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London — A British judge sentenced WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday to 50 weeks in prison for skipping bail seven years ago and holing up in the Ecuadorian embassy. Judge Deborah Taylor said it was hard to imagine a more serious version of the offense as she gave the 47-year-old hacker a sentence close…

A previously extinct species of bird has re-evolved back into existence, according to a new study. The Aldabra rail first went extinct around 136,000 years ago. Now, it’s reclaimed its home island.  According to a study published Wednesday in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, a peer-reviewed scientific journal, sediments from the Aldabra Atoll…

Top Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) open an investigation into the deaths of five migrant Guatemalan children who died either in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody or soon after. The deaths raise “significant questions about the conditions in CBP’s short-term holding facilities, the length of…

More than 170 shoe companies and retailers — including Nike and Foot Locker and Under Armour — warned President Trump his proposed China tariffs would be “catastrophic.”The Footwear Distributors of America estimate the new tariffs could cost U.S. consumers $7 billion a year.The typical “performance” running shoes may go from current $150 to $206.25 and…

The 40th birthday of Ironman was always going to be a special race, and so it proved with the Kona debut of Javier Gomez, course records broken, emotional stories of redemption and some heavyweights showdowns between the world’s greatest long-course athletes. Advertisement Grabbing the headlines in the men’s elite event was Patrick Lange, who broke…

Image: WWE New WWE Champion Bobby Lashley made his first title defense on last night’s episode of Raw. One week after defeating The Miz to become WWE Champion, Lashley and Miz faced off in a rematch for the title. The result was the same as last week, with Lashley using The Hurt Lock to get…

Melbourne, Australia — A man who was out on parole was arrested after fatally shooting four men and wounding a woman in an hour-long downtown rampage Tuesday in the northern Australian city of Darwin, police said. Police did not reveal a motive for the shotgun attack, but ruled out terrorism. It was Australia’s third mass…

Ecuador’s highest court approved same-sex marriage Wednesday — a huge milestone for the LGBTQ community in the traditionally Catholic and conservative country. Judges on Quito’s constitutional court ruled five to four to give same-sex couples equal rights, following several lengthy lawsuits by same-sex couples and activists. The four dissenting judges argued that changes to the…

Red Bull recruit Sergio Perez says he’ll probably need about “five proper races” to better understand and get comfortable with Red Bull’s RB16B charger. Perez contributed 166 laps to Red Bull’s testing program in Bahrain, capping off his three half days with his new team by topping the timesheet in Sunday’s morning session. Last year’s…

Paratriathletes Lauren Steadman and Alison Patrick have both won gold at the Buffalo City ITU World Paratriathlon Event,  gaining automatic qualification for the Paralympics in Rio Advertisement  Steadman, 23, won the PT4 category and has now qualified for her third Paralympic Games, having competed twice before as a swimmer. She said: “The top women weren’t…