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After a year of sustained and withering criticism from the recorded music industry -- and one day after Lyor Cohen began as its global head of...

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Samsung will omit the 3.5mm headphone jack from its next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, according to a new report from SamMobile.

Instead, the report says, you’ll have to use headphones that connect over USB-C, which Samsung first adopted with the now-defunct Galaxy Note 7, a 3.5mm adapter, or headphones connect wirelessly over Bluetooth.

The idea should sound familiar: Apple controversially removed the headphone jack from this year’s iPhone 7, despite months of consumer grousing. Читать дальше...

Advertising emails from retailers are destroying your inbox! It’s time to fight back—and not by hitting delete 1,000 times.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Millions of dollars are being poured into addressing New Mexico’s backlog of more than 5,000 untested evidence kits from rapes and other sexual assaults. But state auditors and victim advocates warned Tuesday that nothing will change unless new policies and training initiatives are adopted.

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In Seth Meyers’ latest “A Closer Look” segment on “Late Night” Monday, the host put his attention to not just the puzzling claims President-elect Trump has made about mass voter fraud (with no evidence to back it up), but also Trump's recent moves regarding foreign policy.

The biggie is Trump taking a call from the president of Taiwan, which might affect US-China relations. 

“Whatever your thoughts are on China, it’s a delicate, important relationship," Meyers said. Читать дальше...

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SEOUL, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Cases of bird flu are growing in South Korea where at least six farms have reported the presence of the H5N6 virus.

Germany could very well be the next European country to ban burqas and the veils known as hijabs. German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Tuesday she was in favor of banning "full-face veils." In a speech made in Essen, Germany, to fellow Christian Democratic Union party members, Merkel confirmed her stance on the garment in a bid for her fourth term as chancellor. Merkel was re-elected Tuesday to lead the CDU party after receiving almost 89.5 percent of the delegate votes.

Prepaid debit cards can work more like checking accounts, for better and for worse.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Top officials from six Gulf Arab nations gathered Tuesday in the tiny island kingdom of Bahrain for talks expected to focus on regional security and cooperation.

HARVEY, La. (AP) — The man who fatally shot ex-NFL player Joe McKnight during a road rage dispute has been arrested and jailed on a manslaughter charge, records show.

WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s ruling party, which lost many leading members in a 2010 plane crash that killed a swath of the country’s leadership, is facing criticism for its own chaotic organization of a government flight that initially had too many people on one plane.

Never getting arrested doesn’t count.

Your parents have done a lot for you over the years.

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They brought you into this world.

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They kept a roof over your head and food in your stomach for years.

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And dealt with your dirty diapers and teenage hormones.

An appeals court ruling saying Samsung had to pay a $399-million penalty to its American rival for copying key iPhone designs was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, Reuters reported. In an 8-0 ruling, the justices sent the case back to the lower court for further proceedings, the report said. The decision gives the South Korean company another chance to try to win back a share of the money it paid Apple in December following a 2012 jury verdict it infringed Apple’s iPhone patents and... Читать дальше...

GROVETON, N.H. (AP) — A high school science class that set out to study trees got a chemistry lesson instead, when it found a plastic bottle that turned out to be a "one-pot meth lab," police said. The students from Groveton High School in New Hampshire found a soda bottle that contained a dangerous mix of chemicals used to make methamphetamine on Monday in the woods across the street from the school. In another case, state police said they found ingredients used to make meth at an auto dealership in Derry. Читать дальше...

Alhaji Lai Mohammed has promised that the federal government would address the unfavourable government policies against Nigerians in Dubai.

In addition to being a holiday entertainment, “The Nutcracker” is, of course, a ballet about children facing down (and conquering) grownup fears. It is, after all, the tale of two children who save the world, at least the world inside Marie’s head. This is particularly true of George Balanchine’s version for New York City Ballet, in which the children are played by actual children.

We examine Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the bank at the epicentre of the crisis in Italy. Last week OPEC moved to rescue oil prices. Will companies now rush back into exploration? And how the birth of a new motorbike in downtown New York could revitalise inner-city manufacturing 20161206 15:59:58 Comment Expiry Date:  Wed, 2016-12-21

The chorus-less, frenetic power-pop song narrates a string of feelings — the laundromat, the grocery store, the angry dad, the White Castle — that regulate our existence.

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Polina Davydova, 77, at her home in Brooklyn. Fearing for the safety of her children, she left Russia for the United States in 1992.

Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee agrees with Dr. Ben Carson, a former Fox contributor, that his childhood in the inner city makes him totally qualified to be the secretary of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The Nigerian Army has disagreed with human rights group, Amnesty International over several reports of allegations of human rights violations