Huge Explosion and Fire in Houston
A massive four-alarm fire broke out at a warehouse complex in northwest Houston, Texas, sparking explosions and sending towers of black smoke into the sky.
View ArticleDon’t Try Jumping Over the Tennis Net
Looks like this poor girl didn’t have much practice before attempting a jump over the net at a tennis court.
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SpaceX confident about late-night launch, not so much the landing
Following April’s smooth landing of the Falcon 9 rocket on board a floating platform, SpaceX is about to launch a payload to orbit again. Whether the booster will successfully land this time is...
View ArticleNon-Aligned Movement: US Supreme Court Breaks International Law
The 120-nation Non-Aligned Movement said that the recent US Supreme Court decision allowing victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorist attacks to collect $2 billion in damages from the Islamic Republic is...
View ArticleConspiracy: TSA Agents Move Slowly to Force You to Accept Background Checks
Airline passengers report waiting several hours in line at the mercy of slow-moving TSA agents, and the ACLU wonders if they are doing it on purpose.
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13-day-old human embryo grown in lab for controversial record-breaking study
Our understanding of how the human fetus develops could be shattered, as UK and US scientists have developed a new technique enabling an embryo to live outside the womb far longer than before, but...
View ArticleUS Stealth Destroyer USS Zumwalt Conducts Sea Trials (VIDEO)
After conducting the latest phase of its sea trials late last month, new video shows the Navy’s high-tech stealth destroyer in action.
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Reproductive rights at risk as Catholic groups run more hospitals, report says
The number of American hospitals either owned or affiliated with Catholic health organizations continues to grow, meaning that women’s access to many reproductive procedures may be restricted, a new...
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Trump sets off Cinco de Mayo controversy with ‘taco bowl’ tweet
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s tweet about a taco bowl on Cinco de Mayo went viral, with critics accusing him of “Hispandering” and hypocrisy, given his earlier comments on...
View ArticleFitch Downgrades Brazil’s IDRs to BB With Negative Outlook
The Fitch rating agency has downgraded Brazil’s long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings.
View ArticleExhibition on Red Army’s liberation role in Europe opens in Warsaw
The exhibition features the events of the last year of the war when the Soviet Union paid with more than a million lives to liberate 11 countries from fascism
View ArticleFuneral of Russian officer killed in Syria to take place in southern Urals
May 6 is declared a day of mourning in his native Orenburg by the governor’s decree
View ArticleTrump Ability to Control Rhetoric Likely to Determine the Next US President
Now that billionaire Donald Trump has all but won the Republican Party nomination for the US presidency, success in the final showdown against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton likely depends...
View ArticleMedvedev to open ice hockey world championship in Moscow
Taking part in the ceremony will be presidential aide Igor Levitin, Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and President of the International Ice Hockey Federation Rene Fasel
View ArticleFull Chemical Weapons Disarmament in Syria Hampered by Lack of Security
The process of chemical weapons disarmament in Syria cannot be completed because of the country’s compromised security, UN Under Secretary-General and Acting High Representative for Disarmament Affairs...
View ArticleSpanish College Makes Exorcism Classes Mandatory for All Students
A publicly-funded college in Spain has made waves after declaring it mandatory that all students attend exorcism classes.
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Thousands lose health benefits as Verizon strike continues
Verizon workers took to the streets of DC and New York again to protest plans to outsource and offshore their jobs, as their strike enters its fourth week. Verizon has stopped providing healthcare...
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Top Republicans refuse to back Trump despite past words and calls for unity
From House Speaker Paul Ryan to former presidential nominees Mitt Romney and John McCain and the former Republican presidents themselves, both George Bushes, it seems the recent GOP call to unite the...
View ArticleThe Next US Coup in Latin America: Obama Takes Aim at Venezuela’s Maduro
Unsatisfied with only ousting Brazil’s President by leaking NSA surveillance to the country’s judiciary, Washington now seeks to break the back of Venezuela by fracturing the powerful Petrocaribe...
View ArticleYaroshenko not to file petition on reviewing his case - lawyer
The ruling issued by the Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit in New York in late April rejected all the arguments of Yaroshenko’s defense offered in the appeals petition in June 2015
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