DAMASCUS (Sputnik) - Syrian President Bashar Assad said Thursday that Damascus had no contacts with the United States on the elimination of Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and will not believe that he was really killed until reliable evidence is presented.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Google says it is set to break ground on its $600 million data center in New Albany, part of $13 billion in planned investments by the tech giant this year. Company officials will be in New Albany on Friday for a groundbreaking celebration at the city’s International Business Park. The company […]
Operation jointly coordinated by Coast Guard and merchant vessel MV Chrimson Knight
Rep your Gryffindor (or Slytherin, Hufflepuff, or Ravenclaw) pride with this adorable new collection!
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Pinterest stock plunges 20% on revenue miss and disappointing forecast CNBCView full coverage on Google News
Brings a whole new meaning to take me out to the ball game.
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You have to give Kim Kardashian credit: When she commits to a Halloween costume, she really commits. This year, Kardashian didn't just dress up as Elle Woods, the character played by Reese Witherspoon in 2001's Legally Blonde — she did a shot-for-shot remake of the Harvard Law admissions video from the original movie, which Witherspoon herself was quick to praise on Instagram. Next year, it's Reese's turn to put on a wig and shoot 17 seasons of Keeping Up with the Witherspoons. [People]
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National Security, Americas
Gen. James Mattis reads history as a proponent of primacy, that the United States can and should sustain its place as the world’s preeminent power and global policeman. This is a primitive perspective that should be left in the graveyard of failed strategies past.
The publication of Gen. James Mattis’s new book, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, which he co-authored with Bing West, has been met with much attention and fanfare. Читать дальше...
Troy Patterson reviews the Apple TV+ show “Dickinson,” starring Hailee Steinfeld, which is an anachronistic retelling of the young Emily Dickinson’s coming of age in antebellum Massachusetts.
The next Congress is already shaping up to be different. According to a Politico report Thursday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — People from New England to Texas are building fake chimneys as nesting spots and migration motels for chimney swifts, little birds that are dwindling in number as the nation’s architectural landscape changes.
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<p>From rakalis to crayfish, estuarine crocodiles and swamphens, plenty of our native animals have added cane toad to their diets.</p>
The Tajik Foreign Ministry has partially renewed accreditation for seven journalists in RFE/RL’s Dushanbe bureau, but stopped short of providing the one-year extensions guaranteed under ministry regulations.
"You gotta be ... somebody from that community to get first in action and then the rest of you motherf---ers with money get action."
Granit Xhaka has finally explained why he reacted like he did in Arsenal’s 2-2 draw against Crystal Palace.
Turkish military forces captured 18 Syrian government soldiers in northeastern Syria, Turkey's defense minister said Thursday, in one of the most dramatic examples of an increasingly muddled battleground following the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the area.
"I wish I could say I was shocked, but a major spill from the Keystone pipeline is exactly what multiple experts predicted would happen," said a Greenpeace USA senior research specialist.
Happy Halloween And The Blurred Ditch Project
On what had long been billed as an historic Halloween, Jeremy Corbyn started early by trolling Boris Johnson for his broken promise to deliver Brexit by 11pm, October 31.
With a Mexican wife, Corbyn knows all too well that November 2 is the Day of the Dead, by which time the PM’s ‘do-or-die’ pledge will itself be lying lifeless in a ditch somewhere in SW1. I’m told the famous countdown clock in No.10 has been paused and no one’s quite sure what date to reset it for. Читать дальше...
A debate between Beverly Hills Mayor John Mirisch and State Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco on how to solve California's housing crisis.
This Kitchen IQ Edge Grip 2-Stage Knife Sharpener costs just on Amazon. I've been using one for years and it's my favorite knife sharpener. I like it because of the way you hold it with one hand along the edge of a kitchen counter and with the other hand you draw the knife through the slots. It's a safe way to sharpen a knife and I don't see how someone could make a mistake and hurt themselves. One slot is "coarse" and the other is "fine." I typically use the fine slot every week or so to restore the edge on a knife. Читать дальше...
There are several ways to fix the annoying and costly problem of surprise billing that hits people when they find themselves unwittingly being treated by an out-of-network provider. However, fixing it by simply imposing a price on an out-of-network procedure could unravel insurance markets