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Her attorney worries the FBI is 'not being permitted' to conduct serious investigation

Rethink Robotics, the Boston, Mass.-based maker of collaborative robots Baxter and Sawyer, shut its doors today. Rethink was founded in 2008 and raised nearly $150 million to date, according to Crunchbase. Its last round of funding was an $18 million Series E in August 2017. Rethink Robotics CEO Scott Eckert confirmed the news via email…

At first, I thought Michelle Williams and I were going to have a 15-minute conversation about superheroes and CGI. The four-time Oscar-nominated actor has brought her considerable talents to the latest Marvel movie—the Spider-Man-adjacent and refreshingly bizarre Venom (which, among other things, is sort of a buddy…

AVENGERS 4 will reveal Thanos with a terrifying new weapon after new images leaked online. What happened to the destroyed Infinity Gauntlet?

The history of the R&D Tax Credit is one of supporting American enterprise—and understanding its intent as well as its gradual evolution over time can offer us an important roadmap to the economic policies we should pursue going forward.

After a 29-year-old man died from an infection with what's commonly known as brain-eating amoeba, health officials are investigating the Texas surf resort he visited.

US First Lady Melania Trump laid a wreath at a 17th-century slave fortress in Ghana on Wednesday, vowing never to forget where Africans were held before being shipped away into further hardship, most

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) - Baker Mayfield may have discovered why the Baltimore Ravens defense has been so effective this season.

Stingy Ravens defense 'holds' attention of Browns rookie quarterback Baker Mayfield

In 1838, when he was a twenty-nine-year-old Illinois state legislator, Abraham Lincoln foresaw the coming of Donald Trump.

Laura Robson is a scholar of modern Middle Eastern and international history. Her areas of interest encompass local, regional, and global iterations of internationalism and international governance, modern histories of mass violence, and the politics of ethnicity and religion in the twentieth century Arab world. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University and is currently Associate Professor of History at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. Visit her website at www.lauracrobson.com.

In The War Years Lincoln biographer and poet Carl Sandburg wrote,“Lincoln was the first true humorist to occupy the White House. No other President of the United States had come to be identified, for good or bad, with a relish for the comic.” More recently Richard Carwardine has devoted a whole book toLincoln's humor. In contrast, former FBI director James Comey has stated that he never personally witnessed President Trump laugh, and conservative columnist Max Boot has written, “Has there ever been a president as humorless as Donald Trump? Читать дальше...

Jefferson was a uncompromising liberal when it came to religion. He expresses that sentiment in a letter to Patrick Henry (11 Oct. 1776): “The care of every man’s soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or estate, which more nearly relate to the state? Will the magistrates make a law that he shall not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their... Читать дальше...

America has seen about one third of its Presidents who were “retreads,” those who lost earlier bids for the White House. They span from Thomas Jefferson to Donald Trump, and this reality of later success is what emboldens others to continue attempting to be elected President. There will be a number of such “retreads” likely to seek the Presidency in 2020.

In the context of the press’s struggle to cover the world of Trump and beyond, it’s important to recall that Murrow, in his memorable 1954 See It Now broadcast about Senator McCarthy, helped bring an end to a political crusade that was frightening the American people and undermining American democracy. He exposed McCarthy as a lying charlatan who deserved the Senate censure he was to suffer a few months later. Though many other reporters covered the same story, only Murrow will likely be remembered... Читать дальше...

I can’t say I’ve courted controversy as an author.

A historian’s daily schedule is, after all, hardly the same as a Fox or MSNBC commentator.

But sometimes controversy finds you.

As I wrapped up my latest book, TR’s Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, The Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy, I re-visited a rather minor footnote detailing the suicides of two of Roosevelt’s more prominent business supporters.Then, I recalled TR’s son Kermit had to talk TR out of ending his... Читать дальше...

Lunar lander, which is still in conceptual design phase, aims to provide reusable access to the moon's surface.

And in some cases it might help. In others? A slippery slope

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Rival airlines have selectively lowered or matched the sale fares rolled out by Southwest during its three-day flash sale.

The Federal Capital Territory Administration is to award scholarship to Miss Elizabeth Elijah who was hit by flying debris from a fighter jet that crashed while Air Force personnel were training for the Independence Day celebration. The Director, FCT Universal Basic Education Board, Dr. Adamu Noma, disclosed this when he visited the girl at Maitama […]

They say the 2018 Legislature tapped a state trust fund for inappropriate infrastructure bonds.

Cyprus decided Wednesday to invite energy giants Total, Eni and ExxonMobil to bid for a license to explore for oil and gas in a new offshore block, officials said.

This brain-teasing math problem created by Puzzles9 presents three pentagons, each with a set of five numbers. But there's a catch — the middle pentagon is missing a number in the bottom right corner. Can you figure out how all of the numbers are related and fill in the missing one?

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A California wine company has suddenly canceled contracts to purchase at least 2,000 tons of wine grapes from Southern Oregon growers because of apparent smoke contamination from wildfires. The Capital Press reports Copper Cane Wines & Provisions based in Napa Valley told growers as recently as late September that it would […]