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For fans of a 2004 movie starring Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams, however, October 3 means only one thing: Mean Girls Day. Exactly why that date has become associated with Mean Girls comes down to one scene in the film, in which Cady Heron (played by Lohan) describes via voiceover her increasing obsession with high school dreamboat Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett) after her infamous three-way phone call with Regina George (McAdams) and Gretchen Wieners (Lacey Chabert)....

On Monday, AstraZeneca and Oxford announced interim data from its large Phase III trial indicated that its vaccine candidate is “effective at preventing COVID-19 and offers a high level of protection.” How effective is each vaccine? The news follows announcements over the past month from U.S. companies Pfizer and Moderna, and the Russian Gamaleya Research Institute that their vaccine candidates have an efficacy of 95 percent, 95 percent and 92 percent respectively....

The footage, which has already been widely viewed online and sparked protests and rioting in Kenosha, shows the moment Blake was shot at several times by police officers while he attempted to enter a vehicle. Several people can be heard screaming in the footage after the officers fire at Blake. The 29-year-old is currently in Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee, in a serious condition. Kenosha Police confirmed there was an officer-involved shooting on Sunday after officers were called to the 2800 block of 40th Street to reports of a domestic incident....

Lisa Marie Presley, the couple’s only child, died aged 54 on January 12 after being hospitalized earlier in the day. Paramedics were dispatched to a Calabasas, California, residence that morning following a report of a woman “in full cardiac arrest,” according to the Associated Press. The musician was taken to a local hospital, where she later passed away. Priscilla’s court petition, per BBC News, disputes a 2016 amendment to Lisa Marie’s will that removes her mother and her former business manager, Barry Siegel, as co-trustees and replaces them with her two children from her marriage to Danny Keogh; Riley, 33, and Benjamin Keough....

Federer’s elegant on-court style and precision shot-making have given me tremendous delight over the years; there’s just something about him that makes you respect and admire him. He has achieved everything there is to achieve in tennis, and his dominance of the sport during his glory days had to be seen to be believed. But with each passing Major in recent times, I have started to come to terms with the fact that Federer may never win an 18th Grand Slam title; that he may never add to his record haul of 17 Majors....

The No. 12 Penske Ford finished first in a wild, lengthy and caution-filled All-Star Race at Texas Motor Speedway, earning bragging rights and a $1 million prize. But there was a small issue: Blaney committed an on-track offense that could — and maybe should — have forced him to drop to the back of the pack. After crossing the start-finish line, Blaney put down the window netting on his car after thinking he had the race won....

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! first introduced audiences to those meddling kids and their dog, too, in 1969. The Scooby-Doo series only ran for 41 episodes but made a big impact on popular culture. It is one of the better-known Hanna-Barbera cartoons and has inspired many parodies of its easily-identifiable formula: four teenagers travel around in a green, psychedelic van with their Great Dane, solving mysteries that usually turn out to be a man in a mask....

Shane hasn’t been seen in a wrestling capacity since suffering an injury at Survivor Series, meanwhile AJ has been putting on great match after great match as WWE Champion over the last few months. The two men have been doing their own jobs incredibly well, but whether they mesh together well inside the ring is another question altogether. Don’t get us wrong, Shane-o-Mac certainly has the ability to pull out something special when called upon but that isn’t the only issue here....

After failures in the Champions Trophy and the ODI World Cup in the last couple of years, India are gearing up for their next big-white ball assignment: the T20 World Cup which is going to take place in about 14 months’ time in Australia. So the selections in T20Is are top priority at the moment, which makes the debate around the second opener, who would potentially open with Rohit Sharma in the tournament Down Under, even more relevant....

It's a phrase so common they named a movie after it. The idea being that the level of talent is so comparable in the NFL that you never really know what is going to happen on a given Sunday of pro football. Upsets can and often do happen. This past Sunday in Week 15 was a tremendous example of that. So you know the what when it comes to "any given Sunday" but about the "why" and the "how"?...

