On the back of Airbnb raising yet more billions to fuel its private home accommodation business, Love Home Swap — a marketplace for people to exchange homes for short stays — is on a consolidation tear of its own. The UK-based company has acquired Holland's HomeForExchange, which LHS founder and CEO Debbie Wosskow tells TechCrunch will help her company build up its stock… Read More
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Another goal is to draw a contrast with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his inflammatory remarks about Muslims.
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Alibaba has jumped into the news business after the Chinese company confirmed on Friday that it has agreed to acquire the South China Morning Post (SCMP). The Hong Kong-based newspaper and SCMP Group's other assets, which includes local editions of Esquire and Elle, will cost Alibaba a little over HK$2 billion — around US$262 million — according to a regulatory filing. Read More 
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CHICAGO (AP) - Pardeep Kaleka spent several days after 9/11 at his father's South Milwaukee gas station, fearing that his family would be targeted by people who assumed they were Muslim. No, Kaleka explained on behalf of his father, who wore a turban and beard and spoke only in broken ...
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"This is a huge amount of latent power."
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Already struggling with finances, the Democratic Party has drafted a plan to have taxpayers help pay about $20 million for next summer's nominating convention, reversing a change Congress approved just a year ago.
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is also a congresswoman from Florida, has drafted a ...
Le Pen had been riding high after extremist attacks and an unprecedented wave of migration into Europe.
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SACRAMENTO — Give voters a chance and they will overturn California's landmark coed bathroom law in November, conservatives say — just as voters in Houston did last month with an ordinance requiring transgender restroom access.
The challenge facing California's Privacy for All is getting its proposed initiative on the ballot ...
"You guys got to take the turbans off."
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Having children is one of the happiest moments most people will ever enjoy, but it's also when you need to first think the most seriously about death. The joyous excitement and freneticism that surround birth is paired with the grim reality of life insurance policies and the act of considering the finite valuation of your remaining days. It's not fun, but it's the… Read More 
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"In honor of my friend …"
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Buying someone else headphones is often easier said than done. Audiophiles are a fickle bunch and even kids know exactly what type of brand/sound they want these days. These headphones I'm recommending run the gamut in affordability ($25 to $1,945) but they all offer something distinctly unique and refreshing. As a general rule, buying headphones online is probably not the best move… Read More 
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - When James Meredith challenged Mississippi's entrenched system of white supremacy in 1962, Gov. Ross Barnett had a plan to stop the black military veteran from integrating the state's flagship university.
Days before Meredith was set to enroll, under a hard-won federal court order, as the first ...
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"When he collapsed, his arms were underneath him, and the gun was still in his hand."
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While faulty hoverboards are setting themselves ablaze to celebrate Christmas, robots are gradually moving from labs to news reports to entering our daily lives. First in line are drones, already in many people's hands, autonomous cars with early deployments such as Tesla's autopilot, and desktop robots like 3d printers. In 2015 robot popped up in many forms, shapes and industries. Read More 
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"I want to kill him!"
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NEW YORK (AP) - Top New York officials are asking the federal government to help the state to block people on the terror watch list from legal gun purchases.
Sen. Charles Schumer and Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that the federal government does not currently give states access to classified ...
"As long as law-abiding citizens have guns, it's that much harder for burglars like me to do my job."
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After a series of back-and-forths between Apple and Taylor Swift over royalties, a near-break up between the superstar and Apple Music and a final mea culpa between the two, Swift is now planning on releasing a documentary for her 1989 concert tour exclusively on Apple Music. Thank you so much for all the birthday wishes. I have a little surprise for you. #1989WorldTourLIVE… Read More 
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"He didn't have to die!"
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"That's the problem with Ted."
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The way we do everything has been turned upside down: how we read, how we communicate, how we get from point A to point B, how we eat and how we get help when we need it. We are living through the "re-imagination — of nearly everything," and we are seeing this re-imagination very clearly within the self-help industry. Read More 
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Arizona's contentious 2010 immigration law has resulted in few deportations from the Tucson area.
An analysis of records by the Arizona Daily Star (http://bit.ly/1Y7naoH ) shows Tucson police ran 26,000 immigration checks for the 16-month period ending Oct. 2.
Of all of those checks, 83 people ...
"We're living in serious times, and his proposals are completely unserious."
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Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz has surged past Donald Trump and opened up a 10-point lead in the early caucus state of Iowa, according to a new poll released Sunday.
Mr. Cruz led the field with 31 percent of the vote among likely Republican caucus-goers in Iowa, followed by ...
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Nine candidates will participate in Tuesday night's debate.
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"You don't understand them."
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"This is an important day. I've made a big decision."
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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - The 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed 26 children and teachers served as a rallying cry for gun-control advocates across the nation.
But in the three years since, many states have moved in the opposite direction, embracing the National Rifle Association's axiom ...
"The sport is aesthetic, sexy, develops focus and builds self-confidence."
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"[A] final, decisive battle between the 'Crusaders' and the 'Believers.'"
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"…get guns off our streets."
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Robert Service knows his subject. Assessing the Soviet Union's demise in The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991, he starts by outlining Ronald Reagan's fundamental change in U.S. policy. "[T]he assumption since the end of the Second World War," he writes, "had been that the West should only try to contain the USSR; no US President had ever truly endeavored to reverse the expansion of Soviet influence around the world. Ronald Wilson Reagan was determined to change things."
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - An underwater search for a computer hard drive and anything else linked to the husband-and-wife shooters who killed 14 in the California attacks has concluded.
FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said divers concluded their three-day search of a small lake in San Bernardino on Saturday. She declined ...
"He'll either be apologizing, or suspended, or both before Monday is over."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — There's no legal or historical precedent for closing U.S. borders to the world's 1.6 billion Muslims, but neither is there any Supreme Court case that clearly prevents a president or Congress from doing so.
Legal experts are divided over how the high court would react to Republican ...