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Chances are you have some opinion about the body of work of Ben Affleck.

He has been inescapable. The actor has close to 50 credits to his name over a career that has quite a few highs and as many lows.

And in a career not lacking for sharp criticism (whether over his questionable ascent to leading-man roles or his work opposite onetime fiancée Jennifer Lopez), his latest dive into superhero-dom, "Batman v Superman," must be giving him flashbacks of earlier critical pans. Читать дальше...

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Shopping online can be a pain when you need to constantly re-enter all of your information, but Bank of America just made the process a bit easier for some of its customers.

The second-largest U.S. bank has announced that it would automatically enroll some cardholders in Visa Checkout, Visa's one-click buy button that lets users easily complete transactions online. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration may soon tell foreign governments and banks they can start using the dollar in some instances to facilitate business with Iran, officials told The Associated Press, describing an arcane tweak to U.S. financial rules that could prove significant for Tehran's sanctions-battered economy.

The largest ever fancy vivid blue diamond is to go under the hammer at Christie's in Switzerland and could fetch US$45 million. The 'Oppenheimer Blue', named after its previous owner will be the star of the show at an auction of 'Magnificent Jewels' in Geneva.

The Republican National Committee is losing the person who leads the GOP's outreach to black communities, as first reported by NBC News and confirmed by The Huffington Post.  

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Tyler Ennis could still return.

The "Sexiest Man Alive" just added another tattoo to his ever-growing collection of ink. 

China is tightening its grip on cross-border e-commerce, imposing a new tax system on overseas purchases that form a growing business catering to Chinese consumers with an appetite for foreign goods.

The candles are lit, Barry White's on the hi-fi and -- damn, you forgot a condom.

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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, March 31 (UPI) -- A car bomb detonated near a bus stop in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir, killing at least four police officers.

The annual Nuclear Security Summit, aimed at reducing the world's nuclear weapons, gets underway Thursday.

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Facebook's virtual reality headset, the Oculus Rift, has finally launched.

With the glowing reviews already rolling out as people all over the world start strapping the device onto their faces, analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald are optimistic about the Rift's growth potential, as virtual reality balloons into a $30 billion industry by 2020.

They estimate Facebook will sell 600,000 Rift units this year and more than two million in 2017, generating over $1.6... Читать дальше...

A new report featured in Forbes Magazine found 72 city managers of relatively small municipalities in Illinois are paid more than the governors of every state.

Open the Books' annual "Big Dogs" salary report on local government looks not only at city or village managers, but also employees of water districts, park districts, forest preserves and counties, to name a few.

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OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic on Thursday expressed concern over shutting down the website of the Sputnik news agency and radio in Latvia.

The collapse of a flyover that killed at least 18 people turned into a massive political slugfest in poll-bund West Bengal as the opposition mounted a united attack on the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government.

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LONDON, March 31 (UPI) -- Britain is backing establishment of a joint venture company to to support development of Oman's Duqm Port to handle naval vessels.

Inspired by the Netflix series ‘Bloodline,’ a native Floridian goes off-the-beaten path in the Florida Keys.

Reflection of paucity of returns available in shorter dated debt

It all seems so simple. Just wait. The post GOP Launches Handy Site to Teach You About the Convention appeared first on WIRED.

It all seems so simple. Just wait. The post GOP Launches Handy Site to Teach You About the Convention appeared first on WIRED.

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Apple told the FBI in no uncertain terms that it did not want to help it hack into a dead terrorist's iPhone.

But would it tell the same thing to a grieving father who wants the texts and photos on his dead son's password-protected phone?

While Apple hasn't publicly responded to Italian architect Leonardo Fabbretti's viral letter to the company to help him crack his deceased son's phone, reports AFP, the company has told him privately that it doesn't have the ability.