The Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive's green-and-white acorn-shaped signs are easy to spot, often tacked to plain wooden posts at the edge of a field where two country roads intersect. Some of the signs looked so picture-perfect — framed by wildflowers, snaking vines and tall grasses — that I stopped to take a photo. [...] those friendly old-school Kettle Moraine signs became my lodestars, making it easy to follow a meandering route through a rustic landscape of farms, forests, wetlands and prairie. Читать дальше...
Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco didn’t practice on Wednesday and coach John Harbaugh updated his condition after the session came to an end. Harbaugh said that Flacco is dealing with a “right shoulder issue” that he suffered at some point in last Sunday’s loss to the Giants, but didn’t report to the team until Monday. Flacco…
It started with a weekly bake sale on her Brooklyn stoop. Now Meghan Ritchie’s gone national.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Midday" game were: 0-0-7-9, Lucky Sum: 16 (zero, zero, seven, nine; Lucky Sum: sixteen)
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Parents are far less interested in decoding their newborn’s DNA than scientists had thought, according to a new study.
Every year, 4 million newborns in the US already get their blood tested for a few dozen genetic glitches that cause rare diseases. Newer tests — known as whole-genome or whole-exome sequencing — can give much more information about hundreds or even thousands of genes.
These sequencing tests are dropping in price, but still expensive at about $1,000 per person. Читать дальше...
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Sleeping too little or too much can affect a man's ability to impregnate his partner, new research suggests.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A group of North Carolina voters that wants to expand early in-person voting in the presidential battleground state lost its case before a federal appeals court Wednesday. Lawyers for the state and GOP Gov. Pat McCrory told the courts that county and state election boards abided by the ruling, which reverted ballot-access laws to where they were before the 2013 law approved by Republican legislators. People can still register to vote and cast their ballots if they visit an early-voting center anywhere in the state... Читать дальше...
About three quarters of union members vote for contract and against a strike.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators asked members of the public Wednesday what they think about proposed regulations that would — eventually — permit self-driving cars that lack a steering wheel or pedals on public roads.
Browns receiver Terrelle Pryor is sitting out practice today with a hamstring injury. Pryor said he’s hoping to be able to play against the Bengals but doesn’t know yet if he’ll be ready to go by Sunday. “I’m going to try to go. We owe this to the city to get a win,” Pryor told…
Morgan Stanley reported a 57pc increase in profit as fixed-income trading revenue almost tripled.
Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon says Donald Trump is “the master of the head fake.” According to Bannon, the news that President Obama’s Trump-supporting half-brother Malik Obama is attending Wednesday’s debate is “just an appetizer.” Trump will be bringing guests who “expose Bill and Hillary’s sordid past,” Bannon told CNN as he arrived in Las […]
Mark Zuckerberg has finally broken his silence on Peter Thiel. Facebook’s CEO argues in a new Facebook post that it is precisely because his company cares about diversity that it won’t cut ties with Thiel, Facebook’s longest serving board member and a prominent supporter of Donald Trump. “I want to quickly address the questions and […]
The price of oil jumped almost 3% on Wednesday to the highest level in more than a year after a report showed a surprising drop in U.S. stockpiles of crude. Crude futures were up $1.30, trading at more than $52 per barrel. That’s the highest level since July 2015. A government report showed U.S. stockpiles […]
A man paid $150 for a storage container at a Long Island auction and made a horrific discovery: two freezers filled with 40 dead cats. “Some were just on the top, some were inside,” the man, who gave his name as Carlos, told CNN affiliate WABC. One skinned cat lay atop an aluminum tray. American […]
Thanks to a number of large events in town, lodging tax collections hit an all-time high in July.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans "can't just simply stonewall" nominees to the Supreme Court even if the president making the choice is Democrat Hillary Clinton, says the GOP chairman of the Judiciary Committee in a reaffirmation of the Senate's advise-and-consent role on judicial picks.
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley's comments on Tuesday was a response to fellow Republican Sen. John McCain, who a day earlier vowed that Republicans would unite against any nominee Clinton puts forward if she becomes president. Читать дальше...
If Hillary Clinton wins, Senator Elizabeth Warren will almost certainly be an even bigger nightmare on Wall Street.
Prison authorities in Leipzig could have prevented the Syrian terror suspect from taking his own life if they could afford an interpreter to interview him, a local newspaper found Wednesday.
SARA is a Socially-Aware Robot Assistant that interacts with people in a whole new way, focusing on social bonds. This supercool virtual helper can understand not only what you say, but the exact way you say it, analyzing nonverbal signals and emotions.
The baby tortoise will stay in the breeding centre for the next five years and will then return to its home island of Santiago, the GNP said in a statement.
DECATUR, Neb. (AP) — Company officials say they'll be meeting Wednesday with residents who fled fumes that escaped from an anhydrous ammonia pipeline in northeast Nebraska.
