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The administration will have no choice but to disenthrall itself from the flawed premises of its Russia policy: the conceptual misapprehension of the nature of the Cold War and its overemphasis on personalities. Many policymakers of Clinton’s generation hold the view that the United States has its own heavy responsibility for the Cold War, which they believe could have been avoided had the United States pursued a policy of reassurance rather than of confrontation toward the Soviet Union....

High-quality streaming is supported with Bluetooth codecs aptX HD and aptX low-latency. You can also connect these headphones directly via its 3.5mm jack anytime you need extra fidelity, lower latency, or are low on charge. These are one of the best-sounding natural wireless headphones you can buy, but with an RRP of $799, they are perhaps reserved for audiophiles who can discern the difference between them and their cheaper wireless options....

The Beyond Skyrim: Morrowind team has been teasing the product of its efforts for some time now, but had yet to clamp down on a specific city or region to release like other Beyond Skyrim teams are doing. Glimpses of what would become The New North can be seen in the Morrowind teaser trailer released nine months ago, along with other regions likely planned for later. But it’s The New North that will be the team’s goal for now, the island region at the north of Morrowind including Bleakrock Isle and Sheogorad....

Bengaluru FC looked shaky in the initial few games of the season. Their struggles resulted in the departure of head coach Carles Cuadrat. The Blues are now rebuilding from scratch under the leadership of interim head coach Naushad Moosa. They snapped their 8-match winless run in the ISL with a 2-0 victory over SC East Bengal. Two-time champions Chennaiyin FC have been a pale shadow of their former selves in this ISL season....

Bhupathi was under constant pressure, unused as he is playing from the deuce court, but then showcased his doubles skills, if not mobility, to survive some tough moments. Bopanna served quite well and was generally at home on his favoured ad court from where he sent out a stream of winners. The two pairs were on par in the second set and in the tie-break, the Indians took early leads of 3-1 and 4-2 and three errors by Wawrinka gave the home tandem the tie-break....

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Asked about the president’s views on Pelosi’s visit, National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby told reporters Tuesday that Biden “respects the Speaker’s decision to travel to Taiwan.” “He respects her decision to go and he believes it is perfectly consistent with American policy going back decades,” Kirby said. Pelosi’s travel marks the first such trip by a Speaker of the House in 25 years. Reports of her trip first leaked to the public sphere via a Financial Times article that cited sources familiar with the matter....

The world is watching as the three promising vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna/U.S. National Institute of Health and AstraZeneca/Oxford University are rolled-out in rich countries. Yet we’re bracing ourselves for yet another major failure in the global COVID response: U.S. vaccine stocks are already running dry and AstraZeneca has failed to make good on its contracts to supply the European Union. New variants of the virus, which are more contagious and possibly more deadly, have been found in the U....

Kate Bedingfield, who was deputy campaign manager for Biden’s election campaign, confirmed this lack of communication when asked by CNN. Host Dana Bash asked: “Has there been any communication at all between anybody in Trump world, anybody in the campaign, and anybody in yours?” “There has not,” Bedingfield replied, before expressing her hope the current president will “do the right thing.” “And obviously, we would hope that in this moment, this incredibly important moment for the country, that President Trump would choose to do the right thing, to do the thing that presidents have done since our country was founded....

The presidential candidate hopeful was one of a number of Democrats targeted by Trump at the Target Center Thursday night, who claimed Biden’s legacy will entirely be down to his relationship with former president Barack Obama. “He was never considered smart. He was never considered a good senator,” Trump said, via C-Span. “He was only a good vice president because he understood how to kiss Barack Obama’s ass.” Trump also repeatedly mocked the former vice president by once again referring to him as “Sleepy Joe,” while attacking the other Democratic candidates....

During a press conference at the end of the Group of Seven (G7) summit in the U.K. on Sunday, Biden told reporters that he’s not conducting a joint conference with Putin because “this is not a contest about who can do better in front of a press conference and try to embarrass each other.” “It is about making myself very clear what the conditions are to get a better relationship with Russia....

