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The new iPhone SE is basically the guts of the iPhone 6s stuffed into the body of an iPhone 5s. It’s a Frankenphone, a mix of the best Apple has to offer and a 3.5-year-old design that feels silly to write about weeks after Samsung released the best-looking phone you can buy.

But the iPhone SE wasn’t built for geeks like me who are obsessed with the latest and greatest phones with giant screens. It’s made for the 30 million people Apple says bought 4-inch iPhones last year. Читать дальше...

Residents of Prabhat Road, in the heart of the city, have questioned the logic of concreting the bylanes of the area.Residents allege that roads are being randomly selected and dug up without prior notice.

Sleep is one of humanity's great unifiers. It binds us to one another, to our ancestors, to our past, and to the future. No matter who we are, we share a common need for sleep. Though this need has been a constant throughout human history, our relationship to sleep, and our understanding of its vital benefits, has gone through dramatic ups and downs. And right now that relationship is in crisis.

How many people do you know that pulled a Ferris Bueller and turned a day of playing hooky into the most epic adventure ever? Yeah, probably not many. High school wasn't the type of epic adventure Hollywood often leads us to believe.

– Armed officers halt Shiites protest in Katsina state – Governor Masari says the government will take all measures to ensure Katsina remain a peaceful place A joint team of armed security personnel has on March 30, Wednesday, dispersed the yearly Maulud procession of Islamic Movement in Nigeria otherwise know as Shiites in Katsina state. […]

Explorers in western Europe's biggest oil-producing nation have had their leanest drilling spell in almost a decade. That may end soon.

With the Zika virus spreading largely unchecked in Latin America and the Caribbean by way of a now-notorious insect, some of the nation’s leading mosquito researchers are striving to assemble a state-of-the-art DNA map that they say will help them fight the disease with the mosquito’s own genetic code. [...] others favor the idea of selectively breeding populations of mosquitoes, like corn or cattle, for desirable — or, at least, less undesirable — traits, such as a preference for biting animals other than humans. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK -- Unaoil, the Monaco-based company at the center of an international bribery scandal, threatened this week to prevent publication of an investigation into its business practices. 

Harvey Weinstein has been trying to get a remake of the French hit "Intouchables" off the ground for at least a half decade. Over that time Paul Feig and Tom Shadyac were attached to direct at various points, with Colin Firth set for one of the lead roles, with Chris Rock, Jamie Foxx and Idris Elba rumored along the way to co-star. A couple years ago, the project was shaping up to be a Firth and Kevin Hart jam, and now, yet another change has been made. Deadline reports that Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart are in talks to lead the movie. Читать дальше...

An agglutination of linguists. Bless the #ModernCollectiveNouns hashtag.

The city is in the grip of a vicious cycle of road digging, leaving people hassled for months.Different agencies have been granted permission to dig up the same stretch of roads one after the other.

BRUSSELS -- The day after the Brussels attacks, the government increased security here by putting more police at stations, nuclear plants, schools and public transportation spots. The airport was very damaged and remains closed. Airplanes were diverted to other airports or canceled. And people gathered to honor the victims and the families at Place de La Bourse.

In November in the wake of the Paris attacks, the government raised the terror threat alert to the maximum level of four in the city. Читать дальше...

D.C.’s Metro might shut down an entire rail line for half a year, furthering the possibility that our nation’s capital will be moved to the Panera Bread in Ballston. The Freedom Caucus wants to cancel Congress’ lame duck session, implying there is a time the Freedom Caucus would be OK with the government functioning. And Donald Trump is open to criminalizing abortion, though like everything else he does and says, it will never get Megyn Kelly to love him. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Wednesday, March 30th... Читать дальше...

The White House slammed Donald Trump over his response to the controversy swirling around his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.

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EVENDALE, Ohio - A suspect in a Maryland slaying was shot and wounded by a police officer along Interstate 75 in suburban Cincinnati, Ohio authorities said.

Donald Trump's campaign has been fueled in large part by the news media's coverage of virtually his every utterance. A woman who has dedicated herself to destroying his candidacy is working to match his performance.

The Costa Rica international says his side are not ready to concede defeat in the Liga title race despite heading into El Clasico 10 points behind leaders Barcelona

NEW Zealand captain Kane Williamson has been forced to explain his bizarre, and unsuccessful, tactical change in the World Twenty20 playoffs.

Paul Zillig, a 37-year veteran of the Lower Platte South Natural Resources District, will take over as general manager this summer.

SPARTA - The Monroe County Board of Supervisors approved an upgrade of the the Highway Department's asphalt paver at the March 23 meeting at Rolling Hills Nursing Home in Sparta.

The Bowman Avenue Dam, in Rye, New York, would seem an unlikely candidate for a new front in the cyber wars. Twenty-two feet tall, a hundred and twenty-two feet long, and sitting in the woods just up the street from Port Chester Middle School, the dam spans Blind Brook, a minor waterway that runs south through the city and empties into Long Island Sound. Built in the early nineteen-hundreds, the dam was updated most recently in June of 2013, when local officials gathered to commemorate the addition of a two-million-dollar sluice gate... Читать дальше...