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A tow truck moves a van that crashed into a canal Monday, March 30, 2015, near Moore Haven, Fla. (Photo: Luis M. Alvarez, AP) Shocked members of a Florida church gathered Monday to mourn the loss of eight people who died hours earlier when their church van crashed in rural Southwest Florida. Ten other people we...
By Andy Blatchford, THE CANADIAN PRESS MONT-TREMBLANT, Que.--Richard Henry Bain left Montreal a couple of years ago to set up a fishing lodge in the mountains north of the city and dreams of expanding his business were apparently delayed by bureaucratic roadblocks. Hours before gunshots rang out at ...
The U.S. flag flies near a Russian flag from the main building of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow on Tuesday as relations between the two countries deteriorate. (Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) The United States is expected to impose additional sanctions against Russia by Friday, according to U.S. officials. T...
How cool! A straight woman named Jamie Frevele is auctioning off her right to marry on eBay after New York State voted not to grant homosexual couples the right to gay marriage. Of course, a person can’t actually transfer a right on eBay, but all the money Frevele does earn off her eBay auction will go to The Point Fou...
Only three days after stories first began to surface about his alleged conduct four decades ago, the Anniston Star's former publisher and chairman of its parent company resigned today. In a statement released to the Anniston Star, H. Brandt Ayers stepped down as chairman of Consolidated Publishing. This followed se...
Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images Martin Shkreli, the most famous price gouger in the world of pharmaceuticals, was arrested Thursday on charges of securities fraud. While delightful to Shkreli’s many, many critics, the indictment had nothing to do with his widely despised business model of buying up old, essenti...
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Security Council members vote for tough new sanctions against North Korea for its latest nuclear test, during a meeting at U.N. headquarters Thursday, March 7, 2013. The unanimous vote by the U.N.'s most... (Associated Press) Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked...
This story has been updated to reflect a response from KFC. KFC is facing a $20 million lawsuit filed by an incensed customer who says she didn’t get enough chicken in her $20 “Fill-Up.” Anna Wurtzburger, a 64-year-old retiree of Hudson Valley, N.Y., filed a lawsuit late last month claiming that KFC’s advertisi...
Social Policies, Parenthood, and Happiness in 22 Countries A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Jennifer Glass, University of Texas; Robin Simon, Wake Forest University; and Matthew Andersson, Baylor University. This brief includes findings from an article in American Journal of Soc...
A video showing an NYPD officer apparently knocking out a Brooklyn teen surfaced on Wednesday — the same day footage of another cop allegedly stealing more than $1,000 from a Brooklyn construction worker went viral. The officer stopped 17-year-old Marcel Hamer on June 4 in Clinton Hill on suspicion of smoking marij...
House Democratic leaders on Tuesday were quick to reject the latest proposal from Speaker John Boehner John Andrew BoehnerMomentum for earmarks grows with Dem majority Cannabis company says CBS refused to run its Super Bowl ad advocating for medical marijuana Breaking the impasse on shutdown, border security MORE (R-Oh...
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Pakistan's military nabbed an al Qaeda operative in the port city of Karachi in the country's first arrest of a militant since the killing of Osama bin Laden on its soil by U.S. forces. Pakistan made the arrest on its own, but the U.S. provided intelligence that helped lead to the detention of Muhammad Ali Qasim Ya...
WASHINGTON – More than 24 million voter-registration records in the United States— about one in eight — are inaccurate, out-of-date or duplicates. Nearly 2.8 million people are registered in two or more states, and perhaps 1.8 million registered voters are dead. Those estimates, from a report published today by the...
While much of Europe seems understandably concerned about Donald Trump’s “America First” stance, the Dutch are happy to find a middle ground: “The Netherlands Second.” In the clip below from satirical news show Zondag met Lubach (Sunday with Lubach, hosted by Arjen Lubach), The Netherlands rolls out the yuge red ca...
