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Ali Velshi, an anchor at the soon-to-be-shuttered Al Jazeera America, expressed his dismay Wednesday at the network's abrupt closure.

“While Americans, survey after survey, tell us how much they want the sort of thing we were doing... In the end, we built it and they didn’t really come," Velshi told The Huffington Post's Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

"We really had a key mission -- and it... Читать дальше...

On a special edition of "60 Minutes," a look at Americans from all walks of life who are making a difference

NBC News' Kelly O'Donnell discusses how Sarah Palin opened up about her son Trick Palin's battle with PTSD on the campaign trial.

A Department of Justice watchdog officially condemned the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration this month, following a report that the agency had recruited a Transportation Security Administration security screener to search bags for cash that the DEA could confiscate.

You were on Neopets but do you remember it?

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Hedge fund titan Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Holdings, the fund's publicly traded vehicle, has fallen 14.5% in 2016, according to a performance update.

That performance is through January 19. 

Pershing Square had its worst year in its history last year, falling 20.5%. 

Ackman, a well-known activist investor, makes large, concentrated bets in a handful companies.

His five largest holdings include Valeant Pharmaceutical (-12% year-to-date), Air Products & Chemicals (-9.6%)... Читать дальше...

From the start, the Pacific Film Archive has gotten the back end of the title Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), and a back-door entrance. All of the architectural grandeur for the new $112 million home of BAMPFA is for the film department, which is an equal partner with the art department, though the long name and unpronounceable acronym BAMPFA suggest that film was an add-on or afterthought. The job of melding art and film while turning a 1939 factory into a 21st century... Читать дальше...

Kahramanmaraşlı Arif Gedemenli, CHP Genel Başkanı Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’na 1 TL’lik manevi tazminat davası açtıDevamı için tıklayınız

Imagine that your body is like your bank account... (it really is a repository of the wonderfulness that is you).

If you make regular withdrawals and no deposits, sooner or later (likely sooner) you are going to wind up in the red. You know that stress-inducing overdrawn feeling?

Well, your body is just like that, and when you keep requiring it to provide you with energy withdrawals but you aren't putting in healthy nutritious deposits, you are going to put your body in the red. Читать дальше...

While politicians continued to make their way into the University of Hyderabad (UoH) unhindered all through Wednesday, student leaders who trooped into the city from across India to express their solidarity with the expelled Dalit students were barred from setting foot on the campus.

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is one of the best passers in the league at getting the ball away quickly to avoid pressure, but Broncos outside linebacker Von Miller thinks he can collapse the pocket in time to hit Brady on Sunday. Asked today about Brady needing just two seconds per pass in last week’s game…

By Kristie Dash, Allure

Photo: Chris Gentile

It doesn't take a biophysicist to know that incorporating oils into your beauty routine soothes chapped skin, fights frizz, and combats dryness--especially in the winter. But did you know that different types of oils do different things? If you look under a microscope, some oils are made up of large molecules, while others are made up of smaller ones. And when it comes to getting what you want out of your oil, it turns out size matters. Читать дальше...

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Taras Kulakov is the king of lifehack videos, but you may know him better as the Crazy Russian Hacker on YouTube.

The YouTube star has over 6.2 million subscribers with video views frequently in the millions.

But out of his hundreds of videos, few are as successful as his food hacks that make life easier and cooking a breeze.

Keep scrolling to see 12 of his best kitchen hacks, from peeling mangos with a water glass to cooking a perfectly round egg.

The... Читать дальше...

BUDAPEST, Hungary - The Hungarian government says it supports taxi drivers in their protest against ride-hailing apps like Uber.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The Hungarian government says it supports taxi drivers in their protest against ride-hailing apps like Uber.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The Hungarian government says it supports taxi drivers in their protest against ride-hailing apps like Uber.

President Barack Obama said the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, serves as a reminder of why the country "can't shortchange basic services," addressing the water situation Wednesday for one of the first times in a public speech. The president traveled to the state Wednesday to look into what led to the contaminated water problem that plagues the Genessee County city, according to the White House.

UNLV has closed the deal on 42 acres of empty land along Tropicana Avenue and Koval Lane that could be used to build a long-awaited stadium on campus. The sale was ...

Professor Appa Rao Podile, who is in the eye of the Rohith Vemula storm, is where he is today because of his political connections, networking abilities and great lobbying skills, allege many in academic circles.

Residents in Flint, Mich., listened with interest to the governor's state of the state address Tuesday night as Gov. Rick Snyder pledged to fix the city's tainted water.

If you remember, Disney's 2002 classic "Lilo & Stitch" was all about family. The line "Ohana means family," delivered in the titular alien Stitch's signature voice, ranks up there with "Hakuna Matata" as one of the most beloved quotes in the Disney canon. 

Shares of Kinder Morgan Inc. fell Wednesday after the oil and gas infrastructure company reported a fourth-quarter loss $637 million, or 29 cents a share, versus earnings of $126 million, or 8 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Kinder Morgan's revenue hit $3.64 billion in the quarter, down from $3.95 billion in the fourth quarter of 2014. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected the oil and gas pipeline company to report earnings of 16 cents a share on sales of $3.91 billion. The company's... Читать дальше...

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates doubled down Wednesday on his fiery rhetoric about the current crop of Republican presidential candidates, maintaining that they're clueless when it comes to strategizing against the Islamic State group and the global threat of extremism in the Middle East. The former Pentagon leader also targeted President Barack Obama, China and North Korea during a discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City that all but doubled as a promotional stop to showcase his new book on the same topics.

“Aferim!” — the ironic title means Bravo! in Romanian — is funny in both senses of the word, both amusing and very odd. Based on an amalgam of true stories, the movie presents an essentially simple situation. The place is the Wallachia region of Romania, and a constable (Teodor Corban) has been given an assignment by a wealthy landowner to capture and return an escaped slave. In between towns, the father and son talk, or rather the father talks, in long monologues punctuated by aphorisms, only some of which make sense (“When drunk... Читать дальше...