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Trump raises the possibility of a ‘friendly takeover of Cuba’ coming out of talks with Havana President Donald Trump says the United States is talking with Cuba and raised the possibility of a “friendly takeover” of the island without explaining what that means.

EXPLAINER: Why is the EU taking so long to OK vaccine? AMSTERDAM (AP) — As Canadians, Britons and Americans begin getting immunized with a German-developed vaccine against coronavirus, pressure is building on the European Medicines Agency to approve...

Army to unveil details about new Futures Command in biggest reorganization in 45 years The overhaul will create a new power center in the Army.

Texas sheriff bans deputies from working at tent city for migrant children “It’s not consistent with the values of the sheriff’s office,” said the El Paso County sheriff.

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Your Phone Is Listening and it's Not Paranoia Here's how I got to bottom of the ads-coinciding-with-conversations mystery.

Giuliani: Trump 'probably' has power to pardon himself Rudy Giuliani said early Sunday that President Trump "probably" has the power to pardon himself, but has no plans to do so."He’s not, but he probably does," Giuliani, who recently joined Trump's legal team, said on ABC's "This Week."

Man guilty of hate crime for filming pug's 'N**i salutes'

Danish students take to the seas in floating shipping container apartments By utilizing modular shipping container homes in Copenhagen's urban harbors, Urban Rigger and architecture firm Bjarke Ingels have reinvented student dorms.

CRISPR can fix gene that causes intellectual impairment in men–fragile X syndrome The fragile X syndrome is the most common form of intellectual impairment in men, affecting 1 out of 3,600 boys. Now, scientists at the Whitehead Institute used the CRISPR/Cas 9 gene editing method to restore activity to the fragile X syndrome gene in affected neurons. Their work, performed on human...

Tired of Their Veils, Some Iranian Women Stage Rare Protests Following the lead of a woman’s protest in late December, six women in Tehran took off their head scarves in public Monday and waved them overhead on a stick.

'World's richest 1% get 82% of the wealth' The gap between the super rich and the rest of the world widened last year, claims Oxfam.