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Máxima floración es cuando al menos 70% de los árboles alrededor del Tidal Basin en Washington están en flor. Este año, el Festival Nacional de Flores de Cerezo, que se planifica de acuerdo con la floración, se celebrará del 20 de marzo al 16 de abril.

They're loath to admit it, but Donald Trump and his team are subtly admitting that their Muslim ban isn't necessary for national security.

French rightwing presidential candidate Francois Fillon announced Wednesday that he would be charged over a fake job scandal that has battered his campaign, but vowed to continue his bid for power.

The stock slid sharply in morning trading before rebounding to climb about 1 percent higher Wednesday.

Fake news and misinformation are fueling bloody xenophobic clashes in South Africa and elsewhere on the continent, according to a non-profit that promotes accuracy in African public debate and the media. Amidst growing tension, Africa Check has been debunking false information in South Africa and beyond.   The television news program Carte Blanche recently made one such claim, that one-third of nearby Malawi’s population had immigrated to South Africa.  The actual figure is much lower, and the program has since corrected the statement. Читать дальше...

One Wednesday every winter, it’s not unusual to see people walking around with a black mark smeared on their foreheads. That’s because those people have visited their churches on Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. The ashes are meant to remind Catholics that “you are dust and to dust you shall return," as priests say — in other words, the body is only physical, and parishioners must prepare for death.

During the morning hours, the state patrol responded to 174 crashes.

The St. Anthony Police Department is among those being audited by the feds.

Acteur en muzikant Jim de Groot, zoon van zanger Boudewijn, schaamt zich er niet voor: hij loopt bij de Voedselbank. ‘Misschien is dit wel een teken hoe moeilijk het als artiest is om de eindjes aan elkaar te knopen.’

ENSCHEDE - De Australische Jasmine Louise Peters voegt zich op 17 maart bij de selectie van softbalploeg Tex Town Tigers.

Trump may want to succeed on comprehensive immigration reform where Bush and Obama failed — but the same roadblocks could prevail, writes Vox's Dara Lind.

A woman from Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire has set up her own taxi service for pets.

West Approach, half-brother to scratched Gold Cup favourite Thistlecrack, will run in the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle rather than the Stayers' Hurdle after finishing third to Unowhatimeanharry.

A tough-looking sergeant — the type of guy you’d look at once and know not to mess with — is driving his jeep passed a long line of German prisoners of war. The Danish sergeant backs up the jeep, gets out and starts pummeling the souvenir taker in the face. [...] imagine a bunch of foreigners rolling in with tanks and imposing barbarism and inhumanity for years. Apparently, the Germans — wrongly thinking that the Allied invasion might come through Denmark — buried some two million land mines along the beaches of Denmark’s west coast. Читать дальше...

Wells Fargo's board announced plans on Wednesday to strip CEO Tim Sloan and seven of his top lieutenants of their 2016 bonuses and slashed stock awards they were due to be paid.

The clothing company LuLaRoe has come under fire for widespread complaints that its popular...

A Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant against senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, in connection with suspension of a Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam engineer.

Dwayne Johnson was among the many celebrities photographed at the Oscars looking shocked as it became clear the Best Picture award went to the wrong film.

Everything you need to know about each team out west ahead of the new MLS season.

Looking for answers? Just ask Emma Watson. The actress teamed up with Vanity Fair to give people advice in New York City's Grand Central Terminal. Although she couldn't be there...