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The Best Read-It-Later Apps for Curating Your Longreads
With the popular app Pocket going away, you'll need a new way to catch up on those articles you've been meaning to read. Here ...
Detroit Free Press27d
Michigan governor orders flags to half-staff. When to lower your flags Monday
U.S. and Michigan flags will be flown at half-staff on Memorial Day to honor fallen service members. Flags are flown at half-staff on other occasions, including Peace Officers Memorial Day and ...
NOLA.com1mon
More than half of poor Louisiana students start school without basic reading skills, study says
More than half of Louisiana children from poor families start kindergarten without basic reading skills — and most fail to catch up by third grade, a critical year for literacy development ...
PC Gamer1mon
This Half-Life mod remakes Valve's classic shooter to be both longer and wider, and it has radically altered my perception of the original
I've always said that my favourite chapter in Half-Life is Office Complex. In a game all about recontextualising the FPS from abstract mazes into a realistic, coherent setting, to me Office ...
TechSpot1mon
Half-Life 3 reportedly playable end-to-end, possibly launching this year
so readers should take the claims with a large grain of salt. Data mining of recent patches to Valve's games has uncovered references to "HLX," which many believe is a codename for Half-Life 3.
PC Gamer1mon
Valve only wants to make new Half-Life games if they push the medium forward, but what could it push forward next?
FPS Former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw says he 'retired too hard', but there's no way he's coming back for Half-Life 3: 'We need new stuff, [not] me going 'Well the G-Man wouldn't do that in my day ...
The Yorkshire Post1mon
Nation of interrupted readers: Nearly half of UK adults say distraction stops them reading
According to select findings from its upcoming ‘State of the Nation in Adult Reading 2025’ report, nearly half (46%) of UK adults say they struggle to focus on reading due to distractions ...
The Bookseller1mon
Reading Agency’s research reveals 'growing reading crisis' with half of adults put off by distractions
According to selected findings from its upcoming "State of the Nation in Adult Reading 2025" report, nearly half (46%) of UK adults say they struggle to focus on reading due to distractions around ...
BBC2mon
Thousands take to the streets for half marathon
Carys Westcott started the Green Park Challenge on Sunday morning About 7,500 runners are taking part in the Reading half marathon, according to the organisers. 18-year-old Team GB Biathle ...
BBC2mon
Thousands take to the streets for half marathon
About 7,500 runners are taking part in the Reading half marathon, according to the organisers. 18-year-old Team GB Biathle champion Carys Westcott officially started the Green Park Challenge fun ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel3mon
How far will Marquette get in the NCAA tournament? Half of readers said the same answer
But after that, many readers think it's a rockier road. A little more than half of the total readers — 59 — said the Golden Eagles will lose in the second round, with a number of them citing ...