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Rep. Duncan Hunter says his son mistakenly used the wrong credit card.

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Is there life out there?

You can add dwarf planet Ceres to the list of planets and moons in our own solar system backyard that might be harboring some.

Scientists have detected ice on the planet's surface, which could mean Ceres is hiding an ocean below its frozen crust.

Where There's Water, There Might Be Life

When NASA's Dawn spacecraft was first approaching Ceres, a rocky planet that sits in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars... Читать дальше...

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WASHINGTON, April 6 (UPI) -- Tegan Quin and Sara Quin of the alternative pop due Tegan & Sara got some help choosing their next signature hairstyle from Funny or Die.

Argon walks into a bar. “We don’t serve noble gases in here,” says the barman. Argon doesn’t react.

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On Friday, researchers announced that they may have found new evidence of a former Viking settlement in North America. 

The Vikings were a seafaring group from Scandinavia that sailed around the world, raiding and pillaging along the way, about 1,000 years ago.

The discovery of this second site, more than 50 years after the first was uncovered, could ultimately lead to a better understanding of Viking activity in North America.

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"The Daily Show" on Tuesday unearthed an old clip of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump making some uncomfortable comments about his then baby daughter's body.

Trump has come under fire recently for his past comments about women, and "The Daily Show" presented the 1994 clip as another in a long line of questionable remarks.

When the host of the show "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" asked Trump and his then wife, Marla Maples, about what qualities their 1-year-old daughter... Читать дальше...

The fatty lumps aren't just gross—they're also harmful to humans and animals alike.

Lincoln East scored 45 seconds into the game and never look back in recording a 7-0 victory against Lincoln North Star on Wednesday in the first round of the Heartland Athletic Conference girls soccer tournament at Beechner Athletic Complex.

First Round Review

Kim Scott (@kimballscott) has built her career around a simple goal: Creating bullshit-free zones where people love their work and working together.

She first tried it at her own software startup. Then, as a long-time director at Google, she studied how the company's leaders created an environment where the joy that people took in their work felt almost tangible. As a faculty member at Apple University, Scott learned how Apple takes a different path but is equally... Читать дальше...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says the only way to succeed is to fail over and over and over again.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says the only way to succeed is to fail over and over and over again.

Ben Stokes can recover to become one of England's best ever players after his World Twenty20 nightmare, Stuart Broad said.

Six years ago, suicide bomber Najim Laachraoui, employed as a janitor, was given the keys and unsupervised access to the EU assembly.

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Yahoo is expecting to see another 15% decline in revenues, with its earnings dropping by over 20%, according to a report by Re/code's Kara Swisher.

The report, citing a sale "book" that was handed out to potential Yahoo buyers, says that the company's revenue — excluding the cost to acquire traffic — is expected to be $3.5 billion in 2016, a 15% drop from the $4.1 billion it saw in 2015 and nearly $1 billion less than the $4.4 billion it recorded in 2014.

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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Workers at a plant in Anaconda that produces roofing materials and abrasives are exposed to high arsenic levels for prolonged periods, with the highly toxic substance found in the air, on clothing and even on the…

Two days after a Times Now sting showed how Sabyasachi Dutta, contesting from Rajarhat New Town assembly constituency, spoke in favour syndicates, the Bidhannagar mayor on Wednesday defended his stand, saying: "They love me and I love them."

A day after a part of the Vivekananda flyover collapsed on Thursday, Trinamool MP from Kolkata North Bandopadhyay had admitted that the government was alerted about its faulty design. Pandey on Wednesday said the flyover was being constructed hurriedly: "It is now clear that the bolts came loose during concrete work. It shouldn't have been so. Ideally, the concreting should have been delayed till the bolts were either repaired or replaced. To save a days' wages to the labourers, the construction company put their lives... Читать дальше...

Under suspicion in the fallout from the global offshore accounts investigation, Uruguayan lawyer Juan Pedro Damiani resigned as a FIFA ethics judge on Wednesday. … Click to Continue »

Born in the 1920 as Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, the musician was one of the best-known exponents of sitar as a composer of Hindustani classical music.

Prime minister wrote to Brussels requesting special treatment for inheritance-planning vehicles

A 20-year-old girl, who had cut her wrists and drank floor cleaning fluid, could not bear the pain and called for help on 'Dial 100'

Stocks hit new highs in the final afternoon of trading following the release of the Federal Reserve's March meeting minutes.

Graduate Management Admission Council has come up with an exclusive entrance test for ​working professionals. This test will be easier compared to the regular GMAT and it will be only for candidates with work experience of over eight years.​

Confessions of an alleged hitman are exposing the ruthless the world of syndicates that has virtually turned into the lifeline of the ruling party.

The Parliamentary Budget Office, the tenacious group of fiscal watchdogs who tangled repeatedly with the secretive regime of Stephen Harper, says the Trudeau government is suppressing financial data and exaggerating information in its recent federal budget. Surely there must be some mistake.