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Newly acquired No. 10 expected to play Saturday but whether that’s in the starting XI or off the bench remains a question

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• Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are interested in getting answers from the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow, which President Donald Trump stayed at during a 2013 trip to Russia for the Miss Universe pageant.
• According to a dossier detailing Trump's supposed ties to Russia, Trump rented out the presidential suite and hired prostitutes to perform salacious sexual acts in front of him. 
• The dossier alleged that Russian intelligence officials... Читать дальше...

When I look at the night sky, I often view the stars not just in space but also in terms of their places in time. Light moves at a finite speed (299,792 kilometers per second, to be precise), so the journey from star to star is a very long one even for a beam of light. When astronomers talk about light years of distance, they are literally describing the number of years it takes for light to travel from those distant stars to your eyeball. And so when I heard about the death of Stephen Ha

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stephen Hawking won accolades from his peers for having one of the most brilliant minds in science, but he never got a Nobel Prize because no one has yet proven his ideas. The Nobel committee looks for proof, not big ideas. Hawking was a deep thinker — a theorist — and his musings about black holes and cosmology have yet to get the lockdown evidence that accompanies the physics prizes, his fellow scientists said. "The Nobel Prize is not given to the smartest person or even the one... Читать дальше...

Berlin (dpa) - Kanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) hat auch angesichts zu schmutziger Luft in Städten eine entschlossenere Hinwendung der Autobranche zu neuen Antrieben angemahnt. Es komme jetzt darauf an, dass die gesamte deutsche Automobilindustrie die Zukunftsaufgaben meistere, sagte Merkel am Mittwoch dem ZDF-«heute-journal». Gemeinsam mit dem neuen Verkehrsminister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) wolle auch sie sich sehr stark für schnelle Weichenstellungen einbringen, «dass wir die Brücke in die Mobilität der Zukunft schlagen - auch noch intensiver... Читать дальше...

In general, we are all for implementing reasonable pace-of-play rules to speed up the game of baseball. But one of the new 2018 rules that will be in place for minor league games goes too far. Starting this season, every game that goes into extra innings will have a runner automatically placed at second base to start those innings. Here is the exact language of the new rule: "At all levels of Minor League Baseball, extra innings will begin with a runner on second base. The runner at second base will... Читать дальше...

A North Carolina teen was forbidden from taking the school bus home by an assistant principal who believed the student’s off-the-shoulder shirt was simply too “inappropriate” for the ride, her furious mom said. India Middleton said her 16-year-old daughter waited in vain for nearly two hours to be picked up outside of Hoke County High...

Holmes and Theranos made a deal to settle the case against them, with the penalty including her surrendering majority voting control of the company, according to a statement by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Founded in 2003 by Holmes when she was only 19, the company had been seen as a rising star but came under scrutiny after The Wall Street Journal published articles questioning the reliability of its technology. Theranos, which had touted a new way of testing that uses far less... Читать дальше...

By Estelle Shirbon and Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is to kick out 23 Russian diplomats, the biggest such expulsion since the Cold War, over a chemical attack on a former Russian double agent in England that Prime Minister Theresa May blamed on Moscow. May pointed the finger firmly at Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday as she outlined retaliatory measures in parliament. Russia denies any involvement in the attack on ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, who have... Читать дальше...

Acclaim for the Academy Award­–winning Chilean film has helped revive a lagging gender-identity bill in its home country.

Paris (AFP) – Kylian Mbappe grabbed both goals as runaway leaders Paris Saint-Germain defeated Angers 2-1 in Ligue 1 on Wednesday despite losing veteran midfielder Thiago Motta to an early red card. The 19-year-old France international struck either side of Motta’s 16th-minute dismissal for a crude stamp on Angers defender Romain Thomas at the Parc des Princes. Mbappe confidently swept in a first-time finish on 12 minutes after a brilliant ball in behind the defence by Julian Draxler. The teenager... Читать дальше...

A UN's anti-drug body added carfentanil, a synthetic substance estimated to be thousands of times more potent than morphine, to its list of controlled substances on Wednesday.

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• Yesterday, Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid confirmed their break up on social media. 
• Now, fans are wondering what Malik is going to do about his chest tattoo that looks a lot like Hadid's eyes.
• Fans are dragging Malik online for his poor timing with tattoos.

In January, Zayn Malik permanently declared his love for Gigi Hadid with a giant tattoo of her eyes smack-dab on his chest. Two months later, they're broken up. Читать дальше...

Hannover (dpa) - Das Verbot einer Veranstaltung zum kurdischen Newroz-Fest in Hannover mit Tausenden erwarteten Teilnehmern ist rechtswidrig. Zu dieser Auffassung kam das Verwaltungsgericht Hannover und gab einem Eilantrag am Mittwoch statt. Die Polizei hatte das für Samstag geplante Fest verboten, weil sie darin eine Unterstützung der verbotenen kurdischen Arbeiterpartei PKK sieht.Ein vollständiges Verbot sei angesichts der hohen Bedeutung der Versammlungsfreiheit für die freiheitlich-demokratische Gesellschaftsordnung unverhältnismäßig... Читать дальше...

The conclusion of Cleveland’s great end game is near. Will that mark the finish of this terrific Indians run? Cody Allen and Andrew Miller — arguably the best 1-2 closing punch in the majors since being united at the 2016 trade deadline — are both in their walk year. With where the cost of elite...

Elizabeth Holmes, a Clinton donor who was named a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship under former President Barack Obama, has settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission after being charged with "massive fraud" on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — The FBI could have and should have done more to investigate information it received prior to last month’s massacre at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the agency’s deputy director told a Senate panel on Wednesday. David Bowdich told the Senate Judiciary Committee that authorities will never know if any investigative work would have prevented the shooting, “but we clearly should have done more.” The panel is examining legislative proposals to improve school safety... Читать дальше...

Faculty members voted last week to authorize a strike. The faculty — split about equally between full- and part-time employees — unionized in 2015.

By Polina Nikolskaya and Darya Korsunskaya THE KERCH STRAIT/SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Crimea on Wednesday, touting his annexation of the peninsula to voters days before an election all but guaranteed to deliver him a second consecutive term in power. Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine drew international condemnation and sanctions, but many Russians saw it as restoring Moscow's rule over a region they regard as being historically Russian. Читать дальше...

Students across the country marched as part of National Walkout Day Wednesday to honor the 17 students who were murdered in the school shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida last month.

MURPHY, N.C. (AP) — When Brian Hogan got a call that his wife had suffered a massive heart attack, he knew he had to get to the hospital fast. So Hogan asked his neighbor to take care of his 10-year-old daughter, then headed 60 miles east to the intensive care unit in Asheville, North Carolina. What happened next would eventually expose a practice by a child welfare agency that illegally removed potentially hundreds of children from their homes in this poverty-stricken mountain community. Those same... Читать дальше...

The Raiders are re-signing another of their impending free agents, agreeing to bring back tight end Lee Smith, the NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reported Wednesday. The report came about two hours before the official start of free agency and the new NFL year. Teams can officially start signing free agents at 1 p.m. PT. Under new head coach Jon Gruden, the Raiders appear to be building up their tight end group. On Tuesday, the Raiders agreed to sign Derek Carrier,... Читать дальше...