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Jurors at the trial of Michael Jackson’s personal physician heard a recording Wednesday of the singer sounding heavily drugged six weeks before his death. In the recording discovered on Dr. Conrad Murray’s iPhone, Jackson rambled to his doctor about his upcoming comeback concerts and plans to build a hospital f...
Published on Oct 21, 2016 This is a short demonstration on how I wrote a paper on nuclear physics that was accepted at a scientific conference. More information is available at: http://www.bartneck.de/2016/10/20/ios...
News Release 15-030 NSF awards 2015 Graduate Research Fellowships This year's Fellows are diverse in terms of backgrounds and areas of study Edith Nagy is pursuing a Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Florida Atlantic University. Credit and Larger Version March 31, 2015 The National Science Found...
Todd Graham is director of debate at Southern Illinois University. His teams have won national championships for three years, and he's been recognized twice as the national debate coach of the year. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his. (CNN) Debaters should adapt to the latest circumstances, and those...
Photos: Photos: Lance Armstrong's rise and fall Lance Armstrong's rise and fall – After denying the allegations for years, cyclist Lance Armstrong admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs. As a result, he was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and an Olympic bronze medal. Click through the gallery for a l...
Play Facebook Twitter Embed Travelers From Ebola-Hit Nations to Use Only Five U.S. Airports 1:43 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog Ashoka Mukpo, the cameraman diagnosed with Ebola while working in Liberia as a freelancer for NBC News, has been declared free of the virus and will be al...
TBI: Confirmed sighting of Tad Cummins, Elizabeth Thomas on March 15 in Oklahoma City Copyright by WIAT - All rights reserved Video (WIAT) -- The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says they have confirmed a sighting of 15-year-old Elizabeth Thomas and her alleged kidnapper Tad Cummins. The TBI posted the follow...
From the White House: "Michelle and I were deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Neil Armstrong. "Neil was among the greatest of American heroes - not just of his time, but of all time. When he and his fellow crew members lifted off aboard Apollo 11 in 1969, they carried with them the aspirations of an entir...
About 10,000 Arizonans have been forced to flee from their homes as wildfires continue to consume wide swaths of the southwestern United States today. Three dozen fires are raging across parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and California, as well as Texas and Georgia, forcing additional evacuations and slowing traff...
Come early Sunday morning (Nov. 18), the famous Leonid meteor shower will reach its peak, with lesser numbers expected on the preceding and following mornings. According to Margaret Campbell-Brown and Peter Brown in the 2018 Observer's Handbook of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Earth will pass through th...
A female activist who was jailed for 10 weeks for violating Saudi Arabia’s ban on women driving is running for office after a surprise U-turn by the government. Loujain al-Hathloul made international headlines last year, when she filmed herself driving from the United Arab Emirates to the Saudi Arabian border in pr...
It's difficult to do a "Robin Hood" movie without making it a cover version of an earlier story. After all, we've been retelling this straight arrow's tale for at least 500 years. Still, the Russell Crowe/Ridley Scott edition is a more energetic and interesting entry than you might expect from this overpopulated genre....
For decades now, Americans have watched that compact erode. They have seen the decks too often stacked against them. And they know that Washington has not always put their interests first. The people of this country work hard to meet their responsibilities. The question tonight is whether we’ll meet ours. The quest...
A 4-year-old boy in the U.K. saved his mom’s life after he used Siri to call an ambulance, telling emergency services that “she’s closing her eyes and she’s not breathing.” The boy used his unconscious mother’s iPhone to contact police, according to a statement released this week by London’s Metropolitan Police. Th...
Former FBI Director James Comey went to Capitol Hill Thursday with an explosive tale of political impropriety: How President Donald Trump tried to influence the FBI's Russia investigation by putting pressure on Comey to back off from aspects of the case. We believe Comey. He was a straight-talking witness who gave ...
The biker brawl in Waco, Texas, that left nine dead and 18 others injured on Sunday served as a reminder that motorcycle gangs remain a force in the U.S., an outlaw subculture steeped in its own mythology. The Justice Department estimates there are still more than 300 outlaw motorcycle gangs in the U.S. One of the ...
