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Former Donald Trump presidential campaign aide Rick Gates is cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, and has provided info on a firm in the Middle East that is reported to have worked with the Trump campaign to influence the 2016 U.S. election.

This isn't the first time the Trump campaign's connections to Psy-Group, a 'troll factory' tied to Israeli military intelligence, has come up in the news. The New York Times ran a story in October, and Salon in November. Читать дальше...

BYU Graduate Sam Thorup posts about her son Tristan on Facebook on Tuesdays. Thorup’s page is full of photos of dark-haired baby Tristan smiling and comments from friends and family sharing favorite memories of Tristan. For Thorup, these photos and messages are a powerful way of remembering her son. Tristan passed away from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, known as SIDS, in May of 2016. Tristan was 5 weeks and 1 day old.

Lockheed Martin Corp. was awarded a $69 million contract for programming and reprogramming on all operational F-35s for the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.

Lockheed Martin Corp. was awarded a $69 million contract for programming and reprogramming on all operational F-35s for the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.

PUSHCART PRIZE WINNER Madhuri Vijay’s elegant debut novel, The Far Field, has just appeared from Grove Press. The novel follows one young woman’s search for a lost figure from her childhood, a journey that carries her from cosmopolitan Bangalore in Southern India to the mountains of Kashmir and to the brink of a devastating political […]

Concerns over depleting groundwater had prompted NGT to direct agencies to take immediate action

It may or may not be an insidious plot to steal your face — but there’s no debating the status of the “10 Year Challenge.” It’s a bona fide viral sensation. “Me 10 years ago: probably would have played along with the profile picture aging meme going around on Facebook and Instagram,” tweets “Tech Humanist”...

Jimi Hendrix, with a Fender Stratocaster, at the Royal Albert Hall in 1969.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Jose Aldo is one of the greatest athletes to ever step a foot inside the Octagon, and it seems that 2019 will be his last year as a professional mixed martial arts fighter.

Darren Till thinks he matches up well with Israel Adesanya.

Darren Till has had a hard time cutting weight in the past, but the Liverpudlian is content to stick to welterweight for the time being.

Speaking to Michael Bisping on a recent episode of Believe You Me, Till said his long-term goal is to move up to 185-pounds but, before he does that, ‘The Gorilla’ wants ‘a few more fights’ at welterweight.

“I’m definitely gonna fight at 185 [pounds] but just cause I made such a big deal out of the cut myself... Читать дальше...

He might not be his old self anymore, but excellent plate discipline and pitch framing could help fill the void left by Yasmani Grandal.

How flights and security lines are being affected.

As the longest government shutdown in US history continues, Americans are restructuring their travel plans. National parks are either closed, trashed, or both, museum doors remain shut, and some people have even had to reschedule their weddings.

But the place where perhaps the greatest number of people are feeling the effects of the partial shutdown is at the airport, which is stressful even when functioning at full capacity.

Max Allegri admits Juventus “signed Cristiano Ronaldo because he is decisive and scores big goals” after the Supercoppa victory over Milan.

Juventus take on AC Milan in this year's Italian Super Cup which sees last seasons Serie A winners Juve take on the Coppa Italia winners. Follow Sportsmail live coverage from 4:30pm (GMT).

The two aircraft are expected to be operationally deployed in April or May 2019.

As Theresa May found herself dealing with a landslide defeat in a vote on her Brexit deal in the House of Commons, users on social media have been voicing their opinions on what the United Kingdom should now do about Brexit. May lost by a staggering 230 votes and straight after the vote, prominent opposition politician Jeremy Corbyn tabled a no-confidence motion. This sees parliament vote on whether or not they still have confidence in Her Majesty's government. Theresa May's difficult situation... Читать дальше...

Amid a background of protests and political outrage, Juventus beat AC Milan 1-0 to win the Italian Super Cup for a record eighth time

Author Mariana Dimópulos and translator Alice Whitmore discuss ALL MY GOODBYES.

On Monday morning, Mozambican soldiers opened fire to disperse protesters calling for natural gas projects to be suspended until more pressing issues, particularly fundamentalist insurgents, are dealt with. Nonetheless, Mozambique seems determined to push ahead with LNG development, hopeful that the huge gas deposit discovered off its northern coast in 2010 could lift the country out of the ranks of the world’s poorest. It’s not only the protesters who are skeptical, however: analysts have raised... Читать дальше...

Breathing architecture like a living-thing:
This temporary art work is a nested structure with a two-tatami space embedded in ten foot square hut. The use is a Japanese traditional tearoom. We constructed it by ourselves. It was exhibited in Echigo-tsumari Art Triennale 2018 in Japan. In this exhibition, architects were asked to respond to the theme of how to overcome the concept of homogeneous space which was dominant in the 20th century. It is distorted homogeneous space to create irregularities... Читать дальше...

ST GEORGE’S – The Grenada government says it is moving ahead with plans to increase the pension for public sector workers to 70 per cent, even as it acknowledged that a dispute still exits with trade unions...

With the spiffy Resident Evil 2 remake right around the corner, I got to thinking about remakes versus remasters. At what point should you just go back and boot up the original?

Same gags? Check? Same Clarkson? You bet.

1. Tories rally behind May to defeat Corbyn's no‑confidence motion  The Times
2. Brexit: Theresa May says MPs must 'work together' to deliver Brexit  BBC News
3. It’s now or never for May. Time to compromise on Brexit  The Guardian
4. A Short History of Brexit by Kevin O'Rourke review – a devastating account  The Guardian
5. Brexit Britain sends out a 'Mayday'  Al Jazeera English
6. View full coverage on Google News

Gov. Cuomo plans to hold up to $7.3 billion earmarked for the MTA in order to press lawmakers into passing congestion pricing and other policy in his executive budget, the Daily News has learned.