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The Trump administration’s top food and drug regulator is pushing for less salt in food, more nutrition information on labels.

A bus carrying Canadian hockey team the Humboldt Broncos collided with a tractor-trailer late Friday, killing 14.

MADRID – Real Madrid will not give Barcelona a guard of honour if the Catalans have clinched the Spanish title before next month's Clasico, Zinedine Zidane said on Saturday.

Wizard crane wrote:

Third game of an easter week missing manu ,Mini and Hadley lose two players during the game against the best side in Sl and lose ..its the end of the world for some ,bottom four for others .,for gods sake get a grip. Losing Watts did not cost us last night i doubt if losing Watts will define our season. I have no doubt the Radford out brigade will soon gather again its pathetic

Wizard crane wrote:

Third game of an easter week missing manu ,Mini and Hadley lose two players during the game against the best side in Sl and lose ..its the end of the world for some ,bottom four for others .,for gods sake get a grip. Losing Watts did not cost us last night i doubt if losing Watts will define our season. I have no doubt the Radford out brigade will soon gather again its pathetic

A 4.6 magnitude earthquake was reported in Garfield County, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

SPÖ-Vorsitzender Christian Kern hat die Haltung Österreichs in der Affäre um den Giftanschlag auf den Ex-Doppelagenten Sergej Skripal in Großbritannien als falsch kritisiert. "Man hätte die Entscheidung (des EU-Gipfels, Anm.) symbolisch unterstützen sollen", sagte Kern am Samstag im APA-Gespräch am Rande einer Programmkonferenz der slowenischen Schwesterpartei in Ljubljana.

The Humboldt Broncos were on their way to play the Nipawin Hawks in a Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League playoff game when their bus collided with a semi truck.

CAPE TOWN – Re-elected South African Rugby Union president Mark Alexander believes that "we’ll see results on the field in due course” from the Springboks under the guidance of Director of Rugby and coach, Rassie Erasmus.

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• The island nation of Bahrain announced Wednesday that it discovered a shale reserve with at least 80 billion barrels of crude oil. 
• Like other producers, Bahrain's government relies on oil revenues to fund itself, and its deficit was worsened by the oil crash that began in 2014.
• Halliburton will frack the shale reserve to evaluate how much oil in the find is actually extractable.

Bahrain announced on Wednesday that it... Читать дальше...

The free classifieds website, Backpage.com, was seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday, according to an announcement on the Backpage.com website. The website offers a wide variety of goods and services for sale, but critics say the vast majority of ads posted were in the "adult services" section. Authorities have said for years that many of the ads are thinly disguised offers for prostitution. Visitors who went to the advertising website Friday after the FBI seizure were greeted... Читать дальше...

I remember one of the first times that I attended a boxing class – the first thing I was asked was “what ‘handed’ are you?”, to which I replied – right handed – “orthodox stance then” was the reply.

6 April Statement by Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster

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• An escalating global trade war stoked by the actions of the Trump administration has been largely responsible for stock market volatility in recent weeks.
• A group of investors once left for dead is surprisingly well-positioned to withstand mounting trade-war pressures, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

As President Donald Trump prepares to ratchet up the stakes of a mounting global trade war, one group of investors is well-positioned to withstand the fallout. Читать дальше...

Orlando City forward Justin Meram says "certain markets" are "holding back MLS," while in central Florida the local team is more popular than the NBA's Orlando Magic. Meram joined Orlando in January in a trade after seven seasons with Columbus Crew SC, which is exploring a potential move to Austin, Texas, after its owner said the club was "unsustainable" in its current site. But MLS has also found great success in new markets, after expanding to Orlando in 2015 and Atlanta and Minnesota last season,...

APPOMATTOX, VA. — On April 9, 1865, Gen. Robert E. Lee strode onto the porch of a two-story brick home and stared out at a lawn filled with Union soldiers, his Confederate staff of two, and his horse Traveler. Still wearing full military dress, Lee raised his gloved hands and punched his left fist into...

No timeline for the removal of the Qawra Point shipwreck has been established yet, a spokesman for Transport Malta said. The 885-tonne Hephaestus ran aground on the rocks off Fra Ben almost two months ago, and has remained there ever since. “Following weeks of negotiations, a firm of marine salvage experts, appointed for and on behalf of the owners of the ship and their insurers, have communicated a request for quotations to a number of selected contractors,” the spokesman said. Quotations will be accepted until April 13... Читать дальше...

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Tech companies and auto companies are all racing to be the first to roll out self-driving cars onto the road.

The stakes are high for everyone involved. The self-driving revolution and the prevalence of ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft threatens to reduce individual car ownership, which would eat into a sizable piece of automakers' core business.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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Lobi Stars are favourites to hold onto top spot on matchday 16, while Kano Pillars hotshot Junior Lokosa's sensational season could get even better as he hunts down Wikki Tourists in Bauchi. Stars' impressive season is poised to get better as they take a step towards ending the first half of the campaign as leaders with a home game against El-Kanemi Warriors in Makurdi. It has been a disastrous season for the Warriors, who sit second from bottom, and time must surely be ticking against coach Imama...

Former first lady Michelle Obama said having her husband in the White House was like having "the good parent" in charge.

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• Norovirus is a highly contagious virus that has symptoms resembling those of food poisoning or the flu. 
• That makes a dense, enclosed space like a cruise ship the perfect environment for the illness to spread.
• Even if a cruise ship enforces perfect hygiene, the illness can still spread from an infected person's respiratory system.

Norovirus might be a cruise line's worst nightmare.

The illness, whose symptoms resemble those of food poisoning or the flu... Читать дальше...

At age 8, Esubalew “Ethan” Johnston was blinded by criminals who forced him to beg in the streets of Ethiopia, handing over his profits as he pressed strangers for a morsel of food. Twenty years later, Johnston is living in the United States and enjoying life as a lightning-fast third baseman in the national amateur...

FORT SMITH (KFSM) — The United Way of Fort Smith Area will be hosting a community awareness event called “Keeping Kids Safe”. Local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, along with The Crisis Intervention Center, The Hamilton House, The Morgan Nick Foundation and criminal prosecutors will be providing expert insight into the reality of crimes against children, child exploration and sexual assault. 5News anchor Daren Bobb sat down with Penni Burns with the United Way of Fort Smith […]

Four years ago Australian cyclist Kaarle McCulloch missed the Commonwealth Games with a chronic injury that reduced her to tears, gobbled up her life savings and brought her to the brink of quitting.