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Featuring urban superstar Farruko and up-and-coming reggaetón/trap artists like Ozuna and Noriel, Billboard announces "The Latin Trap Panel...

He spent last offseason becoming an archer and a poet, and the offseason before that, he learned to play the guitar.

While it’s far too early to measure President Trump’s effect on the country, he’s undoubtedly been good for Stephen Colbert, whose “Late Show” has seen its ratings and cultural relevance surge since Jan. 20. 

Twitter's biggest product improvements came from users. Not so with Snapchat.

Short sellers were caught betting the wrong way, writes Nigam Arora.

Trust the Process: Danny Garcia vs. Keith Thurman By: Kirk Jackson March 4th, Saturday night at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, New York, the world will witness history. We will witness a clash between two undefeated welterweight champions in a unification championship bout. The participants are Keith “One Time” Thurman...

A global protest movement is growing around the proposed installation of a US-built Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD) in South Korea, as residents near the site sue the South Korean government because they do not want the deadly weapons in their backyard.

An engineering company has been prosecuted at the Circuit Criminal Court in Co Kerry over the collapse of a hotel lift which left five members of a family with serious injuries.

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Macedonia's president withheld the mandate to form a government Wednesday from the runner-up in December's elections, accusing left-wing leader Zoran Zaev of jeopardizing the country's sovereignty.

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In August 2016, a team of researchers announced they'd found 3.7 billion-year-old fossils of bacteria called stromatolites.

The fossils were the oldest-known evidence of microbes on the planet at the time, prompting scientists to say the discovery had "staggering" implications for the history of life on Earth.

But now an international team of scientists may have them beat — by at least 300 million years, and possibly even half a billion.

In some of the oldest rocks on Earth... Читать дальше...

Prior to last night’s joint session of Congress, at which President Donald Trump delivered his first formal address to legislators, there was much anticipation of what gestures, symbolic or otherwise, the Democrats would make to register their antipathy for the President and their repudiation of the positions and policies he has sought to enact in the past six weeks. Would they shun the President as he glad-handed the aisle? Sit on their hands as he spoke? Jeer? Or would the respect customarily... Читать дальше...

Het Britse Hogerhuis - The House of Lords - wil dat de rechten van EU-burgers in het Verenigd Koninkrijk bij de Brexit gegarandeerd zijn. 358 Lords stemden daar vandaag in Londen voor en 256 tegen bij de behandeling van de Brexit-wet.

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In the San Francisco Bay Area, even a six-figure salary can make tech workers feel poor.

A Twitter employee speaking on the condition of anonymity told The Guardian he's scraping by on a base salary of $160,000. The employee is in his early 40s, lives in San Francisco, and has had to borrow money in the past to "make it through the month," The Guardian reports.

"I didn't become a software engineer to be trying to make ends meet," the Twitter employee said. Читать дальше...

Every year during March Americans recognize Women’s History Month. It’s a time to talk about and celebrate the suffragettes and all of the “hidden figures” who never got proper credit for their work. While the lessons we learn throughout the month are always interesting, they can feel detached from the present. But in 2017, we can’t afford to be blind to the past. We live in a country that feels deeply divided ― by geography, race, class, religion, media, diet, and political worldview.

Flip or Flop and California couple Tarek El Moussa and Christina El Moussa's marriage may have turned out to be a flop, but their reality series franchise will live on. HGTV announced...

Scientists at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, the German research center, have created laser beams with record strength and precision using X-ray glasses.

Beijing sees the the U.S.-developed Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-ballistic missile system as part of a U.S. strategy to contain China. And as THAAD’s deployment date draws near, its denunciations have reached fever pitch.

Kaplan is a voting member this year of the Fed's policy-setting panel.

Hudson Bay microbes proven to be up to 4.3bn years old

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The White House told a government watchdog agency that Kellyanne Conway, a senior aide to President Donald Trump, acted "inadvertently" when she publicly endorsed the clothing and jewelry line of Trump's daughter, Ivanka, according to a letter the administration released on Wednesday.

Conway came under criticism last month when she said on television that Americans should "go buy Ivanka's stuff," in comments that appeared to violate government ethics rules prohibiting... Читать дальше...

South Korean airline Jeju Air announced Tuesday it would cancel all flights to and from Japan's Fukushima Airport over fears of heightened levels of radiation stemming from the nuclear disaster that befell the city's nuclear plant in 2011, the Japan Times reported.

Jerusalem’s false unity and real discrimination is no model for a state which claims to be the only democracy in the Middle East.

For Falcons head coach Dan Quinn, the ending of Super Bowl LI was a bitter pill to swallow. But he hopes something positive comes out of it. Quinn told PFT Live that losing a game after having a 28-3 lead has taught him some things about managing late-game situations better. “For sure there’s lessons there…

According to a medical expert, Wright's road to recovery may not be an easy one.

Het gaat goed met de beroemde handgemaakte Cubaanse sigaar. De exclusieve importeur van de befaamde rookwaren in de Benelux zag de omzet met 5 procent oplopen tot ruim 20,3 miljoen euro.