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The St. Patrick's Day parade once again kicked off in midtown Manhattan Saturday morning. Thousands lined Fifth Avenue - many decked out in green and shamrocks - for the annual event.more

The Boring Company, which Elon Musk founded in 2016 to develop the infrastructure capacity to build tunnels-presumably for projects like the Hyperloop-has a new project on the horizon. But it's not a Hyperloop. It's a "people mover" that the company could design, build, and operate beneath the Las Vegas Convention Center within the next two years if approved.more

Satellite images of a facility near Pyongyang suggest that North Korea may be preparing to launch a missile or a satellite.more

Foreign leaders showered US President Donald Trump and his family with more than $140,000 in gifts during their first year in the White House, with China and Saudi Arabia among the most lavish givers.more

Luke Perry, who played the beloved Dylan McKay on the hit coming-of-age series "Beverly Hills 90210," has died. Perry, 52, died Monday after suffering a massive stroke, his publicist Arnold Robinson told CNN.more

Hillary Clinton has ruled out running for US president in 2020, but has vowed she's "not going anywhere."more

The US ambassador to Britain, Woody Johnson, has come under fire from a leading food critic, a farming union and trade justice campaigners over his push to open up the UK to American farmers post-Brexit.more

Elon Musk's SpaceX has successfully launched a rocket out of the Earth's atmosphere in a significant step towards reviving the USA's human spaceflight programme. The unmanned crew capsule atop a Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Florida bound for the International Space Station at 7.49am GMT on Saturday.more

The American start-up Veo Robotics intends to use lidar sensors to ensure the safety of people working in production halls with industrial robots. The company's first products are expected to hit the market in May - Bloomberg agency said.more

The US is offering a reward of up to $1 million for information about the son of the late Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, Hamza. more

Carlos Tavares, CEO of Peugeot parent Groupe PSA, confirmed plans during the release of the company's annual report on Tuesday to reintroduce the brand in the U.S. and Canada, where it last sold cars in 1991. more

A winter storm working its way through the Southwest dusted Las Vegas with half an inch of snow Wednesday, a record for this date, according to the National Weather Service.more

A 49-year-old Coast Guard lieutenant is in custody and faces domestic terrorism charges for allegedly planning "to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country," according to court documents filed in U.S. District Court in Maryland on Tuesday.more

The pregnant Duchess of Sussex has made a last trip to catch up with her "Team Meghan" girlfriends in New York before the arrival of her baby in the Spring.more

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday the United States was asking European allies to "take back over 800" Islamic State fighters captured in Syria and put them on trial. "The Caliphate is ready to fall," he said in a Tweet. "The alternative is not a good one in that we will be forced to release them..."more

US investment bank JP Morgan has created a crypto-currency to help settle payments between clients in its wholesale payments business.more

Russell Crowe and Catriona Balfe have criticized the Academy Awards bosses for dropping the presentation of several awards from the Oscars. The Academy announced on Tuesday that it will not air a number of categories, including cinematography, film editing, live-action short and make-up and hairstyling, in a bid to reduce the running time of the broadcast to three hours.more

The US has warned of the growing influence of Chinese telecoms company Huawei in central and eastern Europe as it launches a diplomatic push to curb Beijing's ambitions in the region.more

President Donald Trump delivered an annual message about the state of the country yesterday in the US Congress. As he emphasized, the order of his speech is not dictated by party logic, but by the interests of the nation. "I am calling you to choose the greatness of America" - he called.more

The 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II this year is to be celebrated with a panache - the Polish daily 'Fakt' reports. According to the information received by the newspaper, "President Andrzej Duda is doing everything to make the ceremony on Westerplatte honored by the American President Donald Trump."more

Five people died on Sunday, and two were injured when fragments of a small plane that apparently began to crumble in the air fell on a house in Yorba Linda, southern California.more

On Groundhog Day 2019, Punxsutawney Phil could not find his shadow. And as the legend goes, this means we're in for an early spring. The Pennsylvania groundhog isn't the only weather-predicting rodent in this quirky American tradition, but he is the most famous. And according to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, his opinion is the only one that matters.more

At least 12 people have already died in the United States due to a wave of arctic frosts lasting for several days. According to forecasts, the polar vortex, which is the cause of the winter attack, will move on Thursday from the Middle West towards the North East.more

This week saw the presentation of the book "Team of Vipers", whose author Cliff Sims sums up 500 days spent in the White House, giving a critical assessment of the disloyal towards the president's staff. Like the others, this book did not please Trump.more

Psychiatrists say internet addiction, characterised by a loss of control over internet use and disregard for the consequences of it, affects up to 8% of Americans and is becoming more common around the world.more