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The blogosphere has written enough thinkpieces and features (ourselves included) about the YA movie/Teen Dystopia craze to know this trend went into overdrive right around 2012. While “Harry Potter” arguably launched the phenomenon of fantasy YA adaptations and the rabid millennial audience for it a few years earlier, 2012 became the peak YA year: “The Twilight Saga” was reaching its final installment and the inaugural “The Hunger Games” was just kicking off. In fact, as popular and noisy as “Twilight” was with tweens... Читать дальше...

SEBRING, Ohio - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has agreed to pay for improvements at an Ohio village's water treatment plant to help stop corrosive water from leaching lead into tap water.

SEBRING, Ohio (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has agreed to pay for improvements at an Ohio village's water treatment plant to help stop corrosive water from leaching lead into tap water.

SEBRING, Ohio (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has agreed to pay for improvements at an Ohio village's water treatment plant to help stop corrosive water from leaching lead into tap water. Officials announced Monday that Sebring will receive $400,000 from the USDA to pay for technology that will alert plant operators to add chemicals when the water becomes too acidic.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is the latest politician to become entangled in a feud with Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump after the candidate questioned Warren's claims of Native American ancestry. The fight spilled over onto social media Monday when Warren took to Twitter to call Trump a "loser."

BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a man who was fatally shot by police in the parking lot of a McDonald's restaurant in Burnsville last week.

Iron ore extended a gain toward $US60 a tonne as further signs of a recovery in China's property market helped sentiment.

This Kiev driver finds an inventive way to avoid a heavy traffic jam in Ukraine

This Kiev driver finds an inventive way to avoid a heavy traffic jam in Ukraine

A Turkish columnist once hailed the country's leader as a champion of democracy. Now he joins many Turks in gloom and disappointment over the country's course.

Despite more programs available to federal student loan borrowers to manage their loans, borrowers are still struggling.

“Every time he’d come down the road people would yell ‘he’s coming again,’” a witness said of the 72-minute chase.

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LOS ANGELES, March 21 (UPI) -- Kourtney Kardashian and ex-partner Scott Disick reunited at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter prior to the reality star attending Justin Bieber's concert.

Thousands of gamers are playing "Tom Clancy's The Division," which is why the lack of significant technical issues is a considerable achievement. That's not to say there have not been a few gameplay issues raised by players. Ubisoft, in an attempt to address concerns regarding the multiplayer area known as the Dark Zone, will release "The Division" Patch 1.0.2 Tuesday.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jeffrey Gundlach, the widely followed investor who runs DoubleLine Capital, foresees a "global growth scare" between now and the end of the summer, triggered by a presidential nomination of Donald Trump.

"That is where I see the vulnerabilities," Gundlach said in a telephone interview on Monday. Trump's protectionist policies could mean negative global growth, Gundlach warned. "As he gets the nomination, the markets and investors are going... Читать дальше...

The whistleblower who exposed the totality of the America’s mass domestic surveillance program suggested that users should look to free and open source software to preserve their privacy.

THE SACP has come out strongly against the “Gupta- funded premier league” faction.

The construction cost of your dream house has got jacked up by 1%. Following a Central legislation to levy tax equivalent to 1% of total cost on all kinds of construction works where labourers are involved, both UP Housing and Development Board (UPHDB) and Lucknow Development Authority have started imposing the ‘labour’ cess on their allottees.

Work has begun on building the hull of the catamaran that the Olympian Sir Ben Ainslie believes will bring the America's Cup home to Britain for the first time in its 165 year history

In an online poll created to help Britain's Natural Environment Research Council name its new research ship, one entrant has racked up the most votes. The final decision, however, rests with the NERC.

What you value in life is linked to your happiness.

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Unidentified gunmen attacked a hotel in Mali's capital Bamako on Monday that had been converted into a base for a European Union military training mission in the West African nation, a Defense Ministry official and a witness said.

"The attackers tried to force through the entry and the guards posed in front of the entrance opened fire. One attacker was killed. The gunfire continued for several minutes," said one witness near the Nord-Sud hotel.

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While politicians were quick to demand that penal provision of sedition be invoked against advocate general (AG) Shreehari Aney for his remarks in support of a separate Marathwada, legal experts said Aney’s statement does not amount to an offence of sedition and expressed concern at the frequency and frivolity with which the offence is sought, of late