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As investigators puzzle over their motives, the couple — the husband born in Illinois and raised in Southern California, the wife born in Pakistan and recently living in Saudi Arabia — have emerged as one of the most perplexing pairs in the recent history of mass homicide. Their lives, and motives, remain mysteries to ...
West had come under fire as of late for his support of Donald Trump on 'SNL' and on social media, where he also published a tweet suggesting "we abolish the 13th amendment" of the U.S. Constitution, which brought an end to slavery when it was ratified in 1865. Kanye West's Twitter and Instagram accounts no longer e...
The statue of George Mason at George Mason University in 2015. (Pete Marovich For The Washington Post) The president of George Mason University has called for a review of active financial gift agreements that support faculty positions, days after acknowledging that some of arrangements did not meet academic ind...
Rio De Janeiro: A stray bullet, believed to have been fired from a Brazilian military rifle, has narrowly missed photographers during the first day of Olympic competition at the Equestrian Centre in Rio De Janeiro. Olympic organisers and the military are trying to work out where the bullet, which pierced the plasti...
Labor and business leaders have agreed in principle on the details of a new visa program for low-skilled foreign workers, clearing the last major hurdle for a bipartisan Senate proposal to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, a person involved in the negotiations said Saturday. The agreement came late Friday aft...
Students enter Emerson Hall to take their final examinations after it had been deemed safe by University officials. UPDATED: December 17, 2013, at 3:05 a.m. An apparently unfounded emailed threat of live explosives in three academic buildings and one dormitory near the center of Harvard’s campus on Monday morni...
The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car After 1.7 million miles we’ve learned a lot — not just about our system but how humans drive, too. Chris Urmson Blocked Unblock Follow Following May 11, 2015 Unlisted About 33,000 people die on America’s roads every year. That’s why so much of the ...
Story highlights Each year, an American president "pardons" a turkey or two just before Thanksgiving President Barack Obama has sent his turkeys to Mt. Vernon for their "twilight years" But a pardon just means the birds aren't stuffed and eaten; they're not expected to live long American turkeys are bred to...
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Thanks for joining us live on ABCNews.com and Yahoo.com for this exclusive interview with President Barack Obama and thanks for having us to the White House. PRESIDENT OBAMA: Great to be here. GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: There has been a huge response since we announced this interview. 40,000 ...
Researchers now say that they have proven the authenticity of a Victorian diary supposedly written by the notorious murderer Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) THE identity of Jack The Ripper m...
Video is just surfacing from the Nov. 6 sitdown In uncomfortable, newly released footage, Bill Cosby refuses to answer questions about allegations that he sexually assaulted multiple women. Also read NBC Scraps Bill Cosby Comedy in Wake of Rape Allegations The Associated Press released footage from the Nov....
A sixth person has died in Sacramento County as a result of ingesting pills made to look like a prescription painkiller, health officials confirmed Tuesday. A total of 28 cases of people becoming sick from the street-bought drug have been reported, including the six people who have died, according to the Sacramento...
In another gaffe, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain asked a crowd in Miami how to say the word “delicious” in Cuban. Most people in the Caribbean, including Cubans, speak Spanish. “How do you say delicious in Cuban?” he asked during a campaign stop in Miami’s Little Havana. “Delicioso,” a man replie...
And this unfortunate trend continues… While announcing the best supporting actress nominees at the Golden Globes on Sunday, Michael Keaton mistakenly said Octavia Spencer was nominated for “Hidden Fences” instead of Hidden Figures. This isn’t the first time that someone has mashed up the titles of the historica...
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for White House budget director failed to pay more than $15,000 in payroll taxes for a household employee, he admitted in a statement to the Senate Budget Committee, the sort of tax compliance issue that has derailed cabinet nominees in the past. In a questionna...
The immigration battle is seeping into unlikely territory: A new national monument in New Mexico. Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday that President Barack Obama’s move to designate nearly 500,000 acres of land in New Mexico as a national monument could undermine security along the southern border — an argument dis...
