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In 2008, documentarians Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert filmed the final days of an Ohio GM plant for the Oscar-nominated documentary short “The Last Truck.” Nearly a decade later, they returned to the small town of Moraine—just south of Dayton—to film the same facility after it reopened as a glass factory, run by…

A personal take on the latest style scandal

Britain's sports minister has ripped into England fans, saying their booing of star Australian batsman Steve Smith was distasteful.

Despite claims from politicians that Australia’s contribution to global carbon emissions is not that big, the country ranks third in the world in terms of fossil fuel exports by carbon dioxide (CO2) potential, the Australia Institute think tank said on Monday. Australia’s fossil fuel exports are only behind Russia and Saudi Arabia by CO2 potential—larger than Iraq, Venezuela, or any member state of the European Union (EU), the think tank said in a new report. “Australia is the largest coal exporter... Читать дальше...

According to a new report from law firm Haynes and Boone LLP, bankruptcies in the upstream sector are increasing this year as energy spot prices remain subdued amid a cyclical downshift in the economy. So far, 26 exploration and production (E&P) firms have filed for bankruptcy through mid-August, with debts totaling $10.96 billion. The firm noticed a surge in bankruptcies began in May, following a -23% correction in WTI prices from mid-April to mid-June. In 2018, 28 E&P firms filed for bankruptcy... Читать дальше...

The Conservative Party is offering media organizations the opportunity to cover party leader Andrew Scheer’s campaign this fall at a dramatically reduced price — a little less for the entire election period than what the party charged for two weeks in 2015.

Microsoft said it will use Nvidia real-time ray tracing technology to provide Minecraft video game players more realistic graphics on personal computers.

The private sector is foreseeing disaster, the wealthy are dreading the thought of sitting in a queue in a government hospital says the letter writer

Olivia Colman wants her pal Phoebe Waller-Bridge to write her a role in "Bond 25".

Missing review muddles PM's vision for the public service  The Canberra Times

Scott Morrison has flagged what parts of the Thodey review may have a better chance of surviving.

The People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) dispatched a new variant of its JH-7A fighter-bomber to the Aviadarts competition in Russia earlier this month, according to a Chinese military affairs column. However, experts have struggled to figure out what the new improvements are, or why they were made.

Florida’s Broward Sheriff’s Office is searching for an individual caught on home surveillance footage wielding a sword against a jogger over a plastic dump cart from a nearby trash pile that the pair had searched through.

Illinois Democratic State Senator Martin Sandoval has apologized after a number of photos showing two men acting out an assassination of US President Donald Trump were taken at his campaign event.

That moment when innovation strikes.

June M. Williams

Sorry cry babies! Eugene S Robinson & Stephie Haynes are back with an all new edition of the infamous & patented Care/Don’t Care Preview to REVIEW the UFC 241 PPV event that just occurred Sat. Aug. 17th, 2019 featuring Miocic vs Cormier 2 & the also do a bit of a preview for Bellator 225.

Williamson didn't get a majority of votes for Rookie of the Year prediction either, though he at least led that category.

It’s in difficult times when cotton farmers need to get together and find solutions to the problems they face, the PIE tour does just that.

Target is making perhaps its biggest push yet into private label by launching a flagship grocery brand. The new line, Good & Gather, will be Target’s largest in-house brand across the entire store, with more than 650 products launching on Sept. 15 and 2,000 products to be rolled out over the next 18 months.

The actor, who's in the television show "The Terror: Infamy," condemned the Trump administration's family separations along the southern U.S. border.

WASHINGTON — An assault weapons ban that Democratic leaders have been reluctant to advance despite strong support among their rank-and-file members in the House just got its first Republican backer — Long Island Rep. Pete King.

Democrats running for president have two problems: their spending spree agenda and their message that everybody in America is a racist except them.

Religion has had a complex relationship with technological progress throughout history, but there is scant empirical evidence on how conservative religious values may

I have a set of vintage chrome steel rims on a bike I will be doing a complete restoration on. Here's the thing about the chrome steel rims, they are from the early 70s, approaching 50 years old, and there is NO RUST, not even surface rust, on these rims-Miracle. They are to put it mildly lovely. ...

The appointment of Sri Lankan Lieutenant-General Shavendra Silva as Commander of the country’s army is deeply troubling, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said in a statement released on Monday, adding that the military leader had been given the role despite “serious allegations of gross violations of international human rights and humanitarian law against him and his troops during the war”.