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Plans are being drawn up for a 30-story residential tower and 16-story hotel at the site of the former Michael's restaurant in downtown Rochester, according to an internal memo obtained this week by the Med City Beat. If built, the tower would become one of the tallest buildings in Rochester and, combined with the now...
Joshua Lott / Getty New York hipsters participate in a water-balloon toss at McCarren Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn Hipsters are the friends who sneer when you cop to liking Coldplay. They're the people who wear T-shirts silk-screened with quotes from movies you've never heard of and the only ones in America who stil...
Last month, SuperHeroHype reported that AMC was looking to cast an African American actress in the role of Tulip O’Hare for their upcoming adaptation of “Preacher.” Today, Deadline brings word that Ruth Negga of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” and “Misfits” has been cast in the role. “Preacher,” published by DC Comi...
Pixel Starships is the world’s first total starship management game in an 8bit massive online universe. In Pixel Starships, you command every aspect of your ship from construction to battles in a single persistent world. We have been working hard on this game and the current pre-alpha build is already super addictive ...
Transfer Market Willing to pay €50m release clause Aubameyang: I need to leave in the summer Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang looks to be heading out the Borussia Dortmund exit door in the summer, prompting the German club to consider a move for Inaki Williams. The Athletic Club forward has been a mainstay at San Mames sin...
IMSA teams have performed extremely well over the past few years in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with back-to-back GTE Pro victories in 2015 and 2016, a pair of full-time IMSA WeatherTech Championship drivers winning overall in the LM P1 class in 2015, and a GTE Am class win last year. It stands to reason, then, that IMSA...
In an unprecedented stream of successes, Loyola Law School’s Project for the Innocent secures the release of three individuals wrongfully convicted in one month. Jaime Ponce, was convicted and sentenced to 47 years to life in prison for conspiracy to commit murder and attempted murder, among other charges. Although Mr....
The chief scientist at Australian telecommunications giant Telstra has joined the increasing number of industry watchers and insiders predicting not only that autonomous vehicles are the future of road transport, but that this future will arrive sooner than we think. In comments made at a Perth roads seminar on Friday...
I don't really blog much, but I wanted to post this as it's been almost two years since I began working on my favourite OSS software, Ombi (Previously named PlexRequests.Net). I thought this would be an excellent time to write a post about what it's been like working in the OSS world for two years. That's right, nearl...
Image caption The white-throated needletail was spotted on Harris An enthusiast who travelled to the Western Isles to view a rare bird has told of his "dismay" after watching it fly into a wind turbine and die. The white-throated needletail, which breeds in Asia and winters in Australasia, was spotted on Harris. Abo...
Bamboo in the Garden 1st March 2015 Bamboo in the garden is becoming increasingly popular due to it's attractive stems and leaves, ability to provide a fast growing privacy solution without blocking out light totally and unlike bushes is less dense at the base, creating more space in the garden. They grow in clumps ...
President Trump's approval rating has reached near-record lows, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday. The survey of registered voters found that 36 percent say they approve of Trump's job performance, compared to 58 percent who disapprove. Trump's approval has fallen from the 40 percent recorde...
A Taliban suicide assault team attacked Forward Operating Base Fenty, a large airbase in Nangarhar in eastern Afghanistan, early this morning. The heavily armed Taliban assault team of an estimated 10 fighters attacked the main entrance at FOB Fenty in the Behsud district just before 6:00 a.m. local time. The attack b...
how far will cyborg technology really go? Brain-machine interfaces are developing at a rapid pace. But don't expect to order implants on demand anytime soon. In the sci-fi realm, cyborgs are the results of a military experiment or products of a society where being only human just isn’t enough. In the real world, the ...
Editor’s Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of Faith in America: Humanism. Read other perspectives here. When it comes to religion, the USA is an oddball. The populations of most wealthy nations underwent a massive loss of religion over the course of the 20th century. But, for some r...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Her show had been cancelled, but that didn't stop alternative folk and rock singer Michelle Shocked from showing up at a Santa Cruz nightclub where she staged a sit-in with tape across her mouth that read "Silenced By Fear." Moe's Alley was one of several nightclubs (including Portland's Alberta R...
BY: Jay Carney said he never lies in his capacity as White House press secretary at a Friday scholarship lunch hosted by the White House Correspondents’ Association: JAY CARNEY: So I don’t have these moments of crisis very much. Credibility’s enormously important for press secretaries. All of the predecessors, my liv...
