AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas agreed Wednesday to weaken its voter ID law, which federal courts have said discriminated against minorities and the poor and left more than 600,000 registered voters potentially unable to cast a ballot.
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Nepal’s parliament on Wednesday elected a former communist rebel leader to lead a coalition government as the country’s new prime minister, a move that will probably mean the continuation of political instability in the Himalayan nation. Parliamentary speaker Onsari Gharti Magar announced that Maoist party leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal received 363 votes from lawmakers, with 210 voting against him. In the years that followed, the Maoist revolt spread to many parts of the country... Читать дальше...
BEIRUT (AP) — The 28-year-old Syrian attorney turned down a scholarship to study economics in Germany in order to remain in his native Aleppo after rebels took it over in 2012, promising a new administration and life free of the…
De Duitse film Toni Erdmann maakt kans om ingezonden te worden voor de Oscars in 2017. De komedie, waarin de Nederlandse actrice Hadewych Minis een bijrol speelt, staat op de shortlist met in totaal acht films, waaruit de uiteindelijke Duitse inzending zal worden gekozen. De uitverkoren film maakt kans genomineerd te worden in de categorie beste buitenlandse film, meldt de Duitse filmwebsite Filmstarts.
Trump's campaign has descended into outright turmoil and GOP leaders are reportedly exploring ways to replace the mogul on the ticket.
The ANC has quickly snatched the lead from the DA at national level as more results come in
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Humans are notorious for thinking they're better than everyone else.
When asked to rate themselves on attractiveness, intelligence, driving ability — you name it — they consistently say they're above average, which obviously isn't mathematically possible.
So it makes sense that people also believe their relationships are healthier than other folks'.
Specifically, people think their own romantic partner has a much lower chance of cheating than the average member of the opposite sex. Читать дальше...
Donald Trump has a "minimal relationship with the truth," according to the GOP nominee's biographer David Cay Johnston.
Marvel
"Guardians of the Galaxy" was full of out-there character designs, including a gun-slinging raccoon and bald indigo cyborgs. However, one returning character is going to look even stranger in the upcoming sequel.
Yondu, the blue alien played by Michael Rooker who lead the Ravagers, and who controlled a deadly weapon with a whistle, is going to be sporting a massive metallic mohawk in "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2," Marvel revealed on Instagram earlier this week. This actually... Читать дальше...
DESTIN, Fla. — Authorities say a small plane crashed into the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida Panhandle coast, killing a Louisiana man. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office says on social media that 63-year old Al Habetz’s twin engine eight-seat Cessna went down Tuesday night near Destin. Officials don’t think anyone else was onboard. Officials
Master Chief Mass Communication Specialist Jerry McLain
The Navy will soon finish initial prototyping of new weapons tubes for its Virginia-Class submarines designed to massively increase missile firepower, bring the platform well into future decades and increase the range of payloads launched or fired from the attack boats.
The new missile tubes, called the Virginia Payload Modules, will rev up the submarines’ Tomahawk missile firing ability from 12 to 40 by adding an additional 28 payload tubes ... Читать дальше...
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Coca-Cola is in hot water because of the latest Sprite campaign in Ireland.
The "Brutally Refreshing" campaign has received backlash after people criticized ads as sexist and degrading, instead of tongue-in-cheek and honest.
Lines from the campaign include "She's seen more ceilings than Michelangelo," "You're not popular… you're easy," and "A 2 at 10 is a 10 at 2."
Irish social media users soon took to Twitter, arguing that the ads were misogynistic.
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Because the work of even the well-known Russian masters is done in such a spotty fashion in the U.S., there are unsuspected gems still waiting around many corners. To call Sergei Taneyev’s Piano Quintet in G Minor, which occupied the second half of Tuesday’s vibrant concert in the Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, a gem would be putting it too strongly. Taneyev, a student and friend of Tchaikovsky, was a product of the conservatory system that burgeoned in Russia in the latter decades of the 19th century ... Читать дальше...
Democratic presidential candidate speaks in Colorado
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Michael Phelps has a lot of memorable moments at the Olympics.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Michael Phelps has a lot of memorable moments at the Olympics.
If there’s one thing Taylor Swift knows how to do well, it’s attracting the attention of paparazzi (see: every damn photo of her and Tom Hiddleston’s world tour romance). But since Swift’s achieved a level of fame beyond most celebrities, she also has the means to stay out of the public eye if she so desires.
Читать дальше...A 57-year-old Buffalo man was killed when a shipping pallet tipped over on top of him at a FedEx freight facility, police said.
The Islamic State plans to target American air bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, an Israeli cyber-intelligence company that claimed to have hacked the jihadist organization’s Telegram communication group said on Wednesday.
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The White House informed the campaigns that Trump and Clinton are now eligible to receive government-provided workspace for transition planning.
Karen Fukuhara looks so pretty on the carpet at the Suicide Squad premiere held at the Odeon Leicester Square on Wednesday (August 3) in London, England. She was joined by her co-stars Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jai Courtney (with girlfriend Mecki Dent), Joel Kinnaman, Jay Hernandez, director David Ayer (with wife Maria) and Justice League director Zack [...]