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Juniors across the United States will take the preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, or PSAT/NMSQT, on Wednesday. High schools offer the exam, which includes math, reading and writing, to students every fall. Wednesday is this year's alternate test date. The PSAT, as it's abbreviated, is important because it gives students an idea of what taking the actual SAT and ACT will be like. It also serves as the qualifying exam for the National Merit Scholarship, a competitive program that pays for its winners to go to college.

Luke Bryan becomes the first artist to bank five No. 1s from two albums apiece on Billboard's Country Airplay chart (dated Nov. 12), as "...

De Tweede Kamer wil uiterlijk volgende week spreken met premier Mark Rutte over diens omgang met de uitslag van het Oekraïne-referendum. Voor dat debat moet Rutte voor de Kamer op een rijtje zetten met welke voorstellen hij de afgelopen maanden de boer op is gegaan om 'recht te doen aan de uitslag', zoals Rutte het steevast verwoordt.

Ben Hooper
DORKING, England, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- A runaway highland cow caused traffic headaches for commuters in a British town by taking a stroll through the streets.

Iraqi forces fought their way into jihadist-held Mosul on Tuesday, the military said, as a top commander declared the "true liberation" of the city from the Islamic State group had begun.

The leader of a federal wildlife refuge takeover in Oregon says his group will "continue to stand" after he and six others were acquitted last week of charges in the case. Ammon Bundy told The Oregonian/OregonLive in a phone call from the Multnomah County Detention Center on Monday that ...

The US' decision to use the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in its operation to liberate Raqqa could drag the region into chaos, inciting ethnic conflicts on the ground, Turkish political observer Bora Bayraktar told Sputnik Turkiye. According to the expert, the move could also further aggravate tensions between Washington and Ankara.

Ahead of the publication of her memoir Tippi, Tippi Hedren was shot for Vanity Fair with her daughter Melanie Griffith and granddaughter Dakota Johnson. For the first time, the family members were photographed together for a publication. “The three generations just made me think about Mom, born in 1930, and me, in the 50s, and Dakota, in the 80s,” Griffith says.

Ahead of the publication of her memoir Tippi, Tippi Hedren was shot for Vanity Fair with her daughter Melanie Griffith and granddaughter Dakota Johnson. For the first time, the family members were photographed together for a publication. “The three generations just made me think about Mom, born in 1930, and me, in the 50s, and Dakota, in the 80s,” Griffith says.

SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's global auto sales dropped from a year earlier in October, mostly due to heavy losses suffered by local industry leaders at home and abroad, data showed Tuesday. In October, five automakers based here sold a c

Brooks Hays
GREENBELT, Md., Nov. 1 (UPI) -- NASA scientists have partnered with engineers with the U.S. military to build a lidar instrument capable of detecting the signatures of life on Mars.

Prepare for a serious showdown over beer sales in the troubled town of Whiteclay.

Hal Elrod trained himself to wake up at 3:30 am.

The planned sale of more than 26,000 assault rifles by the US to the Philippines has been canceled after a top US senator said he would oppose the deal because of alleged police human rights violations in the country’s war on drugs, Newsweek reported Tuesday. Senator Ben Cardin, the most senior Democrat on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will block the sale because of human rights concerns, the aides told Reuters. Foreign relations committee staff members subsequently informed the U.S. State Department about his planned objection... Читать дальше...

The U.S.-backed troops have pushed through territory faster than expected in this pivotal offensive. The last major ISIS-held urban center in Iraq hangs in the balance.

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans have been anxious about the contentious presidential election, and when they get fretful, they tend to stop shopping.

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans have been anxious about the contentious presidential election, and when they get fretful, they tend to stop shopping.

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans have been anxious about the contentious presidential election, and when they get fretful, they tend to stop shopping.

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans have been anxious about the contentious presidential election, and when they get fretful, they tend to stop shopping. Retailers are hoping an improving job market and wage gains will get Americans in the mood to spend. "Everywhere you turn — whether you're picking up a newspaper or watching television — political advertisements are taking up ad space that retailers typically use to get holiday shopping on the minds of consumers across the country," said Matthew Shay, president... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans have been anxious about the contentious presidential election, and when they get fretful, they tend to stop shopping.

There are Bible verses you will only hear at marriage counseling programs. These Bible verses sometimes make people feel awkward, because here is a book they view as holy and spiritual focusing on things of the flesh. However, the Bible has verses especially in the book, the Songs of Solomon, written by Solomon, Israel’s wise […]

ATHENS, Ga. — With Georgia’s offense in a slump and the Bulldogs’ season at crisis stage, it’s time to re-invest in the team’s proven stars. That means more work for running backs Nick Chubb and Sony Michel this week against Kentucky. There also may be a bigger role for Isaiah McKenzie. Chubb had only nine

Are media reports true that a Syrian migrant who has four wives and 23 children gets over 30,000 euros a month in benefits? “This figure was pulled out of a hat,” the mayor of German town Montabaur, Edmund Schaaf, told Sputnik Germany.

WALKER, Minn. (AP) — Authorities have recovered the body of a Federal Dam man whose canoe apparently capsized in northern Minnesota's Leech Lake.