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The world's first self-driving taxis will be picking up passengers in Singapore starting Thursday ...

DENVER (AP) — A sheriff in rural Colorado was arrested after being accused of taking a developmentally delayed inmate to his home, sexually assaulting her and threatening to put her in prison for the rest of her life if she told anyone, according to an arrest affidavit released Wednesday. Jeff Huston, an investigator with the district attorney's office, wrote in the affidavit that the inmate told him that Hanna offered to pay her $60, forced her to strip and sexually assaulted her after taking her to his home in his personal vehicle on Aug. Читать дальше...

The Army reservist who killed five Dallas police officers last month showed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder after returning home from Afghanistan in 2014, but doctors concluded that he presented no serious risk to himself or others ...

Kellyanne Conway, campaign manager for the Donald Trump campaign, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump's excuse that an audit prevents him from releasing his tax returns.

The Income Tax department sleuths conducted a raid on Wednesday at the house of two men from whom 70 lakh of unaccounted money was seized a day ago.

Giovinco's two assists caught the Orlando back line sleeping and gave Toronto the three points.

Prices will continue rising over the next two years, but at a slower pace, credit union association forecasts

The stage is set for Krishna Janmashtami celebrations in Ranchi.A dahi handi competition, a first in the city, will be organised across three areas in the city on Thursday.

Select members of the public will be able to hail a free ride through their smartphones in taxis operated by nuTonomy, an autonomous vehicle software startup. While multiple companies, including Google and Volvo, have been testing self-driving cars on public roads for several years, nuTonomy says it will be the first to offer rides to the public. The cars — modified Renault Zoe and Mitsubishi i-MiEV electrics — have a driver in front who is prepared to take back the wheel and a researcher in back who watches the car's computers. Читать дальше...

Select members of the public will be able to hail a free ride through their smartphones in taxis operated by nuTonomy, an autonomous vehicle software startup. While multiple companies, including Google and Volvo, have been testing self-driving cars on public roads for several years, nuTonomy says it will be the first to offer rides to the public. The cars — modified Renault Zoe and Mitsubishi i-MiEV electrics — have a driver in front who is prepared to take back the wheel and a researcher in back who watches the car's computers. Читать дальше...

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says he will hold a plebiscite Oct. 2 for citizens to vote on a peace deal with ...

Kellyanne Conway, campaign manager for the Donald Trump campaign, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump's past donations to the Clinton Foundation and the campaign's criticism of it now.

NEW YORK - The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting Wednesday to discuss North Korea's latest missil...

Hope Solo has been suspended from the U.S. Women’s National Team for six months. The 35-year-old pro soccer player called the Sweden soccer team “cowards” after losing to them in the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. “The comments by Hope Solo after the match against Sweden during the 2016 Olympics were unacceptable and do not meet [...]

Holy Christian Dior.

And Trump immediately tweets that he hasn’t read it.

.@AnnCoulter's new book, 'In Trump We Trust, comes out tomorrow. People are saying it's terrific - knowing Ann I am sure it is!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 23, 2016

I think the part that makes me cringe the most is the E Pluribus Awesome. Ya know, “out of many, one” is the thing that Republicans are messing with the most. They don’t like the united part of United States and they sure as hell have no intention of ever... Читать дальше...

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Google is investing heavily in virtual reality (VR) programming for the release of its Daydream VR platform, which is set to launch in the coming weeks, according to Bloomberg.

Daydream has been broadly designated as the runway on which Google’s hardware and software VR plans will take off. The project is now referred to in more specific terms... Читать дальше...

Fans will have to wait til Summer 2017, but speculation is already building for HBO’s fantasy epic Maisie Williams, who plays Arya Stark, says the next batch of “Game of Thrones” episodes is gonna be, like, awesome. Emmy Nominations by the Numbers: 'Game of Thrones' and 'People v OJ' Lead [...] you don’t want to give a hero an all-but-certain death, bring him back to life – and then kill him again. “I feel like one of the safest people on ‘Thrones’ right now,” actor Kit Harington told TheWrap this month. Читать дальше...

The school education department has suspended a drawing teacher of a government school in Thummanatty near Udhagamandalam for speaking to the media.

Editor’s note: In his new piece, NAIJ.com’s contributor and former minister of aviation Femi Fani-Kayode has in strong terms condemned the visit of the Unites State’s secretary of  state John Kerry to some specific parts of Nigeria. He also condemned his meeting with a selected notable Nigerians and some incidents that have taken place within the past few […]

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NAPA, Calif. -- A throw-it-up-for-grabs interception tossed by Oakland Raiders QB Derek Carr in the second preseason game was familiar for a known risk-taker.

Kellyanne Conway, campaign manager for the Donald Trump campaign, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the Trump campaign is working with Republican establishment figures when the new campaign CEO has devoted so much energy to unseating establishment...

A 53-year-old driver of a container truck carrying RBI money was found drunk at Gandhipuram on Wednesday morning.

WOODSTOCK, Vt. (AP) — The founder of a radical conservation group made famous by the television show "Whale Wars" says a settlement over anti-whaling activities only prevents the group's U.S. organization from interfering with Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean.

WOODSTOCK, Vt. (AP) — The founder of a radical conservation group made famous by the television show "Whale Wars" says a settlement over anti-whaling activities only prevents the group's U.S. organization from interfering with Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean.

WOODSTOCK, Vt. (AP) — The founder of a radical conservation group made famous by the television show "Whale Wars" says a settlement over anti-whaling activities only prevents the group's U.S. organization from interfering with Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean.