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The Universe Is Moving Too Fast and Nobody Knows Why
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Former State Department Official Spied for China Since 2007
Ocasio-Cortez-aligned group attacks Biden, says he's 'out-of-touch' with Democratic Party
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www.oann.com | 4/25/2019 | StaffCOLOMBO (Reuters) – An explosion occurred in a town east of the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, on Thursday but there were no casualties, a police spokesman said. Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said police...
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ScienceDaily | 4/25/2019 | StaffThe fine particulate matter (e.g., PM2.5) mass concentration is often used as an ambient air pollution index. PM2.5 concentrations have often been found to be even higher in Ulaanbaartar than in...
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www.oann.com | 4/24/2019 | StaffMONTREAL/OTTAWA (Reuters) – Rising waters are leading to further evacuations in central Canada, with the mayor of the country’s capital Ottawa declaring a state of emergency, and Quebec authorities...
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CNET | 4/25/2019 | Alfred Ng
The South Carolina State House in Columbia. One bad search on the government website for South Carolina's capital city could've exposed an entire database. City - Columbia - Site - Security - Flaw...
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Screen | 4/25/2019 | Tom Grater
Fulwell 73, the production outfit behind Bros: After The Screaming Stops and Carpool Karaoke, has acquired a minority stake in London-based film finance outfit Creativity Capital.
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WSJ | 4/24/2019 | Tim Higgins
Mr. Musk’s tune changed on Wednesday after Tesla reported one of its worst quarterly losses in history and its cash on hand fell by more than 40% to $2.2 billion from three months earlier.
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TechCrunch | 4/23/2019 | Staff
Astound, a company selling automated employee help desk services, has raised a new round of $15.5 million from investors led by the Los Angeles investment firm March Capital Partners.
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EurekAlert! | 4/22/2019 | Staff
In "A New Historical Inscription of Sargon II from Karkemish," published in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Gianni Marchesi translates a recently discovered inscription of the Assyrian King...
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www.oann.com | 11/21/2018 | Staff(Reuters) – California utility PG&E Corp said on Monday it submitted a proposal with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which if approved, would result in an increase of about 7...
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www.oann.com | 4/20/2019 | Staff
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Heavy clashes broke out in the southern districts of the Libyan capital Tripoli on Saturday, with shelling audible in the city center, residents said, as the death toll from two...
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Breitbart | 4/20/2019 | Staff
The head of the United Nations mission in Libya on Wednesday blasted “in the strongest terms” warlord Gen. Khalifa Haftar’s ongoing offensive to take the capital of Tripoli from troops loyal to the...
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phys.org | 11/16/2014 | StaffIn "A New Historical Inscription of Sargon II from Karkemish," published in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Gianni Marchesi translates a recently discovered inscription of the Assyrian King...
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Mail Online | 4/18/2019 | George Martin For Mailonline
A record-breaking 'concreteberg' as heavy as a blue whale has been discovered in a north London sewer. The blockage, caused by people pouring concrete into drains, is the largest that water company...
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TechCrunch | 4/18/2019 | Staff
Marketers get a lot of incoming from the data they have to deal with, bound up in hundreds of spreadsheets and reports, making it time consuming and tricky to get value out of.
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Mail Online | 4/17/2018 | Snejana Farberov For Dailymail.com
An 18-year-old Texas woman has been arrested on a capital murder charge in the death of her newborn daughter whose body was found inside a flower pot at a cemetery last month.
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www.oann.com | 3/29/2019 | Staff
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday her coalition government would not proceed with a proposal for a capital gains tax (CGT) due to a lack of consensus...
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Counter Extremism Project | 4/16/2019 | Staff
"More men and boys from a Somali American community in Minneapolis have joined – or attempted to join – a foreign terrorist organization over the last 12 years than any other jurisdiction in the...
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Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion | 4/12/2019 | New Neo
If you were thinking it would be hard for Democrats to get any worse, along comes an idea like that of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, who thinks unrealized gains should be taxed.
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www.oann.com | 4/8/2019 | StaffWASHINGTON (Reuters) – Pursuing so-called ‘euroclearability’ can help some emerging market economies lower borrowing costs by over $13 billion over 10 years while increasing their investor base, a...
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TechCrunch | 4/10/2019 | Staff
Publicly traded sensor technology developer, FLIR Systems, is investing in a strategic round of funding for the outsourced drone imaging company, DroneBase. The two companies are also partnering to...
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www.oann.com | 4/10/2019 | StaffCAIRO (Reuters) – The Saudi-led coalition carried out air strikes in Yemen against two Houthi targets in Sanaa, the capital, early on Wednesday, its spokesman said.
