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News outlets just announced that the Trump administration is going to redesign Air Force One, the Boeing 747 with the iconic blue-on-blue-on-white paint job that has heralded the arrival of every American president since John F. Kennedy.

Edwin G. Walker (1830-1901) - son of David Walker (abolitionist) - one of two Black men first elected the the Massachusetts State Legislature in 1866

Recently, speaking about the creation of the Constitution to a room filled with teachers of history, I mentioned that the drafters struggled over how best to choose the president. The delegates to the Constitutional Convention initially agreed that Congress should make the choice, but then grew concerned that foreign powers would bribe congressmen to favor their preferred candidates.

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Leonardo Bonucci says Juventus still feels like home upon his return to the Old Lady after one season at rivals Milan. Cristiano Ronaldo has played in Clasicos and Champions League finals, but never anything quite like Villar Perosa. His first appearance in Juventus' colours came, not at the Allianz Stadium, but in a place of picture postcard beauty, 60 kilometres west of Turin and a million miles away from the modern game as we know it. Juve have been careful to protect Ronaldo's privacy since... Читать дальше...

Liverpool legend Ian Rush is convinced last season was no flash-in-the-pan for Mohamed Salah.

Flags will fly at half mast in Geelong on Monday for a "bright, spirited" young woman killed in a cycling accident in New York on the weekend.

Audius, a decentralised, community-owned music sharing platform billed as the blockchain’s answer to Soundcloud has announced the successful completion of a $5.5 million Series A funding round as it launches the world’s first ever blockchain-based music sharing protocol. Made on August 8, 2018, the announcement revealed that the funding round was led by General Catalyst and

THE escalating war of words between Turkey and the US could spark a huge problem for the eurozone, since European central banks are owed more than £100bn by Turkish borrowers.

A VIDEO has gone viral after capturing a tourist who attempted to get a photo with a herd of camels in the desert, only for it to end rather badly.

When a prickly customer is discovered in the undergrowth, it takes help from a hedgehog wizard and a magical fur hat to save him...

SHOCKING footage has revealed the burning wreckage of a plane which was stolen by a Seattle-Tacoma International Airport employee and pursued by military fighter jets for an hour.

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If you couldn’t get enough of Ghibli-esque JRPG Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom, fear not, because there’s now more available to explore. The game recently released some free DLC, designed for everyone who’s looking for a greater challenge in the excellently-named kingdom of Ding Dong Dell.

The Parker Solar Probe will perform the closest-ever observations of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona.

The sudden diplomatic dispute between Saudi Arabia and Canada took a lot of unexpected twists and turns this week, but perhaps none was more head-scratching than the kingdom's threat to stop buying Canadian wheat.