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Before closing his show Friday night, "Real Time" host Bill Maher urged the 2020 Democrats to "come off less crazy" than President Trump in order to win the 2020 election.

Harry Potter may be a beloved series, but there are plenty of elements of it that may seem a little bit shocking today.

The vehicle-pedestrian collision happened around 11:15 p.m. Wednesday, when a southbound vehicle struck the teen, who was walking along Highway 83.

Albus Dumbledore wasn't always perfect in Harry Potter — actually, there were times he should have been put in Azkaban, let alone fired from Hogwarts!

An apologetic Edmonton Police Service provided more information on Friday about an incident that saw some Edmontonians say they waited over 90 minutes for help after they called 911 when they found a woman who had been assaulted. Sarah Kraus reports.

Economic slowdown is here: Top company executives warn amid rising growth hurdle

Robert Camou, 27, is suspected of kidnapping girlfriend Amanda Kathleen Custer in California

Russian agents have been blamed for the poisoning of Skripal and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury in March last year using the Soviet-developed nerve agent Novichok.

GILBERTSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — There's a new addition to the Democratic ticket in Kentucky: lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Jacqueline Coleman says she's pregnant.

One week after flooding prompted an evacuation order in a northern Alberta hamlet, a local state of emergency has been lifted in Marten Beach.

I bet his boss is getting pretty tired of him...

A fire broke out at the godown of Britannia biscuit factory here at Konatanapadu village in the early hours of Saturday.As many as six fire tenders rushed to the spot and firemen are attempting to douse the flames.According to fire officials, the blaze might have occurred due to an electric short-circuit.Further according to initial estimates, there has been loss of property to the tune of crores..

After two successive defeats, hosts U Mumba signed off the home leg with a big 32-20 win against Gujarat Fortunegiants in a VIVO Pro Kabaddi League Season 7 clash at the National Sports Club of India on Friday evening.

A Russian coal company warns people in search of the perfect shot that they're posing at a human-made ash dump.

THREE people have died and two others were hurt after a cliff collapsed next to sunbathing families on a California beach. A woman is understood to have died instantly when part of the sandstone cliff gave way and fell on a beach in Encinitas, north of San Diego. Two people were rushed to hospital in […]

Thanos Goulas, The Conversation
The entire Apollo 11 mission to the moon took just eight days. If we ever want to build permanent bases on the moon, or perhaps even Mars or beyond, then future astronauts will have to spend many more days, months and maybe even years in space without a constant lifeline to Earth. The question is how would they get hold of everything they needed. Using rockets to send all the equipment and supplies for building and maintaining long-term settlements on the moon would be hugely expensive.

Earnings climbed to Rs 3,173.94 crore from Rs 2,818.68 crore a year earlier.

Harriet Hall, Skeptical Inquirer
According to research methodologist R. Barker Bausell, CAM [complementary and alternative medicine] therapists simply do not value (and most, in my experience, do not understand) the scientific process. They have seen their patients improve, and that's all the evidence they think they need.

The star of 'Search Party' and 'Arrested Development' talks to Alexandra Pollard about sexuality, gender identity, turning 30, and that infamous New York Times roundtable

The cable news pundits have been giving their opinions on who won the second Democratic debate. Of course, their opinions are not worth much (if anything at all). The only thing that matters is what the Democratic and Independent voters think.

The Morning Consult Poll didn't waste any time trying to find out about that. They questioned a national sample of 2,419 registered voters likely to vote in a Democratic primary (or caucus) ...

Daniel Engber, Slate
It's summer 2010, and Jeffrey Epstein has just returned to New York City after serving out an 18-month sentence in Palm Beach, Florida, including parole, for soliciting prostitution from a minor. He's hosting dinner at his townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. To his left is John Brockman, the literary superagent who seems to represent every scientist who's ever written a bestselling book (Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, Daniel Kahneman, and so forth).

CA San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA Zone Forecast for Friday, August 2, 2019

A new biography examines the life of Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen, a controversial churchmen of the 20th century.