Tuesday, the lawyer accused Nike of “trying to divert attention from their own crimes.” Prosecutors say Avenatti approached Nike last week and threatened to expose rules violations involving an amateur youth team sponsored by the company unless it paid him up to $25 million....

11:50 a.m. New Zealand has made 11 changes from the starting XV that beat South Africa for its second Pool B match against Canada on Wednesday in Oita. Only lock Scott Barrett and captain and No. 8 Kieran Read in the forwards, and flyhalf Richie Mo’unga and fullback Beauden Barrett in the backs kept their starting spots after defeating the Springboks 23-13 in Yokohama nine days ago. The two Barretts are starting with their third brother, Jordie, who is on the right wing....

Lebron James is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association. However, Kellers does have a way for James and us mere mortals to make maximum use of what we are born with. Here is what Kellers suggests for a workout: Begin with callisthenics and basis moves. Then switch over to the drill mentioned below for each day as pairs, or supersets, shifting from one exercise to the another without break....

In the original BOTW, it’s revealed that the guardians are contraptions built by the ancient Sheikah tribes of Hyrule for the purpose of defending the domain against the evil Ganon, who resurrects every several hundred years or so. During the era of the Hero of the Winds on the Legend of Zelda timeline, Ganon takes form and ultimately takes control of all of the guardians, causing the demise of Hyrule and setting up the events of BOTW....

Wang could be fined up to $1,200 and his house could be demolished–if China’s family planners choose to make an example of him. That’s not likely. There’s no way to get a precise count, but Wang says more than half of Beijing’s estimated 18,000 migrant children are unregistered. Nationwide, there may be as many as 5 million undocumented migrant kids. They pay a bit extra to attend school (Wang shells out $36 a term for each of his two little ones)....

With new Mac devices like the Mac Mini now coming with the M1 chip inside, we’ll look at whether this device changes things for music producers and if Apple’s claims are genuine. Apple’s Claim About the M1 The M1 system-on-a-chip is Apple’s most powerful chip thus far and has been designed specifically to optimize Mac devices in areas of efficiency, processing power, performance, and memory. Packed with a staggering 16 billion transistors, it is supposedly world-leading in computer processing unit (CPU) and gaming processing unit (GPU) performance, battery life, machine learning capacity, and more....

Nearly two decades later, during another cholera outbreak which killed 8,000 Italians, 6,000 of whom lived in Naples, the Italian parliament loaned 100 million lire to the city for its reconstruction—a bailout that contributed to the rise of the corrupt class of Neapolitan executives who overran the city and were known as the “high Camorra.” In his Royal Commission of Inquiry into Naples published in 1901, Senator Giuseppe Saredo wrote a scathing indictment against the burgeoning mafia class as the city entered its Risanamento, or clean-up, initiative to improve living conditions: “Better the disease than the cure....

I often find myself looking at people on the streets while my mind wanders around. Sometimes, as I try to avoid puddles of water that form on the road after a shower of rain, at that very moment, my mind shifts to cricket. And in this case, Yuvraj Singh. I have lived this scenario in my head many times over. So many times, in fact, that it would be difficult for me to put a number on it....

By his own admission, Lionel Dahmer makes an unreliable witness. A research chemist at home with hard facts and uneasy with people, he admits that even before his son’s crimes came to light, “I did not possess any particular insight into his character."-He confesses that he was oblivious to his son, and the evidence he supplies is persuasive. He didn’t recognize his son’s alcoholism. He never thought his son was particularly odd until Jeffrey’s grandmother found a male mannequin in the closet....

Bakuman is a series created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, best known for the creation of one of the most famous and influential anime of the past two decades, Death Note. Having collaborated in various other manga-turned-anime projects, the author and illustrator duo created a masterpiece, and with it nearing its fifteenth anniversary in 2023, here’s why you should definitely watch Bakuman. RELATED: Why There Can Never Be a “New Big Three”...

Perhaps we can, for the present, discount the predictable Republican reaction to this announcement—Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s threats to pillory the Attorney General Merrick Garland in congressional hearings, for example, or Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)’s call for Garland to resign or be impeached—and disregard the no less predictable monetizing of the FBI search by Trump himself on the internet. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) apparently accused the FBI of being “the Democrat Party Police Force” and also added a fundraising link....

Unlike other films at the beginning of the 21st Century, it’s The Matrix that offered its audiences equal doses of action and existential crises - something The Matrix Resurrections tries to emulate today. And like other films in The Matrix franchise, The Matrix Resurrections once again explores humanity’s struggle against the Matrix, with the sequel emphasizing Thomas Anderson reclaiming his identity as Neo.RELATED: Cyberpunk Games To Play While You Wait For The Matrix 4However, with Resurrections taking place in the Matrix’s version of 2020, it’s interesting to note several differences between its setting and the trilogy’s....

At The Washington Post, talented Juan Williams wrote, an Oct. 10 column strenuously defending Clarence Thomas that became a virtual blueprint for Thomas’s strategy of indignation. But at the time he wrote it, “Don Juan” Williams, as he’s been called inside the Post, was himself the subject of an inquiry into charges of verbal sexual harassment brought by a Post employee; others had been informally complaining about Williams’s conduct for months....

The German professional, who last won on the PGA Tour at the 2014 U.S. Open, remained at the top of the leaderboard after Round 3 at the Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. Kaymer had a mistake-free round and carded 6-under 66 to hold a two-stroke lead over the rest of the field. He is 15 under for the tournament — the lowest 54-hole score of his career....

Over the last 10 years, Ronaldo and Messi have hogged the plaudits and they are still going strong despite entering their thirties. Every Ballon d’Or award since Kaka won it in 2007 has been taken home by either Ronaldo or Messi, with the two tied on five each. Guardiola knows what Messi is like to coach first-hand from his time at Barcelona and he believes his personality rubs off on team-mates, adding that he and Juventus star Ronaldo are a cut above everyone else....

The LA Galaxy’s furious rally from 3-0 down to 4-3 up, courtesy of a pair of Ibrahimovic goals, grabbed all of the weekend’s headlines, but what is easy to overlook is the exact moment when the match actually swung away from Los Angeles FC to the Galaxy, and it was before the Swedish superstar took the field. This weekend’s MLS slate wasn’t just about LA and Ibrahimovic, though. Toronto FC recorded its first league win of the season, New York City FC won another match without injured star David Villa, and Atlanta United showed it can win ugly rather than just via the high-scoring route....

The president has waged numerous legal battles across the nation. In the key battleground states, two have been dismissed, one has been denied and another two have been dropped by his legal team. As Trump’s chances of litigating his way into a second term shrink, here are the most embarrassing setbacks from the campaign’s attempt to fight the election results. Michigan The Trump campaign filed two lawsuits in Michigan. The first asked for vote counting to be halted until the campaign was given “meaningful access” to ballot tabulation, and also requested that the campaign be given permission to review previously counted ballots and to access videotapes of ballot drop boxes....

Pushing hardest for a bill is Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, who expected to cap his political career with a historic reform measure. Now he’s hoping for a modest Senate bill, but he’s getting little White House help. White House strategists believe that even if Mitchell gets a deal in the Senate, it wouldn’t pass the House. And they don’t want lawmakers in Washington in October, forgoing precious campaign time, for a doomed bill....