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The Old Boys’ Club that has traditionally ruled Washington is grudgingly making adjustments. With a woman tapped to be the chief law-enforcement officer, a First Lady charged with making policy and four new women senators, there is a new power grid. Rules are being rewritten to take into account the sensibilities of a generation of women coming to power. Behavior once excused as “boys being boys” is under scrutiny on Capitol Hill as the Senate ethics committee prepares to hear testimony from women charging GOP Sen....

Liberty Media had proposed to issue new shares to fund the acquisition of the glamour sport and rename its media group to “Formula 1 Group.” Both were approved at Tuesday’s special shareholder meeting, Liberty said in a statement. The company controlled by U.S. cable mogul John Malone took control of the cash-generating sport in September in a deal valued at $8 billion, ending a long-running saga surrounding the sport’s ownership and potential flotation....

In the video, now viewed over 1 million times, travel agency owner @lesleyetp shows the beloved Disney character performing as part of the New Years Eve party on a Disney Cruise ship. “Shake a tail feather has a whole new meaning!” one commenter said. From the words they’re allowed to use to the languages they’re allowed to speak, Disney park performers are bound by certain rules that determine what they can and cannot do while in character....

When will Shameless Season 10 air on Showtime? The season will have at least 12 episodes and could be extended to 14 or more following the example set by the last season. When will Shameless Season 10 be released on Netflix? Netflix viewers are in for a long wait before they get the latest series of the Showtime show. The last few years have seen the Netflix release dates for seasons of Shameless get later and later....

Williams will be competing in Cincinnati for one last time as she is set to retire soon. The 40-year-old won her first singles match of the season at the Canadian Open, beating Nuria Parrizas-Diaz 6-3, 6-4. However, she was eliminated by 12th seed Belinda Bencic in the second round. US Open champion Raducanu has endured a pretty disappointing season so far, winning only 11 out of 25 matches so far....

Garcia, who posted an even-par 70 that included three bogeys and three birdies, claimed the U.S. Open “deserves better” than the greens served up in University Place, Wash., which looked patchy on the broadcast. MORE: Must-see photos from Round 1 | Shot-by-shot wrapup of Tiger’s 80 | Live leaderboard Garcia claimed they are just as bad to play on as they appear. Garcia is just the latest golfer to voice his concern over the course; criticism poured in before the event even began....

The following are the Serie A standings after Monday’s results (tabulated under games played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points): Juventus 32 23 5 4 63 20 74 Napoli 32 18 9 5 58 30 63 AC Milan 32 17 8 7 56 35 59 Fiorentina 32 16 7 9 58 39 55 Roma 32 15 6 11 63 53 51 Lazio 32 15 6 11 40 39 51...

CEO Poonawalla said in a tweet, “I would like to reassure all governments and the public that there would be no loss of Covishield production due to multiple production buildings that I had kept in reserve to deal with such contingencies.” The fire is believed to have started due to an electrical fault. The five who were trapped and later died were contractual labourers, and Serum Institute has announced a compensation of ₹ 25 lakh each to their families....

Pune - Services started their campaign in the national hockey championships on a winning note Saturday, defeating Goa 28-0 in their Pool C league match at the Shiv Chattrapati Sports Complex here. Services scored through Siraju A.P. (7th, 13th, 25th, 26th, 32nd, 61st minutes), Ved Prakash (16, 69), Sanwar Ali (22, 31, 33, 51, 52, 53, 56, 57), Ignace Tirkey (23, 28), Lovepreet Singh (29, 34, 38, 49), Johnny Jasrotia (48), K....

The first batch of the Sesa Football School would include 28 boys studying at schools in Bicholim, Thivim and Sirsaim close the SFA facility. The boys would get training twice a week for the next two years from SFA coaches and would go on to represent the SFA at Goa Football Association sanctioned tournaments. The aim of the Sesa Football School is to find and train talent from a younger age to develop them into better footballers....

