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I am in favor of statehood for Puerto Rico. I ran and won as a statehooder under the Citizens’ Victory Movement, a truly progressive party that supports a self-determination process among non-territorial decolonizing options—namely statehood, independence, or a compact of free association. As a Puerto Rican, I believe that statehood vindicates our political rights, improves our economy, strengthens our ties to progressive movements throughout the U.S. and protects our links to our Puerto Rican brothers and sisters on the mainland....

For the first time in the longest format, the captains of both sides recorded a duck in each innings as the Proteas earned a 1-0 lead in the three-match series thanks to a six-wicket victory inside three days in Centurion. Having won the toss on Wednesday, Sarfraz’s Pakistan had first use of the SuperSport Park pitch but they were bundled out for just 181 - the touring skipper bowled by Duanne Olivier from just his fourth delivery....

What do these deformities look like and how can they affect the function of your hands and wrists by causing pain and a reduced range of motion? We’ve compiled a gallery of images that illustrate the effects of arthritis on the hands, but it’s important to note that these deformities are becoming much less common with early treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other forms of inflammatory arthritis. The combination of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNF blockers) has given many people the opportunity to prevent these problems....

The Game Director of A Plague Tale: Requiem, Kevin Choteau, recently spoke about this topic with Edge Magazine, confirming that the switch to new-generation hardware has allowed his team to ignore the previous technical limitations and “push the horizon,” of the game much farther ahead. Choteau has suggested massive improvements in visual fidelity and gameplay, as well as providing a key example of what the studio could now pull off....

The Portopia Serial Murder Case stars an unnamed detective, known simply as “Boss,” who alongside his assistant Yasu is tasked with solving the murder of wealthy businessman Kouzou Yamakawa. It was developed by Yuji Horii, who would later go on to create the Dragon Quest series. Initially released for personal computers, Portopia later received remakes for the Famicom and mobile phones, but never left Japan. Within Japan, it is an extremely influential game, having been cited as a source of inspiration by both Eiji Aonuma and Hideo Kojima....

But a new blood test, described this week in the journal Urology, could change all that. In a study of 385 men, the new test was able to distinguish BPH from prostate cancer, and it pinpointed men who were healthy, even when their PSA levels were higher than normal. It also did the reverse—singling out men with cancer, even when their PSA levels were low. It may also distinguish cancer confined to the prostate from cancer that has spread beyond the gland....

With PSVR2 just revealed, Sony will surely need exclusives to drive hardware sales, and Horizon Call of the Mountain is a great start. More VR games based on beloved PlayStation franchises should come, though, and it is hard to think of a franchise that would suit VR better than The Last of Us. Not only would the game make for a terrifying horror experience, but there are some solid stories that a spin-off could tell....

He may well lose this time. He is running for a fourth term (he jokes that a Queens friend asked, ““Is that legal?’’). He is opposed by a cipher – a state senator named George Pataki – who is sponsored by a sleaze, the incorrigible U.S. Sen. Alfonse D’Amato. ““But it’s not really D’Amato who’s behind Pataki,’’ says Richard Brodsky, a Democratic state assemblyman. ““It’s Peter Finch in the movie “Network’: they’re mad as hell and they don’t want to take it anymore....

On a more serious note, here is a more realistic wish list of a Federer fan for the year 2019: #1 Grand Slam Title No. 21 After a remarkable resurgence in 2017, where he won his long awaited 18th Grand slam title at the Australian Open and a record-breaking eighth Wimbledon title, the just-concluded 2018 season was more of a mixed bag for Roger Federer. The highlight of the season for him came at the very beginning when he won his record-extending 20th Grand slam singles title at the Australian open....

It is possible to feel sympathy for Brodhead (who in an interview with Taylor denied he was tearful or self-pitying at the meeting). The president of a modern, elite university must be careful not to cross his politically correct faculty. Brodhead had already lost face with some professors (who dislike the admissions break given to athletes) by appearing to kowtow before Duke’s iconic basketball coach, Mike Krzyzewski, to stop him from jumping to the pros....

For starters, as a prosecution expert testified last week, there is no physical evidence linking Skakel to the crime. Worse, the case has always suffered from too many suspects–including Thomas Skakel, Michael’s older brother, and Kenneth Littleton, the Skakels’ live-in tutor. The cops shifted to Michael Skakel late in the game; investigators were still pursuing Littleton into the 1990s. Skakel’s lawyer, Michael Sherman, insists Skakel was at the home of a cousin when Moxley was killed....

What Was Napster Originally? Napster had a very different face when it first came into existence in 1999. The developers of the original Napster launched the service as a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network. The software application was easy to use with a free account, and it was specifically designed for sharing digital music files (in the MP3 format) across a Web-connected network. The service was extremely popular and provided easy access for millions of internet users to a large amount of free audio files (mostly music) that could also be shared with other Napster members....

This gentleman whom I was with was none other than Kapil Dev. I was not amazed at this fan following even 24 years since his retirement. For, he has been one of the biggest names in the history of Indian and world cricket. It was breakfast time as we reached the restaurant. He immediately asked me what I would have and then, in fact, got up to ask tea for me....

This new middle-class rebellion isn’t rejecting everything that progressives stand for; the Left’s critique of neo-liberal excess is resonating, as is the need for improved access to health care. But the current focus on “systemic racism,” coupled with a newfound and heavily enforced cultural conformism and the obsessive focus on a never-ending litany of impending “climate emergences” are less likely to pass muster with most of the middle class, no matter how popular they are with the media, academics, and others in the progressive corner....

That made the incident more than just another murder. Detectives from LAPD’s elite Robbery-Homicide Division took over the case from local units. Police quickly concluded that Gonzalez’s killing was a mistake. The killer apparently intended to shoot the friend in the passenger seat, who was not identified. Gonzalez had reportedly known the man as a casual friend for years and was spending time with him while visiting her mother, Felicia Parks-Mena, one of the chief’s daughters....

Wilson’s immigration offensive is also an attempt to halt the erosion of his own political fortunes. His job-approval rating is an abysmal 15 percent. Up for re-election next year, he’ll face voters angry and frightened by the worst economic times since the 1930s. Unemployment is nearly 10 percent. Hard-line conservatives in his own party, upset by an $8 billion tax increase he pushed through Sacramento in 1991, are threatening to embarrass him With a primary challenge....

If such policies sound odd to outsiders, it’s music to the ears of Aslan Kuytu, a hard-core nationalist who voted for the party in hopes that it would get tough on leftists, Kurds and Islamists–not to mention those who are “selling Turkey to foreign bankers.” Thickset and mustached, the 50-year-old Istanbul shopkeeper complains that the party has spent too much time toeing the line set by its bigger coalition partners in the run-up to the last elections....