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A winter storm watch was issued on Monday for most of North Texas. It will be effective from Wednesday, with an arctic cold front set to arrive that morning and last through Friday. Temperatures should pick up again on Saturday. Freezing conditions caused by a winter storm in February 2021 resulted in high demand for electricity and saw the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) order power transmission utilities to cut power to homes and businesses....

“See, you didn’t get them after all,” the agent said to Yousef. Yousef fidgeted beneath his heavy manacles. “Not yet,” he said quietly. Today’s attack on the World Trade Center brings to mind the bombing on February 26, 1993, in which six people were killed and thousands injured. But there are some critical differences. Back then, the attack was planned by a single well-honed terrorist who became the leader of a rag-tag group of dedicated revolutionaries, former Afghani soldiers, fellow believers, braggarts, hoodlums and hangers-on....

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What Is the macOS Launchpad? Think of your Mac’s Launchpad like the iPhone’s App Library or Home Screen. It’s the place where you’ll find all the apps you’ve downloaded from the Mac App Store or elsewhere. You can use the Launchpad to find and open all your apps. Additionally, you can rearrange the Launchpad to see your most-used apps on the first page. Just like on an iPhone, you can also create different folders to keep your apps neatly organized....

It’s no secret that the team at Xbox is very proud of its controllers. For many players, the Xbox 360 controller is still their controller of choice when it comes to PC gaming. Its pride for its controllers seems to be continuing in the next generation of consoles as well, considering that Xbox One controllers will be fully compatible with Xbox Series X in contrast to PS5’s limited PS4 controller support....

I was sitting in the front, strapped into a flak jacket and helmet, flanked by a Reuters photographer on one side and a machine gunner, decked out in a white crash helmet and black visor, on the other. One of the helicopter crew held up three fingers and the troops passed on the signal-three minutes until we hit the Landing Zone. A Canadian soldier tapped on my helmet. “If we come under fire at the LZ,” he shouted, “get in the middle of our security perimeter until things quiet down....

A clear indicator of Sauber-Ferrari F1 team’s performance dip can be seen if their last year’s stats are compared with this season. The team had scored 116 points before they headed for Korea in 2012 as compared to just 19 this season as the team gets ready for Yeongam. With no significant change in the rules and car setup, the Swiss team had been struggling for most part of the season with an uncompetitive car as its distinctive narrow side pods lead to rear-end instability in the C32....

This is according to NPD analyst Mat Piscatella, who believes that declining sales for both the PS4 and Xbox One will drive Sony and Microsoft to announce the PS5 and next Xbox, respectively. Piscatella stopped short of predicting an exact time in 2019 that the new consoles would be announced, but previous rumors and speculation have pointed to as early as this summer at E3 2019 or as late as PSX 2019 in December....

After the new Toffees boss described Guardiola in glowing terms in his own news conference, the City coach reciprocated the praise for one of European football’s most decorated coaches. City bounced back from defeat at Wolves by beating Sheffield United 2-0 at home on Sunday and will hope to end Ancelotti’s 100 per cent record in the 60-year-old’s third game in charge of Everton at the Etihad Stadium on New Year’s Day....

Also read: Among Us: Beginner’s step-by-step guide to close doors as an Impostor As the Crewmates move around the map in Among Us to complete tasks, Impostors try to sabotage and kill them off anonymously. If the latter successfully kills off all the Crewmates without being noticed, then he/she wins the game. Being an Impostor in Among Us requires a lot of deceiving skills, a know-how of the in-game mechanics, and knowledge of the map locations....

How does content get added to Among Us? Among Us is the product of the work of just three individuals, Forest Willard, Amy Liu, and Marcus Bromander. Forest is listed as their programmer, Marcus is listed as the artist, animator, and game designer, and Amy as the other artist and “general task-doer” of the company. These three are the only official developers for Among Us, although the game has a rapidly growing modding community as well....

But some Among Us players, namely underaged ones, are using the game to shop around for potential significant others. Participants are entering public lobbies and asking others for their gender or marital status. They’re also engaging in flirtatious conversations, including roleplay, with no regard for the rest of the lobby. Some even put their phone numbers and social media handles in the chat - something the whole lobby can access....

Recently however, some players in public games in Among Us have been getting a far different experience from the game. This is due to hacker Eris Loris doing what they’re known for on YouTube and hacking the game. Instead of cheating, however, they are forcing spam messages in public games promoting the re-election of Donald Trump as the United States president. RELATED: Among Us: What is Hide and Seek?...

In her second day of confirmation hearings with the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and the committee’s chairman, explicitly asked Barrett whether she could “set aside whatever Catholic beliefs you have regarding any issue before you.” “I can. I have done that in my time on the Seventh Circuit,” said Barrett, whom President Donald Trump successfully nominated in 2017 to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit....

Klobuchar, as well as Minnesota Democratic Senator Tina Smith and 26 other Democratic lawmakers, asked the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice to look into what the letter refers to as “racially discriminatory and violent policing” in the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). “Those responsible must be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law in order to serve justice for George Floyd and his loved ones,” the letter said....

““Hawaii,’’ Michener’s first blockbuster best seller, appeared in 1959. Marrying fact with fiction to recount the history of the islands from the first volcanic burp through the arrival of everyone from the Polynesians to the pineapple barons, it was snapped up by the Book of the Month Club, condensed by Reader’s Digest and sold to Hollywood for a then astronomical $1 million. The template from which most of his subsequent fiction was struck, ““Hawaii’’ was the best of Michener’s epics, and it made him a household name....

Howard’s statement broke a golden rule of diplomacy–never comment on an upcoming election in a friendly country–and earned him a sardonic rebuke from Obama, who pointed out that for all of Howard’s tough talk, Australia has sent a mere 1,400 troops to Iraq. This uncharacteristic misstep from such a grizzled political operator had a fairly simple explanation: Howard is expected to call an election of his own, probably later this year, and figured taking a swing at Obama would play well in his staunchly, even uniquely pro-American country....

At a conference earlier this month, Ken Fisher, founder of Fisher Investments, stunned some attendees with his comments, which included referring to genitalia and comparing the pursuit of new clients to “going up to a woman in a bar and saying, ‘Hey, I want to talk about what’s in your pants’.” CNBC obtained audio from the private event after a male attendee described and assailed the remarks on Twitter. One of the women attendees called the comments “outrageous....

In the depressed real-estate world, the sight of yet another large developer filing for bankruptcy wasn’t a shocker. But it was still unnerving to see a company considered as prestigious and brilliantly run as O and Y scurrying for bankruptcy protection. Real-estate experts worried that the filing would make banks and other lenders even more cautious about backing new projects. After all, O & Y built such showpieces as New York’s World Financial Center and Toronto’s First Canadian Place....