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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama asked a judge Friday to halt a decision that struck down a state law protecting Confederate monuments as the state appeals the ruling. In a motion, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said a stay would prevent Birmingham, and perhaps other cities, from removing Confederate monuments while the state appeals the decision. A judge last week ruled a 2017 state law barring the removal or alteration of historical monuments violates the free speech rights of local communities. Читать дальше...

San Jose’s police union claims 2,500 inactive warrants in the Santa Clara County Superior Court system could endanger officers.

Friday’s Stronach 5 Rewards 97 Bettors $1,314.90 Each LAUREL, MD – Friday’s Stronach 5, the national pick 5 with an industry-low 12-percent takeout, rewarded 97 bettors across the country $1,314.90 each. The shortest price winner came at Gulfstream Park in Uno Mas Modelo ($3.40) and the longest price occurred in the final leg at Golden […]

The last male northern white rhinoceros — his name was Sudan — died in March, leaving only two members of the subspecies behind: his daughter and granddaughter. In the past, those stark facts would have spelled the end. But researchers at the San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research — home to a frosty menagerie known as the Frozen Zoo — are working to give northern white rhinos a second chance. Since 1975, the institute has been collecting tissues from creatures, some endangere

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A classic scene from a decade-old episode of "The Office" helped an Arizona mechanic save an unconscious woman's life.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A classic scene from a decade-old episode of “The Office” helped an Arizona mechanic save an unconscious woman’s life. The Arizona Daily Star reports that 21-year-old Cross Scott found a woman locked in her car this month and broke in, finding she wasn’t breathing. He doesn’t have any emergency training but […]

"This used to be the greatest country on Earth, but we've lost the plot."

The country's transportation system nearly reached the safety threshold and "over the next three weeks, we're not even out of the woods yet," transport workers union President John Samuelsen says.

• People and businesses in every state pay taxes to the federal government to help fund vital services.
• Not every state contributes equally, however. Some pay more than they get back while many states receive more than they put in.
• In 2017, New Jersey paid $24.75 billion more to the federal government than it got back compared to New Mexico, which received $20.096 billion more than its citizens paid.

Citizens and companies in every US state pay taxes to the government... Читать дальше...

1. In WSJ Op-Ed, Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Down to Users and Misses the Point  EFF
2. Lawmakers react to Facebook plans to merge messaging apps  Business Insider
3. Zuckerberg Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger  The New York Times
4. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp to Merge Functionality - IGN News  IGN News
5. Mark Zuckerberg, Let Me Be Your Ghost Writer  The New York Times
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is trying to tell the story of an Oklahoma woman whose pledge to stand in as a mom at same-sex weddings went viral. In a statement Friday, Curtis confirmed that she acquired the rights to “How We Sleep At Night: A Mother’s Memoir,” by Sara Cunningham of […]

UPFA MP Dinesh Gunawardene yesterday called for a change in the composition of  Constitutional  Council in order to maintain its independence.

Tobi Nussbaum will no longer be the city councillor for Rideau-Rockcliffe ward as of Saturday, Jan. 26, the City of Ottawa confirmed Friday.

Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard 00:40:0926/01/2019 strana.ua The president Petro Poroshenko during the “Christmas meetings” project, which appears on Akhmetov’s TV channel “Ukraina” and was filmed on the eve of Christmas, blabbed out that, according to him, the process of storming Lavras in Ukraine after the creation of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine […]

Jeff Bezos' spaceship company Blue Origin broke ground Friday on a rocket-engine production facility in Huntsville, Ala., that will cost more than $200 million and employ about 300 when it opens in March 2020.

Christopher Nolan's next film will grace the big screen in 2020.

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante slammed the Royalmount project saying it wasn't in keeping with the wishes of the city's citizens, and that it would have massive regional impacts.

Jesse Lingard angered Arsenal fans during Manchester United’s FA Cup win (AMA/Getty Images) Jesse Lingard has aimed a dig at Arsenal following Manchester United’s victory over the Gunners in the FA Cup on Friday evening. United made it ei...

BOSTON (AP) — Whitey Bulger’s siblings are laying claim to the slain Boston gangster’s estate as his lawyer plans to seek a wrongful death suit against the federal government. The Boston Herald reports that former Massachusetts Senate President William Bulger, his brother and three sisters have been listed as beneficiaries of Bulger’s estate in Suffolk […]

Central African soccer executive faces war crimes judges in The Hague Channel NewsAsia Central African Republic's soccer executive and alleged militia leader, Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona appears be

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The Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) is Twitter’s lead regulator in the European Union. On Friday (Jan. 25), the DPC said it was again looking into the social media giant because of another breach notification it received from the company, according to a report from Reuters. “The DPC has this week opened a new statutory […]

This year’s Australia Day Honours list will recognise 1,400 people across a range of different fields. Celebrities, athletes, politicians and social justice campaigners are among those to be included in the largest list since the Order of Australia was established in 1975.

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Earlier this week, Chris Brown was briefly taken into custody in Paris over a rape allegation. As The Daily Beast previously reported, “The 24-year-old alleged victim, identified only as ‘Miss. K’ in court documents, told the French tabloid Closer on Jan. 22 that Brown, his bodyguard, and a third man raped her in Brown’s hotel room after they met at a club. She claimed that while there were several people in the hotel room at the time, Brown barricaded her in another, smaller room... Читать дальше...