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The death toll from a shallow magnitude-6.2 earthquake which struck central Italy early Wednesday morning rose to 247 amid frantic efforts to dig out residents still trapped in rubble. More than 4,300 rescuers worked through Wednesday night and into Thursday in the hilltop towns and villages that were devastated by the quake, Italy’s Civil Protection…
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is leading Hillary Clinton by just one percentage point in Missouri, a state the Democrats have won only twice since 1976. A new Monmouth University poll released Tuesday shows Mr. Trump with 44% to Mrs. Clinton’s 43%. Democrats have won the state only twice since 1976 — Bill Clinton won in 1992 and…
When will this election end? The Leftists Rooting for Trump, and Other Scary Campfire Stories | The Nation. Source: The Leftists Rooting for Trump, and Other Scary Campfire Stories | The Nation
Although the planet, lost in the glare of the star, cannot be viewed by current telescopes, astronomers hope to see it when the next generation is built a decade from now. Photo Proxima Centauri, which is in the constellation of Centaurus 4.2 light-years from Earth. Credit ESA/Hubble & NASA And the planet’s proximity to Earth…
Breitbart seems nice. One of our favorite things about Donald Trump’s nonexistent “pivot” from the primaries to the general election is that, for somebody who thinks he’s such a salesman, he sure doesn’t know the first thing about his target audience. Oh, the toilet-water-drinking heathens who made up Trump’s base during the primaries absolutely love…
Peter Thiel‘s funding of Hulk Hogan‘s lawsuit against Gawker showed many Americans, apparently for the first time, that civil lawsuits are sometimes heavily backed by people who aren’t personally involved in the cases. It’s actually grown into a $3 billion “industry” that Legalist, a startup in Y Combinator’s summer batch, is taking aim at. It isn’t…
Tuesday afternoon, Stephen Braun and Eileen Sullivan of the Associated Press released the results of a review of State Department appointment data that they used to make some striking claims about Hillary Clinton’s schedule as secretary of state. According to their reporting, Clinton spent a remarkably large share of her time as America’s chief diplomat…
Having Blackbox ship your stuff to customers is cheaper than doing it yourself. Blackbox works like a co-op of indie artists. If everyone pays for postage, warehouse space, and packaging themselves, the cost is very high. But if we all pool our resources, we’re as big as any company purchasing at volume. This gives us…
Bing map There aren’t many small towns in the U.S. with two printed newspapers. For a while, there was one fewer. Now the Homer Tribune has resumed print publication, joining the Homer News in serving Homer, Alaska, a fishing-and-tourism town of 5,000 at one end of the nation’s paved road system. Both regularly win awards…
A “death put” on a certificate of deposit means that the bond matures immediately upon the bearer’s death, rather than when its term runs out: they’re used as a form of life-insurance, cushioning the blow to loved ones from unexpected death, and they can be held jointly, so that the bearer’s heirs and a third…