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QAnon has published a lot of information over the past few years exposing the Deep State. It compiled some highlights of the meltdown of the Left, Trump victories, and Christmas parodies...

To those who complain about Texas’ oil and natural gas industries: do your duty and boycott them by not driving a car. Every year you use that car, you are responsible for emitting...

With the advent of affordable monitor risers, it’s never been easier to become a part-time or full-time standing desk user, but it’s important not to skimp on the anti-fatigue...

Before you pack up all those holiday decorations do future-you a favor: clean them.Read more...

Momentum is building in support of farming models that are regenerative instead of extractive, that build healthy soil, crop diversity — and thriving communities. Learn more...

I’m feeling unexpectedly hopeful as 2018 winds down. Though the national political landscape remains tumultuous, we’re seeing some powerful, energizing trends in the world...

Once considered a rising GOP star, U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona abandoned his bid for a second term after numerous clashes with President Donald Trump.        ...

Braxton Moral, 16, is set to graduate from Ulysses High School in Kansas as well as Harvard University in May.      

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina vies to extend decade-long rule amid accusations of repressionPolls have opened in Bangladesh’s first contested election in a decade after a campaign...

Man held is also ‘suspected of involvement in recruiting Moroccan nationals to carry out terror plots’A Swiss national has been arrested in connection with the killing of two...

Five Years Ago This week in 2013, the feds were begrudgingly loosening the reins on some secrecy in minimal ways, releasing a redacted version of their secret interpretation of the...

When all you have is a war hammer, everything looks like a war. That's how Wisconsin law enforcement viewed the task it was given: collection of an $80,000 civil judgment from a resident...

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PM Sheikh Hasina is seeking a third successive term while her main rival is in prison for corruption.

Demonstrators allege black beachgoers were asked to leave the area by private security guards.

Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost: Taxpayers Dish Out $54,000 For Mar-a-Lago Party Tents For New Year's Eve  —  The public eats the costs of a bash at Trump's Florida resort while federal...

Matt Viser / Washington Post: Potential 2020 candidates confront the need for campaign cash, and fewer sources of it  —  A sprawling field of potential Democratic presidential...

The best of readers' tech trouble one-liners On Call Over the months, On Call and Who, Me? – El Reg's weekly columns of tech support cock-ups – stack up quite a few submissions that...

Remains of the year laid bare as we flay July to December Where were we? Ah yes... it was the summer of GitHub committers' discontent – as many looked on in horror as Redmond swallowed...

From fake porn to Facebook scandals, security alerts to Google protests - 2018 was a busy year.

Google and Facebook's ad networks placed promotions for major brands before apps were banned.

Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer

Futher Column - By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer

Two dogs were thrown out a moving car into busy oncoming traffic. The people responsible have not been found. Demand justice for these poor creatures.

Tree plantations supply the world with about 1/3 of its supply of round wood, but at the cost of the livelihoods of local communities they displace. Demand that Uruguay cease the proliferation...

The City of Tshwane has cancelled its annual New Year's Eve cross-over celebration "after the appointed service provider pulled out at the 11th hour".

A giraffe, whose kick can decapitate a lion, has killed a farm worker outside Bela-Bela in Limpopo.

A popular YouTube content creator from Pakistan was killed after a ghost scare prank went horribly wrong. The incident, which saw Rana Zuhair of the L...

Following on from its historic flyby of Pluto in 2015, the probe will reach its next destination on New Year's Day. With a mass approximately 10,000 t...

Tough tests are forced on state schools as data reveals benefit to independent sectorTory education reforms are giving private school pupils a huge additional advantage in the hunt...

Ministers and senior MPs in talks to extend 29 March deadline if May’s deal failsSenior Tory and Labour MPs are planning to force the government to delay Brexit by several months...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is about the make the most distant planetary flyby in the history of spaceflight, and you can follow the action live.

The launch of an much-delayed U.S. spy satellite has been delayed again, this time to no earlier than Jan. 6, according to the United Launch Alliance.

UK trade minister Liam Fox has estimated the chance of his country staying in the European Union at 50 percent if the prime minister’s Brexit plan fails to clear the parliament...

The head of the Iran Customs Mehdi Mirashrafi rejected the rumors of smuggling goods through Iran's customs

Professionals without children may get the short end of the stick when it comes to work-life balance policies, new research from York University's School of Human Resource Management...

Speakers at another pro-pipeline rally in Alberta continued their attacks on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday, saying if leaders in Ottawa don't hear their message now...

The son of country music legends Johnny Cash and June Carter has compiled a book of Southern recipes handed down in his family through the years.

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with musician Alejandro Escovedo about his latest album, The Crossing. It was inspired by the struggles migrants face crossing the southern border...

More than 400 drivers have been caught speeding every day since Christmas day.

An investigation is underway after a mother and child were injured in a burglary at their home in County Meath.

The Jason Momoa vehicle could potentially be 2018’s biggest grosser for Warner Bros.

BEIJING: China is set to mark the Year of the Pig with a film starring Peppa Pig, the popular British cartoon character that fell foul with its censors earlier this year. A government...

This festive NASA Hubble Space Telescope image resembles a holiday wreath made of sparkling lights. The bright southern hemisphere star RS Puppis, at the center of the image, is swaddled...

Using satellite observations of Antarctica to search for penguin guano (poo) may not sound like the most exciting research, but it’s providing scientists with unique insights...

For some people, the gym is expensive or inconvenient. Others don’t like working out in front of a crowd. No matter your reason for not wanting to go to the gym, there are plenty of exercises...

A first kiss between two people is always a big deal. You may feel even more pressure to get it right if it’s your partner’s first kiss ever. Luckily, there are things you can do to...

by James M. Dorsey A disagreement between major Indonesian religious leaders and the government on how to respond to China’s crackdown on Turkic Muslims raises questions about...

by Human Rights Watch The following statement was issued on December 18, 2018 by 57 rights groups, including Human Rights Watch: We the undersigned call on Bahrain to release Nabeel...

"The War at Home," a landmark documentary about antiwar protests in the 1960s and '70s in Madison, Wisconsin, has just been re-released nationwide. We speak with co-director Glenn...

As President Donald Trump makes a surprise visit to Iraq this week and defends his plans to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria and about half the nearly 7,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan...

The sighting is a glimmer of hope for a species that has seen a hard few years: 19 right whales died in 2017 and 2018, and not a single North American right whale calf was seen last season...

Kirstjen Nielsen's visit comes as her department is under scrutiny for the recent deaths of two Guatemalan migrant children in U.S. custody.

As he looks forward to a new TV series, actor and author Taye Diggs talks about his family, health struggles, aging, and being a dad.

Like Alexander Hamilton, his famous Broadway theater role, Lin-Manuel Miranda pushes forward with relentless speed and bottomless good cheer, juggling multiple projects and...