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After meeting a number of the 160,000 Canadians of Iranian heritage, it’s hard to reconcile the customary North American depiction of Iran as an extremist Islamic society of black-shrouded women and angry men who hate the West, with a country that Iranian-Canadians say is less repressive and more civilized than many recognize.

Wait, y’all think Roose Bolton is a WHAT?

Roose Bolton is an undead creature who steals faces and nails them onto his own.

This theory, referred to as "Bolt-ON" (get it, he bolts them on) is only sort of a joke. The Bolton family preference for removing people's skin is oddly specific, and lots of emphasis in the books in placed on how Roose Bolton never seems to age.

An extra-scary version of the Bolt-on theory says that Roose is keeping Ramsay around solely to harvest his skin. Читать дальше...

A Lincoln man helped rescue a woman from her burning home during his walk back from work early Friday morning.

As the Powerball lottery hits the biggest jackpot in U.S. history, here are some extravagant ways to spend those millions. Photo: McLaren Automotive.

Marking his first year in office, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena today pardoned a former LTTE militant, who tried to assassinate him 10 years ago.

Story by Kendall Jones, via Washington Beer Blog. Story by Kendall Jones, via Washington Beer Blog. For the second year, Snoqualmie Falls Brewing is releasing Bunghole, a double brown ale. Admittedly, the beer’s name was intended to push the boundaries of what the Feds will allow on beer labels. The name flashes back to a time when kegs (and barrels, for that matter)... The post Bunghole Double Brown is Back for Year Number 2 appeared first on Beer News.

The Burger King at 14th and Pioneers Boulevard (or 14th and Nebraska 2) abruptly closed over the weekend.

Oregon State Police are en route to a reported roll-over crash on Highway 20, just east of the Highway 22 junction, near Lost Lake. Dispatchers got the call at 11:45 this morning. We will have…

Mazda said it will recall 374,000 U.S. vehicles linked to potentially defective airbags made by Takata.

If Nebraskans must submit to background checks to purchase firearms, should they also submit to checks to purchase tactical gear and military-type equipment?

Horizon Middle School employee Tania Gerving has submitted a letter of resignation after she was arrested Monday for allegedly stealing a student’s medication.

Obama faces questions on gun policy at town hall, Dow tumbles nearly 400 points on China worries and the Packers' love affair with romantic comedies.

A list of the best franchise opportunities in 2016; a look at America's most stressful jobs...in case you're considering a career...or a career CHANGE; and how one business owner cleverly adopted a scientific study into his marketing.

Shoplifting in Bismarck, which has been on the rise for the past three years, hit a five-year high at the end of 2015. A recent compilation of Bismarck police records shows that shoplifting re…

Self-driving cars are involved in fewer crashes on average than vehicles with only a human driver, a study released on Friday by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute shows. The study was commissioned by Alphabet Inc’s Google unit, which has reported a series of minor crashes involving its self-driving fleet. It looked only at Google’s fleet of more than 50 self-driving cars, which has logged 1.3 million miles in Texas and California in self-driving mode.

In August, millions of tourists from all over the world will be flocking to Brazil for the 2016 Summer Olympics. But now, all eyes are already on Rio de Janeiro thanks to a video of street youth gangs brazenly and violently mugging people that has gone viral.

“Maori tradition of returning the placenta to the earth is a beautiful way of honoring the placenta that gave us life.”

Christopher A. Preble

Security, United States

For starters, is U.S. military spending too high, too low or about right?

Late last month in the National Interest, Dov Zakheim posed some tough questions to GOP-frontrunner Donald Trump regarding national security strategy and military spending. The rest of the field shouldn’t be let off the hook, however. While Trump flubbed a question on the nuclear triad in the last Republican debate, raising precisely the sort of concerns that Zakheim wonders about... Читать дальше...

Go aboard five of the most expensive yachts at the 2016 New York Boat Show, including the 50-foot, 10-inch Sea Ray 510 Sundancer, the largest boat of the show, with a list price of $1.6 million. Photo: Jennifer Weiss/The Wall Street Journal

Go aboard five of the most expensive yachts at the 2016 New York Boat Show, including the 50-foot, 10-inch Sea Ray 510 Sundancer, the largest boat of the show, with a list price of $1.6 million. Photo: Jennifer Weiss/The Wall Street Journal

Bieber of vacay (Photo: @justinbieber/instagram)

The Afghanistan national cricket team defeated Zimbabwe during the first match of Twenty20 International on Friday, a game described as a nail-biting one for the Afghan spectators as Zimbabwe batsmen aggressively chased the target until the last ball of the game. Afghanistan won the toss in the first match of the Twenty20 International match played at Read the full article...

The potential sale of shares in Saudi Arabia's state owned oil giant raises the question of how valuable the company would be, with estimates of market valuations ranging into the trillions of dollars. Here's a look at Saudi Aramco by the numbers.

MarketWatch's Charles Passy joins Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero and pours Mighty Squirrel, a high-protein, low-calorie beer. Photo: Mighty Squirrel

Africa Adventure Company president Mark Nolting joins Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero to discuss safaris as a vacation destination. Photo: Africa Adventure Company