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Certain Republicans had high hopes for the Nunes memo before it landed Friday — after President Donald Trump cleared its release — with a dull-at-best thud.

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• "Great at Work" by Morten T. Hansen suggests that working harder isn't the best way to achieve success.
• Instead, it's about working smarter — maximizing the effort and energy you put in, and the value you put out.
• The author recommends declining assignments from your boss on occasion and not tracking your productivity in terms of hours worked.

There are few things more frustrating than seeing a coworker hit a sales target... Читать дальше...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – A large rodent up in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania saw a slight shadow of himself this morning, thus declaring six more weeks of winter. However, two Oklahoma City Zoo grizzly bears disagree with the often unreliable meteorological skills of Groundhog Phil. According to KFOR’s Aaron Brackett, Punsutawney Phil has only correctly predicted the forecast 39 percent of the time since 1887. And, according to the Zoo’s two grizzly brothers, Wiley and Will, spring is on the way! The […]

Blame the ex-Police man. A song by the band’s former frontman Sting sparked a wild brawl between a Florida couple that culminated with a man chomping down on his boyfriend’s lip. Byron Haynes and his live-in beau, Yakeme Moore, were bickering inside their home in the seaside city of Bradenton Sunday, when Haynes, for some...

The last several days have been packed with fake drama and intrigue about the “secret memo” released publicly Friday over the objections of the FBI, Democrats and many others who say releasing this kind of document simply isn’t done.

Representative Matt Gaetz (R-Fl) may capture the attention of the Emmy division of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences for his performance on Neil Cavuto's show on The Fox Business Channel.

Georgetown University claimed Friday that the absence of a proper funding mechanism was responsible for the mysterious misappropriation of at least $400 in donations to a family values student club that has been censured on campus as "homophobic" for its religious stance.

MENLO PARK, Calif. (CBS News) — YouTube says it has started flagging videos provided by news outlets that receive government backing. The move is part of a commitment that its parent company, Google, made last year when it was hauled before congressional investigators looking into Russian tampering with the U.S. electorate. In particular, Google faced numerous questions about RT. The service formerly known as Russia Today used to be a preferred partner, giving it preferential access to advertising... Читать дальше...

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• A program that began to monitor disease around the world in the wake of the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak is coming to an end.
• The program was started because the world was unprepared to deal with deadly pandemics.
• Most experts think the risk that an emerging disease could cause a deadly pandemic is as high now as it has ever been.

The worst Ebola outbreak in history killed more than 11,300 people in West Africa between 2014 and 2016. Читать дальше...

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GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A young man who pleaded guilty to stabbing 20 fellow students and a security guard at his suburban Pittsburgh high school when he was a teenager says his prison sentence is too long. Alex Hribal's defense attorney Pat Thomassey says in a filing made Friday the facts of the case do not support Hribal's 23 1/2- to 60-year sentence. The Tribune Review reports Thomassey says the sentence imposed last week should be reduced to 15 to 30 years. Hribal pleaded guilty in October to... Читать дальше...

"From the steps of the Supreme Court to the White House press room, from global trading exchanges to the snowy reaches of Alaska — over the last week, you could hear the creak of history as it began to pivot in a half-dozen locales," an editorial in the New York Times read.

The Canadian dollar slipped against its U.S. rival on Friday, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada would be willing to walk away from the North American Free Trade Agreement if a bad deal was proposed, according to local reports. Trudeau, who was speaking at a town-hall meeting in British Columbia, added that he remained confident that the trade pact had been beneficial for the U.S., as well as Canada. The renegotiation talks for Nafta are set for a seventh round later this month in Mexico City... Читать дальше...

It would be easy to compare Congressman Devin Nunes’s release of a declassified memo on purported surveillance abuses to Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone’s vault. But this would be extremely unfair to Geraldo, who didn’t know ahead of time that it would be empty.

FREDERICK, Md. (CBS News) — Authorities say a Maryland teen accused of meticulously planning a violent attack at her high school has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in the case. Prosecutors say 19-year-old Nicole Cevario of Thurmont was sentenced after entering the guilty plea Tuesday to possessing explosive material with the intent to create a destructive device. Cevario was arrested in March after authorities were alerted by officials at Catoctin High School of a journal... Читать дальше...

Chelsea’s Development Squad bounced back from defeat at Everton on Monday night to upset title-chasing Leicester with a 1-0 win at Aldershot on Friday evening. A single second-half goal from Daishawn Redan, who was celebrating his seventeenth birthday, proved enough to separate the two teams in a real battle of an affair, with Chelsea having to play with their backs to the wall for long spells. They dug in, defended heroically, and were very well worth the three points at full time. This was the... Читать дальше...

Several students at a Queens high school were hospitalized after one of the pupils threw bleach at a classmate on Friday morning, authorities said. Six kids from Benjamin N. Cardozo HS on 223rd Street in Bayside went to Long Island Jewish Hospital for evaluation after two girls began throwing unknown substances — including bleach —...

Five reasons Arsenal won the January transfer window The Gunners did some great business in difficult circumstances Ultimately, the departure of Alexis Sanchez could end up being a positive READ MORE: Alexis Sanchez liked his dogs more than his Arsenal team-mates, had row with team-mate before Man Utd transfer Okay, so that’s a headline we didn’t expect to be writing a few weeks ago, but here we are; January is over and Arsenal arguably go into the second half of the season in... Читать дальше...

Millions of people will tune in for the Super Bowl this Sunday, right here on WICU. And for some local businesses, the big game means big business.

Düsseldorf (dpa) - Die Düsseldorfer EG hat das Rhein-Derby in der Deutschen Eishockey Liga DEL gegen die Kölner Haie nach Verlängerung mit 3:2 (0:2, 2:0, 0:0, 1:0) gewonnen. Durch den Sieg hat die DEG drei Spieltage vor Schluss mit 65 Punkten als Tabellenelfter weiterhin Chancen auf eine Playoff-Teilnahme. Köln (74 Punkte) verpasste die vorzeitige Playoff-Qualifikation.Jeremy Welsh schoss die Gastgeber am Freitagabend vor 13 205 Zuschauern nach 40 Sekunden der Extraspielzeit zum Sieg. T.J. Mulock (3. Читать дальше...

CHARLOTTE, Mich. (AP) — More women and girls are giving victim statements in a Michigan courtroom in a third sentencing hearing for Larry Nassar, the disgraced former gymnastics doctor who has pleaded guilty to molesting people under the guise of medical treatment. Nassar, 54, worked at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics, the governing body that also trains Olympians. He was sentenced Jan. 24 to 40 to 175 years in prison for assaulting seven people in the Lansing area; more than 150 statements were given in that seven-day hearing. Читать дальше...

CHARLOTTE, Mich. (AP) — More women and girls are giving victim statements in a Michigan courtroom in a third sentencing hearing for Larry Nassar, the disgraced former gymnastics doctor who has pleaded guilty to molesting people under the guise of medical treatment. Nassar, 54, worked at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics, the governing body that also trains Olympians. He was sentenced Jan. 24 to 40 to 175 years in prison for assaulting seven people in the Lansing area; more than 150 statements were given in that seven-day hearing. Читать дальше...