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Im US-Kongress geht die Sorge über einen möglichen Verwaltungsstillstand, einem sogenannten Shutdown, nach dem 8. Dezember um. Eigentlich sollte sich US-Präsident Donald Tump mit den Kongressführern beider Parteien im Weißen Haus treffen, um eine Nachfolgereglung für die Finanzierung der US-Regierungsbehörden zu besprechen. Doch die Demokraten Nancy Pelosi und Charles Schumer sagten kurzfristig ab. Grund war…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered a long-awaited apology in Parliament to LGBT people who were purged from government jobs during the Cold War. From the 1950s until the early 1990s, thousands of federal workers were investigated, punished, and fired from the military, the civil service, and other federal bodies for their sexuality. The government justified…

Bitcoin surpassed $10,000 for the first time, bringing this year’s price surge to more than 10-fold even as warnings multiply that the largest digital currency is an asset bubble. The euphoria is bringing to the mainstream what was once considered the providence of computer developers, futurists and libertarians seeking to create an alternative to central…

Soggy Converse sneakers are pretty much a given if it starts to drizzle. But with the sneaker company’s new Urban Utility line, a little rain won’t dampen anyone’s day. Converse, owned by Nike, teamed up with Gore — the company known for its GORE-TEX fabric invented in 1969 — to create water-resistant sneakers and clothes.…

North Korea launched an ICBM that experts…

The Broadway revival of M. Butterfly, starring Clive Owen, will shutter more than a month earlier than previously planned, with closing night now set for Jan. 14. The decision was made only a month after its official opening, and despite the fact that the show had already been scheduled as a strictly limited engagement. M. Butterfly, written…

WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea abruptly ended a 10-week pause in its weapons testing Tuesday by launching what the Pentagon said was an intercontinental ballistic missile — apparently its longest-range test yet — a move that will escalate already high tensions with Washington. Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning said the missile was launched from Sain…

As they search for ways to join the Republican tax cut push, self-styled « deficit hawk » senators have raised questions that appear to make no sense. Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, for example, vows to oppose any bill that increases the deficit by even a penny. Yet the budget framework for tax cuts that he helped…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption North Korea tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile in July North Korea has fired another ballistic missile, the latest in a series of launches that have raised tensions with its neighbours and the US. The Pentagon said it believed it was an intercontinental ballistic missile that flew for about 1,000km…

A woman who was held captive in a ‘sex dungeon’ for 10 years by a man known as ‘The Italian Fritzl’ was repeatedly raped and tortured – and gave birth to two of his children – it’s been claimed. Shocking details of the alleged abuse by Aloisio Francesco Rosario Giordano, 52, have emerged since his…