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“We’re making a real impact on a community that has been underserved,” said Ray Adler, said Mattel’s Global Head of Games. “We are proud to have UNO Braille on-shelves and to be making UNO more accessible and inclusive to even more families.” In addition to text information for sighted players, Uno Braille cards feature Braille markings on their corners to indicate the color, number or action. Mattel said a chief goal was to normalize Braille for sighted people by allowing them to play together with blind and low-vision players with the same deck....

WWE is the gold standard. But for diehard fans New Japan Pro Wrestling is a go-to product with its style and hard-hitting action. MORE: Ronda Rousey on sex appeal | What we learned on WWE Raw | Destination America and TNA NJPW returns for a second season beginning a 9 p.m. ET Friday on AXS TV as part of its “Fight Night” lineup that including MMA and kickboxing. The first of the new season’s 12 episodes begins with the “Best of the Super Juniors XXI” show featuring KUSHIDA, Taichi, Ricochet and Ryusuke Taguchi....

The so-called Information Highway is as confusing for investors as it is for computer novices, Tell us how you figure it all out. In February we launched a new fund called the Gabelli Global Interactive Couch Potato Fund. It’s up about 5 percent this year. We break our holdings down into two broadly defined areas-creativity and distribution. In creativity we have record companies, like PolyGram and Sony. We own movie companies like Viacom....

Team owner Mark Cuban discussed the concept of load management on SiriusXM Tuesday at the NBA summer league, saying Dallas will use the tactic to keep its newest star healthy and used Kawhi Leonard’s 2018-19 season with the Raptors as an example. “KP (Porzingis) coming back from an injury … we’re gonna certainly load manage him,” Cuban said. “We saw what Kawhi did, and Kawhi was still banged up in the Finals after all of that....

Lots of Atlanta fans are experiencing mild stages of panic right about now, recalling how those brilliant Braves teams of the 1990s always seemed to somehow figure out a way to lose — except in 1995 — in October. And I think it’s safe to say a lot of sports fans remember a championship football game that featured an epic collapse. So, yeah, maybe Braves fans are skeptical, now that the series has shifted back to Houston....

The 30-year-old was impressive during his season-long loan spell in the French top-flight last term, as he returned 11 goals in 35 appearances. The Ivorian played a key role in helping the Violet retain their top-flight status, and he will be hoping to continue in the rich vein of form under newly appointed manager Alain Casanova next season. “Happy to be back at Toulouse. Thanks to the president, to the supporters and to all the staff....

Yes, but … MORE: Price poses for selfie during timeout | Stamkos busted for tossing broken stick You know what, put the Canadiens’ defense corps down for a point, too, for that . . . ill-timed change. Fail all around, except for Montreal goalie Carey Price. He didn’t have a chance against that rocket by Stamkos. Stamkos scored an empty-netter late in the third period as the Lightning won, 4-2....

One of the maxilla’s most important functions is to make up the architecture of our faces and to support the rest of the viscerocranium. It technically consists of two pyramid shaped bones that are fused together in the middle. The maxilla houses the upper teeth, forms the roof of the mouth (palate), and also the lower portion of the orbit (bones that surround and house the eyes). Anatomy The maxilla is centrally located within the skull and makes up the center of the face....

Miejsce Odrzańskie, in the south of Poland near the Czech border, has a population of about 300. But for the last twelve years, locals say, no male babies have been born. “It has been going on for several decades,” Tomasz Golasz, head of the volunteer fire brigade, told English-language news site First News. “I came to the village, took a local girl for my wife and we had two daughters....

Normally a free event under Nevada law, both Mayweather and Pacquiao’s camps agreed to charge $10 for fans to watch the weigh-in to avoid masses of people camping out in front of the MGM Grand and other MGM resorts, according to ESPN. MORE: Classic Pacquiao photos | Mayweather says his legacy is not on the line By making fans buy tickets for the weigh-in, seats will be assigned and the crowds will be more managable....

Fox Sports 2 will air “UFC Tonight” at each tour stop, beginning Tuesday at Staples Center in Los Angeles (5:30 p.m. ET). The network will show the Toronto stop Wednesday at 6 p.m. ET, the Brooklyn stop Thursday at 7 p.m., and the London stop Friday at 2 p.m. ET. Replays of “UFC Tonight” will air on Fox Sports 1 later in the evening. MORE: Mayweather vs. McGregor results...

Between $50 million to $80 million will be bet in state of Nevada on the Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao fight, which will make it the biggest non-football betting event the state has ever seen, according to estimates from multiple Las Vegas bookmakers. While the fight is scheduled for May 2, Mayweather-Pacquiao, by some accounts, has already drawn more betting action than any other boxing match in Las Vegas history....

The 18-year-old has been linked with a world-record transfer to some of Europe’s biggest clubs, with PSG and Real Madrid showing particular interest. Mbappe told to stay at Monaco Mbappe is under contract at Monaco until 2019, and has said he will make no decisions on his future until he returns from a summer holiday. BEFORE AFTER Despite starring in the club’s new kit launch, Mbappe has cleared any mention of them in his Twitter biography, although he also removed Nike Football and the France national team from his profile....

John McCain, uppermost underdog in the competition to deny George W. Bush the Republican nomination, is doing well in one of the places where he must do well or go home–New Hampshire. However, a McCain surge right about now was almost as predictable as autumn itself, for several reasons. One is that this is how the system is supposed to work. The improvised and constantly evolving nomination process is the haphazard result of largely uncoordinated decisions by the states and parties....

The fast food outlet in Locust Grove, Bill Gardner Parkway, became the scene of a heated dispute after a couple placed a coffee order at around 9 p.m. on Tuesday, only to be told that an item was no longer available, WSB-TV 2 Atlanta reported. The news outlet spoke with a 16-year-old employee, who said they and others were forced to hide as they feared the situation would turn violent....

The campaign, launched in conjunction with outdoor-advertising giant JC Decaux, debuted this month on the reverse of a north-facing billboard in Jarfalla, about 20 minutes from downtown Stockholm. (Bees reportedly prefer hives that face south or southeast.) Six large permanent wooden bee hotels were mounted on the sign, with holes drilled in the words on front, which read “Always open.” “Without pollination from bees, a third of the food we eat would be threatened,” read a statement from McDonald’s Sweden....

Many of those questions were answered as McIlroy played practice rounds and said he would be in the PGA Championship field. And after his press conference on Wednesday, we now have a pretty good idea of where the game’s top golfer’s head is entering the season’s final major. MORE: McIlroy and recent winners | Featured groups | Tee times, TV But some of his fans have to be a bit perturbed by his attitude towards the British Open and golf in general....

As part of the public opinion war, the Pentagon has been reaching out to the Arab Street and Main Street. Soldiers based in Qatar have been chatting with radio talk shows in their hometowns and joining Internet chats on Web sites from oprah.com to bbcnews.com. It’s a strategy Franks’s communications director, Jim Wilkinson, helped develop at the White House, where he worked until recently: take your message straight to the people....