RELATED: Comedy Shows To Watch If You Love Netflix’s The Pentaverate It’s tough to choose only a few of MacFarlane’s best characters, and he’s got an impressive resume with all kinds of roles so there’s something here for everyone. From intelligent aliens to stuffed animals, there’s no telling where viewers will see or hear Seth next. 7 Emperor Palpatine, Robot Chicken (2001-) Robot Chicken is the creation of Family Guy co-star Seth Green, and it’s a vicious and hysterical parody of media’s most beloved icons....

After working 32 years in the Boston Police Department, White was appointed as police commissioner by Walsh on February 1. At the time, Walsh served as the city’s mayor. Two days after his appointment, the city placed White on administrative leave over allegations of domestic violence. Walsh resigned as mayor on March 22 after being confirmed for Democratic President Joe Biden’s cabinet. “There are a number of questions that everybody wants to know about this whole situation,” Moulton said on Thursday, according to The Boston Globe....

The Oshkosh Area Humane Society (OAHS) said the cats were found frozen to death in two crates left outside the Ambulatory Surgical Center on Monday morning. In a Monday Facebook post, an OAHS spokesperson said: “We are in shock and disbelief that these poor creatures died huddled together in the cold, trying everything to stay warm, and they had no blankets or any type of insulation in the crates to help....

Sunday 10 May was the busiest day ever for the platform with 22.5 million streaming and download requests, part of the overall astonishing 927 million requests for content from the British public since lockdown began on 23 March – 61% higher than the same period in 2019. 564 million of this figure was made in April, iPlayer’s busiest month on record. You might think that it’s obvious that we’re all sitting at home watching the telly, but the official statistics still make for interesting reading....

A few weeks ago, an investigative news article from Bloomberg ousted the rampant and abusive behavior of many top Ubisoft executives, particularly sexual misconduct and the minimization of female voices throughout the company. This came as a sort of response to another wave of a gaming #MeToo movement, receiving massive outcry from the gaming community. RELATED: Assassin’s Creed Origins Minimized Aya’s Role Since then, Ubisoft’s CEO Yves Guillemot has been enacting damage control by either forcing execs with allegations to resign or completely firing them....

It’s not an idle inquiry. Various surveys suggest that as many as 30 percent of male Protestant ministers have had sexual relationships with women other than their wives. This summer three Protestant churches, meeting in solemn assembly, addressed issues involving sexual standards for their clergy. The General Synod of the United Church of Christ tabled a resolution that would have ““encouraged fidelity in marriage and chastity in singleness’’ for all ordained ministers....

He certainly can’t expect to rely on Donna Hanover anymore. She and the mayor had privately–but obliquely–discussed perhaps “altering their relationship,” as one friend of both put it. Yet Rudy hadn’t bothered to warn her–or his aides–of what he’d planned to say in public. Donna felt humiliated, friends said, and angry at being portrayed as a stoic who cared little for the institution of marriage. Yes, she’d kept silent at rumors that Rudy was playing around with his former top aide Cristyne Lategano, now in a $150,000-a-year job on the public payroll....

BBC golf commentator Peter Alliss is under fire for leering at the short, blue skirt worn by the fiancee of Masters winner Sergio Garcia, according to the New York Post. As the Spaniard and British rival Justin Rose dueled through a sudden-death playoff, Alliss was distracted by Angela Akins, the former college golfer and Golf Channel reporter, who’s scheduled to wed Garcia in June. MORE: Ratings for Masters final round hit 13-year low...

True, the lawyer who helps save our hero is a woman, and the vampy villainess finally loses out to…another woman, gray-haired and gruff. “This division is a mess,” the veteran tells her shell-shocked troops. “We’ve got a lot to do to turn this around.” (We’re giving away the plot, but believe us, there are no surprises to ruin.) And true, Crichton makes characters speechify about judging men and women equally....

Indian hockey has been showing signs of matching the world’s best in recent months. A fourth-place finish in the one of the premier tournaments of the world – the 2012 FIH 34th Champions Trophy held in Melbourne, Australia – infused a ray of hope that Indian hockey is slowly charting out the progress path. The team finished runners-up in the Asian Champions Trophy and before making it to the FIH Hockey World League semifinals in emphatic fashion....