WASHINGTON — The partial government shutdown became the longest closure in U.S. history when the clock ticked past midnight into early Saturday as President Donald Trump and nervous Republicans scrambled to find a way out of the mess. A solution couldn’t come soon enough for federal workers who […]
WARSAW, Poland — The European Union’s executive body is supporting Poland’s slaughter of wild boars as a way of protecting farm pigs and meat production from the deadly African swine fever. The government’s decision to shoot some 200,000 wild boars this hunting season has drawn wide public protests […]
Los Angeles : Veteran actor Al Pacino is in negotiations to join the cast of Amazon drama “The Hunt”. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 78-year-old is close to lock a deal for the project which will be executive produced by Oscar winner Jordan Peele. The story, set in […]
PHOENIX — Panicking staff members at a long-term care facility scrambled to save a baby born to an Arizona woman in a vegetative state amid their shock to learn she was pregnant, according to dramatic 911 audio released Friday. The five minutes of audio from the Dec. 29 […]
Los Angeles : “Deadpool” star Brianna Hildebrand is set to star alongside John Cena in Paramount Pictures’ new comedy “Playing With Fire”. The film will be helmed by Andy Fickman, whose directorial credits includes comedies such as “She’s the Man”, “The Game Plan” and “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2”. […]
NEW YORK — It’s early, but the current flu season is shaping up to be gentler than last winter’s unusually brutal one, U.S. health officials said. In most parts of the country, most illnesses right now are being caused by a flu strain that leads to fewer hospitalizations […]
Mumbai : Actor-director Pooja Bhatt believes women start blooming in their forties but somehow they are not represented correctly on the screen whereas men continue to play characters half their age. Pooja, who is returning to the silver screen after a gap of 18 years with “Sadak 2”, had […]
HAWTHORNE, Calif. — SpaceX will lay off 10 percent of its roughly 6,000 workers, announcing Friday that it needs to become leaner to accomplish ambitious projects such as creating a spaceship that can carry astronauts to Mars. “This action is taken only due to the extraordinarily difficult challenges […]
Mumbai : The Bombay High Court directed the Centre on Wednesday to take a reasoned decision on whether the tenure of Maharashtra Director General of Police Dattatray Padsalgikar needed to be extended. Padsalgikar, who has been granted two short extensions of three months each in the past, will complete […]
NEW YORK — James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning DNA scientist who lost his job in 2007 for expressing racist views, was stripped of several honorary titles Friday by the New York lab he once headed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory said it was reacting to Watson’s remarks in a […]
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