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A woman was killed when a fire broke out in her Queens home on Sunday, authorities said. The blaze broke out around 11:20 a.m. inside 60-year-old Rita Sklar’s Bayside home on 217th Street near 67th Avenue. First responders rushed Sklar to North Shore University Hospital, but she could not be saved, police said. Two firefighters...

Smart light switches that can be controlled through Alexa or Google Assistant are nothing new, but the iDevices Instinct takes things a step further: it actually has Alexa built in, turning the switch itself into a miniature Amazon Echo, complete with an integrated speaker.

LOS ANGELES — Chael Sonnen has not been known for taking a beating on the feet over his 20 years as an MMA fighter. Sonnen has never really been knocked out cold. And until his fight with Wanderlei Silva at Bellator NYC in June, “The American Gangster” had not been dropped.

Yoel Romero can’t understand how Michael Bisping was permitted to fight at UFC Shanghai.

Trump thinks it unlikely that welfare cuts are a winner this year, and has pulled back his support. The Democratic ads write themselves: "Here's what Republicans plan to do if you keep them in charge."

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• President Donald Trump shut down a voter fraud commission he set up to investigate illegal voting in the 2016 election. 
• One senior advisor told CNN the commission was a "s--- show" that "went off the rails." 
• But experts say the scrutiny and resistance that the commission faced will persist.

In an unexpected executive order on Wednesday night, President Donald Trump abruptly dissolved the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity... Читать дальше...

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Between testing ballistic missiles and eating extravagant amounts of cheese, North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has made plenty of pretty outrageous statements about the United States and life in the Hermit Kingdom.

His taunts and tit-for-tat exchanges with President Donald Trump in particular have at times shifted the needle from crazy to dangerous, with the two leaders engaging in a heated back-and-forth over the possibility of nuclear war.

Here are nine... Читать дальше...