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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he will begin the process to confirm Barrett, 48, as soon as the Senate Judiciary Committee votes on her nomination on Thursday. After Thursday’s vote, procedural votes are expected on Friday and to continue over the weekend. The Associated Press reported that the Senate is expected to work through the weekend to confirm Barrett. A final vote to confirm Barrett could take place as soon as Monday, according to the AP....

Having carved a niche for not just himself but for his entire team, Rashid Khan’s meteoric rise has been nothing short of a phenomenon. Ever since his international ODI debut in 2015, he has been a catalyst for Afghanistan’s growing popularity in the sport. His 7/18 against the West Indies in 2017 is the fourth best bowling figure in ODIs. His constant on-field exploits paved way for the ICC to award him the prestigious “ICC Associate Cricketer of the Year” award in 2018....

Experimental economics is the brainchild of an iconoclastic academic named Vernon Smith, who had an epiphany a half century ago that has since “changed the direction of economic science.” Those were the words used by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences when it awarded Smith the Nobel Prize last year. With his silver ponytail and heavy Native American jewelry, Smith has shaken up establishment economists by proving that their theories are best tested not in their heads, where they are most at home, but with live experiments involving real people....

While the search for Lilith is a solid enough foundation for Borderlands 4’s story, it could be made more impactful if Gearbox reuses a past storytelling tactic. Between Borderlands 2 and 3, there was a seven-year time gap in both the real world and in-universe, something that saw the characters aging alongside the player. Come Borderlands 4, another time gap should be introduced that mirrors the time that passed since the release of Borderlands 3....

Me: Please don’t take this the way it sounds, but what was he doing in the game? John Beilein: Laughs. Beilein answered eventually, but he chuckled first. Michigan’s head coach knew how against-all-odds Chatman’s game-winning, buzzer-beating 3-pointer had been. A 6-8 forward from Portland, Ore., once rated a 5-star recruit, Chatman has had a disappointing career through two seasons. He entered the game averaging 7 minutes – that’s not factoring in seven DNPs – and only 2....

Ivanovic led Madison Keys 6-4, 1-0 when the 59-year-old Sears — who is Andy Murray’s father-in-law — collapsed in the coach’s box at Rod Laver Arena on Saturday. MORE: Serena looks to defend title | Top performers The match was immediately delayed as Ivanovic watched on in concern from her chair. Ivanovic and Keys were then ushered down the tunnel before officials suspended proceedings, with world No. 2 Murray in action against Joao Sousa over at Margaret Court Arena....

Lavigne’s life has changed drastically in the three years since she was a Faith Hill sound-alike singing Christmas songs at the local mall in Napanee, Ont. Now the scrappy 5-foot-1 skater chick plays pop punk, sells 100,000 albums a week, has beaten out Pink as MTV’s premier tomboy and is a good bet for best new artist at next year’s Grammys. Her throaty voice and anti-Aguilera sound–somewhere between Alanis Morissette and Green Day–helped move 4....

Who knows? The currents of teen culture are deep and fast, and nobody has an easy time tracking them. But one trend can provide a window into that culture, and into the complicated matrix of commerce and art, mass taste and peer pressure that governs it. Ripped-jeans-as-teen-fashion has twin roots in Europe and America. It seems to have started as a street fashion, perhaps in Paris, where it was spotted by the French designers Marithe and Francois Girbaud....

Fernandes was wrong. As he and a friend were walking near San Francisco’s PacBell Park late one night last week, they were accosted by a young man out with a large, boisterous group. The man, says Fernandes, seemed to go out of his way to collide with him in a crosswalk. “You’re a dirty Arab,” the man shouted at Fernandes. Someone hit him. Fernandes’ friend Robin tried to help him....

The two-time World Cup winner suffered a number of serious injury blows throughout his career, perhaps preventing him from being named among the small collective of the greatest players ever to play the game. Ancelotti coached Ronaldo during the Brazilian’s short stint with Milan in 2007, which saw him make just 20 Serie A appearances – hitting nine goals in 20 matches. “He was a phenomenon,” Ancelotti told AS. “Even when he was injured or weighed 100kg, he was an absolute phenomenon....

Frictional Games confirmed on Tuesday that Amnesia: Rebirth’s Adventure Mode is now available via the PC version of the game. The PlayStation 4 version of Adventure Mode will follow in the weeks to come. A summary of Adventure Mode as provided by Frictional is that Adventure Mode removes all “life-threatening encounters” and “harrowing sound and visual effects” within the game. The update is free to download and play for those who own Amnesia: Rebirth....

Their report, titled “Surveillance Giants: How the Business Model of Google and Facebook Threatens Human Rights,” explains how the two social media companies have connected the world, but jeopardized the privacy of people who use them. “Facebook is the world’s most dominant media company. If you combine users of its social platform, its messenger service WhatsApp and Messenger, and applications such as Instagram, a third of humans on Earth use a Facebook-owned service every day,” the report writes....

The Airship map is a really big deal for Among Us. The game hasn’t received any update this major since it first released in 2018, as Innersloth’s work on this game went mostly unacknowledged until streamers discovered it. Before then, Innersloth was mostly known for the Henry Stickmin games, and it turns out that the Airship in Among Us is actually a reference to a particular entry in the Henry Stickmin series....

RELATED: Among Us: How to Create an Account Players can share information with each other in meetings, which are normally called when someone finds a body. However, some information can’t wait too long. That’s why emergency meetings exist in Among Us as it gets everyone gathered before anyone else dies and before the round ends. But how do emergency meetings work exactly? 3 How To Start An Emergency Meeting Before a round starts, the person in charge of setting up each round has the ability to give players a certain amount of times that they can call an emergency meeting....

The 29-year-old streamer from Houston, Texas announced the new pillow two days before Christmas, and while it’s clear that the stock is limited, they’ve yet to sell out as of now. As a content creator on Twitch, she’s similar to others like Pink Sparkles or Belle Delphine whose streams tend to target a majority male audience. RELATED: Amouranth Teases New Twitch Game Show Twitch streamer Amouranth announced the anime-style body pillow on her Twitter with a link to her shop....

The potential new Twitch meta started by Amouranth is yoga pants Twister, which is exactly as its name implies. In these Twitch streams, Amouranth plays the classic party game Twister while wearing yoga pants. It’s another Twitch meta that seems to push the envelope when it comes to what’s allowed according to Twitch’s Terms of Service, but the streams aren’t breaking any of the platform’s rules - yet. Sometimes these Twitch metas go a little too far and cause issues, like when Amouranth was banned for suggestive ASMR streams....

Amouranth is certainly not the first person to want to better explanations for when she or her colleagues get banned. When Dr. Disrespect, one of the most popular streamers on the platform, left Twitch after being banned for a mystery reason, he reportedly took months to find out what he had done that warranted the punishment. Others, who may not have faced such severe sanctions still tend to claim they have no idea why they’ve been banned, whether it’s for a few hours, days, or weeks....