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Miss Manners: What could I have said to this blithe line-jumper?

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:36:51 GMT

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I recently encountered a very rude line-jumper. I said nothing to her, but wish I had, and I wonder whether Miss Manners can suggest a polite statement for some similar future occurrence.Related ArticlesAdvice | Miss Manners: My wife insists this is a rule about children’s birthday parties Advice | Miss Manners: I’m stunned by my father’s request for the wedding dinner Advice | Miss Manners: My husband doesn’t like my strategy for dealing with his vexatious relatives Advice | Miss Manners: Don’t they know it’s an insulting thing to say to the bride? Advice | Miss Manners: At what age should one start picking up the tab? At the end of a 6½-hour chemo session for my aggressive cancer, I was waiting for either of the two administrators to complete my paperwork. (Each was with a patient.) A woman, about age 20, entered the area and sat next to me; as a d...

Israeli defense minister says Hamas has started a war against Israel as fighting escalates. ‘Israel will win,’ he says

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:36:51 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli defense minister says Hamas has started a war against Israel as fighting escalates. ‘Israel will win,’ he says.Source

Israel declara estado de alerta de guerra tras ataque con cohetes desde Gaza

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:36:51 GMT

Disparos de cohetes desde Gaza hacia Israel el 7 de octubre de 2023. (Crédito: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)Haz clic aquí para ver las actualizaciones más recientes.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

Aces start WNBA Finals against the Liberty

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:36:51 GMT

New York Liberty (32-8, 16-4 Eastern Conference) at Las Vegas Aces (34-6, 18-2 Western Conference)Las Vegas; Sunday, 3 p.m. EDTFANDUEL SPORTSBOOK WNBA LINE: Aces -4.5; over/under is 171.5WNBA FINALS: Aces host first series matchupBOTTOM LINE: The Las Vegas Aces host the New York Liberty to begin the WNBA Finals. New York went 3-2 against Las Vegas during the regular season. The Liberty won the last regular season matchup 94-85 on Aug. 28 led by 25 points from Sabrina Ionescu, while Jackie Young scored 24 points for the Aces.The Aces have gone 19-1 at home. Las Vegas leads the Western Conference in team defense, allowing 80.3 points while holding opponents to 42.6% shooting.The Liberty have gone 17-3 away from home. New York ranks second in the Eastern Conference allowing 80.6 points while holding opponents to 42.4% shooting.TOP PERFORMERS: A’ja Wilson is averaging 22.9 points, 9.5 rebounds and 2.2 blocks for the Aces. Chelsea Gray is averaging 16.6 points over the last 10 game...

‘We are at war,’ Netanyahu declares after surprise attack on Israel by Hamas

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:36:51 GMT

Israel was struck by a surprise attack by Hamas early Saturday morning in one of the most serious escalations in years between Israel and the Islamist militant group. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country was “at war.”The massive assault combined a barrage of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel and dozens of heavily armed gunmen attacking the country’s south from Gaza.“We are at war, and we will win,” Netanyahu said in a message to Israelis.The chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, earlier declared a state of war readiness.Following a security cabinet meeting at the Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv Saturday, Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned that Hamas “made a grave mistake,” the Associated Press reported.Israel’s national emergency service said that one person has been killed and another 15 wounded in the onslaught that hit towns an...

Baltimore baseball fans rise with their playoff-bound Orioles: ‘This is so exciting, it’s like Christmas’

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:36:51 GMT

Nine years — not that long ago in the span of the ballclub’s relationship to Baltimore — have passed since Delmon Young’s line drive rocketed down the left field line to give the Orioles their last home playoff victory.Camden Yards throbbed with passion that afternoon in a way it has not since. The Orioles were swept out of the American League Championship Series later that October, and their postseason ambitions died with a single heartbreaking loss in 2016.They wandered into the baseball wilderness after that, losing 115 games in 2018, 108 in 2019 and 110 in 2021. Many fans opted to hibernate rather than experience the hopelessness of those years.That helps explain the intense hunger and joy they feel now that the Orioles are back, preparing to host the Texas Rangers in the first game of the American League Division Series on Saturday afternoon.For young fans, this is a chance to feel the Orioles Magic their parents and grandparents were raised on, to b...

Netanyahu tells Israel 'We are at war' after Hamas launches an unprecedented attack on the country

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:36:51 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — The ruling Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations by air, land and sea and catching the country off-guard on a major holiday. Six hours after the invasion began, Hamas militants were still fighting gunbattles inside several Israeli communities in a surprising show of strength that shook the country. Social media was replete with videos of Hamas fighters parading what appeared to be stolen Israeli military vehicles through the streets and at least one dead Israeli soldier within Gaza being dragged and trampled by an angry crowd of Palestinians shouting “God is Great." The military declined to give details about casualties or kidnappings as it continued to battle the infiltrators.“We are at war,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised address, declar...

Netanyahu tells Israel ‘We are at war’ after Hamas launches an unprecedented attack on the country

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:36:51 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — The ruling Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations by air, land and sea and catching the country off-guard on a major holiday. Six hours after the invasion began, Hamas militants were still fighting gunbattles inside several Israeli communities in a surprising show of strength that shook the country. Social media was replete with videos of Hamas fighters parading what appeared to be stolen Israeli military vehicles through the streets and at least one dead Israeli soldier within Gaza being dragged and trampled by an angry crowd of Palestinians shouting “God is Great.” The military declined to give details about casualties or kidnappings as it continued to battle the infiltrators.“We are at war,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised address, ...

MIURA 1 SN1 mission test flight - PLD Space successfully completes first private space rocket launch in Europe

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:36:51 GMT

The Spanish company PLD Space has made history after successfully completing the launch of the first private European rocket, MIURA 1. The maiden flight of its suborbital launcher showcases the advanced level of technology and know-how that has been developed by the company since 2011. This milestone achievement furthermore reinforces PLD Space's leading position in the global space race, while building national and European strategic capabilities.The first launch of MIURA 1 took place at 02:19 CET (00:19 UTC) in the early hours of Saturday 7 October at the facilities of the El Arenosillo Experimentation Centre (CEDEA), belonging to the Spanish National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA). PLD Space has fulfilled the primary mission objectives related to engine thrust, trajectory tracking and launcher behaviour.The flight lasted 306 seconds in which MIURA 1 reached apogee at an altitude of 46 kilometres. The mission concluded with the rocket landing in the Atlantic Ocean and t...

2023: The resurgence of anti-semitism

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:36:51 GMT

110 years ago, in 1913, Mendel Beilis, a Jewish factory manager in Kyiv faced false accusations of murdering a Christian boy. The Beilis trial was one of the most high-profile cases of a blood libel against Jews — a prejudice that goes back to ancient times and has cost the lives of countless Jewish people. The trial was followed by a series of pogroms throughout the Russian Empire, which in turn triggered a wave of emigration of Jews from Russia. Today we are witnessing a disturbing revival of a centuries-old practice that has taken on more sophisticated forms. This week, a number of major Western media outlets, including CNN, AP, The Globe and Mail, ABCNews to name a few, simultaneously published materials suggesting that Israeli weapons played the main role in Azerbaijan's retaking of its territory of Karabakh from the separatists. Do not be deceived: behind the sanitised phrases lies the same sinister innuendo: because of the actions of the Jews, Christians have suffered once ag...