A Georgia homeowner shot and killed three masked teens as they approached his residence with their faces covered, authorities said.

    A Miami swingers club has been ordered to pay nearly $1 million to a group of models after the sex joint used photos of them in advertisements without their permission, a report said Monday.

    Australian actor, Paul Hogan, best known for his breakout role in "Crocodile Dundee," is celebrating his 80th birthday next month.

    Your organization is ethically obligated to be truthful about your former employee’s history, but it’s not your place to be the whistleblower.      

    A 2013 Phoenix law that adds "sexual orientation, gender identity or expression" to the city's nondiscrimination ordinance violated the freedom of speech and religious beliefs of two business owners, the Arizona Supreme Court said in a 4-3 ruling Monday.

    Australian actor, Paul Hogan, best known for his breakout role in "Crocodile Dundee," is celebrating his 80th birthday next month.

    Wendy Williams’ recent behavior in her personal life is worrying some of her closest supporters.

    A Miami swingers club has been ordered to pay nearly $1 million to a group of models after the sex joint used photos of them in advertisements without their permission, a report said Monday.

    President Trump targeted both of Barack Obama's post-presidency deals in a series of tweets on Monday, calling for an investigation into the former president's book and Netflix projects.

    Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer made his colorful and proudly outlandish “Dancing With the Stars” debut on Monday night wearing a neon-green ruffled shirt as he shimmied to the Spice Girls song “Spice up Your Life” in a salsa routine.

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    Howard Marks, co-chairman of Oaktree Capital, explains why investors should start treading lightly.

    Barnes & Noble jumped more than 20% after it said it would review a sale of the troubled company.

    Aston Martin is joining the ranks of listed automakers with an IPO that values the British company at more than $5 billion.

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    CARBONDALE (WSIL) -- The annual Unity March put on by the Women for Change organization of Carbondale will be held this weekend. 

    With tuition payments, financial aid applications and school supplies, college students are looking for ways to spend their money. However, scammers take on this opportunity to sway students who are looking for better ways to manage their money.

    CARTERVILLE (WSIL) -- The 4th annual Warriors of Hope Suicide Prevention and Awareness walk is set to take place on September 21st. 

    JACOB (WSIL) -- The Jackson County Sheriff's Office has identified the victim as 25 year-old Megan Marcinkowska of Chester.

    JACKSON COUNTY (WSIL) -- One person is dead and two others injured after an off-road single vehicle accident in rural Jackson County.

    A simple arthritis drug could be an effective, low cost solution to treat patients with blood cancers such as polycythemia vera (PV) and essential thrombocythemia (ET), a breakthrough study has shown.

    A new study suggests employee safety could be improved through use of virtual reality (VR) in Health and Safety training, such as fire evacuation drills. Researchers developed an immersive VR system to stimulate participants' perception of temperature, and senses of smell, sight and hearing to explore how they behaved during two health and safety training scenarios.

    Using DNA from museum specimens collected in the early 20th century, researchers identified two new species of giant salamander -- one of which they suspect is the world's biggest amphibian.

    Achieving an adequate, healthy diet in most low- and middle-income countries will require a substantial increase in greenhouse gas emissions and water use due to food production, according to new research.

    Since August 2017, more than 740,000 Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh, most eventually settling in camps in the hilly terrain in the southeastern part of the country. In the summer monsoon season, increased rainfall means the camps are especially vulnerable to flooding and landslides, made worse as rapid deforestation removes the plants that help keep soil in place. To reduce the risk of disaster, decision makers are now incorporating NASA Earth observations to inform where to build refugee camps – and which areas may be too unstable to even store supplies.NASA and Columbia University scientists and staff reviewing the landslide potential at a Rohingya refugee camp with UN partners in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Credit: United Nations Development Programme/Eno JonathanNASA’s Applied Sciences Disasters Program and Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) are working with humanitarian partners to co-design a process for integrating humanitarian considerations into the development of NASA satellite data products and analyses. To that point, Shanna McClain, NASA’s lead for Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Disasters Program; Robert Emberson, a NASA Postdoctoral Program fellow at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; Andrew Kruczkiewicz, senior research associate with IRI; and Geneva List, senior assistant researcher from IRI; recently co-led a workshop with the United Nations Disaster Programme (UNDP) in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh to work with these partners to identify opportunities for integrating NASA modeling and data into their decision-making process.During the August 2019 workshop, NASA researchers also learned more about what products and formats could be most useful for local partners on-site. Now, camp managers have access to near real-time NASA data on land use, rainfall and elevation from NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments on the Terra and Aqua satellites. This is part of a new approach to improve integration of the needs of users into the early stages of developing data products for humanitarian actors.The team is sharing information with UNDP, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), and the Bangladesh government through the Connecting Earth Observations to Decision Makers for Preparedness Actions (COMPAS) project. They are also continuing to incorporate feedback to customize the products NASA provides, to support the highly localized decisions made by humanitarian professionals working in the camps.By: Lia PoteetNASA Earth Science Division – Applied Sciences, Washington, D.C.Read more Making Space for Earth blog postsMaster Image: 

