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The thousands of US military personnel and private contractors whose health was compromised by the dense black smoke of burn pits – and who were then denied proper treatment – may finally be vindicated by a recent court ruling. A judge under the US Department of Labor’s Office for Workers’ Compensation Programs decreed last month...

Over five haunting films set in his splintered, morality-challenged Russian homeland, Andrey Zvyagintsev has become a die-hard master at capturing spaces both beautiful and desolate, images of the recognizable world — nature, buildings, people — that also teem with a sense of something absent. That feeling is given explicit purpose in his latest breath-taker, “Loveless,” a quietly harrowing drama about a shattered marriage that finds itself under the spotlight again due to the most awful of circumstances... Читать дальше...

The CIA argued this week that it is well within its right for the agency to give selected classified information to reporters at the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and New York while withholding the same information from other reporters.

Filed under: News, Sports, Olympics

• A 35-year-old Norwegian etched his name into the history books on Thursday.
• Aksel Lund Svindal won gold in the downhill event and became the oldest Olympic alpine skiing champion of all time.
• At one point, Svindal accelerated to 125 km/ hour — a speed that would have resulted in a fine had he travelled that fast on the South Korean expressways.
• The only problem is that the police would first have to catch him.

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Instagram submitted to demands from Russia’s telecom regulator on Thursday after calling for the popular photo-sharing app to block access to posts from a political opponent of President Vladimir Putin.

Uzbekistan has introduced new rules for music videos that bans singers from sporting tattoos, insulting national symbols, and singing in bedrooms, among other things.

Plusieurs dirigeants des Premières Nations ont commenté, certains avec scepticisme, d'autres avec prudence, le plan présenté mercredi par le premier ministre du Canada concernant la reconnaissance de leurs droits.

The police officer who arrested the high school shooting suspect in Florida says the teen looked like a "typical high school student" when he spotted him walking away from the school.

A federal appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump's latest ban on travelers from six largely Muslim countries is unconstitutional.

Also known as Howard X, the North Korea dictator lookalike is keeping busy in South Korea

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — A Kansas congressional hopeful does not plan to stop a raffle for an AR-15 rifle, even though it’s the type of weapon authorities said was used in the mass shooting at a Florida high school. Republican Tyler Tannahill, a candidate in Kansas’ 2nd Congressional District, announced the raffle to support his campaign...

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At the most basic level, everything is made of tiny atoms.

As a way to recognize that fundamental fact, it seems appropriate that a stunning image depicting one single positively-charged strontium atom just won a prestigious photography award.

The image, which shows the atom trapped by electric fields, was the overall winner of this year's science photography competition put on by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of the UK. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Tuesday accused the United States of increasing military support for the YPG operating in Syria. The official added that the YPG should not rely on external support.

Jess Brichto

• Eliza Brichto doesn't like to wear dresses.
• The 7-year-old girl sent a handwritten letter to Zara offering to model for the retailer's boys' section.
• "The only place I go clothes shopping is Zara boys. I'm your number one fan, please accept my offer for me being a model for Zara boys," she wrote.
• Eliza hasn't heard back, but her mom Jess Brichto hopes they'll hear soon.
• Zara has a gender-neutral clothing line.

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Multiple fire crews are responding to the scene of a fire at the Braum’s Dairy Farm near Tuttle, Thursday afternoon.

Roche Holding AG said Thursday it agreed to acquire all the shares of Flatiron Health Inc. for $1.9 billion. New York City-based Flatiron has raised $313 million in funding from such investors as Alphabet Inc.'s Google Ventures and Roche, according to Crunchbase. Flatiron specializes in electronic health record software for cancer patients and research. Roche already owns 12.6% of Flatiron. Roche expects to close the transaction in the first half of 2018. Roche U.S. shares rose 1.2% in recent activity. Читать дальше...

The Raptors have won seven games in a row, Delon Wright has done his part, and now the All-Star break is here.

With five goals in his first three appearances for BVB, 'Batman' has been more potent in front of goal so far than even Arsenal's new signing

Faced with legal threats, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won’t hesitate to sow doubt, chaos, and confusion in order to remain in power.

It's still early at the Winter Olympics, but we've already seen an American athlete and media members display a lack of respect for women.

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By Alexandra Ulmer and Vivian Sequera CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's unpopular socialist president Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday his right-wing Latin American counterparts showed intolerance by trying to exclude him from an upcoming summit in Lima - and he vowed to go anyway. Because come rain or shine, by air, land, or sea, I will attend the Summit of the Americas," Maduro told foreign journalists at the Miraflores presidential palace. Peru's center-right government this week said Maduro would not be welcome at the April summit... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON D.C. (KFSM) — President Donald Trump has issued a presidential proclamation honoring the 17 people killed during the shooting Wednesday (Feb. 14) at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. The proclamation states, “Our Nation grieves with those who have lost loved ones in the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.  As a mark of solemn respect for the victims of the terrible act of violence perpetrated on February 14, 2018, by the authority... Читать дальше...

Former Big Ten defensive player of the year expelled from school after two sexual misconduct rulings.

“We could solve the subsistence problem ourselves without asking anything of the government by making a system of cascading dikes like the rice paddies of China,” says an owner of 12 chinampas. “If things continue like this the chinampa economy will have disappeared completely in 20 years.”