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The Trump Plaza casino was opened in 1984, but has gone to seed since it closed in 2014 after it was beset by financial troubles for years. For the last four years, billionaire developer Carl Icahn has owned the property which has been deemed by local officials as a public safety hazard. In the entrepreneurial spirit the New Jersey gambling seaside town is known for, a call has gone out for people to place their bids to implode the building for charity....

The club suspended head coach Bielsa following Lille’s 3-0 defeat to Amiens and he missed the team’s subsequent 3-0 loss at Montpellier on Saturday. Following a tumultuous first six months in charge for Bielsa, Lille had just three win from their first 14 games prior to Wednesday’s visit to Lyon. Bielsa’s legal advisor, Carlo Brusa, told AFP that the Argentine coach had “tasked professionals with the safeguarding and defence of his interests”, and the club’s statement came in response to that announcement....

“This will be a high profile non-conference series on our networks in the middle of the league season,” Nick Dawson, ESPN’s senior director of programming and acquisitions, said in a press release. “It will be a special showcase for the challenge and be a great day of college basketball action on the ESPN networks.” In this season’s Big 12/SEC Challenge, held from Dec. 3-6, seven of the teams were ranked in the AP Poll at the time of the event including matchups between No....

Squads to pick from Hobart Hurricanes Jofra Archer, George Bailey, Johan Botha, Alex Doolan, Jake Doran, James Faulkner, Caleb Jewell, Ben McDermott, Riley Meredith, Simon Milenko, Tymal Mills, David Moody, Tim Paine, Tom Rogers, Clive Rose, D’Arcy Short, Aaron Summers, Matthew Wade Sydney Thunder: Fawad Ahmed, Jos Buttler, Pat Cummins, Callum Ferguson, Ryan Gibson, Chris Green, Liam Hatcher, Usman Khawaja, Jay Lenton, Nathan McAndrew, Arjun Nair, Kurtis Patterson, Sam Rainbird, Joe Root, Daniel Sams, Gurinder Sandhu, Jason Sangha, Shane Watson, Jono Cook...

The Sporting News’ first-team All-American sat at a table in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center on Dec. 15 fielding questions. He talked about the miraculous eight-yard reception where he reversed field to set up fourth-and-1. He recounted every detail of “29 lead,” the 15-yard touchdown run in a 30-27 double-overtime victory against No. 3 Michigan that pushed the Buckeyes into the College Football Playoff. Samuel will be compelled to talk about every detail of those two plays the rest of his life....

Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming held a fundraising call with roughly 50 Republican donors on February 5 to discuss her 2022 re-election campaign after she joined House Democrats in voting to impeach Trump for inciting the Capitol riot. Michael Epstein, a top Maryland GOP donor, told The Guardian that many donors on the call are expected to give the maximum amount of $5,800 to Cheney’s campaign to quash Trump’s effort to oust her....

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has two new defenders at his disposal and will strongly consider utilising both against a team that scored often in pre-season. Channelling that freewheeling energy into a competitive environment is the challenge for Chelsea, who have become unshackled from Maurizio Sarri’s strict playing style. In his place is Frank Lampard, once a player that relished big matches and now a head coach seeking to re-energise the club at which he enjoyed his greatest successes....

The cache of Nintendo prototypes was leaked last Friday, and includes early builds of Yoshi’s Island and Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo. Taito’s unreleased NES port is of particular interest though, because it was not only finished, but enhanced with RPG-like features not seen in the original arcade game. Players were free to wander around town, speaking with NPCs in a quest mode. RELATED: Canceled Pokemon MMO from 2004 Details Leak Online...

Horizon Zero Dawn was released on the PlayStation 4 as a console exclusive back in early 2017 and was met with widespread acclaim by both fans and critics. Since its initial release, the game has sold well over ten million copies and has won numerous awards from a multitude of platforms. Due to its success and popularity, Horizon Zero Dawn has also had several crossovers with other popular games, such as the recent Death Stranding....

On Thursday, Aiko released the music video for the track, “None of Your Concern,” in which the rapper can be heard dropping an X-rated verse about the more intimate details of the former couple’s relationship approximately three minutes and 28 seconds in. The pair, who split in 2018, are no strangers to collaborations with one another. They first teamed up in 2013 with the hit, “Beware,” before going on to create TWENTY88, their full-length studio album in 2016—when the two began dating....

