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Impeachment reversal: Diplomat now recalls Trump’s quid pro quo

Washington: "I now do recall." With that stunning reversal, American diplomat Gordon Sondland handed the US House investigators another key piece of corroborating testimony in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. He acknowledged what Democrats contend was a clear quid pro quo, pushed by Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, with Ukraine. US Ambassador to the European Union […]

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Remaking the courts may be Trump’s biggest, best success

President Trump is expected to comment publicly Wednesday on the milestones his administration has reached with respect to judicial confirmations. His record is indeed remarkable: Working in close tandem with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Trump has successfully gotten confirmed, since his inauguration, 159 federal judges — including 114 district court judges, 43 court of appeals judges, and, of course, […]

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Firework shootout in Wild West Britain: Yobs hurl rockets around

Fireworks shootout in Wild West Britain: Yobs hurl rockets at each other in the street sending passersby running for cover 17-year-old boy was left in ‘serious’ condition after being stabbed in Merseyside  And across the country youths have been shooting fireworks at policemen  At Asda car park in Manchester yobs were caught launching them at shoppers  Gangs of yobs have […]

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AI used to read ancient Greek inscriptions: progress? Or problematic?

Academics at Oxford have devised a way of using Artificial Intelligence to read ancient Greek inscriptions. Rather than slave over deciphering the illegible or missing bits of text, they can now ask a computer to do the work for them. A slab inscribed with verses from the Odyssey’s Book, written in ancient Greek.Credit:AP Their ingenious machine, named Pythia after the […]

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Woman found dead in home was killed by Great Danes: coroner

A pair of Great Danes killed an Ohio woman who kept the rescued animals over her husband’s objections, authorities said. Mary Matthews, 49, was found dead Friday in her Waynesville home by her husband, Dale Mark Matthews, some two years after she rescued the aggressive dogs, the Dayton Daily News reports. “I never wanted Great Danes but she wanted to […]

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