Here are the playoff-clinching scenarios for Week 17 of the 2019 NFL season: AFC CLINCHED: Baltimore Ravens – AFC North division and homefield advantage throughout AFC playoffs Houston Texans – AFC South division Kansas City Chiefs – AFC West division New England Patriots – AFC East division Buffalo Bills – playoff berth KANSAS CITY CHIEFS (11-4) (vs. L.A. Chargers (5-10), 1:00 PM […]
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Eddie Murphy’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ return is a ratings win
Eddie Murphy delivered an early holiday gift to “Saturday Night Live.” With Murphy aboard as host after a decades-long absence, the NBC show earned its biggest audience since 2017. Just shy of 10 million viewers tuned in to see Murphy back on the late-night comedy show that helped launch his career. His last appearance was […]
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Survey shows nearly all U.S. consumers plan majority of holiday shopping online
Leanplum, the leading multi-channel engagement platform, today announced the results of a new study* that shows consumers are shunning brick-and-mortar stores this holiday season with over 95 percent choosing to buy half or more of their gifts online. Younger Americans (Millennials and Gen Zs) are leading the online shopping trend and over 16 percent are […]
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Falcons score 2 early touchdowns, beat woeful Jaguars 24-12
If this was Dan Quinn’s final game in Atlanta as the Falcons coach, at least he went out in style. Devonta Freeman scored two touchdowns before Jacksonville took a snap, and that was enough to send the Falcons past the woeful Jaguars 24-12 Sunday in a match-up between teams long since eliminated from the NFL […]
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Boeing CEO resigns after two deadly 737 Max crashes
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg resigned Monday over the deadly 737 Max debacle that has plunged the aircraft maker into crisis and damaged its reputation as one of the stalwarts of American industry. The company’s board said a change in leadership was needed to restore confidence in Boeing as it works to repair relationships with regulators […]
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McConnell not ruling out witnesses in impeachment trial
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that he was not ruling out calling witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial — but indicated he was in no hurry to seek new testimony either — as lawmakers remain at an impasse over the form of the trial by the GOP-controlled Senate. The House voted Wednesday […]
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Roberts will tap his inner umpire in impeachment trial
America’s last prolonged look at Chief Justice John Roberts came 14 years ago when he told senators during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing that judges should be like baseball umpires, impartially calling balls and strikes. “Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire,” Roberts said. His hair grayer, the 64-year-old Roberts will return […]
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Cox: Earned income tax credit reduces taxes for low- and moderate-income wage earners
“The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is probably the number one cash benefit program for low-income families in the country,” according to Chris Rockey, senior vice president, market manager, Greater Maryland Community Development Banking for PNC Bank. “It can be a challenge to get into the program,” Rockey adds, “but it is a way to […]
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Celebration Bowl: North Carolina A&T seals three-peat; blows by Alcorn 64-44
The North Carolina A&T State University Aggies outscored the Alcorn State Braves 64-44 in an offensive shootout during the Celebration Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The Aggies were fueled by quarterback Kylil Carter, as the Aggie offense 28 points in the 3rd quarter alone. Overall, both teams combined for over 1,000 yards in the game. The Aggies […]
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Macy’s worker shot in parking deck of Lenox Square Mall
A Macy’s worker was shot Saturday outside an Atlanta mall on one of the busiest shopping days of the year, police said. Atlanta police said the employee was shot in the stomach shortly after noon Saturday in an attempted carjacking in the Lenox Square parking deck. Atlanta police spokesman Carlos Campos said the woman was […]
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House vote locks in impeachment as issue in ’20 Hill races
The day after nearly every House Democrat voted to impeach President Donald Trump, the chief of the House Republican campaign committee said the political fallout was clear. “Last night their obsession with impeachment finally came to a head, and they basically ended their majority,” Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer said Thursday. “Max Rose is done,” he continued, […]
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Georgia restores 22,000 purged voter registrations
After purging more than 300,000 voters from the rolls, Georgia election officials restored roughly 22,000 of them Thursday, citing an error in the way their voting history had been screened. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office said the issue stemmed from the way the process of maintaining the voter list was carried out in 2015. […]
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What would happen if the ACA went away?
Any day now, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans could rule the entire Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. At least it seemed that two of the three appeals court judges were leaning that way during oral arguments in the case, State of Texas v. USA, in July. Trump administration health officials have said […]
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Pelosi demands impeachment trial info before sending charges
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted on Thursday that before she will send the Republican Senate the articles of impeachment her Democratic chamber approved against President Donald Trump, GOP leaders must provide more detail about how they will handle the expected trial. “We’d like to see a fair process, but we’ll see what they have and […]
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Trump signs bill restoring funding for black colleges
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a bipartisan bill that will permanently provide more than $250 million a year to the nation’s historically black colleges and universities, along with dozens of other institutions that serve large shares of minority students. In signing the bill, Trump said historically black schools have “never had better champions in […]