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Andy Rubin, the man who created the Android operating system, is planning his next big thing with a new startup called Essential, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Bloomberg first reported the news.

Essential will focus on high-end hardware and attempt to differentiate itself from budget-friendly Android products that have flooded the market.

The company is expected to formally announce a significant round of funding from major investors in the coming weeks... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress clears way for James Mattis to run Pentagon; sending White House a bill allowing retired general to serve .

Apparently, suggesting Messi's teammates make him better is a fireable offense.

Feel free to start breathing again, Bruins fans.

At least one good thing came out of the disastrous 2015 reboot of “Fantastic Four.”

Steelers receiver Eli Rogers was penalized for an illegal blindside block on Sunday, and now he’s paying for it. Rogers was fined $24,309 for the block, which drew a 15-yard penalty in the Steelers’ win over the Dolphins. The $24,309 amount is a standard fine for a blindside block, which the NFL has tried to…

Rep. Jason Chaffetz just warned the Office of Government Ethics about its tweets about Donald Trump’s conflicts of interest. The office’s response was, apparently, to subtweet Trump instead:

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The stars may be aligning in favor of the U.S. Army. 

The stars may be aligning in favor of the U.S. Army. There is a recognition in all quarters – Congress, the military, the American people and even President-elect Trump’s nominees for national security cabinet posts – that the United States faces a range of serious security threats, foremost among them Russia. This leads, naturally, to the need for a U.S. military capable of fighting and prevailing in high-end, high-tech conventional conflicts.

The US House of Representatives passed a Republican budget resolution to start the repeal Obamacare.

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Perhaps you didn't know this, but the US and China have been battling over aluminum for quite some time now, and over the last week or so the conflict has gotten particularly weird.

As proof, I submit this item reported by the Wall Street Journal's Scott Patterson. The US just seized $25 million worth of aluminum connected to a Chinese aluminum tycoon named Liu Zhongtian.

Liu stands accused of stockpiling the metal around the world and then using complicated trade routes... Читать дальше...

Iraqi troops on Friday breached the Mosul University campus used by Islamic State as a military facility, in what officials said was a significant advance in the nearly four-month battle to reclaim the city.

The Irish race are at risk of becoming extinct, according to a professor, who says that by the year 2050 Irish people will be “an ethnic minority” in Ireland.  Former President of Dublin City University, Ferdinand von Prondzynski, predicts that Irish natives will be on the verge of ceasing to exist by the middle of the century and says that the Chinese may form the largest ethnic group in the country. Irishcentral.com reports: Von Prondzynski is known as a lawyer, a legal academic and a high profile... Читать дальше...

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NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- The 71st annual Tony Awards are to be presented June 11 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, CBS announced Friday.

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The day after Donald Trump is inaugurated as president, an estimated 200,000 people from across the country will flood the capital for a mass demonstration billed as the Women’s March … Click to Continue »

Passengers tried to carry a record number of firearms on to planes in 2016.

William Peter Blatty in 2013 in Georgetown, the Washington neighborhood where “The Exorcist” took place.

Coming up with a 20% down payment for a median-price home costs buyers two-thirds of their annual income, according to a new Zillow report.

PITTSBURGH — No quibbling over Gerrit Cole’s salary this season. The quibbling over closer Tony Watson’s salary is heading to a arbitration panel. The Pittsburgh Pirates and their young ace reached agreement Friday on a one-year deal that will pay Cole $3.75 million in 2017. That’s a significant bump over the $541,000 Cole made in

For SELF, by Nina Bahadur.

Set yourself up for success with these ideas.

Setting a New Year’s resolution is the easy part — it’s sticking to one that is actually hard.

The International Monetary Fund said the challenges around foreign exchange in Nigeria have pushed inflation to double digits in Africa’s largest economy.

I am angry at the school system. And I am scared for the future of our country.

Ascendant Republicans drove a budget through Congress on Friday that gives them an early but critical victory in their crusade to scrap President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The vote trains the spotlight on whether they and ...