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Tough-talking former prosecutor Nancy Grace is leaving her prime-time show on the HLN network in October. The CNN sister station said Grace told her staff Thursday that her show would ...

There is no more important reform of K-12 education than ditching the traditional school calendar in favor of year-round school.

Instead of arguing relentlessly, politicians would have to prove their statements. In fact, if you want to see just how bad “rational” policy can get, all you really have to do is look at the past mistakes of science, and the sometimes horrific uses politicians have put it to.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google says it expects to have Google Calendar up and running normally following widespread reports of an outage. Google said Thursday that users had been seeing “server error” messages when opening the app. It later said that service had been restored for some users already and it expected a resolution for

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A northeastern Wisconsin utility can scale back a credit program for customers who generate their own electricity through solar panels, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.

SkyTran

Imagine if instead of wasting hours in traffic, you could one day fly above it for a price only slightly higher than a subway ride.

That's the idea behind SkyTran, a self-driving monorail designed to hover 20 feet above roads and travel up to 155 mph. The system would turn a two-hour car commute into a 10-minute trip, SkyTran CEO Jerry Sanders tells Tech Insider.

The first SkyTran system will be in Lagos, Nigeria by 2020. The company also just announced that it will launch a track across Yas Island in Abu Dhabi... Читать дальше...

De overheid gaat er te veel vanuit dat mensen met schulden hun eigen problemen wel zullen oplossen, vindt de Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid (WWR). Volgens de Raad zijn geldzaken voor veel mensen erg ingewikkeld.

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LOS ANGELES, June 30 (UPI) -- Zac Efron, Anna Kendrick, Adam Devine and Aubrey Plaza got goofy at the Los Angeles premiere of "Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates."

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Editor’s note: Some Nigerians are beginning to regret voting for the ruling All Progressives Congress which promised ‘change’. Some are questioning how much will it cost Nigeria to install stable source of electricity and others have asked the government to stop sleeping and wake up to its responsibilities. One of the NAIJ.com readers writes open […]

Trump recently compared one major trade deal, the Trans Pacific Partnership, to a "continuing rape" of the U.S.

Engagement photos typically range from adorable to downright cheesy, but rarely do they ever cross into the world of being absolutely epic.

Engagement photos typically range from adorable to downright cheesy, but rarely do they ever cross into the world of being absolutely epic.

2016 Rio Summer Olympics: Keep track of the U.S. trials as the American team begins to take shape June 30, 2016, 9:06 a.m. Full coverage of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. Follow every step of the Rio Olympics with the Los Angeles Times, starting with this week's swimming trials. 9:13 A.M. | reporting...

The Centre on Thursday announced to set up Aluminium Development Council in the lines of Steel Development Council to address various issues of aluminium industry including effect of global slowdown, promoting per capita use and raw material linkage.

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A Virginia congressman said this week that he was not alarmed by the lack of clarity coming from the Donald Trump campaign on various issues.

In an interview with Business Insider, Rep. David Brat, who has endorsed Trump, said the absence of specific policy proposals from the Manhattan billionaire didn’t bother him.

“I don't find it alarming because the same thing is true for every party throughout,” Brat said. “Everyone uses code language for all their... Читать дальше...

Drake and Rihanna are going back to back... Just hours after partying until daybreak on Tuesday night, the duo were spotted together once again, making it difficult for us not to believe...

NEW YORK — The New York Yankees will push CC Sabathia’s next start back a day so he won’t have to bat and run the bases in an interleague series at San Diego. The Yankees will call up Chad Green from Triple-A to pitch Sunday against the Padres. Sabathia will start Monday against the Chicago

IBM

Both Cisco and IBM have been on a partnership binge lately, so it seems inevitable that the two giant tech companies would eventually find a reason to partner with each other.

On Thursday, they announced that Cisco's Slack competitor, Spark, as well as its online meeting service, WebEx, will be integrated with IBM’s new smart email system, Verse, and IBM Connections (also a Slack competitor, but a little bit more like Yammer, which itself is most like a Facebook news feed for internal company use). Читать дальше...

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South China Sea, Asia-Pacific

What compels compliance with rulings based on international law?

What compels compliance with rulings based on international law? There are two camps that hold distinctly divergent views on the issue. Rationalists believe that nations choose to comply or not based on fear of punishment in the form of sanctions, international enforcement, or other material costs. Constructionists, on the other hand, believe that nations choose... Читать дальше...

Sixty-four players will contest both the men`s and women`s singles. Thirty-two teams will contest both the men`s and women`s doubles.

Kleiner Perkins disclosed that it raised $1.4 billion across two investment funds, the New York Times reports.