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Sometime between around 29,000 and 14,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers navigating northern Eurasia’s frigid landscapes turned wolves into dogs by …

Burnley host Manchester United in the Premier League on Tuesday night. If United win or draw then they will go top of the table. Follow Sportsmail's JEORGE BIRD for live coverage.

MALIBU, CA—Rushing to his home after hearing news of the conservative mega-donor’s passing, hundreds of GOP legislators reportedly crowded into a sitting room Tuesday for the reading of Sheldon Adelson’s will. “I was really distraught to hear about Mr. Adelson’s passing, but I also wonder what he’ll have left to…

Pep Guardiola will break Man City's duck in Europe's premier club competition this season, according to FiveThirtyEight's model.

Amazing.

The season wrap-up continues at Scotiabank Place as Sens Head Coach Paul MacLean passed along his thoughts on the season that was. He reflected on the performance of the team in 2013, its outlook goin

The president faces a single charge of “incitement of insurrection” in the House

Winter sports begin, football has coaching changes, and basketball has quite a busy week.

The retired Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has said "the Church way out-stepped its role and became a controlling church" in relation to how women and children were treated in mother-and-baby homes.

TORONTO — Ontario is issuing an order requiring residents to stay at home starting Thursday, except for essential activities such as accessing health care or shopping for groceries, and further delaying in-person classes for students in some hot spots.

Sophie Scott had a front row seat to boyfriend Mac Jones’ memorable night. Scott, the girlfriend of Alabama quarterback Jones, documented the Crimson Tide’s national title win Monday over Ohio State, sharing clips from the game on her Instagram story. “Natty,” Scott posted to her Instagram story early Monday. “Let’s go @macjones_10.” Scott later posted...

Getting real! Jana Kramer is opening up about trust when it comes to her husband, Mike Caussin. “I trust him today. He’s showing up today. He’s showing up as a father, he’s showing up as a husband and he’s living it with integrity,” the actress, 37, told Us Weekly on Monday, January 11. “And I had to Read More

Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is scheduled to visit Taipei in another high-level diplomatic call which has drawn Beijing's ire.

Journalist Adam Jentleson traces the history of the filibuster, which started as a tool of Southern senators upholding slavery and then later became a mechanism to block civil rights legislation.

Previously, Lukashenko disclosed that he got used to his nickname "batka" ["father"], and compared himself to a squirrel in a wheel that just cannot stop

The new entry-level Wi-Fi 6 router was announced at CES 2021.

After this masterful quip from Jamie Lynn Spears, all we can say is...give us more! The actress, singer and younger sister of Britney Spears proved, once again, she has a way with words...

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History, World

Both the Axis and Allies worked hard to create reliable and powerful weapons for their troops.

If the First World War was the conflict in which the machine gun was defined, it was the Second World War that the weapon was refined—and also how it was employed in both defensive and offensive roles. The early water-cooled machine guns gave a defender a true advantage, but it was the development of air-cooled machine guns that truly changed the battlefield forever. Читать дальше...

Lessons from organized crime about orderly transitions of power.

• Netflix shared its full 2021 film slate on Tuesday, which currently consists of 70 movies.
• Some of the highlights on the list include Army of the Dead (directed by Zack Snyder), Don't Look Up (starring Leonardo DiCaprio), and Bruised (from first-time director Halle Berry).
• You can watch a trailer from Netflix featuring footage from several of these movies below.

The swift arrival of multiple COVID-19 vaccines has offered hope for the end of the global pandemic, but there’s still a question of how long people are protected from the virus after they receive their shots.