Washington (dpa) – Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the moon, was in a stable condition in a New Zealand hospital Friday after being evacuated from the South Pole, tour operator White Desert said. “He currently has fluid in his lungs but is responding well to antibiotics and being kept for observation,” White […]
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International, Travel and Food, USAWASHINGTON — The internet was created in America. But is it safe in America? Some people don’t think so. A nonprofit group based in San Francisco has decided to “Trump-proof” its massive open-for-all internet library by storing it in Canada as well as the United States. The group, the Internet Archive, which claims to save
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International, USAPrincess Cruise Lines has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $40 million fine for dumping illegal waste off the coast of England three years ago and trying to cover it up by lying to the U.S. Coast Guard. The fine is the largest criminal penalty ever paid involving deliberate dumping by a cruise ship,
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International, Travel and Food, USAWASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that he never really meant to promise that he would bring jobs back that Carrier, the heating and cooling company, had promised this year to ship to Mexico. “That was a euphemism,” Trump said, meaning he was treating the company as a proxy for U.S. manufacturers that send
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USADespite her failure to win the presidency over Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote hit a new landmark Thursday. She has registered more than 2.5 million more votes than the president-elect, according to an analysis from Cook Political Report. Clinton has garnered 65,152,112 votes, compared to Trump’s 62,625,928. That’s a margin of
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USAWASHINGTON — California Gov. Jerry Brown has tapped House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra to be the state’s next attorney general. He will succeed Kamala Harris, who was elected to the U.S. Senate in November. Becerra, 58, has served 12 terms in Congress and was making a bid to become the ranking Democrat on the
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USAISLAMABAD — The annals of international relations are filled with mundane readouts of conversations between world leaders, the language shorn of sharp edges and massaged into shapeless lumps of diplomatic-speak. The report of a telephone call between Donald Trump and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was more interesting than that. “You are a terrific guy,”
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International, USARosie O’Donnell has apologized to Melania Trump via Twitter for her role in promoting a YouTube video that speculated 10-year-old Barron Trump might have autism. “I apologize to @MelaniaTrump. I was insensitive in my RT – i am sorry for the pain i caused – it was not my intent – i am truly sorry,”
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USAA teenager from Washington state has become the seventh “faithless elector” to attempt to prevent Donald Trump from becoming the President of the United States. Levi Guerra, 19, from Vancouver will join the ranks of the so-called “Hamilton electors.” Guerra is one of the 12 electors in Washington state who have been mandated to vote
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USAIncoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wants the U.S. government to exert closer scrutiny of China’s Dalian Wanda Group, an entertainment conglomerate with ties to the Communist government in Beijing, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The Wanda Group has been on a buying binge in the past few years, snapping up American and European
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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAAmerican tennis ace Serena Williams has written an open letter addressing the barriers that still hold female athletes back. Urging young women to pursue their dreams and overcome sexism, Williams says girls must reject the notion that their gender is somehow a flaw. “To all incredible women who strive for excellence,” the sporting icon’s letter
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Sports & Competitions, USAIf you compare Arnold Schwarzenegger’s career to Donald Trump’s, you will realize that they have gone in the opposite directions. While Trump moved from hosting a reality TV series to becoming the President of the United States of America, 68-year-old Schwarzenegger went from becoming the Governor of California to becoming the host of “Celebrity Apprentice.”
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAKeith Papini, the husband of California woman Sherri Papini, 34, who went on a jog and mysteriously disappeared a little over three weeks ago, is speaking out for the first time since the mother of two was found bound beaten on the side of the road around 4:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving day. On Tuesday, Keith
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Steven Mnuchin as his Treasury secretary as soon as Wednesday, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. The 53-year-old Mnuchin, who was born to a Jewish family, has no government experience but served as the national finance chairman for Trump”s campaign. He began his career at Goldman
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