Elementary school students, some escorted by parents, cross a snowy street en route to school as a blizzard dropped snow over Boulder, Colo., on Wednesday. (Photo: Brennan Linsley AP) Story Highlights Parts of Iowa and Wisconsin hit with more than a foot of snow Death toll spans 5 states Airlines cancelled abou...
Several works in his collection suspected of having been looted from Jewish families during Nazi era A Swiss museum has inherited one of the most controversial art collections in recent European history. Kunstmuseum Bern confirmed on Wednesday it has been named the "unrestricted and unfettered sole heir" in the wil...
Nathan Carman told the U.S. Coast Guard that when the boat he was on with his mother started taking on water in the Atlantic Ocean and he got into a life raft, he looked for her but couldn't find her, the Coast Guard said Monday. Carman, 22, who grew up in Middletown and now lives in Vermont, was rescued Sunday abo...
“Saturday Night Live” used satire to take a shot at ISIS — and people are blasting them for it. The longtime NBC sketch comedy show sparked a Twitter frenzy early Sunday after it aired a segment poking fun at the infamous Islamic State. During the skit, “50 Shades of Grey” star Dakota Johnson and the cast spoof...
Though Mr. Obama’s proposals — including an expansion of a cut in payroll taxes and new spending on public works — were widely expected, the package was substantially larger than predicted, and much of the money would flow into the economic bloodstream in 2012. The pace would be similar to that of the $787 billion stim...
Forever GI Bill - Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act Please click on the link below to find more information about each change, or you can download this fact sheet for an overview. Effective immediately: Changes coming: Summaries Reserve Duty That Counts Toward Post-9/11 Eligibilit...
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have campaigned there in an effort to get Republicans to vote for Balderson and tamp down Democrat Danny O'Connor's momentum. The candidates will square off again in the fall, but a loss for Republicans will serve as a major psychological blow ahead of the critical m...
The singer of the Grammy-nominated Christian metal band As I Lay Dying has pleaded guilty to his role in a murder-for-hire plot. Tim Lambesis entered a guilty plea to one felony count of solicitation of murder in San Diego court Tuesday, admitting that he hired a hit man to kill his estranged wife. As a result ...
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Adult film star Stormy Daniels sued President Donald Trump for defamation, saying he lied when he wrote on Twitter that her claim of having been threatened was a “total con job.” Daniels is already embroiled in litigation with the president and his lawyer, Michael Cohen, over a 2016 deal in which she agreed to keep...
WARSAW — President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday that he would sign into law a bill making it illegal to accuse “the Polish nation” of complicity in the Holocaust and other Nazi atrocities, a measure that has roiled relations with Israel and the United States, and spurred claims that the nationalist government is trying...
Remember the old Ben Affleck, the one who made 28 consecutive bad movies before he turned out to be a pretty good director? He’s back! Behold, the second coming of . . . Badfleck. Ben, bless his impressive directorial skills, on camera still looks only vaguely responsive to external stimuli, as if he’s waiting for ...
Google said Monday that its self-driving cars had been involved in 11 “minor” accidents in the past six years, a disclosure the company hopes will assuage concern about the safety of the technology, but may have the opposite effect. Chris Urmson, head of Google’s self-driving car program, said in a blog post that t...
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Catholics should not try to convert Jews and should work with them to fight anti-Semitism, the Vatican said on Thursday in a major document drawing the Church further away from the strained relations of the past. Cardinal Kurt Koch (R) and Rabbi David Rosen attend a news conference to prese...
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CLOSE A Miami hunter shot a python that was attempting to constrict a deer in Ochopee in the summer of 2016. Submitted video Jimmy Wilson shot this python in Ochopee after he found it constricting a deer. (Photo: Jimmy Wilson) Miami hunter Jimmy Wilson was hiking through the swampy woods near Ochopee in rural C...
CLOSE Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are making a $3 billion dollar donation toward a biomedical research center which will help fight and cure disease. Time Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his pediatrician wife Priscilla Chan announce an ambitious $3 billion effort to eradicate disease. (Photo: Jeff ...
