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Since launching his presidential bid in 2015, Trump has shown little reluctance to assail fellow Republican political adversaries as well as Democrats, often in...

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Most importantly, Trump has refused to fund the Global Climate Change Initiative, including the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The fear has always been that a pull...

Minute-by-minute House Bill 2 repeal updates

Many said that the new law still denies gay and transgender people certain protections from discrimination. NCAA President Mark Emmert said Thursday that th...

There's a Samsung Galaxy S8 Microsoft Edition, for some reason

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'Worldwide momentum' on climate change despite Trump - UN official

The US said it meant to achieve a reduction in emissions by 26 percent to 28 percent below its 2005 level in 2025 and to make its best efforts to reduce emissio...

SpaceX makes history by sending a recycled rocket into space

Just before 6:30 pm ET, SpaceX - run by Tesla CEO Elon Musk - launched a used rocket. At the top of the 23-story rocket was SES-10, a communications satellite...

NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Breaks Female Spacewalking Record

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Astronaut Peggy Whitson readyt to break spacewalk record

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson floated out on the eighth spacewalk of her career Thursday morning, 250 miles up at the International Space Station. According...

Trump to repeal Obama legislation on internet usage

Tuesday's vote was a blow for privacy advocates, who fear that broadband providers will be able to sell customers' Internet-browsing history to the highe...

Twitter Replaces Default Egg Profile Photo

Over time, the egg, which has been around for many years, has come to be associated with accounts created to harass others, giving the egg a negative connotatio...

Samsung Galaxy S8 unboxing, handson, quick review

SAMSUNG had a very rough year so far, but with the arrival of its sleek new flagship phone , things might be looking up. The launch of the S8 was pushed out ...

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The fanged fish's heroin-like venom could lead to pain treatments. The small fish warns the other creatures about its venom by displaying an array of bright col...

House GOP Clings to Obamacare Repeal Dream Despite Bill Collapse

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Trump University lawsuits face final hurdle to settlement

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Peggy Whitson Sets New Spacewalk Record for Female Astronauts

The two astronauts hooked up cables and electrical connections on the PMA-3. Over the weekend, flight controllers at the Johnson Space Center used the stati...

Officers escort browsing alligator out of furniture store

Workers at American Freight furniture store noticed a 4 to 5 feet long alligator in the store's parking lot and called the Pasco County Sheriff's Office. Alli...

Talk to the phone: Samsung unveils Bixby

Samsung acquired the Viv team a year ago. Set to run on the Galaxy S8 smartphone, Bixby will not be triggered by saying its name. The assistant won't be ...

Slightly used space rocket makes history: SpaceX sent it up successfully again

Elon Musk's SpaceX is set to launch today the company's first recycled rocket, with the goal of sending a communication satellite for the Luxembourg-based SES ...

Samsung unveils S8, aims to rally from Note 7

As was the case with the previous iterations of the Galaxy S series (S6 and S7), Samsung supported a host of Microsoft apps, such as Skype, OneDrive, and OneN...

Ford Recalls 440K Vehicles For Fire Risk, Door Latch Trouble

In Europe, the recall covers the 2010 through 2015 C-Max hybrid and Focus small vehicle, and the 2013 through 2015 Transit Connect van. All of the affected ve...

Galaxy S8 may ship with Google's AI program

The S8 also sports a voice assistant meant to rival Siri and Google Assistant. Last year's Note 7 fire debacle, where battery problems caused some to combus...

Samsung Sell Galaxy Note 7 Refurbished

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Samsung aims to extinguish 'exploding phone' woes with AI-powered Galaxy S8

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According to Newsweek the piece by Comey would likely have included much of the information released in the joint statement from the CIA, FBI and National S...

SpaceX Touches Down First Recycled Rocket

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Ms. Pac-Man in Google Maps is today's best time-waster

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Suspect says he would rather have killed younger black man

Jackson's violent hatred of black men and his fixation on black-white interracial relationships echoes a long history of domestic terrorism in the United Stat...

Shark washes onto street in Australia during cyclone

Cyclone Debbie slammed into the coast of Queensland state on Tuesday with winds up to 260 kilometers an hour. All schools in southeast Queensland were closed ...

The Dark Tower Release Date Pushed Back To August

It's said The Emoji Movie has now taken the July 27, 2017 release date. Located in the fey region of End-World, amid a sea of singing red roses, the Dark Tower...

Kim Jong Nam: Corpse arrives in Pyongyang

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Microsoft will sell customized "Microsoft Edition" versions of Samsung Galaxy S8

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Watch Peggy Whitson Historic Spacewalk On International Space Station

SpaceX and Boeing are now designing crew vehicles that will begin flying people to the ISS as early as next year. Both spacewalkers then then planned to spend t...