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Patricia Arquette, Rob Lowe and more react to Kevin Spacey's 'weird' video: 'No. Just no'
USA Today - 26 Dec 2018 01:12
Kevin Spacey's bizarrevideo in character as Frank Underwood is catching the eye of Hollywood, but not in a good way.
Twitter To Trump: No, Federal Workers Do NOT Want The Shutdown
The Huffington Post - 26 Dec 2018 04:52
President insists government employees have told him: "Stay out until you get the funding for the wall."
6 Ways to Have Better Relationships in 2019
The New York Times - 26 Dec 2018 17:26
Say I do ... to fulfillment.
Apollo astronaut thinks sending humans to Mars is 'almost ridiculous'
BGR - 26 Dec 2018 01:03
Mars is the hottest topic in the space science world these days, with new rovers, orbiters, and landers finding out new and exciting things about the Red Planet with startling regularity. Multiple manned missions are alr...
Joe Scarborough says Trump is on track to be the worst president ever
The Week - 26 Dec 2018 16:21
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough is here to throw some belated coal into President Trump's stocking. In a lengthy monologue at the top of the post-Christmas episode of Morning Joe, Scarborough went off on a tirade against Trump, ...
Police block Chinese court where rights lawyer to be tried
Miami Herald - 26 Dec 2018 05:45
About two dozen plainclothes police are stationed outside a courthouse in northern China as the trial of a prominent human rights lawyer was expected to unfold. Reporters, foreign diplomats and …
Koreas hold groundbreaking ceremony for railway project
New York Post - 26 Dec 2018 04:17
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korean officials have traveled to North Korea by train to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for an aspirational project to modernize North Korean railways and roads and connect them with the So...
New Jersey health scare: Thousands possibly exposed to HIV, hepatitis
CBSNews - 26 Dec 2018 16:41
More than 3,000 people treated at the HealthPlus Surgery Center in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, are being urged to get blood tests after inspectors discovered equipment was not being properly sterilized. Officials believe t...
Medical checks ordered for all kids held in US custody after death of 2nd immigrant child this month
USA Today - 26 Dec 2018 16:40Albania's government fulfills demands of boycotting students
Miami Herald - 26 Dec 2018 16:36
Albania's government says it has fulfilled the demands of public university students, who boycotted classes for more than two weeks this month. A statement Wednesday said the Cabinet held an …
WATCH: School board to meet after wrestler forced to cut dreadlocks
ABC News - 26 Dec 2018 16:36
New Jersey's Buena Regional Board of Education announced an emergency school board meeting to discuss what it says are personnel matters after the video of one of its students went viral.
Hamas officials: Palestinian speaker barred from Ramallah
Miami Herald - 26 Dec 2018 16:22
Palestinian police have barred the Hamas-affiliated speaker of the Palestinian parliament from entering the West Bank city of Ramallah. Speaker Aziz Dweik had been set to hold a press conference …
Egypt 's 2 ex-presidents appear in the same courtroom
Fox News - 26 Dec 2018 16:19
Two former Egyptian presidents appeared Wednesday in the same Cairo courtroom, with Hosni Mubarak testifying in a retrial of Mohammed Morsi over charges related to prison breaks at the height of the 2011 uprising that to...
Japan will resume commercial whaling, but not in Antarctic
Miami Herald - 26 Dec 2018 06:23
Japan announced Wednesday it is leaving the International Whaling Commission to resume hunting the animals for commercial use but said it will no longer go to the Antarctic for its …
Indonesia tsunami: Grim search for survivors continues
CNN - 26 Dec 2018 05:53
The desperate search continues Wednesday for survivors of a tsunami which struck parts of western Indonesia, as the country marks the 14-year anniversary of its 2004 Sumatra tragedy -- one of the most devastating ever re...
Japan to withdraw from International Whaling Commission
Reuters - 26 Dec 2018 05:32
Japan is to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and resume commercial whaling from July, it announced on Wednesday, abandoning a decades-old campaign to persuade the commission to allow it to hunt wh...
Bangladesh opposition demands chief election official quit
Miami Herald - 26 Dec 2018 04:54
Bangladesh's main opposition alliance on Tuesday demanded the resignation of the chief election commissioner, accusing him of bias, ahead of Sunday's elections while violence worsens, officials and news reports said. …...
Stocks under a cloud as U.S. political tumult adds to growth anxiety
Reuters - 26 Dec 2018 04:39
Global stock markets headed into the year-end under a heavy cloud after another rout this week as U.S. political uncertainty added to heightened concerns over slowing global economic growth.
Indonesia asks people to avoid coast near erupting volcano
Miami Herald - 26 Dec 2018 04:36
Indonesian authorities asked people near an island volcano to avoid the coast while eruptions and weather and sea conditions were being monitored for tsunami risks. A tsunami that followed an …
Beijing puts human rights lawyer on trial
CNN - 26 Dec 2018 04:14
A high-profile Chinese human rights lawyer detained more than three years ago is facing trial Wednesday, the latest prominent detainee sent to court by the ruling Communist Party over the Christmas period.
To seal deal for State Bank, Cadence sweetens the pot
American Banker - 26 Dec 2018 21:08
Cadence has upped the exchange ratio by 10%, a move made necessary by the 40% decline in its stock price since the deal was announced in May.
The perils of New York's single-payer health care plan
New York Post - 26 Dec 2018 05:38
Dear John, I am becoming nervous about the proposal for single-payer health care in New York. If this becomes law and state taxes go up to 27 percent on people with incomes over $141,000, I think the effect on New York s...