The FBI spent more than three hours Thursday at the Houston Independent School District’s administration building. FBI agents came out of the Hattie Mae White Educational Support...
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Move appears designed to put pressure on Europe to support Turkish Idlib operationHundreds of refugees in Turkey began arriving at the country’s borders with Greece and Bulgaria...
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Border Patrol agents kill a lot of people, most of them citizens of another country. For years, agents have been able to open fire on people in moving vehicles and [checks Congressional...
As you know by now, all four major wireless carriers have been selling access to user location data for the better part of the last decade to pretty much any nitwit with a nickel. Journalists...
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White House chief accuses the media of stoking fears of the coronavirus to attack President Trump.
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Client solutions to the rescue as infrastructure shrinks 7% After all those costly company takeovers, Dell has reported that yet again good old-fashioned PCs came to its rescue to...
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The Church signed up to the future of AI - an ethical one - along with Microsoft and IBM.
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Trump is proposing to dramatically cut funding for the National Park Service. Sign this petition to oppose his attack on our public lands and environment...
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Efforts are underway to prove once and for all that the 1908 Tunguska explosion was caused by a meteor. Few natural disasters in the 20th Century hav...
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Michael Bloomberg's presidential campaign is opening offices across the Mountain West in places where Democrats have rarely competed. The hiring has sucked up talent away from...
The stock market has been plummeting in recent days — on Thursday the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly 1,200 points. Financial advisers are advising clients to not panic...
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A woman who was banned by a judge from taking any new cases against the State or judges unless she got permission from the court has won an appeal to the Court of Appeal...
A 21-year-old man who assaulted a 10-week-old baby leaving her with catastrophic and life-changing injuries has been jailed for 11-and-a-half years.
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In New Jersey, hundreds rallied at the New Brunswick Board of Education meeting Tuesday night against plans to demolish a public school to make way for Robert Wood Johnson Hospital...
Thousands in the Dominican Republic took to the streets of the capital Santo Domingo Thursday to protest the abrupt suspension of local elections earlier this month and to commemorate...
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone Friday.
All of the major indexes are now in what the markets call a correction, and stocks also were down in Asia and Europe.
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