But don’t tell that to Jeff Gordon, Matt Kenseth or Joey Logano. There were five wrecks at Talladega Sunday, but the Big One included just 14 cars. They are often bigger — much bigger. MORE: Keselowski causes big wreck | Johnson can’t explain spin | Earnhardt makes bad move | Hamlin wins And there were just two big crashes, the 14-car pileup and one that collected eight cars. There’s usually more....

Microsoft has become the latest Big Tech company to cash in on space satellites, announcing a partnership with its Azure platform and SpaceX earlier this week. More and more of these tech companies are venturing into satellite communications, and with it, bring their money and innovation to the space race. “The space community is growing rapidly, and innovation is lowering the barriers of access for public and private sector organizations,” said Tom Keane, corporate vice president of Microsoft Azure, in a video announcing the partnership....

This week’s USA Today TOP 25 Coaches’ Poll reflected as such, with the Spartans and Buckeyes tumbling seven and 11 spots in the rankings, respectively. All together, losses by three ranked teams scrambled the polls while several others tumbled after close-call wins. MORE: Mariota leads impressive Ducks | Big Ten’s poor weekend all but ruins playoff hopes | Kessler next big Pac-12 QB? The week’s biggest climber was Virginia Tech, which handed Ohio State its 35-21 loss....

The consistent gesture of support for democratic Taiwan, which Beijing claims as part of its territory, went ahead a record 13 times in the final year of the Trump administration in response to a marked increase in China’s military pressure against the self-ruled island. During a speech on Tuesday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin raised further concerns about Beijing’s “destabilizing military activity and other forms of coercion against the people of Taiwan....

The poll released Monday by Quinnipiac University showed Biden with 54 percent support among Democrats and independents who lean Democratic, compared to only 35 percent for Sanders. A full 92 percent of Democrats believed Sanders is honest, while only 84 percent said the same of Biden. However, Biden was viewed as more electable than Sanders. Although 80 percent of Democrats and independents who lean Democratic believed that Biden was either likely or somewhat likely to beat President Donald Trump in November, only 61 percent were confident that the same was true of Sanders....

“People want us to get things done,” Biden told reporters Wednesday.“I think we have to just produce results for them—to change their standard of living had given them a little more breathing room.” Biden said he called to “congratulate” former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe Wednesday on his campaign for Virginia governor despite his loss. “He brought out just about every Democrat there was—more votes whoever has been cast for a Democratic [candidate for governor],” Biden said....

A reset is urgently necessary. The Trump administration’s visible bias in favor of the Israeli right destroyed any credibility the U.S. had with the Palestinians, and the memo provides a refreshing return to a vision that seeks “to advance freedom, security, and prosperity for both Israelis and Palestinians in the immediate term,” emphasis mine. The word “prosperity” was a recurring buzzword in the lead up to and throughout the Trump administration’s Deal of the Century, which in effect asked Palestinians to give up our rights for some ill-defined promise of economic growth....

The poll, which was conducted by Marist College, noted that in February 2017, Trump received a 39 percent approval rating. While 49 percent said they approved of the job Biden is doing as president, 35 percent said they disapproved and 16 percent said they were unsure. Along political party lines, Biden’s approval rating remains divided, with 91 percent of Democrats saying they approve of his job in office compared with 78 percent of Republicans that said the opposite....

Included in the proposal, according to a senior administration official who spoke to Newsweek: $36.5 billion to aid “high-poverty schools,” $10.7 billion for combating the opioid epidemic, a $209 million bump to the civil rights division of the Department of Justice and $850 million “to invest in Central America as part of a comprehensive strategy to address the root causes of irregular migration.” It also recommends $8.7 billion for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help prepare for “future epidemics,” in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic....

Just last Thursday, when Biden spoke in New York City about combatting gun crime—not the 92 percent of violent crime that has nothing to do with guns—he focused on handguns. A “Glock with 40 rounds—a magazine with 40 rounds. And it’s really a weapon of war,” he said. “But I don’t see any rationale to why there should be such a weapon able to be purchased.” And at a CNN town hall last year, Biden remarked, “The idea you need a weapon that can have the ability to fire 20, 30, 40, 50, 120 shots from that weapon—whether it’s a 9-millimeter pistol or whether it’s a rifle—is ridiculous....