In August 2013, I tweeted to my followers that we believed Apple was “extremely undervalued”.Since then Apple’s stock price has increased by over 50%. The Economist has asked me to write 850 words of advice on what the investor should do to profit in 2015. At the risk of being a bit facetious, I would say: become a Twi...
It’s been essentially confirmed in the past, but today the Unicode Consortium officially unveiled the 72 new emoji that will be made available in Unicode 9. The latest batch of emoji include a variety of new foods, faces, objects, and sports. Unicode 9 is set to be released on June 21st, which means we may see these ne...
Though its name bears resemblance to Upper Egypt’s ancient ceremonial temple, the commune known as Carnac, located in southern Brittany, France, is associated with the mysteries of the ancients for more than just its name. For here, a neolithic mystery also exists, involving ancient standing stones numbering in excess ...
Philadelphia's public school system has joined several other big-city school systems, such as those in Atlanta, Detroit and Washington, D.C., in widespread teacher-led cheating on standardized academic achievement tests. So far, the city has fired three school principals, and The Wall Street Journal reports, "Nearly 14...
LEAMINGTON, ON, Oct. 5, 2017 /CNW/ - Aphria Inc. ("Aphria" or the "Company") (TSX: APH or USOTCQB: APHQF) provided the following statement today regarding the federal government's announcement on Tuesday, October 3, 2017, relating to the proposed $1.00 per gram excise tax on legal cannabis in Canada. Vic Neufeld, CEO ...
The Globe and Mail is hosting a debate on the economy among the leaders of the three main political parties on Thursday at 8 pm (ET). Click here for more details. Canadians are witnessing a shell game in the phony election debate around whether we have a federal budgetary deficit or surplus. Earlier this week, the De...
News Bitcoinist News Round Up Bitcoin Price and the 700 BTC sell wall If you have been following Bitcoins price, you have noticed that it’s risen from its price of around $450 to as of now, around $580. This is a 33% increase in price and the sudden explosion of growth as many people scratching their heads. One of th...
A lot of people reading the title of this article are probably rolling their eyes, and that’s a problem. Paradigm-changing discoveries are being made every day, and if these discoveries don’t make mainstream media headlines, people dismiss them as fake news, conspiracy theories, or pseudoscience. But the small group of...
Who's profiting from the spill? Near Shell Beach, La., workers load oil booms onto a boat for placement in the Gulf. FORTUNE -- It's six o'clock on a sticky Louisiana morning when Captain Peace Marvel takes the day's first BP-related call. His job: Match out-of-work captains of charter fishing boats with scientists n...
I've never hit a golf ball. I've never set foot on a golf course. Everything I draw is from inside a 6-by-10 prison cell. The first course I ever drew was for warden James Conway. He would often stop by my cell to ask how my appeal was going and to see my drawings. Before he retired, the warden brought me a photograph ...
PoliZette Putting All Their Eggs in the Racist Basket DNC speaker line-up suggests 2016 strategy is to cry racism at every opportunity The recently released lineup of speakers for the Democratic National Convention highlights that despite increasing social unrest, Democrats have no plans to temper their divisive race ...
[swift-evolution] Update on the Swift Project Lead On Jan 10, 2017, at 10:37 AM, Nevin Brackett-Rozinsky <nevin.brackettrozinsky at gmail.com> wrote: > Congratulations Ted, and best of luck to you Chris in your future endeavors! Thanks Nevin! One thing that I don’t think is fully appreciated by the community: Ted has ...
A four-year-old child died after he was allegedly given snacks laced with poison by a woman in Andhra Pradesh’s Prakasam district, police said on Monday. Police arrested V Jyothi on a complaint by parents of the child that she killed him due to old enmity. The incident occurred in Pidathalapudi in Chimakurthi block. ...
Recently funded by Y Combinator, Like.fm is a way to keep track of and share what music you’re playing. Right now the service uses a Chrome, Firefox and Safari extension to automatically track what you’re listening to on YouTube, Pandora, Rdio, Meemix, Grooveshark and Earbits and a desktop client to track what you’re l...
B.C. premier says affordable housing crunch hurts growth, families, province VICTORIA - Premier John Horgan says British Columbia boasts Canada's strongest economy but growth is threatened by a shortage of affordable housing for workers and their families. He says if a community can't provide housing for workers then t...
JERUSALEM — An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man who had recently been released from prison after serving 10 years for stabbing participants in the annual Gay Pride Parade here in 2005 struck again Thursday, stabbing six marchers in this year’s parade, according to the police. Two of the victims were in serious condition, acc...
