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“Short sleeper” mice engineered to have the same sequence in the gene sleep less but show the same performance on memory tests as animals that sleep a normal amount.

Report uncovers irregularities in the tendering process involving $44 million over a two-year period.

Washington interim head coach Bill Callahan is a longtime offensive line coach, but his experience in the trenches probably wasn’t necessary to come to this conclusion: His front five will have its hands full Sunday when the 49ers visit FedEx Field.

Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton on Wednesday dispelled rumors of a potential run for Congress to replace retiring Democratic New York Rep. Nita Lowey.

Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 20: Fuel Theft in Brazil—Gangs and Militias Target Petrobras SWJED Wed, 10/16/2019 - 3:56pm

Brazil’s state-run oil company, Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has been increasingly targeted from 2014 onwards by fuel thieves (ladrões de combustível). The gangs (gangues) involved include the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC or First Capital Command) and milícias (militias). A similar pattern of large-scale petroleum theft has been taking place in Mexico since at least 2006. Читать дальше...

Panel says steps taken are inadequate

Brazil has potential to become a global player; but Brasilia has not clearly defined its grand strategic vision.

We inflated and slept on 10 of the most popular air mattress models, from Intex, Coleman, King Koil and more. Here’s what we learned.

A campaign to ban the Forced Swim Test in New Zealand is in line with public opinion, according to a new survey commissioned by the New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society (NZAVS) and SAFE.

Voices against Tejashwi Yadav have been rising after the RJD-led grand alliance suffered a humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha polls.

One of the laws of physics, loosely phrased, is that an object in motion stays in motion, on its path, until outside forces act to change that path. The outside forces may be coming to bear on the engine that’s led the economy on an upward path — the U.S. consumer. As reported Wednesday (Oct. […]

DFS has 2,371 staffers against sanctioned strength of 3,311

Russian military police are patrolling the town of Manbij in the province of Aleppo. The video was filmed on October...

A Flying V Theatre world premiere serves up a dozen vignettes, with mixed results.

Harvard historian Lizabeth Cohen’s latest book explores the life and career of Ed Logue, a Yale-trained lawyer who became an influential city planner and applied the lessons of Roosevelt’s New Deal to urban renewal.

An unmarked warehouse in Los Angeles houses the nation's second largest collection of marine mammal specimens (read: bones and eyeballs). What researchers have learned from the skeletons at this warehouse is helping shape the way we understand marine mammals and their place in our ecosystem.

Last night’s CNN/New York Times Democratic Presidential Debate attracted 8.3 million viewers on CNN and 9.4 million live streams.  On […]

A Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) bus driver was beaten up allegedly by a taxi driver near Marathahalli bridge on Tuesday. The tax

SEQUOYAH COUNTY, Okla. (KFSM) — An arrest warrant has been issued for a Gore Police Officer accused of using a stun gun on a woman in handcuffs, according to our CBS affiliate News On 6. Court documents state that the officer, Jose Guzman, is being charged with misdemeanor assault. Gore police responded to a woman’s home for a welfare check this summer because her boyfriend was worried she would hurt herself. The incident was all caught on camera. The woman […]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ben Salango says he's divesting from the parent company of The Charleston Gazette-Mail ahead of the 2020 election.

TYSON FURY partied in Las Vegas with boxing legend Floyd Mayweather after meeting WWE stars Ric Flair and Roman Reigns. The heavyweight boxer come wrestling newbie was in Vegas for a press conference last Friday as he announced a WWE match against Braun Strowman. And Fury, dressed in the same white floral suit and perfectly […]

The late theater director and producer James Hammerstein — the son of Oscar Hammerstein II, of Rogers and Hammerstein fame — lived in the unit at 100 Prince St.