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This was no ordinary win.  It was earned under practically impossible circumstances — at altitude, less than 24 hours after an all-out effort in a different time zone, to close out a ridiculous week against a Colorado Avalanche team that had won 10 of its last 12 and scored at least five goals in each of its last four home games, and with two key players unavailable because they were suffering from the flu. Considering all that, what it means for the Montreal Canadiens is much more than just two points in the standings.  Those meant a lot, too, no…

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy Carter‘s long public goodbye began Saturday in Georgia, with the 39th U.S. president’s flag-draped casket rolling through his tiny hometown and past his boyhood farmhouse on its way to Atlanta, where he climbed the political ladder and based his decades of humanitarian work after leaving the White House.The former president’s six-day state funeral started in Americus at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center, where current and former Secret Service agents who protected the late president loaded his remains into a black hearse and walked alongside as it rolled off the campus toward Plains.Former and current U.S.…

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person, according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116.Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died Dec. 29 at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, central Japan.Itooka, who loved bananas and a yogurt-flavored Japanese drink called Calpis, was born May 23, 1908. She became the oldest person last year after the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas, according to the Gerontology Research Group. Tomiko Itooka celebrates her 116th birthday at the nursing home where she lives in Ashiya,…

These oven roasted green beans are the perfect side dish! They’re incredibly tender and sweet, with crispy edges. To truly make them special, we toss them with garlic, capers, and herbs. They are so good! We’ve got many green bean recipes on Inspired Taste, but roasting might be my favorite way to cook them. If you’ve never tried roasting them, you should! Whether you keep them simple with oil, salt, and pepper or follow our advice and add extra flavor with garlic, capers, and fresh herbs, these green beans are a guaranteed crowd-pleaser! Green beans are also super quick to…

Ganglion cysts are the most common reason for a lump on your wrist. The good news is that they are usually harmless and don’t require treatment unless they’re bothering you. However, there are other reasons why you may have a lump on your wrist – and some of these conditions can be serious. So, it’s important to know about other possible causes and signs that you should see a doctor. Read on to learn more about ganglion cysts, other reasons you may have a lump on your wrist and when to get help. A ganglion cyst is a noncancerous growth…

West Ham players showed their support for injured teammate Michail Antonio at their Premier League home win against Wolverhampton, two days after a car crash.The 34-year-old Jamaica international is recovering in hospital after undergoing surgery on what West Ham described as a “lower limb fracture.”He was involved in a one-car incident outside London on Sunday (AEDT), after which he was airlifted to hospital and kept under close supervision.READ MORE: Indian media turns on skipper amid rift with teammateREAD MORE: He’s the hottest name in Aussie sport. Bosses want us to cool itREAD MORE: ‘Comfort zone’ call behind Origin star’s shock…

In the two years before FBI agents raided her homes, Winnie Greco, Mayor Adams’ longtime Asian affairs adviser, regularly met in her City Hall capacity with Chinese government officials and members of groups funded by and supportive of China’s ruling Communist Party.Many of Greco’s meetings were held at Queens’ New World Mall — which the feds raided at the same time as they searched her Bronx homes last year — and are memorialized in hundreds of pages of schedule entries obtained by the Daily News.The never-before-disclosed meetings are taking on renewed significance as the federal investigation that prompted the February…

A Durham, North Carolina, man has turned his life around after receiving grave medical news. Derek Barnett, 55, was diagnosed with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease 10 years ago, according to a report from SWNS.At his heaviest, Barnett weighed 240 pounds and was a size 38.CAN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT YOUR NEXT MEAL? IT’S CALLED FOOD NOISE, HERE’S WHAT TO DOBarnett, a construction worker who is currently unemployed due to health issues, brushed off his diagnosis, telling SWNS that he “didn’t think anything of it.””Everybody’s got a type of thing,” he said. At his heaviest, Barnett weighed 240 pounds and was a size…

Former Premier League referee Mike Dean insists Newcastle’s equaliser at Tottenham was correctly allowed to stand after the hosts were unhappy with an alleged handball from Joelinton.

Rugby Australia has set an ambitious goal of winning the Bledisloe Cup every second year and finishing in the top four of the 2027 and 2029 Rugby World Cups.The bold declaration came on Wednesday morning as the game’s national governing body released it’s five-year strategy paper called “Green to gold”,The lofty ambitions were among a set of targets that also included beating the British and Irish Lions and lifting the team to a 70 per cent success rate by 2029.READ MORE: Indian media turns on skipper amid rift with teammateREAD MORE: He’s the hottest name in Aussie sport. Bosses want…