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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - White House advisors would recommend that President Donald Trump sign a US Senate version of a bipartisan bill to fund the federal government, the Office of Management and Budget said in a press release on Thursday.

While raising eyebrows by appointing someone from outside the sport for a second time, Eleanor Cannon is confident she’s landed the right man in Andrew McKinlay as the new Scottish Golf chief executive.

Sanders-started organization Our Revolution sends out plea for donations to Driscoll as Weinberger raises over $80k in race for BTV mayor

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• The Cleveland Cavaliers completed two major trades one hour apart to give their team a totally different look.
• The Cavs appeared to get better on paper by getting younger, more athletic, and adding more shooting and defense.
• While there will be an adjustment period to integrate four new players, the locker room should also improve.

In one hour, the Cleveland Cavaliers basically got a brand-new basketball team.

With the trade deadline approaching... Читать дальше...

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• Hulu lost $920 million in 2017 after its four parent companies — Comcast, 21st Century Fox, Disney and Time Warner — invested $1 billion in it. 
• The streaming service lost $531 million in 2016.

Hulu dropped deeper into the red last year as it boosted spending on originals and launched its live TV service — and the losses are expected to mount in 2018.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

NOW WATCH: No one wants to host the Olympics anymore — will they go away? Читать дальше...

NBC will air a “truncated” version of “The Tonight Show” during the Winter Olympics, the network announced on Thursday. Dubbed “The Fallon 5,” the five-minute version of the late-night talk show will air the week of Feb. 19 following NBC’s primetime coverage of the games. According to the network, the segments will consist of “a combination of monologues, comedy segments and/or interviews from the show’s home studio in 30 Rockefeller Center in New York.” Once the Olympics get underway, Fallon’s... Читать дальше...

Hundreds of thousands of Eagles fans flooded the streets of Philadelphia Thursday to salute the NFL team's upset Super Bowl victory over the heavily favored New England Patriots.

Berlin (AFP) – The amount Bundesliga club RB Leipzig owe their backers Red Bull has leapt to 83.164 million euros ($101.9m), according to a government-backed magazine. The Bundesanzeiger, published by Germany’s department of Justice, say the club added 30 million euros to the 52.384m they owed the Austrian energy drinks giants at the end of 2015. The jump can be explained by Leipzig splashing out for Liverpool-bound Naby Keita, Oliver Burke and Timo Werner, plus head coach Ralph Hasenhuettl, just before last season. Читать дальше...

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The state's four most-populous counties, including Cook, have delayed the start of in-person early voting.

By Phil Stewart and Lisa Barrington WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - A U.S.-led coalition and its local allies in Syria struck pro-government forces with air and artillery fire overnight to repel "an unprovoked attack" near the Euphrates, the coalition said on Thursday. The incident underscores the potential for further conflict in Syria's oil-rich east, where the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias holds swathes of land after its offensive against Islamic State. Читать дальше...

OLD WESTBURY, N.Y. — A man accused of stashing more than half a million dollars worth of marijuana, along with other drug paraphernalia, a loaded shotgun and more in Nassau County has been arrested, officials said Thursday. Micah Raskin, 49, was arrested Tuesday and faces charges including first-degree criminal possession of marijuana, second-degree criminal possession of marijuana, fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, third-degree criminal possession of a weapon and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. Читать дальше...

The situation at Mount Carmel Hospital was “critical” and had reached “rock bottom”, a nurses’ union spokesman said on Wednesday. Sentiments of “shock” and “deep concern” were expressed by NGOs and patients’ relatives who contacted the Times of Malta. The Times of Malta reported on Tuesday that a teenager found dead last Sunday, a day after escaping from the mental hospital in Attard, had not been kept under constant watch despite strict orders from psychiatrists when he checked himself into the facility on Friday. Читать дальше...

Rebecca Sommer, a rights activist who once actively supported Berlin's refugee policy, has become its passionate opponent, recently saying that it may be "too late" to save Germany from uncontrolled immigration from Muslim-majority countries. Speaking to Sputnik, Sommer outlined who is responsible for the misfortune afflicting her country.

France is planning a 37-billion-euro revamp of its nuclear arsenal over the next seven years, part of a sharp increase in defence spending aimed at allowing France to "hold its own" as a key power in Europe, the country's defence chief said Thursday.

The NNSA Graduate Fellowship Program (NGFP) is a unique opportunity for recent graduates to join the Nuclear Security Enterprise. These full-time, salaried positions offer a year of specialized, on-the-job training, and the chance to tackle real-world challenges in one of NNSA’s program offices. Fellows develop technical and leadership skills to launch their careers with a full immersion in one of NNSA’s core mission programs. What are you currently doing for NNSA? I work for the Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation’s conversion program. Читать дальше...

Washington (dpa) - A coin toss that decided which US athlete will carry the American flag at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics prompted a complaint from the disgruntled loser.Shani Davis, a two-time winner of Olympic gold in speed skating, criticized the coin toss."I am an American and when I won the 1000m in 2010 I became the first American to 2-peat in that event. @TeamUSA dishonorably tossed a coin to decide its 2018 flag bearer," Davis said on Twitter.Davis added that it wasn‘t a problem... Читать дальше...

A parishioner at a home church service in Texas allegedly stabbed four people, including the pastor, killing one, PEOPLE confirms.

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• There are hotels, and then there are luxury hotels favored by the ultra rich.
• The Bellagio and Caesars Palace are surprisingly popular with the world's richest people. 
• The two Las Vegas hotels also happen to be the most affordable hotels on the list. 

Rich people don't skimp on luxury when they travel. In fact, they demand it.

That's an obvious takeaway from New World Wealth's latest report, which... Читать дальше...

Joaquin Phoenix is in early talks to the play Joker in Todd Phillips’ “Joker” origin movie, an individual with knowledge of the project tells TheWrap.

Joaquin Phoenix is in early talks to the play the Joker in Todd Phillips “Joker” origin movie, an individual with knowledge of the project tells TheWrap. Joaquin met with Phillips last year but it hasn’t moved beyond that as insiders caution no negotiations or deal are in place. Leonardo DiCaprio and Joaquin Phoenix were always the top two choices according to insiders and DiCaprio has met numerous times with Phillips about the role. The project is expected to be part of a yet-to-be announced new... Читать дальше...

Olujonwo, one of the sons of former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said he is not missing. His mother, Taiwo had last week said he was missing. But Olujonwo said in a statement that he wondered how he could be placed on missing.