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Bergen County Academies, Hackensack, N.J.: A collection of seven career-focused academies where students attend an extended school day. Bronx Science, New York City: Has one of the most diverse student bodies in the city; a comprehensive exam is required for admission. Brooklyn Technical, New York City: An entrance exam is required for this school that focuses on engineering, math and science. High Technology High, Lincroft, N.J.: Selective school whose students focus on a science, math and technology curriculum....

Attending her brother-in-law’s wedding, the user Harrishoole shared her exasperation in a post that has since received more than 280 replies. She wrote: “Brother-in-law is getting married in an hour and a half. Don’t know what to do. Feel as if I am going to vomit.” What had caused her such anguish? She explained: “[I] checked into the hotel to find sister-in-law with her cousins and bridesmaids and two flower girls....

Below we’ll break down why we like a plus-money player prop in the Lakers-Hawks game and a couple of other notable player prop bets in the Pistons-Bulls and Jazz-Kings games. Best NBA prop bets: Advice, picks for Friday night Odds courtesy of BetMGM Jalen Duren over 10.5 rebounds vs. Bulls (+100). For our first best bet, we will take a shot on Duren, who has been dominating the glass since being named a starter for Detroit....

Props have continued to rise in popularity all season. They are not only fun to follow while watching games, but they also seem to produce fewer “bad beats” than standard moneyline, spread, and over/under bets. You don’t always have to hitch your wagon to an entire team or put all your proverbial chips on a certain final score. In the world of props, you can simply bet on one player to produce — or fail to produce — at a certain level....

TEAM VALUES: How full rosters did in terms of cost per WAR American League Red Sox: OF Andrew Benintendi Salary: $620,500 WAR: 4.3 Cost per WAR: $144,302 The 24-year-old Benintendi looked like the player the Red Sox expected him to be as he built upon his strong 2017 rookie campaign. He boosted his WAR by 2.5 points through improved performances at the plate and in the field. Benintendi’s salary will remain inexpensive in 2019, his last season before he can become eligible for arbitration....

Below we’ll look at some of our favorite player prop bets courtesy of FanDuel Sportsbook for this NFC divisional round matchup between the Giants and the Eagles. Giants-Eagles Best Prop Bets: Advice, picks, odds for divisional playoff Odds courtesy of FanDuel Sportsbook Saquon Barkley OVER 65.5 rushing yards (-110) If the Giants want to pull off another upset win on Saturday, they need Barkley to have a vintage performance on the ground....

Every wind gust and raindrop is big news in L.A. In Arizona, the monsoon comes and goes every year like clockwork. But what precisely is different about rain in the desert? To find out, we asked a bestselling author, a storm chaser and TV meteorologists who have known both coasts. From his home in Southern California, Dean Koontz, the bestselling author whose latest novel Quicksilver was published in January, has written dozens of books in which the weather adds to the suspense....

Madden or FIFA? Mike Tyson ’s Punch Out or Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball? The LeBron vs. Jordan debate has nothing on the sports video game debate. MORE: NBA 2K player rating changes | Madden NFL ‘16 trailer Sporting News has decided to let the fans decide what is the best video game of all-time, and like most video games, it won’t be easy but it will be a lot of fun....

It’s not a perfect science when quarterbacks decide to switch schools, but several teams will be counting on a new quarterback in 2018 — and Burrow could be considered an immediate upgrade. West Virginia’s Will Grier and Auburn’s Jarrett Stidham made it work last season, and Michigan is banking on Shea Patterson to claim the starting job this season. MORE: Top 25 QBs of 2018 So what exactly is the best-case scenario for Burrow?...

The Real Housewives of New York City alum, 51, says she was “violated” by the Chinese social media giant and is suing TikTok after her image was allegedly used without her permission to sell counterfeit products. “I know I was violated and I don’t really give up until I get what I deserve,” she told Newsweek. Frankel was shocked to learn that not only was her image allegedly being used without her consent, but the goods being sold with her false endorsement were shoddy, leading to a wave of intense criticism leveled at the mom-of-one....

The Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles will take the field on Sunday Night Football and you can sign up with our BetMGM bonus code for an offer of up to $1,000 in first bet insurance. This offer gives you two chances to earn your first win with the sportsbook. Philadelphia will look to improve to 10-1, while the Packers will attempt to remain in the mix for a Wild Card....

Beto O’Rourke, a Texas politician who has run for both the White House and the Senate, said the governor’s reopening order is a “death warrant for Texans.” “A death warrant for Texans,” O’Rourke tweeted. “Add them to the 44,000+ killed as he failed to confront the pandemic & botched the vaccine rollout. … And those who froze to death because he cares more about energy companies’ profits than keeping Texans alive....

That ruling, handed down in June of 2018, was made by U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim and prevented DeVos and her Department of Education for going after former students at the bankrupt Corinthian Colleges Inc. However, Kim said she was “astounded” to discover that DeVos was violating the court order at a hearing in San Francisco on Monday after a filing by the Education Department earlier disclosed that more than 16,000 former students at Corinthian College “were incorrectly informed at one time or another … that they had payments due on their federal student loans....

“I recently had a revealing conversation with FBI Director [Christopher] Wray. He told me that many incoming FBI agents are so young, they don’t really know what happened on September 11, 2001,” DeVos said, according to prepared remarks from the Department of Education. “‘Some people did something,’ we’ve heard it said.” The education secretary shared the anecdote while accepting an award at the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), a conservative non-profit organization, annual gala on Wednesday night....

The protesters clashed with the police and managed to knock down several layers of barricades outside the Capitol and entered the building. The Capitol was put on lockdown this afternoon, and the Cannon House Office Building and Madison Library of Congress were evacuated. Videos on social media show police injured, and there are reports of medical stretchers leaving the scene. Muriel Bowser, the Mayor of Washington, D.C., imposed a 6 p....

But the report, based on the most recent available data, is far more complicated than the basic statistics suggest. Yes, abortions are down, but it’s unclear why. Is it because of increased access to birth control? Decreased access to abortion clinics? Increased availability of new medications that end pregnancy? Or are more women simply choosing to continue their pregnancies? Any of these factors could be at work, says Rachel Jones, an author of the report, and “we just aren’t able to get at the reasons behind the decline....

Clearly it’s not happening quickly enough for tens of millions of Indian voters. Last Thursday they united behind the left-leaning Congress Party to unseat free-marketer Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, even though he had delivered a whopping 10.4 percent growth rate last quarter on the back of the country’s IT boom and bumper harvests. His Bharatiya Janata Party’s optimistic “India Shining” campaign, it seems, served only to remind the rural and urban poor that the promise of trickle-down wealth hadn’t materialized....

White’s career spanned decades and included memorable roles on The Golden Girls and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. She also became a popular presence in television commercials and talk shows. In 2010, White became the oldest person to ever host Saturday Night Live at the age of 88. “Even though Betty was about to be 100, I thought she would live forever,” White’s agent, Jeff Witjas, told People in a statement....

“The other” was politics, which was back with a vengeance less than a month after the World Trade Center cataclysm. Suddenly, the “empire” in the Empire State is Byzantium. After wild behind-the-scenes maneuvering, Giuliani announced that he would not go along with efforts to change the term-limits law and, unequivocally, would not run for a third term. By doing so, the mayor hoped to get the public to focus once more on his much-praised role in managing New York in its moment of peril....

The latest comtretemps began last weekend when The New York Times Magazine published a story about the Knicks in which Ward (as well as his teammate Allan Houston) used Biblical passages to make anti-Semitic comments. Ward is a born-again Christian who apparently never got the word (articulated for Catholics in Vatican II in the early 1960s and by other denominations over the years) that the Jews didn’t kill Jesus Christ....