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TechCrunch | 4/10/2019 | Staff
Tunisia based private equity firm Africinvest has teamed up with Cathay Capital — a global private equity firm based in Paris — to launch a new Africa tech fund with a target raise of $168 million.
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Mail Online | 4/10/2019 | Danyal Hussain For Mailonline
A man is fighting for his life after being stabbed and robbed in London today, as the capital was hit by another wave of knife crime attacks. The man, in his late 20s, was 'run over' and stabbed by...
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TechCrunch | 4/9/2019 | Staff
Texas may have suffered a heartbreaking defeat during last night’s NCAA men’s championship game, but the state does have something to celebrate today. Local outfit LiveOak Venture Partners, a...
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TechCrunch | 4/9/2019 | Staff
Google X graduate Wing has begun making drone deliveries in a trio of suburbs just outside of Canberra, Australia’s capital city. The Alphabet owned company says it’s tested the service 3,000 times...
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www.oann.com | 4/9/2019 | StaffCAIRO (Reuters) – Heavy gunfire was heard at a protest outside the defense ministry in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Tuesday, live broadcast by Arab TV stations showed, and activists said that security...
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The Daily Caller | 4/8/2019 | Staff
Another day, another Democratic tax idea which could prove economically devastating. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), not to be outdone by similar terrible ideas from his Senate colleagues — such as Sen.
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Breitbart | 4/8/2019 | Staff
The U.S. military over the weekend announced that it had “temporarily” withdrawn a small contingent of American troops from Libya “due to increased unrest” in Tripoli following the decision by...
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TechCrunch | 4/8/2019 | Staff
Source Code Capital, the venture capital firm that’s backed some of China’s most prominent tech unicorns and boasts a network of high-profile investors and founders, announced Monday it has closed a...
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TechCrunch | 4/8/2019 | Staff
B Capital, the VC firm from Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, has made the first close of its second fund. The firm has closed out $406 million in initial capital, according to a filing lodged...
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Mail Online | 4/8/2019 | Associated Press
The United States has temporarily withdrawn some of its forces from Libya due to 'security conditions on the ground,' a top military official said Sunday as a Libyan commander's forces advanced...
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WSJ | 4/7/2019 | Jared Malsin
CAIRO—The U.S. military said it pulled a small contingent of American forces from Libya as the country teetered on the brink of full-scale civil war, with fighting continuing around the capital...
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Mail Online | 10/20/2011 | Ross Ibbetson For Mailonline
Violence has erupted in northwestern Libya as the rebel army commander Khalifa Hifter ordered his troops to march on Tripoli. The U.N. Secretary General Antonio Gutteres was left dismayed on Friday...
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www.oann.com | 11/19/2018 | StaffBUCHAREST (Reuters) – Lower capital requirements for European subsidiaries of EU banks would help encourage the emergence of more cross-border banks, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said...
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The Gateway Pundit | 4/4/2019 | Staff
Democrat Chairs of three different committees sent a letter in March demanding Capital One Financial Corporation hand over all of President Trump’s financial records related to his businesses, real...
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CNS News | 4/4/2019 | Staff
(CNSNews.com) — On April 3, an estimated 6,500 pro-life advocates marched in a peaceful protest outside the Virginia capital building in Richmond to “end abortion in Virginia,” as National March for...
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whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com | 4/4/2019 | Rocco Palmo
WASHINGTON – Over the last nine months, as this capital church has become the local nexus of the gravest crisis modern American Catholicism has known, the stakes facing its next leader have only...
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TechCrunch | 4/4/2019 | Staff
Nauta Capital, the pan-European VC that invests in “capital-efficient” B2B software companies and consumer tech, has announced the closing of a new €55 million “sidecar” fund dedicated to backing...
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Business Insider | 4/3/2019 | Staff
At its customer conference Oktane, cloud identity manager Okta announced a $50 million fund to invest in the next generation of identity and authentication startups.
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phys.org | 3/1/2019 | Staff
When Epic Games, the maker of the popular "Fortnite" video game, raised $1.25 billion from investors last year, it made the Cary, N.C.-based company one of the most valuable private companies in the...
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TechCrunch | 4/3/2019 | Staff
Identity management software provider Okta, which went public two years ago in what was one of the first pure-cloud subscription-based company IPOs, wants to fund the next generation of identity,...
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TechCrunch | 4/3/2019 | Staff
Over ten years ago, OpenGamma emerged as one of London’s new breed of FinTech startups, launching an open source analytics and risk management platform for the financial services industry.
