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In 2015, a first edition copy of Gabriel García Márquez's classic was stolen from a Bogota book fair. Many cases in that city go unsolved, but local law enforcement went all out to find the book.

April 1, 1931 — Nov. 6, 2016

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Back in 2012, when Microsoft first announced its first-ever Surface, a Wall Street analyst asked Apple CEO Tim Cook if the Cupertino company would ever follow suit with a laptop/tablet hybrid of its own.

“You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but you know those things are not going to be probably be pleasing to the user," Cook famously replied.

Fast forward to today, and Apple is selling no fewer than two versions of the iPad Pro, a tablet that looks a lot like a Microsoft Surface. Читать дальше...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A civil rights group has settled lawsuits against four New Jersey school districts and a charter school whose enrollment practices it charged make it harder for children of immigrants living in the country unlawfully to enroll.

A woman acknowledged kidnapping another woman and picking up a $250,000 ransom that authorities handed over in hopes of the safe return of the victim, but her body was found along a rural road in ...

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Empty homes are a unique Vancouver real estate problem. There’s been so much land speculation in the tiny city, that people are literally just buying homes to have them sit empty – sometimes for years. Actually, sometimes for decades. Consequently, the city has one of the lowest rental vacancy rates in North America, and has become one of the least affordable in the world. Not exactly a boasting point.

So we thought we’d use the power of natural language... Читать дальше...

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After months of protest against the proposed North Dakota Access Pipeline, the clash between police and activists heated up Sunday night as temperatures cooled to dangerous levels.

Protesters, many of whom are from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, have been demonstrating against the oil pipeline that would pass through North Dakota's Lake Oahe, a sacred burial site and major source of drinking water for the Standing Rock Sioux.

Here's what happened... Читать дальше...

Lakeville Area Public Schools will soon start search process for new superintendent.

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A Melbourne doctor fears two people have died after an unprecedented number of people fell acutely sick on Monday evening, in what is believed to be a mass incident of 'thunderstorm asthma'.

The outgoing head of the Environmental Protection Agency said that she is "very hopeful" that the Trump administration will continue the agency's work of cleaning up air and water pollution.

WASHINGTON (AP) — An immigration adviser to President-elect Donald Trump and a possible candidate for a top government post wants to make some changes at the Homeland Security Department, including recreating a system that required certain immigrants, including men and boys from 25 mostly Muslim nations, to register with the federal government upon their arrival. The top suggestion was to "update and reintroduce" the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, or NSEERS, for all foreigners from "high-risk" areas... Читать дальше...

Orbitz has ranked the US airports that will most likely be the busiest during a record travel year for Thanksgiving.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Nearly 1,000 Haitian election workers are doing shifts inside a warehouse tabulating the results of presidential and legislative elections supposed to return their drifting homeland back to full constitutional order.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko discussed a road map on settling the crisis in Ukraine and the implementation of the Minsk agreements, the German Chancellor’s press service said Monday.

The allure of the Beatles, the band that turned rock universal, is a cultural mystery that the director Christopher Munch boldly and insightfully confronted in his first feature, “The Hours and Times,” from 1991, which I discuss in this clip. Like a scientist, Munch considers the phenomenon in isolation; rather than looking at the band on tour or going behind the scenes of the music industry, he constructs a cinematic petri dish: a dramatization of the four-day jaunt to Barcelona, in 1963, of John Lennon and the group’s manager... Читать дальше...

Wednesday, hot and sunny. Thursday, hot and sunny. Rinse and repeat. Summer weather has finally arrived in Perth.

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump held court from his perch high above Manhattan on Monday, receiving a line of former rivals, longtime allies and TV executives while overseeing a presidential transition that at times resembles a reality show like…

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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- "American Horror Story" co-star Angela Bassett has signed on to play Ramonda, mother of T'Challa, in the upcoming Marvel movie "Black Panther."

– Nigeria’s Sports Minister Solomon Dalung has stated that he was misinterpreted for the statement credited to him that the Super Eagles do not need to go for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia – The Minister said that the interview he had was taken out of context  – He maintained that the Nigeria […]

Jony Ive’s much-hyped Christmas tree is underwhelming. Apple’s chief design officer — the creative genius behind some of the company’s most successful products, including the iPod and iPhone — was tasked with designing a Christmas tree for the prestigious Claridge’s hotel lobby in London. Known for simplicity, Ive took a similar approach with the tree. […]

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power upbraided Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime and Russia for its military actions across Syria and particularly in the war-torn and devastated city of Aleppo, and she publicly named and shamed Syrian commanders for their involvement in deadly assaults and running prisons where torture has been reported.. Power made reference […]

As a candidate, Donald Trump always had loyal defenders at Fox News. Now that he’s president-elect, many of them are being discussed for jobs in his administration. Laura Ingraham, a paid Fox News contributor, is in talks to serve as Trump’s press secretary. Richard Grenell, another contributor with Fox, is reportedly being considered for the […]