WASHINGTON — For nine months, the Pentagon played down the presence of its 1,000 troops in Syria, hoping that President Trump would not focus on the extent to which the American military was continuing to fight the Islamic State despite his order in December to pull out. On Sunday, the president appeared to say he […]
The United States is blacklisting a group of Chinese tech companies that develop facial recognition and other artificial intelligence technology that the U.S. says is being used to repress China’s Muslim minority groups. A move Monday by the U.S. Commerce Department seeks to put the companies on a so-called Entity List for acting contrary to
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HuffPost may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page. The SillWe tried The Sill’s new faux plant line. If you’ve made a reputation for yourself as a serial plant killer, we have some good news for you and your brown thumb: The Sill just unveiled a faux plant collection. The 14-piece collection
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At her lowest point, CJ Gilpin would sit alone her room taking MDMA. She says when she was at uni, wine and marijuana became her way of dealing with the world. After dropping out with addiction problems, she started writing music about what she was going through. She formed the band Dream State – who’ve
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Image copyright Julie Paige A Thomas Cook passenger due to fly home on Tuesday has said she is “stuck” in Tunisia, unable to secure a new flight. Julie Paige told the BBC that she had booked a flight with the collapsed travel firm which was not covered by the industry insurance fund Atol. “I had
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It’s 30 years since the tumultuous events of 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, the Iron Curtain lifted and the Soviet Empire began to crumble. As part of a special series of reports on how Russia views 1989, BBC Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg has travelled to former East Germany. He took a look inside Wünsdorf,
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The union representing Southwest Airlines pilots is suing Boeing, saying its pilots are losing money because the company rushed an unsafe plane into service only to have the 737 Max grounded after two deadly crashes. The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association said in the lawsuit filed Monday that Boeing misled pilots and airlines by not telling
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John Wick’s blend of super-choreographed gunplay and Keanu Reeves’s charisma has so far spawned three movies and now a video game. The game, John Wick Hex, translates the film’s fast paced combat into a top-down strategy game. BBC Click’s Mark Cieslak finds out more and talks to the creator of the game, Mike Bithell. See
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Yadier Molina pushed the St. Louis Cardinals to a deciding Game 5 of the NL Division Series, hitting a tying single in the eighth inning and a winning sacrifice fly in the 10th to beat the Atlanta Braves 5-4 Monday. Molina slung his bat far into the outfield after his winner, and the packed crowd
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WASHINGTON — Almost every part of the Bill of Rights applies to both the federal government and to the states, but the Supreme Court on Monday wrestled with whether to tolerate a rare exception for non-unanimous jury verdicts in criminal cases. Such verdicts are forbidden in federal trials under the Sixth Amendment but permitted in
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