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Thanks to streaming services that let you binge on shows, it's easy to spend an entire afternoon without moving.

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Russia’s Daria Shmeleva and Anastasiia Voinova took silver in women’s track cycling team sprint at the Rio Olympics.

The third round of election for the new UN secretary general will be held on August 29, President of the UN Security Council Ramlan bin Ibrahim said Friday.

U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert is the latest high-profile Washington Republican to say that he cannot support Donald Trump for President, even if there's no way he will vote for Hillary Clinton

De man die gisterenavond werd neergestoken bij een winkelcentrum in Zuidoost is in het ziekenhuis aan zijn verwondingen overleden.

Bij een steekincident in Amsterdam-Zuidoost is vanavond een man ernstig gewond geraakt, meldde de politie. Het slachtoffer is gereanimeerd en naar het ziekenhuis overgebracht.

Lionel Messi is named in Argentina's squad, less than two months after retiring from international football.

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Now that new music comes out every Friday — but not always on every streaming service — it can be hard to know where to find the next great song. To help you out, Business Insider compiles this rundown of the best new music you can stream right now.

This week, Green Day returned with a fiery new single, and a previously unreleased song from The White Stripes surfaced. 

Check out the best new songs below: 

Green Day — "Bang Bang"

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Last month, the nation was stunned over images of a woman, disabled by medical treatment, left beaten and bloodied by the Transportation Security Administration as she tried to return home following treatment for a brain tumor. Now, the shocking video has been released.

Terrence Howard is officially the proud father to a baby boy! The Empire actor welcomed a son named Hero with longtime partner Mira Pak, People magazine reports. Howard also took to...

Government senator Eric Abetz has been announced as the keynote speaker for the dinner of a Christian group that endorses gay conversion therapy and believes homosexuality is immoral.

The fraternal twins face off.

Tinashe is on lifeguard duty in the just released music video for her latest single “Superlove“! The 23-year-old singer, who is rumored to be dating Calvin Harris, rocks a bikini as she runs across the beach Baywatch-style, also throwing in some fierce choreography by longtime collaborator JaQuel Knight in the clip directed by Hannah Lux [...]

The number of Americans giving up their citizenship continues to rise. The reason? America’s convoluted tax codes.

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London is known as one of the most expensive cities in the world.

But thanks to Brexit, the pound has fallen to its lowest level in over 30 years.

What this means for you is that now is a great time to take a trip there.

From browsing fresh food at the Borough Market to walking along the glass floors of the Tower Bridge, here are 25 photos that will inspire you to book a ticket to London ASAP.

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Knocking down long-range bombs while standing up is apparently getting too easy for Stephen Curry. The Warriors’ guard was hosting his annual youth camp and knocked down this shot during it, without much effort, it seems. We really shouldn't be surprised with this kind of thing anymore, right? #StephGonnaStephhttps://t.co/Q4NSgMYJIN — GoldenStateWarriors (@warriors) August 12, 2016 […]

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Robert De Niro opened the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival on Friday, presented Martin Scorsese’s restored “Taxi Driver” and received the festival’s first lifetime achievement award — The Heart of Sarajevo. De Niro starred in the 1976 film in the role of Travis Bickle, a mentally disturbed Vietnam war veteran. Over nine days,

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BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Louisiana Gov. John Edwards ordered a statewide emergency Friday in the wake of dangerous flash flooding that's so far killed one person and threatened others.

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A report verified on Friday by US-backed forces and a separate human rights organization claimed that Islamic State militants in the city of Manbij, Syria had kidnapped around 2,000 civilians to use as “human shields.”

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights described that during ISIS’ retreat from Manbij to Jarabulus, a city on the Turkish border, the militants took ahold of their hostages in hopes to slow the SDF’s... Читать дальше...

Ty Dillon, Justin Allgaier, Brendan Gaughan, and Ryan Reed are hoping to end their winless droughts this weekend at Mid-Ohio.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Robert De Niro opened the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival on Friday, presented Martin Scorsese's restored "Taxi Driver" and received the festival's first lifetime achievement award — The Heart of Sarajevo.

This past Saturday was the 51st anniversary of signing of the historic Voting Rights Act (VRA). It was signed into law in 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson, with bipartisan support. The Voting Rights Act outlawed discriminatory and racist voting restrictions, such as literacy tests and poll taxes, that were established in the South soon after the Civil War to deliberately make it harder, and in some cases impossible, for African Americans to vote.

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