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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A judge sentenced a convicted child molester to 12 ½ years in prison despite a 17-year-old Portland girl recanting her story of sexual abuse. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Multnomah County Circuit Judge Leslie Roberts sentenced the molester — Hassan Mohamedhaji Noor — to serve time after discovering two months ago that the girl was the product of intense pressure from family and others in her Somali American community not to speak out. Noor's defense attorney, Christopher McCormack, asked for 6 ¼ years. Читать дальше...

A national protest calling for stricter gun control legislation has been organized for next month in the wake of the Florida school shooting, but many are not waiting for March, with hundreds of university and high school already staging demonstrations this week.

The post Tim Ryan Doesn’t Rule Out Challenging Pelosi for Dem Leadership, Won’t Say Whether He’d Vote for Her appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.

In this week's episode of Biscuits, the Vice Sports hockey podcast:
- It's an all-deadline edition, as we sort through the big names in play
- Where should the big wingers -- Nash, Kane, Pacioretty -- wind up?
- Does Mike Green head back to Washington, or do the Leafs grab him?
- Will a bigger name like Erik Karlsson be in play?
- Why haven't there been many moves so far?
- Plus thoughts on the Mrazek deal, read questions, and I make a brilliant observation about the Bruins that was outdated within hours. Читать дальше...

MOSCOW -- Russian authorities in two cities say they have issued hundreds of fines after finding many hotels were illegally hiking prices for the World Cup. The Rospotrebnadzor consumer regulator says one Moscow hotel raised prices up to 570 percent above what is allowed by a government decree designed to prevent excessive profiteering during the tournament. The regulator's Moscow branch says it issued fines totaling 5.95 million rubles ($105,000) to 198 legal entities and 181 people. In the Ural...

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• Gus Kenworthy competed in the men's slopestyle for freestyle skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics. 
• He ended up placing 12th in Pyeongchang after winning the silver medal in Sochi 2014. 
• He told INSIDER that the medal isn't the most important part of being an Olympian.

Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy failed to medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but he's taking it all in stride.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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In 2013, Elon Musk, the famed entrepreneur and CEO of Tesla and Space X, came up with an idea for a vacuum-and-maglev-powered super-fast train that would travel through a tube. It would be called the Hyperloop.

In a research paper, he outlined its potential and challenged other tech companies to develop it for commercialization. Two startups, Shervin Pishevar’s Hyperloop One and Dirk Ahlborn’s Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, are perhaps the closest to making the Hyperloop a reality. Читать дальше...

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By Sunday, only four days after the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida, the activist movement that emerged in its aftermath had a name (Never Again), a policy goal (stricter background checks for gun buyers), and a plan for a nationwide protest (a March for Our Lives, scheduled for March 24th). It also had a panel of luminary teens who were reminding America that the shooting was not a freak accident or a natural disaster but the result of actual human decisions.

A missing child

When a four-year-old girl disappears in the woods just outside Fjllbacka, the community is horror-struck. Thirty years ago, a young girl went missing from the exact same spot, and was later discovered, murdered.

MESA, Ariz. - Back before free agency, many baseball players worked second jobs in the offseason. With bigger contract and year-round training, that’s less common now, but this spring, the A’s have a part-time construction worker in camp. Left-hander Jarret Martin, his baseball career adrift after shoulder surgery in 2014, played independent ball in Sussex, N.J., and Ottawa, Ontario, in 2015, then he went to work digging ditches for his family’s construction company in Bakersfield. Читать дальше...

The ​once ​drug-addled firefighter busted for peddling Fentanyl appeared somber and sober during a Tuesday visit to the Brooklyn courthouse​ ​–​ ​unlike his last appearance, where he walked into a pole. “You look a lot better, Mr. Murino, than the day I last saw you,” Brooklyn federal court magistrate judge Steven Gold told Anthon​y​ Murino...

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Welcome to Best Bites, a twice-weekly video series that aims to satisfy your never-ending craving for food content through quick, beautiful videos for the at-home foodie. Check back on Tuesdays and Thursdays for new episodes!

• 1 Devil’s Food Cake Mix
• 3 Eggs
• ½ cup melted butter
• 1 cup milk
• ½ cup sour cream
• 2 tsp vanilla extract

• 1 cup butter until smooth
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
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TAMPA — The Yankees continue to expect Greg Bird to be a cornerstone of their lineup, a powerful left-handed bat that helps break up the right-handed trio of Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Gary Sanchez. But they also must deal with the reality that Bird didn’t play a game in 2016 after undergoing shoulder surgery...

The legal adviser to the European Union’s top court says that Poland broke the law by authorizing logging in one of the continent’s oldest forests.

Trialist striker Ghislain Guessan scored Hearts Under-20s’ first goal in a 2-1 win over Dundee United at Riccarton.

The warehouse had been illegally converted into living space for artists and had no fire sprinklers.

• An article on a local news site in Arlington, Virginia, blew up overnight.
• The views mostly came from what appears to be an internal Amazon.com page.
• Arlington, Virginia, would be part of Northern Virginia's bid for its second headquarters project and is part of the DC metro area, which is considered a frontrunner for HQ2.

Amazon may have just tipped its hand again.

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• Ohio police say a middle-school student shot himself in the bathroom and is being treated at a hospital.
• Police said the student had a device in his backpack meant to cause a distraction, but it wasn't an explosive.
• They added that no one else was harmed and it's unclear if the shooting was intentional.

MASSILLON, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a seventh-grader who shot and injured himself inside an Ohio middle school bathroom also had a... Читать дальше...

Nueva York, 20 feb (dpa) - El presidente palestino, Mahmud Abbas, pedirá de nuevo la pertenencia plena de Palestina a la ONU, según anunció hoy en un discurso ante el Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas, el máximo gremio de la organización internacional."Nos dirigiremos a ustedes", anunció Abbas. "¿No creen que merecemos una pertenencia plena? ¿Por qué no?", dijo Abbas, que recordó que Palestina ya es reconocida como Estado por 138 países. En su primera comparecencia ante el Consejo de Seguridad desde 2009... Читать дальше...

The northern city's Noordlease Stadium can hold 23,000 supporters, yet the club are currently getting in lower than their season's average of 18,000 for league games.Attendance numbers have declined in recent weeks as they've failed to win a match since Christmas Eve - a 4-0 win over Sparta Rotterdam -and currentlysit13th in the 18-teamleague table.So, in an effort to get the place rocking for their clash against relegation-threatenedBredaon February 23, the Dutch club are giving their fans an extra... Читать дальше...

Busloads of students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School headed for the Florida capital on Tuesday with one goal in mind: Make change.

The Senate has condemned calls by the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) for asking the Federal Government to pay for fuel subsidy claims between 2013 and 2015. This followed the presentation of the Executive Secretary, MOMAN, Obafemi Olawore, who appeared before the Senate Public Accounts Committee on Tuesday. Olawore asked the Federal Government to... View Article