NEW YORK—High fructose corn syrup won't get a wholesome new name after all. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday rejected the Corn Refiners Association's bid to rename its sweetening agent "corn sugar." Given the sweetener's bad reputation in recent years, the association submitted an application to th...
The decision by the United States to sell arms to Taiwan was “wrong” and violated a consensus reached when Chinese President Xi Jinping met US President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in April, Beijing told Washington. The announcement of the US$1.4 billion deal comes a week ahead of Xi’s planned meeting with Trump on ...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A prominent conservationist who worked on high profile ivory smuggling cases has been shot dead in Tanzania, colleagues said on Tuesday, although the motive for the killing was unclear. “We are heartbroken to share the news that PAMS Foundation co-founder, Wayne Lotter was shot and killed last n...
"They know who I am." Randy Weber is a fresh face in the U.S. House of Representatives, but he swears the Republican leadership team is already wary of him. After serving two terms in the Texas statehouse, Weber's reputation precedes him—or so he says. In Texas, where he proudly ranked as the most conservative ...
He's young, popular and promises more change than his country's ever seen. They call him MBS. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The heir to the Saudi throne and power behind it and one of the most powerful and controversial figures in the Middle East. He has promised the most ambitious reform programme in his country's...
Kenny Says Ireland Will Not Default as Greece Concerns Mount By Joe Brennan and Andrea Catherwood (Updates shares, bonds in eighth paragraph.) April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said the nation won’t default on its debt as he tries to rebuild confidence at a time when investors speculat...
Well, Republicans have a convenient sound bite for next year's election against President Obama. The president said yesterday that the American people are not better off than they were four years ago -- the test Ronald Reagan famously used to defeat incumbent Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election. Obam...
A 40-year-old woman from Shawnee, Oklahoma, recently had to get major parts of both arms and both legs amputated due to a serious infection from an unnoticed tick bite after a vacation, according to her husband and hospital staff. The patient, Jo Rogers, is currently in the intensive care unit of Integris' Baptist ...
Alaska edged out Hawaii and is now at the top of the rankings of the nation's happiest states for the first time. The nation's largest and most northern state scored highest in the 2014 Gallup-Healthways' annual survey of well-being, with a score of 64.7 out of 100. Alaska has previously ranked among the top 10 hap...
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While news producers scramble to put together a segment explaining today’s stock market crash, they will inevitably try to tie it to larger unrest. And there’s a lot to choose from: the unrest and instability in Greece, the Gulf oil spill, and maybe even the immigration law in Arizona deserve quality reportage. But acc...
PORT SAID, Egypt — The police fired indiscriminately into the streets outside their besieged station, a group of protesters arrived with a crate of gasoline bombs, and others cheered a masked man on a motorcycle who arrived with a Kalashnikov. The growing chaos along the vital canal zone showed little sign of abati...
David Bowie’s first known studio recording, which was found in a bread basket three decades after being rejected by a record label, is set to go on sale at auction. The 1963 demo tape features a 16-year-old Bowie, then known by his birth name David Jones, with his first band, The Konrads. The group were turned ...
The long, shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos are likely early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon of Mars. Orbiting a mere 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) above the surface of Mars, Phobos is closer to its planet than any other moon in the solar system. Mars' gravity is d...
“ The insight and expertise the Google team has brought to the table has been unmatched. Our work with them has been a game-changer for the MSSNG project. Together, we hold the capability of accelerating breakthroughs in understanding the causes and subtypes of autism in ways that can advance diagnosis and treatment as...
Who better to give his opinion on this year's most celebrated films than heavyweight champion and actor Mike Tyson.In this clip, from FunnyOrDie , Tyson sits down with Leonard Maltin to thoughtfully pontificate on the myriad ways that this year's Oscar-nominated films have pushed the envelope -- or something like that....
