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Duke vs. UNC Preview & Prediction: Who Wins The Rematch?

The Tar Heels won 58 of 61 matches from 1928 to 1977 ... More recently, he'd been wondering where that version of himself had gone. It's unlikely North Ca...

North Korea launches missile, one of which could possibly reach US

The New York Times talked to officials and reviewed documents to come to the conclusion that the United States can't effectively push back against North Korea...

Companies back transgender rights in Supreme Court fight

The lawsuit is against the Gloucester County School Board after that board created a policy that prevented transgender students from using common school facilit...

Pro- and anti-Trump protesters clash at the Capitol

Over 200 Trump supporters also rallied in downtown San Diego. "We don't have that many jobs". The opposing factions at times cursed at each other and made phy...

What a US Relationship with Russia Should Look Like

Alleged Russian ties with US officials in the Trump administration has been a hot topic in the US media, with Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak in t...

Oklahoma Students Asked To Fill Out Controversial Questionnaire

Bennett, who has been a state congressman since 2010, reportedly sourced his questionnaire from anti-Muslim hate group Act for America . Bennett is well kn...

Iraqi Forces Capture Second Of Five Mosul Bridges

Iraqi security forces advanced Monday towards a compound of jihadist-held government buildings and a bridgehead, on the second day of a renewed push in west Mos...

Ten arrested at March 4 Trump in Berkeley as protesters engulf rally

They were told to send them on March 15th. Trump's motorcade, heading back from a golf outing, briefly stopped so he could wave at supporters. Though most of ...

France's Fillon vows to battle on after show of support

Francois Fillon is vowing to stay in the election race despite a scandal that could end his dreams of becoming France's next president. Fillon, who had secure...

Russian government trolls Sarah Jessica Parker on Twitter

The meme shows Parker in character as Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw working at her laptop while pondering why she was the only person who hadn't met with...

United States airport pat-downs to get more 'invasive'

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has declined to say exactly where-and how-employees will be touching air travelers as part of the more invasive ...

Azerbaijan and Iran agree on connection of their railway lines

The sides stressed the significance of high-level reciprocal visits in developing cooperation between the two countries. He indicated Baku's determination to ...

Tokyo stocks down, yen rallies after N Korea fires missiles

During last year's drills, North Korea fired multiple short to medium range missiles and announced it could place nuclear warheads on its weapons. That's twic...

Russian Lawmaker Aims to Turn Hooliganism Into Sport

He wants to see hooligan violence legalised and fights between large groups of football fans officially organised in arenas, which would effectively turn hoolig...

President leaves for Indonesia

Bangladesh Ambassador to Indonesia Maj Gen Azmal Kabir and representatives of the host government will receive the premier at the airport. The Prime Minister ...

India Hoists 360-ft Tallest Tricolour, Visible From Lahore in Pakistan

The post stands near the retreat ceremony area on the Punjab government land and the Rs 4-crore project was completed by the Amritsar Improvement Trust. Earli...

Jeremy Corbyn releases tax return - but it appears to omit leadership salary

Speaking on the Andrew Marr programme on Sunday he said he would not release his own returns like his predecessor George Osborne had done previous year but said...

World's oldest serving aircraft carrier set to retire

The decommissioning ceremony at the Mumbai dockyard will be attended by India's chief of naval staff S Lamba and the British Royal Navy's 1st Sea Lord, admira...

Air India says all-female crew flies around the world

The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200LR, flew over the Pacific last week on its journey to San Francisco, while the return flight flew over the Atlantic, encircling th...

Northern Ireland: high turnout drives Sinn Fein vote as Greens stay #Awake4Bailey

With 37 of the 90 seats returned, Sinn Fein had won 16 and the DUP 10. But an election was called after power-sharing arrangements between the two largest par...

Israel moves to reduce penalties for using marijuana

At the request of Damascus, Iran has been providing advisory assistance to the Syrian army in its battles against a host of foreign-backed Takfiri militant grou...

Japan PM Abe: N.Korea launched 4 ballistic missiles

South Korea's Kospi SEU, +0.08% was down 0.1% as the missile launches indicated its fractious neighbor to the north was continuing with its nuclear-weapons prog...

97-year-old RI twins die after falling amid cold temperatures

All three went to Haley's Opechee Drive home at about 8:30 p.m. The police said Haley was headed back into her home to phone the police for help, when she fel...

Indian-origin businessman Harnish Patel shot dead outside his home In US

According to police, in an incident that occurred on Thursday, 43-year-old Harnish Patel's body with gunshot wounds was found in the front yard of his home. The...

North Korea Launches Four More Ballistic Missiles, Landing Sea of Japan

Tensions have been high since a year ago, when the North conducted two underground nuclear explosions and test-launched some two-dozen missiles. Despite globa...

College wrestling: Four individual champs lift Ohio State to Big Ten title

Brooks defended his 184-pound title by registering a 12-2 major decision against defending NCAA champion Myles Martin of Ohio State. Retherford wrestled maybe h...

Pakistan says attack by militants kills 5 soldiers

ISPR has identified the five martyrs as Naik Sanaullah, Naik Safdar and three soldiers Altaf, Neik Muhammad and Anwar. Pakistan and Afghanistan have accused e...

Photo of Clinton reading about Pence's email scandal goes viral

But it renews concerns over the lax security measures at the highest levels of government, especially in light of the hacking threat from Russian Federation. Pe...

Mark Cuban Doesn't Believe Russell Westbrook Is Worthy Of 2017 NBA MVP

Thunder: Westbrook's combination of a technical and flagrant-one does not result in an ejection, and he stayed in the game and scored 15 of his team's 21 points...

Election 2017: 'Wake up call for unionism,' says DUP North Antrim candidate

The U.K. may have to reimpose direct rule on the region, if the two biggest parties can not agree to enter government together again. Just over one week bef...

British and Irish governments to meet NI parties

There is a "door open" for the introduction of same-sex marriage and abortion in Northern Ireland, a Christian charity has said, following the country's latest ...

Pressure mounts on France's Fillon as party heavyweights look to Juppe

On the prospect of her husband stepping down from the presidential race, she said: "I told him that he had to keep going until the end". Francois Fillon said ...

Trump again defends Sessions in Russia flap

In a statement , said, "I've been on the Senate Armed Services Committee for 10 years, and in that time , have had no call from, or meeting with, the Russian...

Iraqi forces 'close' to main government complex in Mosul

The BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva says this is the first report by an aid agency that chemical weapons have been used in the battle for Mosul. On Feb. "There...

Franken: Sessions should come back before the Judiciary Committee

It has since emerged that he met the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, twice in 2016. This was in the campaign season. Congressional Progressive C...