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Gregg Allman has canceled the majority of his upcoming tour dates due to "serious health issues," the Allman Brothers rocker announced Friday.

WASHINGTON ― Three days before Florida Republican state Rep. Matt Gaetz announced his intention to run for an open seat in Congress, he sent two letters to the state’s Division of Elections formally stepping down as the chairman of two leadership PACs he had run for over two years. Three months later, those two PACs contributed all of their remaining funds to a super PAC supporting his congressional bid.

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CINCINNATI, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- An Ohio university unveiled a new arrival on campus: a "Pizza ATM" that cooks and dispenses pizzas on demand.

(ATTN: ADDS defense ministry's statement on different site for THAAD deployment in last para) SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's government will consider an alternative location in the southern county of Seongju for the deployment of an advanced

Women athletes wearing hijabs are disadvantages, and the IOC should sanction countries which force competitors to wear them, Veronique Lebar told Sputnik France.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Holding the Olympics in Rome in 2024 would send a message of defiance to terrorists trying to cower people into a "life of fear" and rob them of their sporting and cultural identity, Italian Premier…

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 29, 2016 file photo, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi speaks during an EU summit in Brussels. Renzi says holding the Olympics in Rome would be an answer to terrorists trying to cower people into…

Seattle has a love-hate relationship with the noise and hoopla of hydroplane weekend, which once upon a time was the year's premier sporting event in the Emerald City.

Militants have detained and executed three civilians in Syria's Aleppo as they tried entering government-controlled territory along established humanitarian corridors, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday.

– Nigerian actress Kate Henshaw  got involved to help a sex worker’s child treat cancer – The actress was made aware of the case on Twitter in March – She expressed her regret of taking on the case, in an interview, due to clashes with the family over money and medical care   In an […]

The footage was recovered from police body and dashboard cameras.

It's called The Pen. The post This Pen Is Totally Over-Engineered. We Dig It Anyway. appeared first on WIRED.

It takes just one man to make Britney Spears "ooh." In the just-released video for "Make Me," Spears and her dancers audition a number of sexy, shirtless studs to play...

Western Wisconsin farmland will be a fertile hotbed of music with next weekend's dueling festivals.

Karlie Redd and Lyfe Jennings don’t appear to be friendly exes. The pair’s romance was documented on Season 5 of VH1’s “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta,” but it went down in flames after the “Must Be Nice” singer fake proposed to the veteran reality star.

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The Rio Olympics officially kick off on Friday night with the games hitting full stride on Saturday. But don't expect to see many Olympic highlights during the fortnight on ESPN, the self-proclaimed Worldwide Leader in Sports.

Of course, the big issue is that, in the United States, NBC owns the broadcast rights to the Summer Olympics. But even beyond that, NBC has in place some strict guidelines for the volume of highlights ESPN can air, and it amounts to very little. Читать дальше...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge in Little Rock has scheduled an August 2017 jury trial in Dallas Cowboys running back Darren McFadden's lawsuit against his longtime business manager.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge in Little Rock has scheduled an August 2017 jury trial in Dallas Cowboys running back Darren McFadden's lawsuit against his longtime business manager.

IOL sat down with the City of Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille to discuss the #LGE2016 and the DA's success in the Western Cape.

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On the morning of August 6, 1945, a lone B-29 bomber dropped a single atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. Soldiers had nicknamed the weapon "Little Boy."

It's estimated that 70,000 people died from the initial blast of the uranium bomb, and that the five-year death toll likely climbed over 200,000, due to the lasting health effects of the massive dose of radiation that survivors received.

Three days later, another aircraft detonated a second bomb over the city of Nagasaki. Читать дальше...

Media companies are finding increasing the number of digital media ads brings in revenue, but it's turning off users.

Mothers struggling to feed their infants the natural way will soon be able to get breast milk from banks at more hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal.

Aluminium led most industrial metals higher, while copper posted its biggest weekly loss in a month.