Genshin Impact’s developer, miHoYo, came under fire for how some characters and cultures are represented in-game. The main focus of #boycottgenshin stemmed from the inspiration behind creatures named Hilichurls. Players fight against these enemies fairly regularly in-game, but a video surfaced where the developer confirmed that Hilichurls were modeled after and based on indigenous culture. While that may not seem like a big deal initially, there are important layers to the conversation that must be acknowledged....

The iPad Pro can easily be somebody’s primary, or only, computer. Paired with the Magic Keyboard case with its trackpad, the 12.9-inch iPad is a credible laptop replacement. But that combination costs $1,448 minimum and weighs in at over three pounds. The M1 MacBook Air is just $999, weighs 2.8 lbs, and offers a lot more power and flexibility in its software. Even though the iPad Pro is way better than the MacBook Air in hardware terms, macOS is still way superior to iPadOS—and I say that as someone who used the iPad as his only work computer for years....

This is an age of change… an era when cricket is evolving – the style, the technique, the way cricket is being played, everything. This is such a revolutionary age for cricket! But even when you are on a changing spree, replacing the old furniture of your house, wall paintings, toiletries, in fact everything – there is one thing which remains as it is. The WALL! At the most, you can change the colour of that WALL but you can’t change the wall altogether!...

A team that started the year 19-31 is walking away with the Commissioner’s Trophy this season while a 107-win Astros organization is walking away with nothing. So how did this Astros team that had the best wRC+ since the 1927 Yankees and a rotation featuring the likely first- and second-place finishers in the American League Cy Young race fail to win a championship? The reason is simple: the Nationals beat them....

The Patriots have been floundering at the QB position since Tom Brady moved down south to Tampa Bay. Former NFL MVP Cam Newton was signed in hopes that he could be a good bridge quarterback before the team’s ideal choice came around. Newton had a subpar 7-8 record and put up the worst stats of his career. The Patriots are still a championship-caliber team with the right QB and the team seems to have pinned their future on Jones....

The new M2 MacBook Air is thin, light, has battery life for hours, and comes in at only a few hundred dollars more than the iPhone. And that’s because it kind of is a big iPhone, which is exactly the computer we’ve been waiting for all these years. “In my opinion, 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros with M1 Pro and Max were the very first true laptops in the mobile era....

The original Sony Playstation was released in 1994 and went on to sell over 100 million units. Cementing Sony as a major player in the video game industry, it also gave birth to some of the company’s most infamous franchises. Tekken, Crash Bandicoot, Metal Gear Solid, and Tomb Raider games all made their debuts on Sony’s maiden console. As a result of this, the follow-up certainly had big boots to fill, and the weight of expectation lay heavily on the PS2’s shoulders....

Late last week in an interview with the Army Times, Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said he knew the kidnappers’ names and believed that at least two of the three soldiers were still alive. But they remained missing. “Your soldiers are in our hands. If you want their safety, do not look for them,” taunted a group called the Islamic State of Iraq—an umbrella group of Sunni insurgents, including Al Qaeda in Iraq....

To the vast majority of NBA fans, these numbers come out of a black box. There is zero knowledge of how they are calculated, yet they are heavily cited and relied upon when forming opinions. It doesn’t take a PhD in Statistics to understand why that’s not a great use of statistics. Perhaps more alarming? There is often a sizable gap between both sets of championship odds numbers when it comes to certain teams like the Celtics, Warriors, and Nets....

With his team trailing by three points and out of timeouts, Murray got the offense up to the line and spiked the ball to stop the clock. Only one problem: Murray was ruled short of the line to gain on that run. The spike made it fourth-and-1 from the Eagles’ 25 with 22 seconds left. Matt Ammendola, who was signed off the practice squad ahead of the game after an injury to regular kicker Matt Prater, came out to try a game-tying 43-yard field goal....