With six teams on a bye and the injuries mounting, fantasy owners might find themselves scrambling to put together a lineup in Week 8. The good news is that four of the six teams (Ravens, Rams, Dolphins, 49ers) are largely…
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Genes taken from archived blood samples show the U.S. AIDS epidemic started in New York in the early 1970s, definitively debunking the long-held belief that the virus was spread in the early 1980s by a flight attendant who became vilified as "Patient Zero" for seeding the U.S. outbreak.
Scientists have long suspected that HIV had been circulating in the United States for a decade before the first few AIDS cases were identified in Los Angeles 1981. The new study... Читать дальше...
The guidelines were amended in 2014 and now recommend a prison sentence of 30 years to life. "Because I view sentences of life imprisonment appropriate only for those so depraved and dangerous that they constitute an ongoing danger to the public and are incapable of reformation, I would have sentenced Mr. Whethers to something short of a life sentence," Cindrich wrote in the letter defense attorney Adam Cogan filed with the court earlier this year. Whethers' life sentence stems from his federal drug conviction... Читать дальше...
Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 4 percentage points, 46 percent to 42 percent, in the new poll.
A customer tries on a suit jacket inside a Canali Holding SpA store in Hong Kong.
A lokacin da muke tunanin mun ga karshen wannan ba’a, abun kunya da ya nuna sarauniyar kyau na Misis Anambra na shekara 2015, Chidinma Okeke, masu bankade sunce bamu daina ba. Bayan bidiyon yayi fice a yanar gizo na dan wani lokaci, Chidinma ta fito ta karyata cewan ba ita bace a bidiyon. Ta nace […]
Читать дальше...Beset on all sides, Republican Speaker faces a further bruising after the election
Donald Trump’s claim that the upcoming election is rigged against him is without precedent in modern US history. The potential consequences are bigger than you think.
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Geoff Ziezulewicz
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Saab on Tuesday announced changes to the company's organization and group management, including a new naval business area named Nautics.
Can the internet-search juggernaut beat expectations again in the third quarter?
Wal-Mart is bringing its grocery pickup program to Lincoln.
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Although New York has some of the toughest gun laws in the country, a steady stream of firearms are imported each year from nearby states with weaker regulations, a report from the state's attorney general Eric Schneiderman found.
Many of those guns are later used in crimes.
The report, released Tuesday, found that 74 percent of the guns recovered by police for which origins could be traced came from outside the state. Nearly half of those came... Читать дальше...
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When Icelandic tech entrepreneur Skúli Mogensen founded the long-haul budget airline WOW air in 2011, its fleet included just three planes serving 12 destinations — at an unheard of price of $99 round-trip.
Five years later, the fleet has grown to 17 and the destinations to 32. The prices may have climbed slightly — the average flight is closer to $400, including baggage fees — but compared to most other long-haul flights, WOW air is still rock-bottom.
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David Needleman
On Tuesday, top business-strategist Michael Wolf gave a massive presentation on the future of tech and media in 2017 at The Wall Street Journal's digital conference.
He predicted that subscription revenue will drive internet and media, accounting for over half of growth. “Pay to download” models, on the other hand, are disappearing.
Wolf also crowned eSports, or competitive video gaming, as the next tech phenomenon. By 2020, he said eSports will be a $1.5 billion business in the US alone. Читать дальше...
By Song Sang-ho SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Yonhap) -- A day after her rare apology over an alleged leak of presidential speeches and documents to a confidante, President Park Geun-hye is facing the daunting task of assuaging the political outcry and regaining th
NEW YORK (AP) — While many are skeptical of the business logic behind AT&T's desire to buy Time Warner, a similar deal from earlier this decade, Comcast's marriage with NBCUniversal, foreshadows some of the possibilities — as well as the…
NEW YORK (AP) — While many are skeptical of the business logic behind AT&T's desire to buy Time Warner, a similar deal from earlier this decade, Comcast's marriage with NBCUniversal, foreshadows some of the possibilities — as well as the…
NEW YORK (AP) — While many are skeptical of the business logic behind AT&T's desire to buy Time Warner, a similar deal from earlier this decade, Comcast's marriage with NBCUniversal, foreshadows some of the possibilities — as well as the…
NEW YORK (AP) — While many are skeptical of the business logic behind AT&T's desire to buy Time Warner, a similar deal from earlier this decade, Comcast's marriage with NBCUniversal, foreshadows some of the possibilities — as well as the…
Anyone with a cable subscription could watch the athletes on NBC and other channels and use NBC's sports app, but Comcast cable customers could search for their favorite sports, athletes and countries, and see medal counts, stats and athlete profiles on their TV. [...] it's adding stats, player profiles and voice commands to X1 and its voice-activated remote control tied to this NBA season. BACK EPISODES AND MOVIE SALES [...] recently, cable-based video-on-demand services would only store the five most recent episodes of TV shows. Читать дальше...
Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo was back at practice on Wednesday. In a very loose sense that hardly suggests his return to the field is imminent. Via Charean Williams of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Romo threw in individual drills on Wednesday. It’s the first time he has thrown at practice since suffering a compression fracture in…
Burning rubbish‚ smashed shop windows and roads littered with rocks were left behind in the aftermath of clashes between protesters and police outside parliament in Cape Town on Wednesday afternoon.
E! News can confirm that Victoria's Secret has cast the ladies who will take the catwalk in Paris at their 2016 fashion show on Dec. 5, and it's certainly going to be one for the...
Comcast's great theme park and cable TV numbers bode well for two of its rival theme-park operators.
The discount airline said a key industry metric would continue to fall into the fourth quarter, prompting a sell-off.
