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The very first teaser for Meryl Streep‘s film Florence Foster Jenkins has just landed on the web! The 66-year-old Oscar-winning actress plays the title role in the film about a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice. Hugh Grant, Rebecca Ferguson, Nina Arianda, and more star [...]

(AP) — A business and government consultant has pleaded guilty to a federal bribery charge, admitting he paid thousands of dollars in kickbacks to the former head of Mississippi's prison system and a county supervisor on the Gulf Coast. The Sun Herald reports (http://bit.ly/20HAFr2 ) the attorney for Robert Simmons says Simmons considered the payments "the cost of doing business in Mississippi."

A judge in Illinois on Friday will hear a lawsuit challenging Ted Cruz’s eligibility to serve as president, putting questions about the Texas senator’s status back into the news the day before the South Carolina primary. Lawrence Joyce, an Illinois voter who has objected to Cruz’s placement on the Illinois primary ballot next month, will […]

Is this the cutest kid ever? A zoo in Boston this week welcomed a squee-worthy addition to its farm exhibit. A baby Nigerian dwarf goat — named Chewbacca — was born to Leia and Lucky at Franklin Park Zoo’s barn. The ball of cuteness weighed in at just 4 pounds and was standing up within […]

He has a law degree and will soon be looking for a job. But those qualifications alone don’t make Vice President Joe Biden any more willing to serve on the Supreme Court, he said in an interview Thursday. Speaking to MSNBC, Biden said he would never tell President Barack Obama “for certain” that he wouldn’t […]

Another night, another MSNBC town hall. At least we don't have Joe Scarborough moderating the damn thing, anyway.

Science objectives for the James Webb Space Telescope include finding Earth-like exoplanets.

With recent polls placing them neck-and-neck here, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will plead their final cases with Nevadans tonight in the last nationally televised appearance before ...

The African-American South Carolina congressman's support comes just ahead of the Palmetto State primary, where Clinton needs a big victory to slow Bernie Sanders's momentum.

Congress passed the bill earlier this month

Yograj Singh, father of Indian superstar Yuvraj Singh, was more than just a coach in the eyes of Canberra batsman Amit Sharma.

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A Dallas-based auction house says a rare copy of a comic book featuring the first appearance of Spider-Man has sold for $454,100.

MINEOLA, New York - A Dallas-based auction house says a rare copy of a comic book featuring the first appearance of Spider-Man has sold for $454,100.

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A Dallas-based auction house says a rare copy of a comic book featuring the first appearance of Spider-Man has sold for $454,100. The comic book was purchased by an anonymous collector, and Heritage Auctions says Thursday's sale is a record for a public auction price for any Spider-Man comic book.

(AP) — The Wyoming Senate has given preliminary approval to a bill that targets a state agency that advocates for the interests of the public when utilities seek rate hikes. Representatives of several utilities testified this week against the bill at a committee hearing, saying the office staff serves the public interest.

The stadium would be surrounded by plazas and mixed-use buildings.

In the blood of a survivor of the recent Ebola outbreak, a team of researchers has discovered a number of antibodies that seem to successfully combat the deadly virus in mice.

There were no deals involving Dwight Howard, Kevin Love, Pau Gasol, Al Horford or any other all-star-calibre player whose named was floated in recent days

Amazon.com Inc., which already has a television deal with Woody Allen, said Thursday that it acquired North American rights to Mr. Allen’s next feature film.

State and local law-enforcement authorities are looking to follow the lead of the FBI in its standoff with Apple over the access to the contents of a terror suspect’s smartphone. Manhattan D.A. Cyrus Vance called the Apple case “the most visible example of how Silicon Valley’s decisions are thwarting criminal investigations and impeding public safety.”

NASCAR competitors have a greater voice in the workings of the operations than ever before with the birth of the drivers council last year.

The Court of Appeals must decide whether Baltimore Police Officer William Porter can be compelled to testify against five other officers while still facing his own charges.

A southwest Washington man who claims to have suffered a stroke after drinking four 16-ounce cans of Monster Energy drink has sued the energy drink maker.

BOSTON - A malfunctioning signal outside the city's busiest commuter hub triggered massive delays Thursday for rail passengers with no immediate word on when the problem might be fixed.

BOSTON (AP) — A malfunctioning signal outside the city's busiest commuter hub triggered massive delays Thursday for rail passengers with no immediate word on when the problem might be fixed. A spokeswoman for Keolis Commuter Services, which operates the 394-mile commuter rail network under a contract with the MBTA, apologized to passengers while noting the problem was with equipment operated by Amtrak. Amtrak spokesman Michael Tolbert said the railroad had not been able to pinpoint the cause of the malfunction in the signal... Читать дальше...