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One Tuesday morning in late February, a fan in New York who logged into FanDuel’s online sportsbook would’ve found 33 men’s college basketball games listed to bet on and zero women’s games. That fan could place an online wager on some midmajor men’s contests, such as Western Illinois vs. Lindenwood, Troy vs. Texas State and Bowling Green vs. Eastern Michigan. However, no odds were listed for women’s games involving power conference programs like Arizona vs. Texas Tech or Iowa State vs. UCF.The following day wasn’t much different. FanDuel posted odds on 49 men’s college basketball games for New York state…

It remains unclear why the soldiers allegedly opened fire on the officers but initial reports suggest that they are from the Negara Batin district military post.  Indonesia’s National Police Commission has called for a thorough investigation into the fatal incident and urged for stern legal action against those responsible. Commission member Choirul Anam also called for the authorities to go beyond prosecuting the alleged attackers and investigate the illegal gambling syndicate behind the cockfighting operation, which is banned in the country.  Meanwhile, Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Budi Gunawan has emphasised the severity of the “heinous attack”…

A small passenger plane carrying 15 passengers and two crew members crashed seconds after taking off from the Caribbean island of Roatán on Monday, killing 12 people.

Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday blocked enforcement of a new Defense Department policy barring transgender people from serving in the U.S. military.U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes granted a request for a preliminary injunction sought by transgender active-duty service members and transgender people who are in the process of enlisting. The judge’s order temporarily blocks Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and the military services from implementing President Trump’s executive order and additional guidance that prohibits transgender people from serving in the military. But the judge put her order on hold until March 21 to give the Justice Department time to…

Pat Carrigan has been around long enough to know North Queensland’s dire form is no barometer to how they will play against Brisbane.”With Broncos and Cowboys games, form never matters, it’s who is willing to compete,” Broncos forward Carrigan said.”Ever since I have watched the game as a kid, they have always been exciting. It means a lot to both clubs these matches.”The Cowboys have been walloped by Manly and Cronulla to start the season but welcome back 2015 premiership winner Jason Taumalolo, who will wrangle with Carrigan up front in Friday night’s clash at Suncorp Stadium.The Cowboys have also…

Carnal urges drive the characters in the films of the French director Alain Guiraudie toward absurd and sometimes dangerous mishaps. In his sexually audacious narratives, which usually play out in the countryside, the temptation of the flesh is a potent catalyst.“I don’t know if you can say that desire is what drives all of cinema, but it’s certainly what drives my cinema,” Guiraudie said via an interpreter during a recent video interview from his home in Paris.That artistic mandate guides his latest picture, “Misericordia,” which opens in U.S. theaters on Friday. When it came out in France, it received eight…

Bone-dry winds tore across parts of Texas and New Mexico, kicking up dust storms and causing dangerous driving conditions, as forecasters said the risk of fires breaking out in the parched region would persist into Wednesday.Blowing dust reduced visibility to near zero around Lubbock, Tex., as it moved into southwest Oklahoma on Tuesday night, the National Weather Service said. Parts of the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma were under blowing dust warnings until early Wednesday.The authorities in New Mexico urged people to avoid driving through the severe dust storms that hit the state on Tuesday. Poor visibility because of the dust…

Scholars and historians are likely to spend months sifting through records for answers about former US president’s killing.United States President Donald Trump’s administration has released thousands of pages of government files about the assassination of John F Kennedy (JFK), setting historians and internet sleuths on a mad dash to uncover new information about one of the most seismic moments in US history. The National Archives said on Tuesday that “all records previously withheld for classification” had been released and were available to access either online or in person. The archives uploaded about 63,000 pages of documents on its website in…

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday labeled a recent spate of attacks on Tesla dealerships across the country as acts of “domestic terrorism” directed at Elon Musk, as Trump allies have pressured the Justice Department to take aggressive action.In recent weeks, vandals in apparent protest of Mr. Musk’s polarizing efforts to drastically shrink the federal government and fire government workers have defaced or destroyed Tesla vehicles and damaged buildings in several cities. No serious injuries have been reported.Five more vehicles at a Tesla facility in Las Vegas were damaged on Tuesday in what the local authorities said was a targeted…

St. Paul preps for St. Patrick’s Day, and more headlines St. Paul preps for St. Patrick’s Day, and more headlines 05:19 A federal judge dismissed the charges Monday against a Minnesota man accused of hiding a stolen pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in the 1939 musical “The Wizard of Oz” after prosecutors informed the court that he died on Sunday.Jerry Hal Saliterman, 77, of Crystal, who had been in poor health with lung disease and other ailments, had been scheduled to change his plea to guilty in January but that hearing was postponed indefinitely after he was…