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Trump budget proposal seeks to remove ATC from the FAA

President Donald Trump's $1.15 trillion "America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again", proposes substantial cuts to discretionary spending by ...

LA man walks free after he's exonerated in 1984 murder

It was largely thanks to the work of the Loyola Law School's Project for the Innocent that he was freed, after they highlighted a number of due-process violat...

One-on-one with country music legend Garth Brooks

With the attractive Austin skyline as a backdrop, the gates open at 11 am Saturday morning. Live music at day-long event starts at 1:35 p.m. with performances...

Around 2000 dogs participate in sled dog race in Alaska

A farm girl who first followed news coverage of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race more than a decade ago as a homeschool project now is handling her own team i...

Nintendo plans to double Switch production to keep up with demand

Good news if you are trying to get a hold of a Nintendo Switch . "It's encouraging for Nintendo to see high awareness levels and propensity to buy the co...

Hacked McDonald's Twitter account blasts Trump in tweet

McDonald's primary Twitter account @McDonalds has 3.4 million followers. Later in the day, McDonald's tweeted a clarification saying that the account was ...

Microsoft To Release Windows 10 'Creators Update' Later This Month

That jibes with the update's planned Spring 2017 debut-the #snowmageddon that covered the Northeast doesn't change the fact that Spring has sprung-and the rel...

Tucker Carlson grills Trump on wiretapping tweets: 'Why not gather evidence' yourself?

The British spy agency told ITV News that any suggestion it was involved in wiretapping the now president "was utterly ridiculous and should be ignored". "Judge...

McDonald's apologizes for hacked tweet slamming Trump

A spokesperson said: "We deleted the tweet, secured our account and are now investigating this". High-profile Twitter accounts were hijacked on Wednesday ...

How to be the first to get the Creators Update

One of the big plus points of the Creators Update is that it will get rid of the need to reboot devices to install system upgrades, so this may be the last time...

No evidence to back wiretap claim by Trump, say 2 senators, Speaker

Trump has accused Obama of ordering wiretaps at his Trump Tower in NY, but two weeks after the extraordinary claim, he has not delivered any evidence. Nunes had...

Meals on Wheels federal funding axed in Trump budget

The fiscal year 2018 blueprint , a preview of a more comprehensive budget plan expected in May, is meant to emphasize national security and public safety, Tr...

Ill. Medic Rescues Baby From Vehicle in Lake

An adult died in the fire but six children, siblings ranging up to age 14, escaped. Shortly before noon, a body was pulled from the lake. But he says testing ...

Swatch to Launch Swiss Smartwatch Operating System by 2018

That one didn't progress even the Tissot-branded Smart Touch that was introduced around the same time a year ago. Swatch is aiming to break the momentum of th...

April the Giraffe to give birth to calf

The Animal Adventure Park said that April has shown visible signs of positioning in her hips, belly movements and stutter stepping. They give birth to calve...

Major Galaxy S8 Feature Confirmed Accidentally by Samsung

One of the founders of that company developed Siri. The latest rumor going around is that the Galaxy S8's camera will be capable of recording up to 1,000fps...

Trump's campaign insults complicate Merkel's visit

Meeting in Washington to discuss trade, immigration and the future state of NATO, Trump welcomed Merkel with a handshake at the entrance of the White House, but...

Best LG G6 Deals

The carriers that have confirmed these details so far include AT&T , Verizon Wireless, Sprint , T-Mobile, and US Cellular . (This comes out to $26 down and...

Trump budget drops Chesapeake restoration funding

The Environmental Protection Agency is one of the hardest-hit agencies in President Trump's preliminary budget . Baker noted that in the past eight years, DC...

Full Throttle Remastered Gets An Official Release Date

As as special, GOG's also got a sale on all DoubleFine games, in honor of the game's original lead dev, Tim Schafer, who also worked on the remastered versi...

Google Wants to Make Your Images Take Up Less Space

Google has cautioned that while its algorithm manages to significantly compress JPEG files with minimal loss in visual quality, the drawback is that the compre...

Ian and Greg Chappell urge Adani to abandon Australian coal mine project

The members of the Australian delegation landed in India want Adani Group to abandon the project. They claimed that the Carmichael project would put the Great B...

Fitzpatrick, Grillo share early lead at Bay Hill

They were on shirt collars and caps, golf bags and even the covers of fairway metals. It was 39 degrees when the first round began, the coldest start to any PGA...

Federal Reserve raises rates as expected

What investors, economists, and borrowers, however, have been waiting to find out is Fed's updated economic projections, which also came out on Wednesday. What'...

Sony will be discontinuing the PlayStation 3 in Japan

There's only one model of PS3 still being developed: the charcoal black 500GB version (model number CECH-4300C). Some PlayStation 4 owners are reporting that ...

'SNL' Goes Live in All Time Zones For Final Four Episodes

In addition, the "Weekend Update" segment, which now features Michael Che and Colin Jost remarking on current events, will air four episodes of "Update" in Au...

Former President Barack Obama has Arizona in his Final Four

Brackets are commonly filled out by millions of U.S. basketball fans faithfully each March. But instead of revealing the former president's picks on televisio...

Amanda Seyfried & Thomas Sadoski Just Eloped

It was just the two of us talking to each other. The dog in question was, of course, Finn, Seyfried's beloved pup. When asked about Amanda, he referred to t...

PS4 Sales Hit 4.5 Million In Japan

These numbers were gathered by SuperData which was provided the figures from Famitsu and GfK to total up the sales numbers in each region. In addition, Supe...

Samsung's Galaxy S8 rumored to be able to record 1000fps videos

It's also rumoured that Samsung will be moving the fingerprint scanner - which was previously mounted in the Home button - onto the back of the phone. Facial re...

AAA offering tows to tipsy drivers on St. Patick's Day

The service will provide drivers who are impaired with a ride home as well as a tow for their vehicles. Reach the Daily Republic newsroom at 425-4646. No one ...

Oklahoma Senator Faces Child Prostitution Charges

However, the report does not seem to indicate the police found any marijuana in the room or in the possession of either Shortey or the juvenile. The age of co...

It's a UFO! It's a walnut! Actually, it's Saturn's moon Pan — GeekWire

The south pole region of Enceladus highlighted by a bright band indicating the area of study. This mosaic-taken roughly 28,000 miles from the moon itself-was ...

Webinar: Live Event Coverage: Bank of England Rate Decision

Last night, the United States Federal Reserve confirmed it was delaying its next rise no longer, and raised the base rate by 0.25 per cent to a range of 0.75 - ...

US Judge bars Donald Trump from enforcing travel ban against Syrian family

Mr Trump issued an executive order in January banning travellers from seven predominantly Muslim countries, including Syria , from entering the United States . ...