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• The Seasteading Institute set out on a mission to build a floating, libertarian utopia in the middle of the ocean.
• French Polynesia, an island nation that once agreed to let the institute develop the "seastead" off the coast of Tahiti, has now backed out of the deal.
• Locals in Tahiti feared that seasteading would bring tech colonialism to their shores. The project has long been criticized for its costs and elitism.

A South Pacific island nation is cutting... Читать дальше...

Macedonia's parliament has passed a law extending the official use of the Albanian language, despite protests from the right-wing opposition who say the decision will put the Balkan country's national unity in jeopardy.

PHOENIX (AP) — The Latest on Arizona events related to gun violence (all times local): 11:30 a.m. Approximately 1,000 students protesting gun violence have gathered on the softball field at Xavier College Preparatory, a Catholic high school for girls in Phoenix. The Wednesday morning event was among several around the city carried out as part of a national action to remember the 17 high school students recently killed in a shooting in Florida. At Mountain Ridge High School in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale... Читать дальше...

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• Millions of brackets have been filled out for March Madness.
• Villanova and Virginia are the most common Final Four picks.
• Predictions for the other regions do not have the top seeds reaching the Final Four.

As fans gets their brackets ready for the NCAA Tournament and March Madness, some trends are starting to emerge as the most popular Final Four picks this year only include two 1-seeds.

According to Yahoo Sports' "Tourney Pick'em" contest, No. Читать дальше...

OKLAHOMA CITY – The City of Oklahoma City announced that local recreation centers will extend operating hours and the Oklahoma City Zoo will host all-day camps during the possible teacher walkout. The Parks and Recreation Department and Oklahoma City Zoo will offer additional services for children beginning April 2 in the event of a teacher walkout in local public schools. OKC Parks will extend operating hours at nine recreation centers from April 2 until the walkout is over, and the […]

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• China threatened to retaliate against President Trump's new tariffs on imported metals on Wednesday.
• Retail sales fell short of estimates.
• The Atlanta Fed's GDP tracker now sees 1.9% growth in the first quarter.
• The Dow Jones industrial average was down more than 300 points at midday.
• You can track the Dow in real-time on Markets Insider here>>

The Dow Jones industrial average fell as much as 306 points Wednesday... Читать дальше...

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• Moderate Democrats want flexibility to break with the party's base on polarizing issues in order to be able to win in more conservative districts.
• Distancing themselves from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is another key component.

WASHINGTON — Many Democrats want breathing room for their candidates to break with both leadership and the base if they want to continue to win in moderate conservative districts across the US.

And... Читать дальше...

A decade since winning his first of back-to-back Cy Young awards, Tim Lincecum is trying to re-invent himself.

The special counsel's office wants to talk to Donald Trump about the firings of James Comey and Michael Flynn, but as the president's lawyers negotiate the terms and scope of a possible interview, they're left with no easy options. Balking at an interview, even a narrowly tailored one focused on obstruction of justice questions, risks perpetuating the perception that Trump has something to hide. But agreeing to discuss those matters with Robert Mueller's team is risky for Trump, whose statements can be unpredictable and inconsistent. Читать дальше...

It's 2018, and the No. 1 issue I have with the multitude of Apple products I own is not how fast they work or how well they're built: it's the fact that they all come with the wrong connectors. 

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Wednesday he was ready to resign and nominate a successor if the country's president agreed to give his Smer party the right to choose the government's next leader. Fico has been fighting to keep his three-party government intact after coming under pressure to call a snap election amid a political crisis sparked by the murder of a Slovak journalist in late February. Slovakia's interior minister resigned on Monday as protests grew following the assassination... Читать дальше...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The situation in Syria's Eastern Ghouta, primarily around the town of Duma, has stabilized significantly in the past few days, the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday.

A bomb has exploded near a police checkpoint killing three police officers and a bystander and wounding 20 others near the eastern city of Lahore, Pakistani police say.

The undercover FBI agent who was just yards away from a terrorist attack in Garland, Texas, in 2015 testified in court on Wednesday that he was surprised to see the attack happening.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Martin E. Blair, The University of Montana (THE CONVERSATION) Imagine you’ve contemplated the great scientific theories of the past and arrived at new insights based on your own observations. Imagine you’ve organized these thoughts into compelling arguments. Imagine that what you have to say will likely advance humanity’s understanding of its existence. Now imagine your... Читать дальше...

Two-time winner Ernie Els of South Africa and 2003 champion Jim Furyk were issued special exemptions Wednesday into the 118th US Open in June, the US Golf Association announced.

Solingen (dpa) - Für ein erbeutetes Handy hat ein Räuber in Solingen einen 53-Jährigen mit einer Gasflamme besprüht und dessen Gesicht verbrannt. Der 53-Jährige saß nach Polizeiangaben am Mittwochnachmittag an einer Bushaltestelle, als der Angreifer plötzlich mit einem Gas-Spray sprühte, vor das er ein Feuerzeug hielt. Der Täter verbrannte seinem Opfer das Gesicht, entriss ihm das Handy und flüchtete. Der 53-Jährige erlitt laut Polizei schwere Gesichtsverletzungen, torkelte auf die Busspur und stieß gegen einen herannahenden Bus. Читать дальше...

Stanford University dropout Elizabeth Holmes was once anointed "the next Steve Jobs."

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On the day Stephen Hawking died, in the week Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos admitted she hadn’t ever visited a failing public school in her home state, in the year that the West’s faith in liberal institutions seemed to crumble faster than ever, it was comforting to hear, in the PlayStation Theater in Times Square, after a prelude of sliders and bao, that the future had arrived.

And it was a piece of technology, no less.

True, Silicon Valley’s utopian... Читать дальше...