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Director Peter Berg produced "Road to Race Day," an eight-part series that looks at Hendrick Motorsports and its 2016 season.

NASA is making a trip to the Red Planet its top priority, according to one senior official at the space agency. While delivering a speech in Chennai, India Tuesday, Lt. Gen. Larry James, the deputy director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said the space agency had its sights set on Mars for the near future.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Jhoan Urena homered and had two hits, and Nabil Crismatt pitched 7 2/3 scoreless innings as the St. Lucie Mets topped the Daytona Tortugas 4-2 on Wednesday.

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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called for special consideration to be taken for civilians trapped in Raqqa, Syria, as U.S.-backed forces prepare to take action to remove Islamic State jihadists from the city. Guterres said some civilians stuck in hard-to-reach areas have been deprived of food and medical aid for years and said he was “deeply alarmed” by the situation. “Civilians continue to be killed, injured and displaced at a terrifying rate [and] places of refuge... Читать дальше...

Trump has tasked his son-in-law with laying the groundwork for what he calls the ‘ultimate deal’

Newly appointed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been the chief point of contact for Russia and China for important military, energy, and economic investment dealings with the Kingdom.

Newly appointed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been the chief point of contact for Russia and China for important military, energy, and economic investment dealings with the Kingdom.

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An astrophysicist from Queen's University Belfast is warning that Earth is incredibly vulnerable to an asteroid strike.

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North Korea, obviously, isn’t a tourist destination for American families.The reclusive totalitarian state has an abysmal human rights record, impoverished residents and an illicit nuclear weapons program — and it has detained numerous visitors over the years.Yet hundreds of American tourists still...

North Korea, obviously, isn’t a tourist destination for American families.

It's the most ingenious way to serve a crowd.

Welp, this sucks.

Welp, this sucks.

Fights are usually about caregiving, inheritance and how to support mom and dad.

Hell yeah, there’s a fire sword. A sword. On. Fire.

On the longest day of the year, HBO’s Game of Thrones granted its fans — who have been enduring the longest wait of the year — a new trailer for the show’s seventh season.

The trailer offers several tantalizing glimpses of Westeros’s many warring factions — and of dragons! — but is ultimately wrapped around the main theme of uniting against a common enemy.

"For centuries, our families fought together against their common enemy... Читать дальше...

Clifford is familiar with Howard, having coached him for six seasons as an assistant.

Clifford is familiar with Howard, having coached him for six seasons as an assistant.

The boss of China's biggest e-commerce company says small firms could soon benefit from globalisation.

Changes at the bank will see more than 40 executives take on new roles

SAN ANTONIO — A former Texas nurse who prosecutors say may be responsible for the deaths of up to 60 young children was indicted Wednesday on a murder charge for the second time in recent weeks. The Bexar (bayr) County district attorney’s office said in a statement that Genene Jones was charged in the September

A Brazilian pilot who crash-landed in an Amazon River in the Roraima state and survived for hours died after falling from a rescue helicopter's rope.

(AP) — Wyoming lawmakers will explore changes to the Wyoming Cowboy Challenge Academy to bring school districts closer to the National Guard program that targets at-risk teens. The teens go through a five-and-a-half-month residency at the National Guard's Fort Guernsey facility, undergoing a regimen of physical fitness, education, citizenship and leadership.