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Scientists say they've discovered a new species of prehistoric bird with a Saskatchewan connection. Brodavis americanus, a toothy, loon-like bird, splashed through rivers and lakes in the region around the same era as Tyrannosaurus rex and other big dinosaurs. Fossils of the dino-bird...

MSNBC’s Al Sharpton is reeling in debt and back taxes. The liberal provocateur owes nearly $1 million to creditors and the federal government as a result of his failed bid for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. His campaign’s unpaid bills exceed $888,000, according to federal...

W.H. 'Disappointed' L.A. Times Published Photos 'Two Years After the Incident' White House spokesman Jay Carney reacted to the publication of photos in the Los Angeles Times of U.S. soldiers posing with corpses in Afghanistan by saying the Obama administration is "disappointed.. [with] the...

There ya go then...Occupy THIS! :lol: Ouch! That hurts. Shareholders rejected a $14.9 million, board-approved pay hike for Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit, shown above. Shareholders of Citigroup rejected a board-approved pay package for CEO Vikram Pandit and other top executives, sending a...

Yes, this is 'news' on Msnbc. Helicopters beat ground vehicles. Thank god for the 'new research' that brought this to their attention. Who knew? Msnbc. :lol: Oh, sorry, here's the 'story'. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who suffer serious injuries may have a better chance of...

PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot for testing chemical protection clothing. Unlike previous suit testers, which had to be supported mechanically and had a limited repertoire of motion, PETMAN will balance itself and move freely; walking, crawling and doing a variety of suit-stressing...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The outbreak of a new livestock disease in western Europe last year, particularly harmful to offspring, could move further into areas surrounding the worst affected countries in the next cycle of new births, scientists say. Schmallenberg virus - named after...

A recent report by ABC has confirmed what many have claimed for years; infrastructure jobs are going directly to foreign countries, particularly China. Regardless of the fact that US law usually requires American companies to be picked first for infrastructure jobs, multiple Chinease...

Newly-minted federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, betting that the buggy whip will make a comeback, wants Ottawa to back off investing in the oilsands and pump more money into manufacturing. Would these be non-union shops? Would these include another Caterpillar? It is difficult enough to...

WINNIPEG - The NDP calls it "balanced," the Opposition describes it as a "failure," and the business lobby calls it "bland." While the colourful descriptions change, Manitobans will certainly be paying more for gasoline, smokes and haircuts while the NDP increases spending by nearly 3% this...

OTTAWA - Theresa Lefebvre, who was beaten with a baseball bat in her Stittsville, Ont., home last week by her husband before he killed himself, has died of her injuries. Although police have yet to confirm the death, Lefebvre died in hospital on Wednesday. Her death comes one week after the...

Mayor Rob Ford will once again go to his family cottage and not the Pride parade on the Canada Day weekend. At a Wednesday morning event, in response to a reporter's question, Ford said: “No, I'm not attending Pride,” and cited his...

Well after an inspector general began auditing a lavish Las Vegas conference, Jeff Neely, who headed the General Services Administration’s San Francisco office, took his wife on a taxpayer-funded trip to Hawaii, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. Neely boasted in a November 2011 email...

Full-time staffer assigned to watch heavily bullied boy in New Brunswick won’t help, says anti-bullying advocate A New Brunswick school district has assigned a full-time staff person to protect a 12-year-old boy, an arrangement that appears to be a first in Canada, and one experts say will...

Robert Cushman listens to Seth MacFarlane’s Music is Better than Words — and likes it ... It’s hard to think of sentiments less Family Guyish than “you couldn’t buy a ticket to hear the first robin sing” from this disc’s opening number, It’s Anybody’s Spring, delivered here with the kind of...

KUNDUZ — About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned on Tuesday after drinking contaminated water at a high school in the country’s north, officials said, blaming it on conservative radicals opposed to female education. Since the 2001 toppling of the Taliban, which banned education for...

Sometimes, capturing a Taliban commander requires vast resources and complex operations. Last week in eastern Afghanistan, it hinged on an insurgent’s “improbable stupidity,” as one U.S. official put it. Mohammad Ashan, a mid-level Taliban commander in Paktika province, strolled toward a...

OMAHA, Neb. — Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett said Tuesday he has been diagnosed with stage I prostate cancer. "The good news is that I've been told by my doctors that my condition is not remotely life-threatening or even debilitating in any meaningful way," Buffett said in a...