Kingsley Amis used to joke that the argument for his nation’s entry into the European Union could be described as, “Britain will lose her independence but at least she will suffer economically.” Well, Britain hasn’t yet acquired her independence—that will come after many painful months of exactly the sort of pettifoggi...
This article is about the U.S. comics. For other comics, see Star Wars (disambiguation) Star Wars comics have been produced by various comic book publishers since the debut of the 1977 film Star Wars. An eponymous series by Marvel Comics began in 1977 with a six-issue comic adaptation of the film and ran for 107 issue...
If he wasn't wearing a gaudy suit customized in the Minnesota Gophers colors last week at Big Ten Media Day, one would think P.J. Fleck was still coaching at Rutgers. The first-year Minnesota head coach waxed poetic while reflecting on his days working under ex-Scarlet Knights coach Greg Schiano. "To be able to learn...
Students assigned to cheat on exam use doctored Little Brother cover and many other clever methods The IEEE's Computer and Reliability Societies recently published "Embracing the Kobayashi Maru," by James Caroland (US Navy/US Cybercommand) and Greg Conti (West Point) describing an exercise in which they assigned stude...
Advertisement Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews scuffled with police in Jerusalem on Sunday in protest against a court ruling that could require them to serve in the army like secular Israelis. The demonstration in an ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood of the city was organised by a particularly hardline group known as the E...
Over 650 of the nearly 700 medical personnel who have died in Syria since the start of the uprising against dictator Bashar al-Assad have been killed by the regime and its allies, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) charged in a report last week. According to PHR, there have been 336 documented attacks against hospitals...
According to the Taxpayers' Union, KiwiRail is the biggest benefactor of corporate welfare. Government spending on "corporate welfare" jumped by more than $150 million in the latest Budget, a new report claims. On Tuesday the Taxpayers' Union releases its report on the Budget, saying that subsidies for the private se...
The truth hurts. That’s why Emily Dickinson suggests telling it slant— or as she wrote, “The truth must dazzle gradually/ Or every man be blind.” Too much truth at once can be devastating and the truth that it’s over might be the most devastating truth of all. The raw emotion of suddenly being alone is what Felix Walwo...
Australia may ban laptops on international flights, Malcolm Turnbull says Updated Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has indicated Australia may follow the lead of the United States and ban passengers from bringing laptop computers into the cabin on certain international flights. In March, the US and United Kingdom ban...
A few years ago, some scientists were predicting that the total volume of summertime ice in the Arctic, what many call the "air conditioner of the planet," could decline by as much as 75 percent by 2020. For the most part they were dismissed by their peers for being "too aggressive" in their climatological models. Now,...
It happened on campus. Once upon a time, the foundation of an American college education was common sense. Common sense realism was the philosophy young Americans learned in U.S. colleges. In the words of the great American historian, Arthur Herman, “Common Sense Realism was virtually the official creed of the America...
A kingly feast, from the Bayeux Tapestry. public domain It can seem sometimes like all diet advice boils down to the same basic ideas. Eat vegetables and healthy proteins, avoid processed snack food, and hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. This was not, however, the case in medieval times. The Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum ...
John McCain wore the more presidential tie -- that much can be said for him -- but Barack Obama displayed the more presidential temperament, or the kind of demeanor people presumably would want in a president, when the two candidates met at the University of Mississippi last night for their first debate of the campaign...
Media playback is not supported on this device Jurgen Klopp laments Jerome Sinclair's departure for 'highest wages' Liverpool youngster Jerome Sinclair will leave Anfield when his contract expires in the summer. The Reds offered the striker a new deal but the 19-year-old wants to explore the possibility of a move to ...
While the world mourns over the passing of one of the titans of the music industry, we here at Double Viking are remembering the time DC immortalized His Royal Badness as a superhero. Well, not a superhero exactly, but Prince once headlined his own comic in Great Britain, released here in the States by the now defunct ...
We're back with more tomato tips from chefs across the country. Read on for canned tomato inspiration! And don't forget to share your own tomato tips on Twitter using using hashtag #muirglencookingschool. Earlier lessons from the Muir Glen Cooking School: Introducing The Muir Glen Cooking School: Part 1 The Muir Gle...
In September 2016, Facebook has introduced an exciting new feature to their Advertising system. By allowing Messenger as a destination for your news feed ads, you have now have unlimited potential communicate instantly with prospective customers. You can learn more from the Facebook docs. Instead of waiting for message...