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WSJ | 4/2/2019 | Gabriel T. Rubin
WASHINGTON—The top Democrat on the Senate’s tax-writing committee wants to tax long-term investments like other types of income, raising rates and requiring the wealthiest people to pay taxes on...
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Zero Hedge | 4/2/2019 | Staff
As if Alexandra Ocasio-Jones infuriating Amazon was not enough for Long Island City, and New Yorkers in general, when the world's biggest online retailer scuttled plans to build its New York-based...
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www.oann.com | 3/26/2019 | StaffLONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s markets watchdog will carry out an independent review of its handling of London Capital & Finance, which went into administration in January with losses of up to 237...
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CNET | 4/1/2019 | Alfred Ng
Albany's government announced it was hit by a ransomware attack on Saturday. Albany is the latest in a long list of cities ensnared by ransomware. Saturday - City - Government - Ransomware - Attack...
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www.oann.com | 3/31/2019 | StaffANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan suffered a severe setback as his ruling AK Party lost control of the capital Ankara for the first time in a local election and he appeared to concede defeat...
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Mail Online | 3/31/2019 | William Cole For Mailonline
A gunman is at large following a shooting in east London early this morning, police have warned. Police were called at around 2.50am on March 31 to Penrhyn Avenue in Walthamstow, to reports of a man...
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www.oann.com | 3/29/2019 | Staff
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Bankers in Asia are betting on newly-listed companies returning to the markets for fresh capital as last year’s flood of initial public offerings (IPOs) slows to a trickle, with...
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www.oann.com | 9/6/2018 | Staff(Reuters) – A steep rally in Indonesian stock markets ahead of a general election in April is likely to get a further boost from the dovish shifts in monetary policies of global central banks.
WATCH: Easter in Vietnam He is risen! And if you had any doubts, check out this brief video that appeared on Facebook, from...
NPR offers a series on what a radically Hindu-ized India will look and feel like Imagine if the state of Texas decided it...
Black churches torched in arson attack to rebuild in hope after public donates more than $2M Three historically black...
Gospel for Asia social worker lost 5 family members in Sri Lanka Easter bombings A social worker affiliated with Gospel for...
You’re not alone: 7 struggles that Jesus can identify with We’ve all said it, or at least thought it: “Jesus couldn’t possibly...
IMMIGRATION: AN EXCHANGE In “Immigration Idealism,” Matthew Schmitz argues plausibly that Christian views on immigration are...
Researchers find H-C bonds form when hydrogen atoms collide at high speed with graphene A team of researchers from Germany, the...
Giant Bird That Killed Its Owner Heads to Auction Florida-resident Marvin Hajos died two weeks ago, after being attacked by one...
Yellowstone volcano: USGS scientist’s warning over ‘BIG ONE’ earthquake REVEALED “So if that system depressurised, you’ll get...
Mary Meeker’s new fund, two IPOs from China, and what’s next for Uber and Slack? Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s...
Barfing neutron stars reveal their inner guts Observations of the kilonova. Credit: P.K. Blanchard/ E. Berger/...
REVIEW: ‘SEAL TEAM’ EPISODE ‘MEDICATE AND ISOLATE’ IS HEARTBREAKING The latest episode of “SEAL Team” was an...
Sofia Richie, 20, looks chic in a plunging jumpsuit as she hits the club with Scott Disick, 35 She'd enjoyed an evening of...
‘Howard the Duck’ Honest Trailer: The First Marvel Comics Movie Was Truly Fowl Marvel Studios may be the king of comic book...
The Best New Shows and Movies on Netflix This Week – Chambers, Knock Down the House Looking for something new to watch on...
James Bond 25: Enlisting Killing Eve writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge was Daniel Craig's idea The first details of the eagerly...
Devilworks adds two new titles to Cannes 2019 slate (exclusive) UK genre sales outfit Devilworks has added two new titles to...
Raccoons Keep Calm and Carry On! These cute raccoons appear to be waiting to be fed with the front one looking to keep every...
Rare "Dumbo" Octopus! This octopus fans out its tentacles as if showing off while having its picture taken!
Subway in 1905 - New York City, NY! This short glimpse into the past reveals a time radically different from today.
This Turkey Gives Out Hugs! This turkey has a great strategy for avoiding being a Thanksgiving dinner - just give another way,...
Tornado Coming in Laramie! This classic stovepipe in Laramie is causing some havoc as it continues on its way looking very...
Short, But Torrential Downpour in Nevada! This microburst drops lots of water on the Nevada landscape!
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