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Police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, say a 45-year-old father and husband killed his wife and their daughter before turning his gun on himself — leaving all three bodies to be found on Easter Sunday.

British investigators had a strong case against Vladimir Putin. But they hadn't accounted for Boris Johnson.

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• Baby names with variant spellings can be tricky: Which do you choose?
• In the US, Alan is a more popular baby name than Allen or Allan, for example.
• We compared the most common variations of popular baby names to see which spelling parents choose most.

Naming your child is a unique experience — linguist Steven Pinker called it "the only opportunity that most people get to anoint an entity in the... Читать дальше...

The CTA contract — for $1.3 billion – was awarded to the joint-venture, CRRC Sifang America, which includes a company owned by the Chinese government.

As Oklahoma teachers rally for more funding, some are sharing images of worn out, crumbling books and broken classroom equipment.

Jürgen Klopp hat ein weiteres Mal das Trainer-Duell mit Pep Guardiola zu seinen Gunsten entschieden, sein FC Liverpool demütigte am Mittwoch Manchester City geradezu. Die "Reds" feierten nach drei Treffern in den ersten 31 Minuten einen 3:0-Heimsieg im Viertelfinal-Hinspiel der Champions League und stießen die Tür zum ersten Halbfinale seit 2008 weit auf. Der FC Barcelona besiegte die AS Roma 4:1.

Conservative groups including the Heritage Foundation are circulating a proposal that builds on legislation by Sens. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) to overhaul ObamaCare. Even though I don’t know whether Graham and Cassidy have endorsed these updates, I will go ahead and call this proposal Graham-Cassidy 2.0. The proposal seems ill-advised, particularly since there is an alternative that is not only far superior in terms of policy, but also an easier political lift that would deliver more political benefit. Читать дальше...

A woman living in the Indian state of Maharashtra was released Tuesday from a local hospital just days after fighting off a tiger with a stick.

A 3-0 Champions League quarter-final first-leg loss on Merseyside showed Pep Guardiola's side learned nothing from their last loss to Liverpool

Speedy winger has been out for three games serving a suspension

Delayed by a three-game suspension, Philadelphia Union wingers Fafà Picault and David Accam will have a chance at last to torment a defense together against the San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday.

Picault served a three-game suspension — announced on the eve of the first game of the season — for using “offensive language” during a closed door scrimmage with Orlando City SC in preseason. Orlando midfielder Pierre da Silva... Читать дальше...

He told her he was 20 and that he lived nearby, police allege. But soon after Raymond Burk showed up outside the Utah home of a teen he met online, the girl would learn he was actually 37, from Arizona, and intended on “keeping her forever” as “his little pet,” police allege.

Barcelona can start planning for the Champions League semi-finals but their 4-1 win over Roma on Wednesday will not necessarily have rivals quivering in their boots.

On August 2, Brittany Harris’ world was shattered when she learned that her husband, Army Spc. Christopher Harris, had been killed by a suicide bomber while serving in Afghanistan.

All that rowing seems to have paid off for Gendry — and we don't just mean because of his beefy upper body muscles.

Well, this is not ideal.

Goodness, this is unfortunate. During the fun and lighthearted Par 3 contest at Augusta National on Wednesday before the 2018 Masters Tournament officially gets underway, PGA golfer Tony Finau busted an ankle while celebrating a hole-in-one.

Good grief, Tony Finau wrecked his ankle celebrating a hole in one pic.twitter.com/8o7JxVi3xQ

The good news is Finau appeared to be OK — at least well enough to keep playing in the Par 3 contest... Читать дальше...

The Par-3 contest is awesome.

Jack Nicklaus won the Masters six times during his golfing career, but the Golden Bear isn’t the only member of his family who’s pulled off a cool golfing feat at Augusta National.

During the family-friendly Masters Par-3 contest on Wednesday, Nicklaus’ grandson Gary hit a hole-in-one in front of a big gallery at Augusta:

Watch Jack Nicklaus' grandson, Gary, ace the final hole of the 2018 Par 3 Contest. #themasters pic.twitter.com/pk2FTqprwv

The Trump administration provided a rough outline of a plan to deploy National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to help border agents confront a rise in illegal immigrant crossings from Central America until Congress takes steps to curb the crossings.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – Scientists at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) have recently discovered a new protective mechanism against obesity and insulin resistance, which contributes to type 2 diabetes. “I think it’s important to understand what mediates insulin resistance because that’s a root cause of diabetes,” said OMRF scientist Kenneth Humphries, Ph.D., who contributed to the study. “You have to understand what causes insulin resistance to know how to fix it, and we now know this... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook revealed Wednesday that tens of millions more people might have been exposed in the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal than previously thought and said it will restrict the user data that outsiders can access. Those developments came as congressional officials said CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify next week, while Facebook unveiled a new privacy policy that aims to explain the data it gathers on users more clearly — but doesn't actually change what it collects and shares. Читать дальше...