NATALIE McGarry is at the centre of an investigation into thousands of pounds of unaccounted-for spending from an SNP account. At a meeting of the SNP’s Glasgow Regional Association (GRA) last Tuesday, delegates shown end-of-year bank statements were told the party could not account for £4,127.62. McGarry was conveno...
Share Tweet Email address: Leave this field empty if you're human: It must suck to be a feminist and find sexism in EVERY TINY THING. Have y’all heard of the new movie “Passengers,” starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence? It comes out this week, and the critic reviews are starting to trickle out. I’m actually loo...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Harry Mason ReidBottom Line Brennan fires back at 'selfish' Trump over Harry Reid criticism Trump rips Harry Reid for 'failed career' after ex-Dem leader slams him in interview MORE (D-Nev.) says he shares colleagues’ concerns that the Affordable Care Act could become a “train wreck” i...
Share. The story takes inspiration from Apocalypse Now. The story takes inspiration from Apocalypse Now. Johnny Depp will star as cyber security icon and accused murderer John McAfee in a new film. Deadline reports the movie, titled King Of The Jungle, will center around McAfee (Depp) taking a Wired magazine writer o...
ALBANY - New York leaders are vowing to sue President Donald Trump over his move Tuesday toward ending protections for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as minors. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said they will file a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration's rescindi...
This time in Strangerville, four storytellers take the stage at our second live show. A mother of four takes a dramatic journey to complete her family. A woman falls in love twice. A boy wreaks havoc on his neighborhood. And a six-year-old lands in hot water on the playground. Production by, Eli McCann, Jolyn Metro, a...
January 1, 2013 (Vol. 33, No. 1) Guy Cavet Kaggle Information Has Potential to Do Much More If Applied Across the Entire Enterprise Intelligent use of large-scale data has become fundamental to other industries: finance, insurance—even sports. But despite its importance in areas of research, data analytics has the p...
Thieves have made off with a truck in Mexico carrying a dangerous radioactive source used in medical treatments, a material that could also provide an ingredient for a so-called "dirty bomb". The UN nuclear agency said it had been informed by Mexican authorities that the truck, which was taking cobalt-60 from a hospit...
This article is about the Star Wars robot. For other uses, see R2-D2 (disambiguation) R2-D2 (), or Artoo-Detoo[citation needed], is a fictional robot character in the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. A small astromech droid, R2-D2 is a major character and appears in nine out of the ten Star Wars films to d...
Robin van Persie: Accused of elbowing Carlos Cuellar in Villa's defeat at Emirates Stadium Aston Villa boss Alex McLeish wants the Football Association to investigate an incident involving Arsenal's Robin van Persie in Sunday's FA Cup tie. Villa led Arsenal 2-0 at half-time and looked set for the fifth round only for...
Metropolitan Branch included in $275 million Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System Building Program. Capitol View is one of the first of several planned Atlanta neighborhoods to receive a brand-new public library. Al Collins, an architecture and planning professional for City of Atlanta, submitted a building permit ap...
1 of 15 View Caption Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune Photo illustration about the equality of women in the LDS Church. The Associated Press Elizabeth Cady Stanton, reformer, advocate of women's rights in an undated photo. LDS women formed alliances Neylan McBaine, founder of the Mormon Women Project, says L...
Determining which Legendary Hearthstone card to craft can be a tough decision for experienced and new players alike. If you craft a card and find it less useful than initially expected, the best you can get is one-fourth of your Arcane Dust back. Our Hearthstone Legendary Crafting Guide will help ease the anxiety of b...
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Mr Obama said the US could not turn a blind eye to what had happened in Damascus President Barack Obama says the US should take military action against Syria and he will seek congressional authorisation for intervention. The US says the Syrian government carr...
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Boone Isaacs said she would "conduct a review of our membership recruitment" Oscars head Cheryl Boone Isaacs is taking action to "alter the make-up" of their membership, after Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith's refusal to attend because of the mostly white nominees. Boone Isaacs ...
Is this the banana your grandchildren will eat? Over the weekend, I stumbled over a great Damn Interesting post about the history and future of the banana. Some of you already know the basic story here: Bananas, as we know them, cannot reproduce. The ones we eat are sterile hybrids. Like mules. The only way that there...
So, you’ve just picked up a bright, shiny new Android smartphone. Now what? Many people are wary of the highly customizable Android smartphones (in favor of the ubiquitous iPhone) because of the rumored learning curve; however, you can learn the system and you can make it work for you, instead of you needing to work ar...
