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Hillary Clinton is beginning to dedicate more and more time to explaining why she believes that presidential rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) isn't qualified for the presidency.

Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, sharpened her attacks on her chief primary rival during a speech in Iowa Thursday, taking aim at him on healthcare and foreign policy and questioning whether his plans were even practical.

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Meteorologists and weather reporters are running out of adjectives to describe the blizzard that is set to hit the East Coast this weekend.

De Albert Heijn-reclame met daarin het afscheid van supermarktmanager Van Dalen (gespeeld door Harry Piekema, red.) heeft de Ster Gouden Loeki gewonnen. De tranen van Van Dalen kregen volgens de organisatie van de reclamevakprijs een recordaantal nominaties.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - Eldon Samuel Jr. was a violent man who was hooked on prescription drugs, owned numerous weapons and was preparing his sons for a zombie apocalypse, his estranged wife Tina Samuel told the court Wednesday.

MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina - A local group in South Carolina wants to rebrand the Atlantic Beach Bikefest as the Unity Bikefest and promoting it as an event for all races.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin and his flow of thought led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

An attack carried out by Taliban militants in Afghanistan Wednesday evening was widely condemned Thursday, including by some of the country’s leading religious authority. Prominent Islamic scholars said journalism was a “sacred profession” and condemned the Taliban for acts they said tarnished the image of Islam, according to local media outlets.

Richard Childress said his team will win a race in 2016 after going winless in the Sprint Cup Series in 2014 and 2015.

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(Reuters) — Shares of U.S. pipeline company Kinder Morgan Inc shot up on Thursday as investors welcomed the company's plans to cut debt, reduce spending and potentially increase its dividend or buy back shares.

Kinder Morgan shares are up 16.5% to $14.00 in afternoon trading on Thursday, a day after the company reported a fourth-quarter adjusted profit that beat some analysts' expectations.

Up to Wednesday's close, Kinder Morgan's shares had halved since Dec. Читать дальше...

As menswear grows less formal, L.A. is emerging as a new style capital. Here’s how to ace its smart take on casual, even if the nearest palm tree is 1,000 miles away.

Vele bewoners in het aardbevingsgebied in Groningen voelen zich onveilig, kampen met psychische problemen en hebben weinig tot geen vertrouwen in de overheid. De woningmarkt functioneert dramatisch en de leefbaarheid is verslechterd. Dat zijn de eindconclusies en adviezen van het Woningmarktonderzoek, een breed onderzoek naar verschillende aspecten van de woningmarkt uitgevoerd door de faculteit Bouwkunde van TU Delft in samenwerking met CMO STAMM.

During the Tamir Rice protest in downtown Cleveland, on December 29, 2015, police officer Brian Dorin, after using his cop car to "win" a game-of-chicken versus street protesters, rolled down his window and yelled at a 25-year-old black student-activist, "Do you want to be the next one."

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Book lovers come in all tastes, genres, and dreams.

Fair Verona Candle

Covered in stars made from the pages of Romeo and Juliet that float, this candle is perfect for your passionate book lover. Plus everyone looks better in candle light.

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Pride and Prejudice Rose Bouquet

These forever flowers are made from the pages of Pride and Prejudice. Your book... Читать дальше...

There is a lot of self-interest on show. Many financial firms want to be on-side with the UK government, which of course has the power to regulate or tax them

“I screamed while my gynecologist removed 18 thorns from my vagina after I fell into a rose bush.”

THE ride is over. Lleyton Hewitt’s great career ended last night, and there was one moment that brought him to tears.

When you go all-in on a Vegas trip, you may want to consider the $15,000-a-night Kingpin Suite at the Palms Las Vegas with a bowling alley smack in the middle. Luxury Sales Manager Deanna Brooks shows us what makes the room worth the price tag. 

Perhaps the most famous star of the James Bond movies — other than Bond and his girls — is the Bond car. For Spectre, the 24th Bond film which was released last year, it was the Aston Martin DB10. The DB10 was a real car, commissioned by Eon, the production company behind the Bond films, and built by Aston Martin.

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Here on Earth, we tend to take time for granted, never suspected that the increments with which we measure it are actually quite relative.

The ways in which we measure our days and years, for example, are actually the result of our planet’s distance from the Sun, the time it takes to orbit, and the time it takes to rotate on its axis.

The same is true for the other planets in our Solar System.

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On a picturesque fall afternoon, Keith Wille pulled into an unfamiliar driveway in eastern Connecticut and popped his trunk. He removed a “digger” (a heavy-duty bladed spade), an XP Deus wireless metal detector, and a White’s Bullseye II pin-pointer, a hand-held wand that vibrates or chimes when it’s near metal. Wille is twenty-eight and a member of the Ring Finders Directory, a group of metal-detection enthusiasts dedicated to recovering lost things at little or no charge. He had arrived at the home of Jim Flynn... Читать дальше...

Slashing the budget of the National Security Agency is the most effective way to stop the agency from spying on US citizens, former NSA analyst turned whistleblower William Binney told Sputnik News.

De 29-jarige Woerdenaar die deze week is aangehouden op verdenking van internationaal drugstransport, is alweer thuis. De man heeft een eigen bedrijf en jonge kinderen. Hij mag daarom thuis het vervolg van zijn strafzaak afwachten.

NEW YORK - John Krasinski will be getting some A-list officemates in the new play "Dry Powder" - Claire Danes and Hank Azaria are jumping aboard.

An ex-Marine accused in the New Year's Day fatal shooting of a college student in Texas has been arraigned on a murder charge after being returned from Arizona.

Gene Haas said he would be "happy to accommodate" his two F1 drivers if they wanted to try to compete in a NASCAR road-course race.