Biden holds a seven-point lead over Trump among likely Pennsylvania voters, with 49 to 42 percent of support. And he’s held on to a five-point lead among likely Florida voters— 47 to 42 percent—according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll released Saturday morning. Trump’s ratings on honesty, trustworthiness, temperament, policies and ability to unify all decreased last Tuesday’s debate against Biden in Cleveland. Biden leads among voters 65 and older in both states, continuing one of the largest electoral shifts between parties....

Last December, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, along with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, issued the Draft Policy Statement on Licensing Negotiations and Remedies for Standards-Essential Patents Subject to Voluntary F/RAND Commitments. The Draft Policy, according to the Justice Department, would lead to “widespread and efficient licensing” by holders of standards-essential patents (SEPs) and thereby “promote technology innovation, further consumer choice and enable industry competitiveness....

According to the CNBC/Change Research survey, 51 percent of respondents said they would vote for Biden, while 41 percent supported Trump. Among the remaining respondents, 3 percent chose Jo Jorgensen, the Libertarian Party’s nominee; 2 percent chose the Green Party’s Howie Hawkins; and 2 percent said they were not sure. The poll surveyed 1,258 likely voters across the U.S. from July 10 to 12 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2....

RELATED: Strange Sports Games Most Players Have Never Heard Of Now, players get their games in a much more streamlined fashion. Game developers have noticed the shift, which is why more games are just coming out with digital copies. It’s a faster way of getting games into players’ hands. These games on this list are good examples of this change. While some may have limited runs of physical copies, for the most part, digital copies are the only way to get them....

Bethesda, known for the The Elder Scrolls as well as the post-apocalyptic Fallout series, is seeking seasoned programmers for work on “an unannounced game on future-generation consoles.” The studio is looking for people who meet the following requirements: One element not touched upon in the listing for Future Generation Console Programmer is familiarity with the Creation Kit or G.E.C.K. systems that are used to create The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, respectively....

The late U.S. Capitol police officer died from injuries sustained while responding to pro-Trump rioters who stormed the building on January 6. He was 42. Sicknick’s remains will lie in state inside the Capitol’s Rotunda—an honor that is usually only bestowed upon former presidents, military officials and members of Congress. The ceremony took place on Tuesday at the East Front of the Capitol as Sicknick’s remains arrived in a hearse....

“Renaissance” features a track that samples Kelis’s 2003 hit “Milkshake” – and Kelis has hit out at Beyoncé and the song’s composers, The Neptunes. “My mind is blown too because the level of disrespect and utter ignorance of all 3 parties involved is astounding,” she wrote. “I heard about this the same way everyone else did. Nothing is ever as it seems, some of the people in this business have no soul or integrity and they have everyone fooled....

Within the note, Beyoncé acknowledged the years her supporters have known her and said individuals who suggest women are “supposed” to experience feelings of being “old or unhappy” once they turn 40 “got it ALL THE WAY F’d UP.” Her note began by mentioning the conclusion of the Virgo zodiac season, which ended on September 22. She said she was hopeful other Virgos enjoyed their birthdays before diving into her message of thanks for the individuals who sent along personalized well-wishes for her birthday on September 4....

Too often writers treat extreme subjects simply to get our attention–gee, imagine a writer wanting attention–or to misdirect it from literary defects. But Gaitskill seems to have a vision rather than a career agenda. Her characters do their share of plain and fancy coupling, but her true subject is their essential disconnectedness and their sometimes pathetic, sometimes heroic solitude. Much of what happens between her people is suggested in a single sentence in the story “Orchid,” about a womanizer’s unhappy girlfriends: “They would look at Patrick as if calmly measuring the distance between him and them, as if they knew that his little area of private space was closed to them, but that was all right because they had their own little area they were planning to go back to once they got what they came for–although of course it often didn’t work out that way....