June 17, 2015, 5:47 PM GMT / Updated June 17, 2015, 5:47 PM GMT By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Transracial adoptees and their allies are speaking out about Rachel Dolezal's and other's use of the term “transracial” in conversations wrestling with her identity, arguing that it does not mean choosing to change one’s race, rath...
“It’s Okay To Be White” Flyers Appear at the University of Alberta Wild Smile Blocked Unblock Follow Following Nov 1, 2017 These flyers have been circulating around the University of Alberta, causing some outrage. Over the past decade, but especially over the past year, we have seen an animosity towards normalcy. Th...
The B.C. government has officially expressed its opposition to a proposal for the Northern Gateway pipeline project, saying it fails to address the province's environmental concerns. The province made the announcement in its final written submission to the Northern Gateway Pipeline Joint Review Panel. "British Columb...
The ax is falling at Cisco. The IT firm -- which makes Internet switches, routers and other networking devices -- announced Wednesday it plans to lay off up to 6,000 employees in the coming months, or about 8% of its global workforce. Cisco (CSCO) CEO John Chambers said the company plans to use the cost savings from ...
Vendors selling drinks stand beside vehicles near the India Gate war memorial on a smoggy day in New Delhi on February 1, 2013. (Reuters Photo) The Forbidden City is seen from the top of Jingshan Park during a heavily polluted day in Beijing, China, on November 29, 2015. © Thomson Reuters 2015 The capitals of the wo...
The makers of the Oscar-winning movie Dallas Buyers Club are facing monetary sanctions for the dubious tactics used in their ongoing crackdown on BitTorrent pirates. In California, a local resident is arguing that the filmmakers lack any evidence other than an IP-address, while requesting a monetary penalty of $36,000 ...
Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best? will air on BBC Two A supportive mother of a transgender child has accused the BBC of lying to her in order to get her to appear in a documentary. Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best?, which will air on Thursday (12 January) at 9pm on BBC Two, is a This World documentary that claims to ...
Kuwait City: Kuwait authorities have detained several online activists for allegedly making comments deemed offensive to Saudi Arabia’s late King Abdullah, a rights group and activists said on Thursday. Secret police late on Wednesday arrested prominent rights and online activist Mohammad Al Ajmi outside his home for ...
ESPN’s Chris Broussard, who really hasn’t been heard from since he shot to fame in June before LeBron picked the Heat, dropped a bomb this morning: The Heat are frustrated with coach Erik Spoelstra. The rumors have been swirling for weeks, and were magnified when LeBron bumped Spoelstra Saturday night in Dallas. Spoels...
In a major announcement yesterday, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and King County Executive Dow Constantine revealed that an agreement to spend $20 million on affordable housing in Northgate had been made. At least 200 units will be constructed benefiting low-income families with access to quality housing, local services, and...
If you work in a large group across numerous projects, you may be familiar with project management software like Basecamp and Trello. Microsoft is now rolling out a preview of its project management solution, called Planner, to Office 365 customers in its First Release Program. Microsoft announced Office 365 Planner i...
The ability of future presidents—whether Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, or other politicians yet unknown—to employ torture as an American interrogation technique will be firmly and finally ended should a measure proposed Tuesday by Senators John McCain and Dianne Feinstein be accepted. The legislation represents a bookend...
104 102 Earle St Clemson , SC 29631 (864) 653-7581 It's one thing to be anti gun, not my thing but your opinion is your right. It's also your right to limit your patronage as you see fit. If someone brings a gun into a privately owned place, and the owner doesn't want it there, that's fine by me. The difference is ...
Former Whitewater Independent Counsel Robert Ray joined FOX Business to discuss the fallout from the controversy surrounding Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer during his father’s presidential campaign. Continue Reading Below Republican Senator Chuck Grassley on Tuesday raised questions on how the Russi...
States rules restricting drinking and possessing an open container of alcohol in a vehicle. Most states have laws prohibiting passengers and drivers from drinking alcohol or possessing an open container of alcohol in a vehicle. However, a handful of states—including Connecticut, Delaware, Missouri, and Mississippi—don...
During a trip to Montreal, U.S. bookseller Steven Elliot decided to troll the downtown looking for a local take on one of his favourite foods, the medium-rare hamburger. Yet in every brasserie, pub and bistro, no matter how many winks and nods he offered, Mr. Elliot was always met with the same reaction: Blank stares, ...
