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The embattled Miss USA beauty pageant will be available as a live stream on July 12 now that NBC and Univision have dropped out as TV partners. A rep for the pageant confirmed that the three-hour event will be available for viewing via MissUniverse.com/MissUSA. The live stream is a last-ditch effort to salvage viewership of the pageant, set to take place in Baton Rouge, La. More details of the streaming plan will be “forthcoming,” according to the rep. Pageant producers will need to recruit a new host or co-hosts after two NBC-affliated personalities, Cheryl Burke and MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts, withdrew...

Here is a live map of different war zones. You can zoom in or out just like on Google Maps. Hover over different icons and more. Check out how close ISIS is to Baghdad. Yikes!

The Senate convenes for a rare Sunday session to review key anti-terrorism programs under the Patriot Act, which are set to expire at midnight if the Senate fails to conduct a successful vote. Republican Senator Rand Paul has said he plans to derail the vote.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it is investigating what the Pentagon called an inadvertent shipment of live anthrax spores to at least one, and perhaps as many as nine, laboratories that expected to receive dead spores. "At this time we do not suspect any risk to the general public," CDC spokeswoman Kathy Harben said.

Frankly, I don't expect much action tonight, though the Soros-funded protests in New York seem to be heating up a bit, with several arrests. RESOURCES: Baltimore City Police Special Event Scanner: http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/20121/web Baltimore Police Districts scanner feed: http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/3918/web WBAL: http://www.wbaltv.com/ VICE News Live Feed: https://news.vice.com/article/live-from-the-protests-in-baltimore Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=baltimore Reddit Baltimore Protests Thread: http://www.reddit.com/live/ut948b9s23la

Obama JUST SAID the world was "safer and more just" under the leadership of HE and David Cameron. What a joke.

To maintain, as does Dr. Frieden, that stopping travel to the U.S. from the few countries where Ebola is running rampant would somehow harm us is illogical to the point of absurdity. And it is now clear to every other sentient being that Ebola is far more contagious, and deadly, than AIDS, to which Dr. Frieden compared Ebola. The latest nugget is that Amber Vinson, the second Dallas nurse diagnosed with Ebola, called the CDC numerous times before boarding her flight from Cleveland back to Dallas and was told it was OK for her to fly because her fever did...

Gaza Live Not much going on at 3:04 PM Central..can hear artillery in the backgraond.

Great clip of Ian Gillan, live and unplugged, singing a couple of his hits.

WATCH LIVE RUSSIAN ANTI-USA RALLY AT DIGNITAS NEWS!

MOSCOW, March 18. /ITAR-TASS/. The Russian President stressed that Russia has vital interests in Crimea. Putin says that it is important to ensure the right of all ethnicities in Crimea, including Crimean Tatars. There will be three official languages - Russian, Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar. Vladimir Putin is talking about the history of the Crimean region and its importance to Russia. More than 82% of the voters took part in the referendum in Crimea, and more than 96% voted for accession to Russia, Putin says. Russian President Vladimir Putin is about to make a statement on Crimea's application for accession...

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I dunno if any of you are into a little jazz- I am... that is, into a little of it.  I really don't know anything about the current scene either, but what I do know comes from a 1980 college roomate who was -atypically for an 18 y.o. of the time- heavily into jazz: I was already a pretty big Steely Dan/Bryan Ferry fan -with substantial jazz influences- but the things he introduced me to were David Sanborn(who I saw live), Jon Luc Ponty, Spyro Gyra (also saw live) and Lee Ritenour, an American some consider the best jazz guitarist...

General Dynamics Electric Boat will christen North Dakota (SSN-784), the U.S. Navy's newest and most advanced nuclear attack submarine, at a ceremony at its shipyard here on Saturday, Nov. 2, at 11 a.m. A "live" video and audio webcast of the North Dakota christening will be accessible online at: www.gdeb.com. Webcast coverage will begin Saturday at 10:30 a.m. EDT; the ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. and conclude at approximately 12:15 p.m. The program will be available for on-demand replay for one week, beginning at approximately 2:30 p.m. EDT on Saturday. www.gdeb.com

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Editor's Note: Today's live webcast of the sun has been delayed one hour to 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) due to cloud cover at the observing site. A huge sunspot 11 times the size of Earth is facing our planet now and you can see live telescope views of the solar behemoth in a skywatching webcast today. The giant sunspot AR1785 will star in a free webcast by the online skywatching website Slooh Space Camera Tuesday (July 9) at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) and last about 25 minutes. You can watch the sunspot webcast live on SPACE.com, courtesy...

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(Fox News excerpt of AP) VATICAN CITY – Thousands of people are pouring into St. Peter's Square to witness the official start of the papacy of the first pope from the New World. (snip) The installation Mass is simpler than the 2005 ceremony for Pope Benedict XVI in keeping with Francis' style, but still grand enough to draw 132 official delegations and religious leaders from around the world, including the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians who is attending for the first time since the two branches of Christianity split 1,000 years ago. (Bold print above not in the...