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Facebook staff in 2012 considered charging cos at least $250,000 for "access to one of its primary troves of user data -- the Graph API"

The award-winning playwright said the musical was a tribute to the island. "I just want it to be proud of me," he told reporters.

It was interesting reading (January 3) what the Health Minister said that the Mellieħa cemetery will be extended and that work on 2,800 new graves at the Addolorata Cemetery would start soon. There has been much talk of cremation by the Maltese Humanist Association and many others in this newspaper. MP Rosianne Cutajar was also spearheading a cremation Bill. I noted comments made in reaction to what the Health Minister said about new graves, including a comment on the use of the precious resource of more land. Читать дальше...

KYLE KUZMA produced a moment of madness against the Utah Jazz on Friday night as he appeared to take three free-throws instead of two.

Senior British ministers are reportedly urging British Prime Minister Theresa May to ask her rival – leader of the opposition Labour party and socialist Jeremy Corbyn - for help if Parliament kills her Brexit deal in a vote.

The Lethbridge Hurricanes saw their three-game win streak come to an abrupt end on Friday as the Edmonton Oil Kings picked up a 5-1 win at the Enmax Centre. Tom Roulston has a recap of the game.

We simply love it when Lakkshya makes appearances on Ekta Kapoor's Instagram profile

IVANKA Trump could be about to land herself a surprising new career role which would see her at the head of women’s entrepreneurship.

The Florida Panthers losing streak reached five games on Friday night and frustration seems to be building.

The federal government has entered Day 22 of a partial government shutdown, becoming the longest closure in U.S. history. Nine of the 15 Cabinet-level departments have not been funded. The Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs, the government’s largest agencies, are the most notable exceptions and continue to operate since they were funded through Sept. 30. The previous record for the longest shutdown occurred during Bill Clinton’s presidency. That one lasted from Dec. 15, 1995, through Jan. Читать дальше...

A US TV host who lost her chat show after suggesting it was OK for white people to wear blackface on Halloween has reached an exit deal with the network that employed her.

Federal counterintelligence agents began an investigation of Donald Trump last year that aimed to find out whether the president had a clandestine agenda to help Russia.

It was something his 10-year-old daughter said that hammered home the impact of the US government shutdown for Victor Payes.  The security guard at Los Angeles’s main airport had already been working for free for a fortnight when Haley, the oldest of his two girls, spoke up.  “I understand if there are certain things we shouldn’t pay for right now,” Mr Payes recalled Haley telling him. She was offering to cut back to help the family.  He waved away the concern to reassure his daughters. “I just... Читать дальше...

The Englishman is keen to make an immediate impact for the men in magenta who snuck in ahead of Hobart with a deal for the back half of the BBL.

Uber has long maintained it is simply a service provider, connecting people needing a ride with drivers in about 630 cities worldwide. On that basis, Uber has always maintained that its drivers are self-employed.

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According to Untouchable, there’s a reason most Americans think sex offenders, and pedophiles in particular, are incurable, and thus destined to relapse: 2002’s McKune v. Lile, in which Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in a plurality opinion that there was a “frightening and high risk of recidivism” for such predators, and that “the rate of recidivism of untreated offenders has been estimated to be as high as 80%.” That statement has since been used in numerous... Читать дальше...

True to a writer's streak, Ayushmann revealed that he had no commercial interests attached when he initially started penning down verses.

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Just how long has Donald Trump been infiltrating the zeitgeist? Well, back in 1991 there was a parody of him on, of all TV shows, Saved By the Bell. Yep, somehow Trump’s outsized personality was deemed familiar enough that even a children’s show in the ’90s thought its young audience would laugh to see it roasted.

The FBI investigation was taken over by the Special Counsel Robert Muller who has been tasked to investigate into the allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections.

More information is supporting the theory that the current big Justice Department “investigations” are actually functioning as big cover-up operations.  Robert Mueller’s team is effectively hiding key evidence related to serious crimes committed by government officials.  Mueller has nearly complete control over what the public or any investigator can see.  He has control over what witnesses can talk about. This […]

Kentucky women's basketball at Tennessee, game summary, Jan. 10, 2019 Lexington Herald-Leader The University of Kentucky women's basketball team went toe-to-toe with history and adversity on

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Infowars may be banned from YouTube and Facebook, but Alex Jones’ conspiracy-mongers still linger. A squadron of fans and grifters upload Infowars every episode.

Leisure Port Nepal Pvt Ltd, under the aegis of United Sisters Foundation, is organising the Pinkathon Kathmandu here on February 23.

A partial shutdown of the U.S. federal government began Dec. 22, after President Donald Trump and Congress failed to agree on funding for the president’s long-sought wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. About 800,000 federal employees and some government services across the United States have been affected. What is closed? What is open? Closures National Parks, Historic Sites and Monuments The National Parks Service (NPS) website says 388 of the 737 parks, historic sites and national monuments it oversees are closed. Читать дальше...