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HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Gov. David Ige is saying no to a bill that would have allowed online lodging services like Airbnb to collect taxes.

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Gov. David Ige is saying no to a bill that would have allowed online lodging services like Airbnb to collect taxes.

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Gov. David Ige is saying no to a bill that would have allowed online lodging services like Airbnb to collect taxes.

Of all the people in the world, Pop would choose Tim Duncan. Tim Duncan and Gregg Popovich are forever linked. Together, they played a huge role in turning the San Antonio Spurs into arguably the most successful and highly-regarded franchise in the NBA.

Injured St Kilda key defender Sam Fisher is set to make a return through the VFL in two weeks' time.

Is it time to buy Bitcoin? Has the idea finally come into vogue after nearly seven long years? My YouTube video, "How To Buy Bitcoins: In 3 Minutes" is already up to 18,412 views (you can watch it here), which is amazing considering it was shot in about, well, 3 minutes - quite unprofessionally from my garbage fire of a laptop at the time, no less.

Word about Bitcoin and crypto technology seems to be spreading from house to house, Internet user to Internet user, YouTube commenter troll to... Читать дальше...

Three persons, who tested positive for dengue, were admitted to the MKCG Medical College and Hospital on Tuesday."They underwent the Elisa test.

Zayn Malik made some interesting revelations in a new questionnaire about his “first times” for the August issue of Glamour mag. Here’s what the 23-year-old singer had to share with the mag: First person you text or call when you wake up? My mum. First song you ever performed onstage? Ne-Yo’s “Let Me Love You.”  [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. candidly declared two weeks ago that he has too good of a race team to be worried about making NASCAR's playoffs.

Police in Baton Rouge foiled a plot to kill cops after nine guns were stolen from a pawn shop over the weekend, officials said Tuesday.

Financial adviser allegedly siphoned millions from clients’ accounts

While dengue has reared its ugly head in different parts of the state, Rourkela reported the first case on Monday evening following which the patient has been shifted to a Bhubaneswar hospital.

Image source: Netflix.

A Florida woman plunged hundreds of feet to her death at Grand Canyon National Park, hours after posting a photo that appears to show her sitting on a cliff ledge overlooking the canyon.

David Axe

Security, Asia

Nope--and we explain why. 

Russia is the latest country to claim that it has developed a new radar system that can detect stealth warplanes. But the Sunflower low-frequency over-the-horizon radar likely suffers all the same drawbacks that have plagued previous generations of similar sensors.

Namely, Sunflower might be able to detect a low-observable airplane. But it probably can’t do so with great fidelity — nor generate a useful targeting track for a missile to follow. Читать дальше...

Shawn Price
BALTIMORE, July 12 (UPI) -- The defense team for Baltimore police Lt. Brian Rice rested its case Tuesday, meaning a verdict in the latest trial over Freddie Gray's death may be days away.

Kris Osborn

Security,

Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets are being outfitted with a new, real-time sensor video data link which will better enable the aircraft to network and attack targets from farther ranges.

The Navy is aggressively seeking to increase the size of its F/A-18 fleet, extend the current service life of existing aircraft and integrate a series of new technologies to better enable the carrier-launched fighter to track and destroy enemy targets, service officials said. Читать дальше...

Da Vinci Days returns this weekend for the second time this year.

Andrew V. Pestano and Doug G. Ware
ROME, July 12 (UPI) -- More than two dozen people died Tuesday when two passenger trains collided head-on in southern Italy, officials said.

Many Canberrans were melting in joy at the snow sweeping the city on Wednesday morning, but the strong, gusty cold front kept emergency services busy Tuesday evening.

Woman accused of punching paramedic who was treating her.

Adrian Peterson has complained in recent months about the grind of training camp and OTAs. But those workouts pale in comparison to what Peterson does on his own. Ben Goessling of ESPN.com chronicled Peterson’s sessions in Houston following the conclusion of the Vikings’ offseason program. The grueling workout, which consists of a variety of running…

This article was originally featured on VoicesofAging.com.

In my last posting (What's all this about Livability and Age-friendliness, May 2016) I talked about the broad ideas of what livability and age-friendliness mean. I described the World Health Organization's (WHO) and AARP's recognition that throughout the world we are getting older. WHO states that "the number of people aged 65 or older is projected to grow from an estimated 524 million in 2010 to nearly 1.5 billion in 2050 (WHO)."... Читать дальше...