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With Cleveland in crisis mode ahead of Thursday's trade deadline, USA TODAY's insiders answered the most pressing questions surrounding the Cavs.

MALE, Maldives (AP) — The Maldives government declared a 15-day state of emergency Monday as the political crisis deepened in the Indian Ocean nation amid an increasingly bitter standoff between the president and the Supreme Court. A surprise Supreme Court ruling last week ordering the release of imprisoned opposition leaders has led to growing turmoil, with the president lashing out at the court, opposition protests spilling into the streets of the capital, Male, and soldiers in riot gear deployed... Читать дальше...

Seven planets recently spotted orbiting a dim star in our Milky Way galaxy are rocky, seem to have water, and are potentially "habitable", researchers studying the distant system said Monday.

Bogus car insurers in the UK are offering "too good to be true" prices. So-called "ghost brokers" sometimes register rural addresses on cars owned by people in cities in order to get lower premiums but the insurance certificates they produce are therefore worthless.

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• 13-year-old Ryan McKenna is the teenager behind the latest Super Bowl meme.
• McKenna explained that the moment wasn’t exactly what it appeared to be as he checked his phone during Justin Timberlake’s performance.
• Now, the seventh grader “can’t believe” what’s come from his viral moment.

Every Super Bowl has one. From Katy Perry's joyous left shark to Lady Gaga's big jump, the Super Bowl is a breeding ground for memes. This... Читать дальше...

• A CNN employee found sensitive government documents while flying on a commercial plane.
• The documents detailed a simulated biological warfare exercise by the Department of Homeland Security. 
• The exercise was meant to assess authorities' response to a potential anthrax attack during the Super Bowl.

While aboard a commercial flight en route to a wedding, a CNN employee discovered sensitive government documents in one of the plane's back-seat pockets, CNN reported Monday. 

The S&P 500 and the Dow saw their worst weeks since early January 2016 while the Nasdaq recorded its worst week since early February 2016.

TEHRAN, Feb. 5 (MNA) – In an interview with Russian-language Interfax on Monday, Levan Dzhagaryan said that Russia's attitude towards Iran will not be affected by the West accusations, adding Iran and Russia are strategic partners.

Serbia and Montenegro "could potentially be ready" for European Union membership by 2025, according to the final draft of the European Commission's Western Balkans strategy seen by RFE/RL.

An astonishingly brazen lie.

Rep. Devin Nunes is the author of a newly declassified document falsely insinuating the FBI misused US surveillance law to go after President Trump under the pretext of investigating Russia. On Monday morning, Nunes went on Fox & Friends, the president’s favorite TV show, to discuss Trump’s alleged persecution — and told a lie so brazen that there’s photographic proof of its wrongness.

The lie concerned George Papadopoulos, the Trump campaign’s foreign... Читать дальше...

JOHANNESBURG - Safa has confirmed that it’s received the Premier Soccer League’s appeal against last week’s decision by the Dispute Resolution Chamber (DRC) to give Ajax Cape Town striker Tendai Ndoro the green light to play.

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• Travel hubs like Penn Station and LaGuardia Airport in New York are in need of serious improvements.
• Mount Rushmore is full of cracks and requires constant maintenance.
• There are many other iconic landmarks in the US that are falling apart.

The US is full of important historical landmarks and iconic pieces of infrastructure. But many of those sites are beginning to show their age. 

Here are 10 landmarks around the US that are falling apart. Читать дальше...

Buckle up, This Is Us fans: There’s more heartbreak on the horizon.

On Sunday’s night special post-Super Bowl episode, the hit NBC series finally aired the moment fans have been anxiously anticipating for over a year: the death of beloved-yet-flawed TV dad Jack Pearson (Milo Ventimiglia). His costar Mandy Moore, who plays wife Rebecca Pearson, opened up about the gut-wrenching scenes — and the many more to come — during an interview on the Today show Tuesday.

Moore, 33, admitted... Читать дальше...

Fight Promotions Inc. is pleased to announce the signing of 2016 Olympian, super heavyweight Bakhodir Jalolov of Uzbekistan, to a promotional contract.

We beat the Galaxy! We played a sort-of-somewhat-kinda meaningful game! 

BP’s Top 101, and a new tool to bring it all together

Baseball Prospectus released its list of Top 101 prospects (they add a 101st to be different), and if you thought MLB Prospect Pulse was optimistic by putting seven White Sox on their list, check this out:

6. Eloy Jimenez
17. Michael Kopech
40. Alec Hansen
47. Dylan Cease
55. Luis Robert
84. Jake Burger
89. Dane Dunning
90. Blake Rutherford

EIGHT! Eight Top 100 101 prospects! We’ve known for a while that BP is higher on Dylan Cease than the field... Читать дальше...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The only surviving member of the Islamic State cell that killed 130 people in Paris appeared in public Monday for the first time since his arrest and rejected the legitimacy of a Belgian court by refusing to rise or answer questions at his trial. Salah Abdeslam is facing attempted murder charges in Brussels from a police shootout four months after the Paris attacks. Abdeslam fled while another man sprayed automatic gunfire and was killed. He was captured a few days later in the same... Читать дальше...

Four losses were reported by health organizations during the third quarter of 2017-18 including funds misappropriated from the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency.

Retaining walls are so named because they retain or hold the soil behind it. Retaining walls are especially useful in keeping with different levels of soil at two different levels from each side.

Fusion GPS’s relationship with Nellie Ohr, the wife of demoted Justice Department official Bruce Ohr hired to dig up dirt on then-candidate Trump, may have leveraged to influence top government officials. “Payments from Fusion GPS to Bruce Ohr’s family, funded by the DNC, have the appearance of a ‘government for hire,’ i.e. bribing a DOJ […]

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and what better way to show your undying affection for your significant other than with a midrange Android smartphone? That’s what Motorola thinks, at any rate: it’s holding a “Hello Love” Valentine’s Day sale, which discounts the Moto Z2 Play by $150 to $349.99 from now until February 17th, via SlashGear.

Libya's UN-backed government on Monday accused gunmen of "terrorising" thousands of displaced after armed groups opened fire at them to prevent them from returning to their town.

BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on developments in Syria (all times local): 6:15 p.m. Turkey's military says a soldier has been killed in shelling in the Syrian Kurdish enclave of Afrin. A military statement said the soldier died Monday in the Kuri Hill region. At least 16 Turkish soldiers have been killed since Ankara launched an offensive last month aimed at driving Syrian Kurdish fighters out of the northern Syrian enclave along the border. Turkey considers the Syrian Kurdish force to be an extension of the Kurdish insurgency in its own southeast. Читать дальше...

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• Ryan Hardy is a real estate agent with Gold Coast Realty in Chicago.
• Hardy works with first-time homebuyers as well as successful CEOs and professional athletes.
• His best advice for first-time buyers includes finding a reliable realtor and trusting your instincts. 

As a millennial myself, I understand the allure of renting. The freedom to pick up and move at a moments notice, limited responsibilities, and delaying the feeling of adulthood. Читать дальше...