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Green Bay Packers receiver Jeff Janis underwent surgery on his broken right hand and will be sidelined approximately four to six weeks.

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Facebook and I have very different opinions on what the future of my News Feed should be.

"We see a world that is video first with video at the heart of all of our apps and services," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on the company's most recent earnings call.

Zuckerberg, who is particularly "obsessed" with live video, added on the same call that he believes that, in as soon as five years, "most of what people consume online is going to be video."

This is the first Texas case to be linked to travel within the continental United States, officials say

DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. says it will have a fully autonomous vehicle ready to provide ride-hailing or ride-sharing services by 2021.

DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. says it will have a fully autonomous vehicle ready to provide ride-hailing or ride-sharing services by 2021.

Simone Biles is the most dominant female gymnast in recent memory, possibly history.

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NEW YORK — You don’t need to be a numbers-cruncher to guess what won the ratings race last week — and why. With blanket coverage of the Rio Games, NBC had the ratings game all to itself in prime time, scoring the top seven slots (Tuesday, Thursday, Monday, Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday and Friday) by a

(AP) — Southeastern Louisiana University has postponed the start of classes for the fall semester to Monday, Aug. 22, due to widespread flooding and its impact on students, faculty and staff. Originally scheduled to start classes Wednesday, the university has also extended deadlines for financial aid, course selection and payment of fees.

RIO DE JANEIRO — The Simone Show went out in style. And gold. Again. Simone Biles put the finishing touches on one of the greatest Olympics by a gymnast, capturing her fourth gold of the games with an electric performance in the floor exercise on Tuesday. The 19-year-old American completed an extraordinary stretch that included

Hillary Clinton vowed Tuesday to conduct a national security and foreign policy that Americans could be proud of, saying rival Donald Trump "just absolutely bewilders" her when he talks about his policies around the globe.

If your answer is “sarsaparilla,” you’re 180 years old.

No more staying up late during the week. Farewell to sleeping in. And, hello homework!

The United States considers Russia’s use of the Hamadan airbase in Iran for launching strikes in Syria unfortunate but not unexpected, US State Department deputy spokesperson Mark Toner said in a press briefing on Tuesday.

Alaskans are headed to the polls to settle the general election fields for U.S. Senate and House, and in some cases, they'll likely elect state legislators.

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid says he's "dubious" of legalizing recreational marijuana and wouldn't support it if he had to vote today.

Chris Pine keeps it cool as he attends the press conference and photo call for his latest film Star Trek Beyond held at the Grand Intercontinental Hotel on Tuesday (August 16) in Seoul, South Korea. The 35-year-old actor was joined by his co-stars Simon Pegg, Zachary Quinto and director Justin Lin in advance of the [...]

The Montgomery-based group says it has identified more than 4,000 lynchings of blacks in the United States from 1877 until 1950, and will honor each county's victims on dual pillars — one at the memorial and another to be installed in each county where the lynchings happened. The Equal Justice Initiative is led by Bryan Stevenson, an attorney known for representing death row inmates and juvenile defendants.

Environment Canada forecasted 15 to 25 millimetres of rain for today in a special weather advisory, but a chunk of that already fell overnight and this morning, said Geoff Coulson, a warning preparedness meteorologist with Environment Canada

ISIS have carried out a chemical attack on residential areas in Aleppo, northern Syria. Sources in city said on Tuesday that the terrorists fired rounds of mustard gas mortars on a government-controlled neighborhood earlier in the day and that at least 20 people were wounded in the attack. Press TV reports: This was not the first time Daesh used chemicals in its attacks on Aleppo, the sources said, adding that many civilians have suffered from similar poisonous assaults over the past weeks. Aleppo... Читать дальше...

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SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Female ocellated wrasses, a small, colorful fish from the Mediterranean, use ovarian fluid to secure fertilization by the sperm of the most preferable males.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Simone Biles put the finishing touches on one of the greatest Olympics by a gymnast, capturing her fourth gold of the games with a showstopping performance in the floor exercise on Tuesday.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An engineer accused of helping a Chinese energy company build nuclear reactors with U.S. technology is accusing the FBI of conning him into talking without a lawyer.

Weightlifting has long been afflicted by doping scandals and the IWF has undertaken a major crackdown on athletes using performance-enhancing drugs, often from former Soviet Union or Eastern Bloc countries.