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According to American Community Survey data from the Census Bureau, 14.9 of every 1,000 marriages in the last year ended in divorce. While every state has its own set of grounds for divorce, some like adultery, cruelty and criminal conviction are commonplace across the entirety of the U.S. But to divorce over a pet? That’s pretty much unheard of. And yet, that appears to be exactly what some on social media are suggesting a woman does in the face of continued provocation from her partner....

The applicant, u/ayyojosh, shared a screenshot of the email in Reddit’s “Antiwork” forum, writing: “I’m in the middle of class and received this email. is it worth leaving rn and taking the interview? I kinda [really] need the money.” The post has garnered nearly 17,000 upvotes and thousands of comments from skeptical Redditors who believe the “job opportunity” is likely a scam. You can read the full post here....

Featuring seven first-time nominees including Beck, Eminem, Duran Duran, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, Carly Simon and A Tribe Called Quest, the 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee list included 17 nominees altogether, spanning genres and generations. However, following the news that both Eminem and A Tribe Called Quest, two hip-hop icons, were nominated for induction into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, rap fans were left wondering: where was the Wu-Tang Clan?...

Former vice president Warner and Leoz, who has previously served as a member of the executive committee and as president of CONMEBOL, were among 14 people indicted on charges including racketeering conspiracy and corruption last Wednesday. MORE: Platini, FIFA’s next president? | 10 athletes to watch in the 2015 Women’s World Cup Warner has proclaimed his innocence and questioned the charges against him, while a judge in Paraguay has reportedly ordered the arrest of Leoz....

NEWSWEEK: How serious is North Korea’s latest announcement that it is in the final stage of reprocessing spent fuel rods? HAN: North Korea is trying to show that they are not being cowed by the United States. The statement is ambiguous enough to require more analysis. I think this should not be a reason to cancel the forthcoming talks. Why do you think North Korea made that announcement at this critical time?...

Phase One: The Army’s 18th Airborne Corps, reinforced with additional firepower, tanks and Marines, attacks from Albania. A mixed NATO corps goes in from Macedonia. Campaign plan: sweep through Kosovo on two axes, closing a pincers to trap and destroy Serb forces. Penetrating Serb border defenses is one of the toughest challenges. The mountainous terrain on the Albania-Kosovo border is infantry country. Because NATO needs two to three months to assemble an invasion force, the Serbs will have had time to dig in....

Native to East Asian countries such as South Korea and Japan, the worms can now be found in the United States across an area stretching from Maine to South Carolina and west to Wisconsin, according to Maine’s Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF.) “I would not say we necessarily have a good handle of exactly how widespread they are in Maine, but I do know 13 new locations were reported over the past year,” state horticulturist Gary Fish told Bangor Daily News....

“Many urban areas are dominated by a single tree species or genus, which means that a newly arrived insect for which those trees are a host can spread easily. On top of this, there are usually fewer natural predators and warmer temperatures [in these areas] compared to nearby natural forests, which can benefit invasive insect development,” said Frank Koch of the USDA. Koch is one of several authors of a paper appearing in the British Ecological Society’s Journal of Applied Ecology....

The success of these markets rests on privatization and growth. Governments are easing their iron grip on foreign investing just as their ambitious young workers are reaching out for a better life. The Templeton Emerging Markets Fund-the trailblazer in its field-earned 31.4 percent annually over the past five years, 30.5 percent over three years and 14.7 percent in the past 12 months. Most of the funds that buy into these markets are “closedend....

The only changes have Iowa Speedway’s June race moving to May, the Chicagoland stand-alone race in July being run on Saturday night and the Darlington-Kansas spring date swap that corresponds with the switch in Sprint Cup. 2014 Nationwide Series Schedule Feb. 22: Daytona March 1: Phoenix March 8: Las Vegas March 15: Bristol March 22: California April 4: Texas April 11: Darlington April 25: Richmond May 3: Talladega May 18: Iowa May 24: Charlotte May 31: Dover June 14: Michigan June 21: Road America June 27: Kentucky July 4: Daytona July 12: New Hampshire July 19: Chicagoland July 26: Indianapolis Aug....

Losers of four of their past five games, the Hoosiers will not get to take their shot at No. 15 Iowa tonight because a piece of metal fell from the roof at Assembly Hall in Bloomington and damaged some of the seating. Safety concerns led athletic director Fred Glass to decide the game should be postponed; a makeup date will be chosen when it is determined the arena is safe to use....

Ayn al-Asad Air Base and other sites in Kurdistan’s Erbil were hit Tuesday by cruise missiles and short-range ballistic missiles launched from within neighboring Iran, Pentagon officials and an Iraqi intelligence official told Newsweek. No casualties have been reported so far. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claimed responsibility for the attacks in a statement, calling it “revenge for the brutal assassination” of the elite military group’s Quds Force commander Major General Qassem Soleimani in a U....

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif addressed the New York-based Council of Foreign Relations via video link on Monday to reinforce his country’s rejection of the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign to isolate Tehran. As Zarif spoke, senior U.S. officials led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gathered in Washington to discuss what they said was the restoration of international sanctions against Iran, and to roll out a series of new sanctions against Iranian officials and organizations....

The Air Force Command of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said in a Facebook post Monday night that Ukrainian fighter jets shot down six of the drones and two more were taken out by ground forces using anti-aircraft guns. The intercepted attacks are the latest in a string of recent air strikes launched by Russia against Ukraine. They come as Ukraine has increased pressure on Iran to stop providing weapons to Russia....

Perhaps there is some department of strategic linguistics buried in the Pentagon that invents these phraseologies and then has commanders in the field promulgate the quote for the day at their morning prayers (i.e., the daily briefing commanders give to subordinates). More likely, though, it’s an organic and semiconscious process in which phrases and metaphors are thought up by high-ranking officers and spread by repetition and emulation through the ranks and out into the news media wilds....

Bush - The world is coming unglued before his eyes. His naive dreams are a Wilsonian disaster. Iran-Syria - The bad guys behind Hizbullah’s hail of missiles are real Axis of Evil. Hard to blame Israel this time. Congress + Finally showing some cojones in standing up to Bush exec-power grab on intel. But will it follow through? B. Bonds - Will he get indicted? If so, Selig will need to wield more than an asterisk....

A spokesperson for the Popular Mobilization Forces, a semi-state-sponsored collective of at least tens of thousands of units, told Newsweek that the group “is participating in the process of securing the visit of Pope Francis.” And the fighters will be doing so “specifically in Mosul,” the largest city once held by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), according to the spokesperson. Here, they’ll be “securing the churches” in what’s likely to be one of the most iconic stretches of Francis’ journey, the spokesperson said....

Authorities in the German capital are investigating religious extremism as a motive behind the actions of the 30-year-old Iraqi who apparently drove into cars, motorcycles and a scooter driver, local news outlet RBB reported. After his car was parked, the man got out of his vehicle, put a box on the street and claimed it was a bomb. Police opened the box with a high pressure water jet and it was found to only contain tools, while no traces of explosives were found in his car....

On Saturday afternoon, Davis officially graduated from Auburn University with a degree in public administration, and when his name was called, he got a loud ovation from his classmates and audience. MORE: Heisman Hub | Road to the Bowls | Saban staying (From AL.com) (From War-Eagle Reader) It's safe to say that nobody has had a better past 30 days that Chris Davis.