Apartment fire in Mound leaves one dead
It is the state’s first fire fatality of the year.
It is the state’s first fire fatality of the year.
MSNBC host Greta van Susteren joins Katy Tur to discuss the bombshell news that the DOJ Inspector General is launching a probe into DOJ and FBI actions leading up to the 2016 election.
English is an odd and unique language. We "write," we can be "right," and we perform a "rite." But even more interesting than the inconsistencies of our language are the lengthy and seldom used words hidden among our dictionaries.
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Bars around the world are serving up a secret code that could help women who feel threatened or uncomfortable on a date.
A growing number of bars and restaurants have installed signs in women's restrooms that give customers instructions for how to discretely ask employees for help.
The most recent sign was spotted at a Hooters in South Africa.
"Is your Tinder or Plenty of Fish date not who they said they were on their profile?" the sign reads. Читать дальше...
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commander says Indiana officials will determine if a nearly 2-mile-long earthen berm at Eagle Marsh has enough protections to keep the Asian carp from the Great Lakes.
Joe Mauer and Paul Molitor helped deliver the concert pitch Thursday morning at the ballpark.
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A senior Romanian intelligence official has been suspended after a businessman indicted on wide-ranging corruption charges claimed he had a close relationship with the officer.
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A senior Romanian intelligence official has been suspended after a businessman indicted on wide-ranging corruption charges claimed he had a close relationship with the officer.
Hidden Figures A by-the-books historical piece, about black women mathematicians working in NASA’s early days, the film is enlivened by the three principal actresses, Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monae and Octavia Spencer, and by Kevin Costner, who is the perfect vision of the early 1960s man. The Eagle Huntress A remarkable and entertaining documentary about a 13-year-old Kazakh girl who trains to become the first female practitioner of the Mongolian art and sport of eagle hunting (that is, using an eagle as a hunting aid). Читать дальше...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. federal government’s budget deficit rose from a year earlier for the second straight month, the latest sign of a rising financing gap. The Treasury Department said Thursday that the December budget deficit was $27.5 billion, nearly double the $14 billion in December 2015. In the first three months of the government’s
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A new federal lawsuit says U.S. Bureau of Indian Education schools are chronically understaffed, lack systems to provide special education and have a deficient curriculum. A coalition of advocacy groups announced on Thursday the new federal lawsuit involving Havasupai students at a northern Arizona school inside the Grand Canyon.
Several of Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees headed to Capitol Hill this week as the president-elect prepares to take over the federal government and install a new administration in Washington. But … Click to Continue »
The city of Baltimore and the Justice Department reached an agreement on how to reform the city's police department on Thursday, just days before the administration of President-Elect Donald Trump takes power. It could very well be the last time such an agreement is reached until after Trump leaves office.
As part of an update to the Maps app today, Google is adding fully native integration with Uber. You can set a destination, pick an Uber type, book it, monitor its location, and call the driver - all directly from Google Maps. This is excellent. While I did see an update to Maps on my phone today, the feature doesn't appear to be live for me just yet, so there's probably a server-side switch on this.
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Following a stern message by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj over sale of doormats depicting the tricolour, Amazon Thursday expressed regret for "offending" Indian sentiments and informed her about removal of the product from its Canadian website.
This new knot has eight crossings, far more than previous molecular knots. The "rope" is very short — just 192 atoms long, or 500 times smaller than a red blood cell.
Soybean futures rose to their highest level since mid-December Thursday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture cut its estimate on domestic production in 2016. The government estimated soybean output at a record 4.307 billion bushels, but that's down 54 million from last month on lower yields. "Total production and yield for the U.S. soybean crop were lowered more than traders had expected and any lowering of production in the face of growing global soybean demand is also going to make the markets nervous... Читать дальше...
Soybean futures rose to their highest level since mid-December Thursday after the U.S.
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Jessica Lange, the star of FX’s upcoming “Feud,” revealed the one piece of advice she got from the late Bette Davis during Thursday’s Television Critics Association press tour. “I never met Joan Crawford, but I did meet Bette Davis once,” Lange said, explaining that she once did an event with the legendary actress when she was just starting out as an actress in her 20s. “We all just hunkered down for the first six weeks, we were just getting as much [information] as we could,” Sarandon said, explaining... Читать дальше...
Is He Right? Since the election, CNN is down 18 percent in primetime compared to the same dates last year — while Fox News, MSNBC were both up President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter on Thursday morning to declare that CNN’s ratings are sinking since the election one day after referring to the network as “fake news” during his first press conference since winning the election. Time will tell if an on-going feud with the Trump administration will help or hurt the network — or regulatory approval... Читать дальше...
Nicole Kidman’s outlook on American politics calls for a dose of practical magic.
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Clemson's Dabo Swinney saw his great week get even better on Wednesday after being named the 2016 recipient of the Paul "Bear" Bryant Coach of the Year award.
Ayelet Waldman is a novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and activist, but to many she is best known as the author of a Times piece, from 2005, in which she stated that she was more in love with her husband than with her four children. (“Her eyes were close set, and she had her father’s hooked nose,” she wrote dryly, about her newborn daughter. “It looked better on him.”) The essay, which inspired her tenth book, “Bad Mother,” was blunt, unapologetic, startlingly candid, and funny. In an age of video baby monitors... Читать дальше...