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Do you ever wish you could escape everyday life sometimes?

Maybe you imagine yourself living somewhere exotic, like this beautiful beach pictured on the right here.

Perhaps you'll download a gorgeous photo like this one and make it your wallpaper. Or maybe you'll listen to some nature soundtracks just so you can listen to waves gently crashing on the shore.

But you're probably missing the one sense that can truly transport you — your sense of smell.

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[...] one alligator snapped in a recent photo by a Florida Agricultural Crimes Intelligence Unit officer seems to have a sweet tooth. The image on the group's Facebook page shows a very large gator crawling into a canal with a green watermelon clamped in its jaws.

SEATTLE (AP) — In progressive Seattle, a presidential order that public schools give transgender students access to the bathrooms matching their gender identity won't require a shift. While the debate has reached a fever pitch in other parts of the country, the city's public schools have accommodated transgender students in the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their identity since 2012. While Washington state has asked schools to include bathroom accommodations for transgender students for four years... Читать дальше...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Bill Self isn't paying state taxes on the bulk of his millions of dollars of income as men's basketball coach at Kansas, and it's all legal under 2012 tax reforms pressed by Gov. Sam Brownback.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Bill Self isn't paying state taxes on the bulk of his millions of dollars of income as men's basketball coach at Kansas, and it's all legal under 2012 tax reforms pressed by Gov. Sam Brownback.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Bill Self isn't paying state taxes on the bulk of his millions of dollars of income as men's basketball coach at Kansas, and it's all legal under 2012 tax reforms pressed by Gov. Sam Brownback.

By Joo Kyung-don SEOUL, May 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korean champions Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors were held to a 1-1 draw by Melbourne Victory in the first leg of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League round of 16 on Tuesday. Looking for t

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is willing to talk to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang's nuclear program, Trump told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.

In a wide-ranging discussion, Trump also said he disapproved of Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions in eastern Ukraine, called for a renegotiation of the Paris climate accord, and said he would dismantle most of the Dodd-Frank financial regulations if he is elected president. Читать дальше...

The government is preparing for the possibility of presidential hopeful Donald Trump visiting the UK before the US elections, the BBC learns.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia, rejecting the fierce objections of a U.S. ally and setting Congress on a collision course with the Obama administration. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., gives victims' families the right to sue in U.S. court for any role that elements of the Saudi government may have played in the 2001 attacks that killed thousands in New York, the Washington... Читать дальше...

Major U.S. banks are pushing the Swift messaging network to boost security following cyber attacks in Bangladesh and Vietnam involving fraudulent transfer requests, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Some U.S. banks want to discuss with Swift whether it responded quickly enough to the breaches and if it should help banks better secure their systems, Bloomberg cited one unidentified source as saying.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A SeaWorld supervisor facing "uncontrollable debt" has been charged with stealing as much as $116,000 from the company's Aquatica water park in Orlando.

(AP) — A SeaWorld supervisor facing "uncontrollable debt" has been charged with stealing as much as $116,000 from the company's Aquatica water park in Orlando. "The safety of our guests and ambassadors and the well-being of our animals are our highest priority," a company statement said. According to the affidavit, Olivardia told detectives that she committed the crimes.

Scream Queens is going dark for season two—like way, way darker. Fox's serial killer horror comedy is moving from college to a hospital in its second season, and the stars are...

CLEVELAND (AP) — These Raptors want to make it clear they are not extinct.

CLEVELAND (AP) — These Raptors want to make it clear they are not extinct.

It's no news that the Senate has become increasingly embroiled in partisan bickering over the past 20 years. In particular, "gridlock" in the Senate has slowed the processing of normal business, leading to pathologies such as high vacancy rates in executive branch and judicial posts and the occasional government shutdown.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — An ex-teacher at a St. Louis-area school alleges in a lawsuit that she was dismissed after reporting that another employee was sexually assaulting her teenage daughter. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1Ti8J9N ) is not naming the plaintiff in the St. Louis County lawsuit because it would identify the daughter, who is the alleged crime victim.

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Famous short seller Jim Chanos is shorting oil majors Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Chevron Corp, according to Bloomberg. He is operating under the belief that the negative cash flows and dividend payments using borrowed money by both the companies is an unsustainable move in the long-term.

He also believes that a preference for electric cars and trucks can seriously dent the demand for crude oil in the near future.

Shell’s current cost of supplies earnings tanked in the... Читать дальше...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Lower-than-expected growth in tax revenue will force Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and lawmakers to enact a new state budget with less spending than initially proposed, but the dip should not lead to cuts below current funding…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Lower-than-expected growth in tax revenue will force Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and lawmakers to enact a new state budget with less spending than initially proposed, but the dip should not lead to cuts below current funding…

Spring muskie fishing has traditionally been seen as an opportunity for anglers to tune up for the summer months—when the action can be as hot as the weather. But that perception is changing.