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The cutest S.F. cottages asking under $850K

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

If you are hoping to take part in the “tiny house” trend, the properties in the gallery above may be just the single-family homes of your dreams. They’re cute, compact and, best of all, come with a relatively tiny price tag (when you consider the median home value in S.F. is around $1.1 million). The largest

Officials: Iraqi forces from north, east converge in Mosul

TheRepublic.com 

BAGHDAD — Iraqi and coalition officials say forces advancing from the north and east have converged in Mosul, where they have been waging a three-month-old offensive against the Islamic State group. The U.S. special envoy to the anti-IS coalition, Brett McGurk, called Thursday’s advance a “milestone” in a statement posted on Twitter. Brig. Gen. Haider

Megyn Kelly, the Glittering Aberration

The New Yorker 

Three days into the new year, Megyn Kelly announced that she was moving from Fox News to NBC. There had been open speculation for some time about what would happen after her contract with Fox expired, as her star rose in tandem with increasingly high-profile clashes with Republican figures. Her testimony about network chief Roger Ailes’s record of sexual harassment clinched his ouster from Fox, last July; for much of 2016, she drew vitriol from Donald Trump for being one of the only figures at Fox—and a woman... Читать дальше...



Brief But Creepy, 'Fever Dream' Has A Poisonous Glow

NPR (npr.org) 

Samanta Schweblin's debut novel starts as a warped child's game, and evolves into a terrifyingly toxic eco-horror tale in the vein of short-but-creepy Latin American classics like Pedro Páramo.

First Listen: Fred Thomas, 'Changer'

NPR (npr.org) 

The singer of Saturday Looks Good To Me fills his new solo album with keen reflections on big decisions and life-altering memories.

First Listen: Austra, 'Future Politics'

NPR (npr.org) 

Katie Stelmanis' music questions, confronts and uplifts without scaremongering or sugarcoating. In an age of doom and gloom, it's a radical approach.

Vuurwerkschade Rijssen-Holten: 16.145 euro

Tubantia 

RIJSSEN-HOLTEN - De schade door vuurwerk tijdens de jaarwisseling in Rijssen en Holten is toegenomen in vergelijking met vorig jaar. Aan openbare eigendommen werd voor 16.145 euro vernield. "Voornamelijk door zwaar, illegaal knalvuurwerk", stelt burgemeester Arco Hofland.

Trump's plan to turn the family business over to his sons isn't going to cut it

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

If Americans learned anything from president-elect Donald J. Trump’s press conference Wednesday, it was that the scope of his business enterprises makes it exceedingly difficult for him to separate his personal interests from those of the nation. Trump assured his listeners that they shouldn’t...

Trump may violate the Constitution on Day One

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

President-elect Donald Trump either does not appreciate, or does not care, that his extensive business holdings pose serious legal problems. At his news conference on Wednesday morning, Trump and a lawyer said that he would donate hotel profits from foreign governments to the United States Treasury...

Why California parents will soon have a new way to think about test scores

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

How is your child’s school doing on standardized tests?

Starting this spring, you will be able to get a sense by looking at a number that’s not quite a test score. Instead, you’ll see the difference between the results for the school overall or a single grade at the school versus the state’s definition...





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