The FAA said it suspended an air-traffic controller and his supervisor for losing contact with aircraft when the controller inadvertently transmitted the soundtrack of a movie he was watching on a personal video player. The Federal Aviation Administration made the suspensions public Monday, the same day agency chie...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stock indexes dove Friday on heightened worry about Greece’s debt crisis, pushing the dollar to a six-month high against the euro and 10-year yields to a record low. The distress came along with news that the European Central Bank’s top economist had quit and that Germany was reportedl...
Roughly one in six cancers is caused by an infection, according to a global study highlighting the power of vaccines in cancer prevention. French researchers pooled data on 27 cancers from 184 countries to calculate the fraction of cases attributable to viral, bacterial and parasitic infections. "Around 2 milli...
The software looks great, it really does, but: Planned availability this summer. Summer feels like a long time away. If my theory is right, they’re not only going to be months behind the iPad 2, but if they slip until late summer, they might bump up against the release of the iPad 3. And not only did they annou...
Tiny specks of bread found in fireplaces used by hunter-gatherers 14,000 years ago, predating agriculture by thousands of years Charred crumbs found in a pair of ancient fireplaces have been identified as the earliest examples of bread, suggesting it was being prepared long before the dawn of agriculture. The r...
Image copyright AFP Image caption Cameroonian security forces have joined a regional battle against Boko Haram militants About 80 children rescued from a Boko Haram camp in Cameroon cannot remember their own names or origins, according to an aid official who visited them. The children - aged between 5 and 18 - ...
With House Republicans prepared to take a vote Thursday on yet another version of a plan to overhaul the 2010 Affordable Care Act, attention has been especially focused on whether Obamacare’s popular prohibition against denying coverage based on preexisting medical conditions will remain in place. Republicans, from Pre...
A Guardian executive admitted hacking telephone messages – and getting a ‘voyeuristic thrill’ from it. Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has said that ‘any intrusion must be authorised at a sufficiently senior level’ (Picture: PA) Assistant editor David Leigh said he intercepted voicemails in an article wri...
One of the oldest and most well-known online companies, Yahoo, may be putting its core business up for sale. The WSJ's Rick Carew explains why. Yahoo Inc.’s board is planning a series of meetings this week to consider selling off the company’s flagging Internet businesses and how to make the most of its valuable st...
Thousands of Yemenis defiantly demonstrated Wednesday at a public square, a day after the army stormed Sanaa University, firing live ammunition, killing one person and wounding scores of others. A female anti-government protestor masked with her national flag listens to speeches during a demonstration demanding the...
If you didn’t find Kellyanne Conway terrifying already, Saturday Night Live was ready to help with its depiction of Kellywise the Dancing Clown. While leaving a taping of his show, Anderson Cooper (Alex Moffat) donned a Georgie-style yellow raincoat and headed out into the night— when one of his papers was blown in...
Symbolically calling on the entire global Roman Catholic church to take up his papacy's central message of compassion and pardon, Pope Francis on Friday announced that he is convoking a jubilee year to be called the Holy Year of Mercy. Saying he has "thought often about how the church can make more evident its miss...
5 years ago (CNN) – Newt Gingrich may be far behind in the GOP delegate count – he has a quarter of the number frontrunner Mitt Romney does – but said on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" that he isn't bowing out of the race. "I think this is not over until it's over and obviously, if he does become ...
BEIRUT Fierce fighting erupted between state forces and rebels in several parts of Syria on Thursday, activists said, including a town close to the capital Damascus, where an advance U.N. peacekeeping team was expected to arrive. Explosions and heavy machinegun fire rocked Douma, just 12 kilometers (8 miles) from t...
A six-day hunt for a former policeman suspected of a killing spree in California ended on Wednesday when a cabin in the mountains above LA went up in flames. A body suspected to be that of Christopher Dorner was found in the ruins of the building. Dorner is suspected to have killed four people in a vendetta against...
First 2020 ad? This Trump ad, featuring his campaign manager @parscale, just aired on CNN. It’s a minute long and asks viewers to call an 800 number to leave a thank you message for POTUS. I called the number and it leads to a fundraising appeal (not unusual for pres campaigns) pic.twitter.com/yB3Rb1pJKe — Yashar Ali �...
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