SALEM, MA — Salem was one of the first cities on the North Shore to offer a bike sharing program, and city officials have partnered with a bike sharing company to introduce a more effective system in an effort to grow the use of alternate modes of transportation. In a Facebook post Thursday, Salem Mayor Kimberly Drisc...
Cars were torched and police were attacked by Molotov cocktails only a few yards away from the G20 summit where President Trump is meeting with foreign leaders on Saturday. For the second night in a row, there were riots and looting on the streets of Hamburg, Germany during the gathering of world leaders there. The p...
A White House official told The New York Times that President Donald Trump will ask for an increase of $54 billion in military spending in the next federal budget – an increase of 10 percent, but far from what some experts say is needed to rebuild the military, which Trump has vowed to do. The Times also reported that...
Waste company BigBelly applies for mayoral grant in New York City to provide free 75Mbps internet – via its litter baskets Internet of Bins: Wi-Fi to come to New York trash cans The struggle is real. Out and about and the 4G isn’t cutting it. People used to cheekily pop into cafes to use the loo – now it’s to briefly...
Protests planned after prime minister says Roșia Montană’s Unesco application may be withdrawn, allowing mine to go ahead Romania’s prime minister has suggested his government will withdraw an application to have the Roman gold-mining area of Roșia Montană declared a Unesco world heritage site, potentially reviving co...
I am lying on my back and trapped in a gleaming white tunnel, the surface barely six inches from my nose. There is a strange mechanical rumbling in the background, and I hear footsteps padding around the room beyond. In my mounting claustrophobia, I ask myself why I am here – but there is no way out now. A few moments ...
This article is about the American philosopher Allan Bloom. For the British horticulturalist, see Alan Bloom Not to be confused with Harold Bloom Allan David Bloom (September 14, 1930 – October 7, 1992) was an American philosopher, classicist, and academician. He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon...
Wallis is Kimi Räikkönen's karaoke bar in Helsinki Some time ago it was reported that Kimi Räikkönen, the Formula 1 World Champion, is opening a Karaoke in Helsinki. Since that there have been no reports of this, but there is now a Karaoke Bar Wallis on the rumored location. According to the details on the website of...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video SHEBOYGAN -- He's accused of buying an assault rifle and making a terrorist threat. The lawyer for 21-year-old Joshua Bagemehl says his client has suffered mental health issues nearly all of his life. But, when it came to him purchasing a weapon, everyone is in agreement; i...
Nigeria hope to lure Chelsea loanee Tammy Abraham to play for them instead of England at international level. The Swansea striker, on a season-long loan from Stamford Bridge, has represented the Three Lions at Under-21s level but can still switch allegiances as he has not played for the senior side. The 19-year-old w...
A former airman in the U.S. Air Force was sentenced to more than three years in prison for possessing child pornography. Stephen Wyzatecki, 25, pleaded guilty to one charge of possession of child pornography. He's set to serve three years and two months in jail. CALIFORNIA DEPUTY AG FACING CHILD PORN CHARGES Law enf...
After requesting that sellers suspend the domains of numerous "illegal" sites late last year, which for the most part went ignored, the force's Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has begun issuing a "notice of criminality" to some domain sellers. One company, EasyDNS Technologies, was asked to consider its "ongoi...
Updated 2:15 a.m. ET April 4, 2013 SAN FRANCISCO President Obama is raising money for the Democratic Party in California, eager to weaken his Republican opposition in Congress even as he confronts protests from his liberal flank over a contested oil pipeline project awaiting approval from his administration. Mr. Obam...
Script Welcome to the Great nation of Holland: where the tulips grow, the windmills turn, the breakfast is chocolatey, the people industrious, and the sea tries to drown it all. Except, this country isn't Holland. It's time for: The Difference Between Holland, the Netherlands (and a whole lot more) The correct name...
Photo BEIJING — When President Xi Jinping of China and his entourage of government officials and business leaders arrived in Tanzania in March 2013, it was to officially promote economic ties between the two countries. But according to a report by the Environmental Investigation Agency, a nongovernmental organization...
ES News Email Enter your email address Please enter an email address Email address is invalid Fill out this field Email address is invalid You already have an account. Please log in or register with your social account Young children at schools up and down the country are to be told to stop using the terms ‘boys’ and ...
Check out Robin Hobb’s Blood of Dragons, next in the Rain Wilds Chronicles, out on April 9 from Harper Voyager: Years ago, the magnificent dragon queen Tintaglia forged a bargain with the inhabitants of the treacherous Rain Wilds. In exchange for her protection against enemy invaders, the humans promised to protect an...