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Three Americans held in a North Korean prison until their recent transfer for health care and political indoctrination will be released later Thursday, according to Team Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. “We got Kim Jong Un impressed enough to be releasing three prisoners today,” Giuliani told “Fox & Friends.” As of late Wednesday, US officials did...

Marvel

Warning: There are major spoilers ahead for "Avengers: Infinity War."

Now that "Avengers: Infinity War" has been in theaters for a little bit, we need to talk about the many deaths throughout the movie. 

In case you're still debating whether or not the deaths at the movie's end actually happened, "Infinity War" screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely have said they're real "and the sooner you accept that, the sooner you will be able to move on to the next stage of grief."

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Black Panther" will get its first shot at some awards show love as the top nominee at next month's MTV Movie & TV Awards . The global smash hit garnered seven nominations including for stars Chadwick Boseman, Letitia Wright and Michael B. Jordan. The second leading nominee is Netflix's series "Stranger Things," which received six nominations including for best show. The breezy award show's best movie category is stuffed full of superheroes, with "Black Panther," ''Avengers... Читать дальше...

Soon-to-be league MVP James Harden on Wednesday night became the latest NBA player to have a tense interaction with a fan.

BaseballHQ.com co-editor answers questions from a fantasy and an analytic point of view.

The defender expected good things when he moved to Anfield—but not a Champions League final in his first half-season. In the larger picture, Liverpool fans had high hopes for this Liverpool side, thinking it a solid foundation with a world class manager. A side that, if it could be kept together and added to and given time to grow might one day compete for the top trophies. Nobody, though, was honestly expecting for that to happen this year. There may have been hope, as there always is, but there was no real expectation. Читать дальше...

The Aspen Times/Business Insider

• A British man has been accused of destroying a multi-million dollar painting in Aspen, Colorado.
• Surveillance footage shows a man calmly walk into a gallery, head toward the painting, and cut it twice.
• Police have named Nicholas Morley, whose dad owns the painting, as their suspect.
• Watch it below.

A British man has been accused of slashing a multimillion-dollar painting in an art gallery in Aspen, Colorado, last year. Читать дальше...

• Meghan Markle's engagement ring features two diamonds from Princess Diana's personal collection and a center diamond from Botswana.
• Botswana is the second largest producer of conflict-free diamonds, according to data from the Kimberley Process Certification Theme.
• An increasing number of millennials are shopping for conflict-free diamond engagement rings.

The story behind Meghan Markle's engagement ring was always that of a fairy tale, but it just got even better.

"Black Panther," the breakthrough superhero film that has become one of the highest-grossing motion pictures of all time, on Thursday led nominations for the MTV Movie and TV Awards.

James Comey defended his former agency, the FBI, on Thursday after a scathing attack by Rudy Giuliani on Sean Hannity's Fox News show Wednesday night. Giuliani not only personally attacked Comey, calling him a "disgraceful liar" and a "very perverted man," but he also skewered the FBI for raiding the home and office of Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.

U.S. Soccer president Carlos Cordeiro insists President Trump fully supports the North American joint bid to host the 2026 World Cup. U.S. Soccer president Carlos Cordeiro has said U.S. President Donald Trump was not threatening other counties while tweeting support of North America's joint 2026 World Cup bid. In publicly backing the hosting bid for the first time last week, Trump also questioned why the U.S. should support other countries who might lobby against it. But ahead of the hosting... Читать дальше...

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Rudy Giuliani defended a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels on Thursday by arguing it was to protect President Trump “personally” from her allegations of an affair but then questioned what would have happened it her claims had come out during the campaign. “If we had to defend this as not being a campaign...

Hundreds of small earthquakes in Hawaii are shaking the eastern side of Big Island, prompting concerns that Kilauea Volcano could erupt. Residents in the area should prepare and review emergency plans in case of evacuation, warned the Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency on Wednesday. Officials are keeping watch on Kilauea Volcano, which is one of the world’s most active volcanos. It’s located in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, which has since closed off nearly 15,700 acres due to “the possibility... Читать дальше...

It looks like dark times ahead for this “Flash Boy.” A New York state appeals judge upheld a conviction against former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov on Thursday — likely ending a nine-year court saga over the theft of “secret sauce” trading code used by the banking giant. The decision, written by Judge Eugene M....

Filed under: Lifestyle, Living, Pets

According to Anxiety.org, “the difference between manageable and unmanageable anxiety could be as simple as owning a pet.” Studies have shown pet owners even have “lower heart rates and blood pressure levels and reacted better to psychological and physical stress and recovered quicker from those stresses.” So which K-9s are best at bringing the calm? Here, we’ve sniffed out the slobbery kissers with the most soothing power.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say a man was hospitalized and three dogs were killed after a fire in a house in northwest Las Vegas. KLAS-TV reports Las Vegas firefighters were dispatched to the home Wednesday afternoon, finding heavy flames and smoke. Authorities say the firefighters had the flames under control in minutes. A man was treated for smoke inhalation at the scene and then sent to a hospital. Authorities say his condition is serious. Authorities say the three pets appeared to have died from smoke inhalation. Читать дальше...

Tesla

• Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave an update on the company's planned autonomous mobility service, known as the Tesla Network, during its first-quarter earnings call on Wednesday.
• Musk said the service will "probably" be ready by the end of 2019.
• The service will allow Tesla owners to include their vehicles in a network that will resemble a hybrid of car-sharing and ride-hailing.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave an update on the company's planned autonomous mobility service... Читать дальше...

The former New York mayor said in an interview that a payment made on the president’s behalf to Stormy Daniels prevented damaging information from emerging during the 2016 election.

A Florida newspaper has apologized after it ran a front-page advertisement for a gun show under a story about one of the victims of the Parkland mass shooting.

Roma president James Pallotta joined calls for the introduction of the video assistant referee (VAR) to the Champions League after the club crashed out to Liverpool in the semi-finals.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida drivers hoping the state Supreme Court will toss out their red light camera tickets won't be getting their fines returned. The court rejected an argument Thursday that the city of Aventura gave too much power to an outside vendor to determine whether photos caught by the cameras were traffic violations. The ruling preserves the state's red light camera law, which some lawmakers have unsuccessfully fought to rescind in recent years. Luis Jimenez challenged the fine he received in 2011. Читать дальше...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is already having an "amazing" impact on MLS, Houston Dynamo defender Philippe Senderos says. The 36-year-old has scored three times in five appearances since joining LA Galaxy from Manchester United, including a debut double against Los Angeles FC that included a stunning 40-yard strike. The former Paris Saint-Germain and AC Milan star also appeared on the hugely popular Jimmy Kimmel Live! television show, during which he hinted at the prospect of coming out of international retirement to play at the World Cup... Читать дальше...

Historian Timothy Snyder, author of "The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America," explains that Russia is not a powerful nation when measured in terms of traditional indicators like technological innovation or gross national product. Instead, Russia uses subjective measures like feelings to generate fear and distrust among its people and around the world. Following is a transcript of the video.