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6 years ago+3 4 1Trump says prepared to meet North Korea's Kim in first-ever summit
President Donald Trump is ready to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by May in response to Kim's invitation to hold the first-ever U.S.-North Korea summit, a South Korean envoy said, marking a potentially dramatic breakthrough in the North Ko ...
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6 years ago+15 15 0Adviser to Emirates With Ties to Trump Aides Is Cooperating With Special Counsel
An adviser to the United Arab Emirates with ties to current and former aides to President Trump is cooperating with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, and gave testimony last week to a grand jury, according to two people familiar with the ma ...
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6 years ago+13 13 0Polish official: Germany owes Poland $850 billion for WWII
A Polish official said Friday that Germany could owe his country $850 billion (690 billion euros) for the damage it inflicted during World War II. Arkadiusz Mularczyk is leading a team in the parliament that is assessing potential reparations to Po ...
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6 years ago+12 12 0President Trump will meet next week with members of the video game industry (update)
President Donald Trump will meet with representatives of the video game industry next week, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said today. The announcement comes in the wake of a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead ...
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6 years ago+9 9 0Saudi Arabia FM To German: We Do Not Need Your Weapons, We Will Find Them Somewhere Else
In an interview with German news agency DPA, published on Friday, al-Jubair criticized the German government and called Berlin decision to halt weapons exports to conflicting parties in Yemen “inconsistent”. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates ...
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6 years ago+10 11 160,000 fascists and white supremacists join demonstration on Poland’s Independence Day
"It was a beautiful sight," Interior Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said after thousands of nationalists marched to celebrate Poland's Independence Day Saturday.
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6 years ago+11 11 0Ryan Reynolds just bought himself a gin company
Ryan Reynolds just bought himself a gin company. Looks like Ryan Reynolds is taking a page out of George Clooney's business plan. The Deadpool actor announced via social media Wednesday that he is the proud new owner of Aviation Gin, an American ...
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6 years ago+17 17 0Russian man arrested after speaking about work at 'troll farm'
A Russian man said Tuesday he was arrested shortly after he spoke to U.S. media outlets about his time working at a “troll factory.”
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6 years ago+12 12 0Speed skater who gets paid in cryptocurrency
There are almost 3,000 athletes competing at the Peyongchang Olympics, but there is only one who is paid in cryptocurrency. Canadian speed skater Ted-Jan Bloemen recently became the first athlete to be paid in virtual money when he struck a one-year ...
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6 years ago+12 12 0This ‘Grassroots’ Media Startup Is Supported by the Kremlin
Redfish, a Berlin-based media collective, launched with a promise to deliver “radical, in-depth grassroots features,” with professional graphics, filed everywhere from Eastern Europe to South America. Its first report, on a fire at a public housing d ...
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6 years ago+19 19 0Elon Musk wants 'a new space race,' says new SpaceX rocket can launch payloads as far as Pluto
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk put the space industry on notice Tuesday when Falcon Heavy became the most powerful commercial rocket in the world. Musk said he wants "a new space race," telling reporters after the launch he thinks Falcon Heavy's ...
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6 years ago+12 12 0Taliban active in 70 percent of Afghanistan, BBC study finds
The BBC estimate, which it said was based on conversations with more than 1,200 individual local sources in all districts of the South Asian country, was significantly higher than the most recent assessment by the NATO-led coalition of the Taliban’s ...
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6 years ago+17 17 0She's back: Ex-UFC champ Rousey joins WWE
Trailblazing UFC women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey has agreed to terms with WWE to perform for the company as a full-time professional wrestler. Rousey made a surprise appearance at the WWE's Royal Rumble pay-per-view in Philadelph ...
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6 years ago+11 11 0Woman Accused of Dismembering Body Linked to Cold Case
A Florida woman accused of killing and dismembering her boyfriend was just made a person of interest in a cold case from 10 years ago. Nelci Tetley allegedly abused her boyfriend 55-year-old Jeffrey Albertsman for years before his bloody remains were ...
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6 years ago+11 11 0Man accused of attacking Rand Paul charged with felony assault in plea agreement
The man accused of attacking U.S. Sen. Rand Paul in November is now facing federal charges, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana. Rene A. Boucher, 58, of Bowling Green is charged with one count of “assaulting a ...
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6 years ago+13 13 0First pediatric flu death in nearly 4 years confirmed in Arkansas
The CDC reported flu related hospitalizations nationwide nearly doubled in the last week and flu activity continues to spread here in Arkansas. Fourty-nine people have died across the state this season according to the Department of Health and, on th ...
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6 years ago+9 9 0Padres won't feature brown uniforms until 2020, at the earliest
Fans hoping the Padres will bring back brown uniforms on a full-time basis will have to keep hoping. Executive Chairman Ron Fowler, asked Tuesday about serious alterations in the near future, said “it’ll probably be the 2020 season before we see anyt ...
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6 years ago+9 9 0Russia reinforces military presence in Crimea
Military reinforcements are being ramped up in Crimea, despite last month’s (December 2017) extension of economic sanctions on Moscow. Local media report Russia has deployed a new division of S-400 surface-to-air missiles on the peninsula, which it c ...
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6 years ago+25 25 0Visa joins other major US credit card companies in getting rid of signatures
Visa has announced that starting in April, it will get rid of the requirement for signatures on credit card purchases in North America. Now that Visa is on board, all four of the major credit card companies are removing signature requirements. (Ameri ...
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6 years ago+23 23 0The 4-Day Disaster That Broke JFK Airport and Left People Stuck in Planes for 7 Hours
How bad weather, worse luck, and bad decisions left passengers stuck in parked planes for as long as seven hours.