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A decade after welcoming its first cottagers, a gated, waterfront cottage community a half-hour’s drive from Calgary is seeing a change in the look of today’s buyers. In 2010, CottageClub Ghost Lake celebrated its first possession and had 13 more cottages under construction. Today, 203 of the 228 lots in the community have been sold […]

Tokyo stocks fell back in thin trading on Friday, as selling hit mainly cyclical issues amid persistent concerns over the coronavirus epidemic.The 225-issue Nikkei average ...

NCIS viewers have come to expect a certain amount of attention to detail in the show over the 17 seasons it has been on air - but now, fans have pointed out a huge issue in the first ever episode of the CBS crime drama.

Business leaders are employing a retro survival technique during the pandemic.

Tehran, April 25, IRNA – President Hassan Rouhani congratulated the national and valuable success of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) young experts in launching satellite 'Noor' into orbit, saying that the achievement boasts of double value amid coronavirus spread and public concern.

“The Postal Service is a joke because they’re handing out packages for Amazon and other internet companies, and every time they put out a package, they lose money on it," Trump said.

SpaceX is test launching Starlink satellites already and Elon Musk says the internet service is approaching in-home public testing stages soon.

Hubble Space Telescope Celebrates 30 Years

It’s one of NASA’s longest-living and most valuable telescopes, sending back amazing space images to Earth for decades.

Hubble Space Telescope Celebrates 30 Years

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Friday, April 24, 2020 - 15:30

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Before hardcore took over Los Angeles in the late '70s, the city's punk scene was one of the most diverse, eclectic realms around -- and Chicana artist-activist Alice Bag was one of its pioneering players.

A growing number of AI models suggest that social distancing and quarantining are helping to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Evidently still furious over Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) disparaging comments about “blue state bailouts,” New York Gov. Andrew...

Voter suppression advocates toss gas on the fire with big numbers taken out of context.

The oil and gas supermajor says it has reconfigured a Louisiana facility to manufacture millions of bottles of medical-grade hand sanitizer. Liquor companies started a similar switch in mid-March.

By Andrea Shalal and Tom Arnold WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic and its devastating economic impact on developing countries could fuel fresh interest in so-called diaspora bonds

Drinking absinthe while secretly full of existential dread? You're a Clarissa.

From the beginning of January to when the U.S. closed its borders in March, approximately 13,000 flights from Europe landed in New York and New Jersey airports carrying more than 2.2 million people, Cuomo said.

Iranian military leaders on Friday said the country had drafted plans to strike "400 American targets" in response to further military action by the United States.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - German airline Lufthansa is seeking a loan of 290 million euros ($313.08 million) loan from the Belgian government to avoid the bankruptcy of its Belgian subsidiary

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The Albany City School District is facing a $6.6 million dollar gap. Superintendent Kaweeda Adams told NEWS10 ABC it’s one of the largest gaps they’ve seen. She said the average is typically somewhere between $1 million and $2 million. According to a spokesperson for the district, the last time the district […]

Gretel appears to have vanquished cannibalistic witch Holda at the end of Gretel & Hansel, but we think she might not have done so completely.

A frequent critic of President Donald Trump, Porter says he was inspired by artists who recorded songs during times of conflict in U.S. history.

1. Tequila Works CEO Impressed by DualSense Controller, Including Reportedly ‘Biometric Data Detection, Fingerprint Recognition’  PlayStation LifeStyle
2. PlayStation 5 news: Fan-made heat sink render offers final design clues; no, GamesRadar didn't just leak the console; new PS5 revelation rumored for next week  Notebookcheck.net
3. Sony slip-ups: ahead of the PS5, we look back at the PlayStation tech that just didn't work  Techradar
4. Community: What Will PS5 Look Like? Show... Читать дальше...

U.S. oil supermajor ExxonMobil said on Friday it had reconfigured its chemical plant at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, into a facility to make medical-grade sanitizer which will be donated to COVID-19 response efforts in Louisiana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Exxon has modified the manufacturing equipment at its chemical plant in the Baton Rouge area to produce, blend, package, and distribute sanitizer. The company will be distributing the initial production of 160,000 gallons of medical grade sanitizer ... Читать дальше...

It’s no longer just the U.S. that’s facing a meat scare. Top exporter Brazil is seeing its first plant shutdown, meaning the coronavirus is now snarling supplies from arguably the world’s most critical producer.

Global markets are contracting in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the prices for flat steel products continue to retreat, with prices for coated steels down by a further 5% since late March in most of the markets that Fastmarkets tracks.