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Google is ending support for the video app on many old devices

You probably don't remember what you Googled 10 minutes ago, let alone the myriad inane and fleeting things you've searched since the engine's beginnings.

It's the second recent outbreak in the state

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Yes, you read that correctly. Starbucks' "Limited Edition Mother's Day Premium Starbucks Card" costs $200, but the gift card's value is only $50. So where is the other $150 going? According to the product's listing in th...

We've house plants, and geared up for spring arrangements, which is all fine and lovely until something Stuck in the Mud Pottery. As with all living things, even the hardiest plants require care, and strategies can var...

Spiegel has quite a fascinating report this week about the origins and growth of ISIS. It's a great counterpoint to Graeme Wood's Atlantic piece from February that focused on the Islamic and theological roots of ISIS and...

7 coal miners dead, 17 trapped after shaft floods at a mine in northern China

The Obama administration cast the deployment on Monday as primarily a show of force to discourage Iran's shipments of weapons to rebels.

Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, the influential conservative donors, have settled on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker as their top choice to win the 2016 Republican nomination for president, the...

It's not just a matter of getting a little extra exercise.

The Magnum Legacy series looks back at the lives of famous photographers

(Reuters) - A bomb exploded in front of the Spanish embassy in the Libyan capital late on Monday, residents said, the latest in a string of attacks on foreign missions in the North African country. "We heard a loud explo...

United States Steel Corporation issued layoff notices to 1,404 workers in the latest sign of struggle for the American steel industry. The missives went out in recent days to workers producing pipe and tube products that...

Twenty-five years ago, Sinead O’Connor’s cover of an obscure track written by Prince hit number one, becoming one of the best-known pop songs of the decade.

Ellen DeGeneres quizzed Courteney Cox, (aka Monica on Friends) about the hit TV show as part of a promotion for the Friends-themed version of the party game app “Heads Up!” Cox appears nervous in the beginning, excla...

No money down, no business plan and no kitchen, The Fresh Diet exploded into a million dollar company just a year out of the starting gate. The only problem? I had no idea how to run a business.

Approval ratings of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, have reached an approximate tie between those who favor it and those who don't, a Kaiser Health Tracking Poll released Tuesday revealed. The survey's ...

It lets you keep a log of your daily energy consumption and tells you how to reduce it

Oskar Groening, a former Nazi guard at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, will be tried as an "accessory to murder" in 300,000 cases at a German court on Tuesday. Groening, 93, has, in the past, denied being an ...

This place has gone from ghost town to boomtown. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management wants to give four lucky history buffs the chance to live in a preserved mining town on public park land in Montana.

Two individuals have been arrested on charges of human trafficking in the fatal capsizing of a ship loaded with migrants in the Mediterranean. An Italian prosecutor identified the two as a Tunisian captain and a Syrian m...