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NEW YORK (AP) — Uber says its self-driving cars remains suspended in Arizona and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, following a crash over the weekend.

NEW YORK (AP) — Uber says its self-driving cars remains suspended in Arizona and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, following a crash over the weekend.

Uber says it is investigating the incident and that there were no passengers in the back seat of the self-driving car. In nearly all cases, the cars have backup drivers who can take the wheel in an emergency. [...] in February 2016, a Waymo test car struck a public bus near the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California.

Uber says it is investigating the incident and that there were no passengers in the back seat of the self-driving car. In nearly all cases, the cars have backup drivers who can take the wheel in an emergency. [...] in February 2016, a Waymo test car struck a public bus near the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California.

Aviation experts told NBC News the industry had transformed from the time when the act of flying itself was a special occasion.

ESPN made official one of the worst-kept secrets in sport media last week: the Sunday Countdown show is getting a major makeover, with Sam Ponder being named as the host of the studio show to replace Chris Berman. Ponder previously had numerous college football responsibilities with ESPN; the new gig, however, creates an interesting question: how will she be able to objectively facilitate discussions about a league in which her husband — ex-Vikings QB Christian Ponder — plays? (Star Tribune file... Читать дальше...

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On a 25-kilometer stretch of coastline in Western Australia lies a prehistoric treasure trove.

Thousands of approximately 130 million-year-old dinosaur footprints are embedded in a stretch of land that can be studied only during low tide, when the sea — and the sharks and crocodiles that inhabit the region — can't hide them.

What scientists found there is truly special, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

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Damian Kelly

On a 25-kilometer stretch of coastline in Western Australia, there lies a prehistoric treasure trove.

Thousands of approximately 130-million-year-old dinosaur footprints are embedded in a stretch of land that can only be studied at low tide, when the sea — and the sharks and crocodiles that inhabit the region — can't hide them.

What scientists found there is truly special, according to a study recently published in The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

"Nowhere... Читать дальше...

AP

It already seems as if President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are getting ready to make a major reversal on the kind of budget they promised to deliver to Congress.

Instead of delivering something "revenue-neutral" that wouldn't add to the deficit — the kind of fiscally responsible budget the GOP has been railing about for years — we're in line to get a deficit exploder.

How do we know? Because hard-line Republicans are already throwing out the idea that we need to have a balanced budget. Читать дальше...

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It already seems like President Trump and the Republican Party are getting ready to make a major reversal on the kind of budget they promised to deliver to Congress.

Instead of delivering something "revenue neutral" that won't add to the deficit — the kind of fiscally-responsible budget the GOP has been railing about for years — we're going to get a deficit exploder.

How do we know? Because hard-line Republicans are already throwing out the idea that we need to have a totally balanced budget. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — To blow up the rules or not?

The eighth and final Anzac-class frigate of the Royal Australian Navy is back in the water after receiving missile defense and other upgrades.

Throughout his nearly two decades in the sport, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson has hit almost every note possible for a fighter spanning multiple eras as MMA grew up around him. Somehow, he’s managed to do it in a way that’s all his own, in both (...)

Roger Wilkins in 1978.

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles will have a new starter for their April 3 opener for the first time in the last four years.

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles will have a new starter for their April 3 opener for the first time in the last four years.

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles will have a new starter for their April 3 opener for the first time in the last four years.

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles will have a new starter for their April 3 opener for the first time in the last four years.

House intelligence chairman Devin Nunes met on the White House grounds with the source of the claim that communications involving President Donald Trump's associates were caught up in "incidental" surveillance, the congressman's spokesman said Monday.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a northeast Florida woman has pleaded guilty to smuggling a Mexican woman into the U.S. as a pregnancy surrogate and instead forced her into domestic labor through abuse.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a northeast Florida woman has pleaded guilty to smuggling a Mexican woman into the U.S. as a pregnancy surrogate and instead forced her into domestic labor through abuse.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a northeast Florida woman has pleaded guilty to smuggling a Mexican woman into the U.S. as a pregnancy surrogate and instead forced her into domestic labor through abuse.

A Moscow court fined and detained Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for violating public order, one day after he mobilized anticorruption demonstrations that brought thousands into the streets across Russia.

As president Donald Trump's travel ban continues to leave judges across the country at odds, critics in protest and refugee families with...