    Former African soccer leader Issa Hayatou will help organize some of the continent's top tournaments

    The suspended Russian track federation is sending a team of 29 competitors to the world championships in Qatar, where they will compete as neutral athletes

    Two Russian national team soccer players have been freed from prison after a court granted them parole

    Neymar's ban from the Champions League for insulting match officials has been cut to two games

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    Most of Microsoft’s Surface product lineup is scheduled for a potential refresh at Microsoft’s October 2 event in New York City, and educated guesses, rumors, and potential reports of new Surface hardware are beginning to, er, surface, But which make sense?Last October, Microsoft’s Surface launch included the Surface Pro 6, Surface Laptop 2, the Surface Studio 2, and the Surface Headphones. Earlier in 2018, Microsoft announced the Surface Go and the Surface Book 2.  Theoretically, Microsoft could refresh all  of these products, which would make for an epic Surface launch.To read this article in full, please click here

    Polk's Legend L100 speakers deliver well-rounded sound with generally precise renderings.

    The best wireless keyboards do more than free you from a cable. They let you toss the crummy keyboard you got for free with your PC—does anyone like that one?—and they also give you options. The models we’ve reviewed range from full-size desktop slabs to portable models that skip easily from laptop to tablet to phone. Whatever you need to type with, there’s a keyboard for it. (If you’re looking for a gaming keyboard, we’ve got you covered! Click that link to see our full reviews and rankings.)Keyboard choice can be very subjective. That said, we’ve based our reviews on hours spent with each model, banging away on work projects or surfing the web and keeping up on social media. To read this article in full, please click here

    Keyboards and mice have a pretty buttoned-down reputation, but ironically some of their most demanding users are right-brain types. That’s whom Logitech is targeting with its MX Master 3 mouse and MX Keys companion keyboard. Both these peripherals have been designed with an emphasis on comfort and customizability to appeal to software developers, designers, and other “creatives.”The MX Master 3, in particular, raises the bar, transforming the mouse from a simple input device to a multi-function tool that can dramatically enhance productivity.Design and functionalityThe MX Master 3 takes its design cues from the MX Master 2s, but make no mistake—under the hood this is a far different mouse. Let’s start with the redesigned scroll wheel. The machined-steel wheel employs what Logitech calls MagSpeed Electromagnetic scrolling. In lay terms, it means you can switch from measured line-by-line scrolling to blazing through pages just by spinning with more force. One flick of the wheel can scroll through 1,000 lines in one second, says Logitech, which should put a smile on the faces of coders and anyone who has ever worked with a voluminous spreadsheet.To read this article in full, please click here

    Keyboards and mice have a pretty buttoned-down reputation, but ironically some of their most demanding users are right-brain types. That’s whom Logitech is targeting with its MX Master 3 mouse and MX Keys companion keyboard. Both these peripherals have been designed with an emphasis on comfort and customizability to appeal to software developers, designers, and other “creatives.”The MX Keys, reviewed here, is a well-constructed low-profile keyboard that can pair with up to three devices and, when used with the MX Master 3, control multiple computers in a single workflow. It does so much more than just type, which is why it's earned an Editor's Choice. To read this article in full, please click here

    Nearly 50,000 General Motors employees across the United States walked out late Sunday night after GM and the United Auto Workers union failed to reach an agreement on a new four-year contract.

    Kevin Hart was named in a $60 million lawsuit by Montia Sabbag from a 2017 incident in which she and Hart were filmed in a Las Vegas hotel room.      

    Saudi and US investigators have determined "with very high probability" that the weekend attack on the Saudi oil industry was launched from an Iranian base in Iran close to the border with Iraq, according to a source familiar with the investigation.

    Vanessa Williams became the first African American to win the title of Miss America. (Sept. 17)      

   

    A virus research center in Russia — one of two places in the world that houses the smallpox virus — exploded on Monday, officials said.

    A hospital director in northern Afghanistan says a bombing that targeted a campaign rally of President Ashraf Ghani killed 24 people. The president was at the scene but was unharmed in the blast and is safe.

    A hospital director in northern Afghanistan says a bombing that targeted a campaign rally of President Ashraf Ghani killed 24 people. The president was at the scene but was unharmed in the blast and is safe.

    Britain's top court met on Tuesday to consider whether a decision by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to suspend parliament until shortly before the date for Brexit was illegal.

    Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez embarked on a flurry of phone calls with rival party leaders on Tuesday to try to break a political stalemate and avoid the fourth national election in as many years.