Bill Chappell

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Guinness Tells Beer Drinkers: Keep Your Head And Embrace The 'Stache

Thursday, March 17, 2016

The folks at Guinness have a polite request: Don't slurp the foamy head off their beer. It's essentially a nitrogen cap, they say, that's protecting the flavors underneath from being oxidized.

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Automatic Braking Systems To Become Standard On Most U.S. Vehicles

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Automatic brakes are designed to stop a vehicle before it collides with a car or another object. Some 20 carmakers have agreed to make it a standard feature on nearly all new cars in the U.S. by 2022.

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Chaos In Brazil, As Judge Suspends Ex-President's Appointment As Chief Of Staff

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Protests broke out in cities across Brazil overnight, and there were clashes at the presidential palace. Then a judge halted a move seen as a bid for legal immunity for Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

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Professor Who Solved Fermat's Last Theorem Wins Math's Abel Prize

Thursday, March 17, 2016

The mathematics problem he solved had been lingering since 1637 — and he first read about it when he was just 10 years old, during a visit to the library.

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The Eaglet Is Landing: The 'Pip Out' Continues On D.C. Webcam

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Pip pip, hooray! A hole in the eaglet's shell, called a "pip," appears to have gotten larger and the baby bird could emerge soon.

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Merrick Garland Is Named As President Obama's Supreme Court Nominee

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

A former prosecutor, federal judge Merrick Garland will visit Capitol Hill on Thursday to begin meeting with legislators, Obama said.

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Counterterrorism Raid In Brussels Sparks Gunfire And A Standoff; 1 Suspect Killed

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Both Belgian and French police were involved in the operation, which apparently began with a visit to an apartment that the authorities thought to be vacant. Four officers were wounded.

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In A First, NFL Executive Admits Football Is Linked To Brain Damage

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

"Certainly yes," said Jeff Miller, the NFL's executive vice president for health and safety, when asked on Capitol Hill if football is linked to a degenerative brain disease.

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Egg-Cam Watch: Bald Eaglet May 'Pip Out' In D.C. Tuesday

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

The parents, known as Mr. President and The First Lady, have been incubating two eggs at the National Arboretum, and a baby could emerge soon.

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Pope Francis Sets Canonization Date For Mother Teresa: Sept. 4

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

In addition to Mother Teresa, four other Catholic figures — who lived in Argentina, Mexico, Sweden and Poland — will become saints this year.

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Dallas Seavey Wins Fourth Iditarod Championship In Five Years

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

For the third year in a row, Dallas Seavey is the first musher to reach Nome, Alaska, winning his fourth Iditarod championship overall.

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Reporter And Editor Resign From Breitbart Site Over Alleged Assault At Trump Event

Monday, March 14, 2016

Last week, Brietbart News was promoting Michelle Fields' interviews on major TV networks. Last night, she resigned from the site, along with editor-at-large Ben Shapiro.

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Investment Firm Buys Fresh Market Grocer For $1.36 Billion

Monday, March 14, 2016

Fresh Market currently has more than 13,000 employees and operates 186 stores in 27 states, particularly in the Southeast.

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Amtrak Train Derails Near Dodge City, Kansas; Bend In Rail Is Reported

Monday, March 14, 2016

Citing a government official, the AP is reporting that before the train derailed, an engineer had noticed a bend in the tracks ahead and pulled the emergency brake.

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Wounded Warrior Project Fires Top 2 Executives After Reports Of Overspending

Friday, March 11, 2016

The charity responds to questions about its overhead costs, such as the $26 million it spent on conventions — including at least one that was held at a luxury resort.

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Former Putin Aide Died Of 'Blunt Force Injuries' In D.C., Medical Report Says

Friday, March 11, 2016

Mikhail Lesin was found dead in a hotel in November. A new report calls the manner of death "undetermined." In response, Russia says it wants answers from Washington.

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Google A.I. Computer Takes Second Game From Human Champion

Thursday, March 10, 2016

This game lacked some of the hard-hitting exchanges of the first, with several analysts agreeing that in Round 2, Lee Sedol took a more cautious approach while AlphaGo showed more creativity.

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Thousands Of ISIS Documents Apparently Leaked To British Media

Thursday, March 10, 2016

The identities of jihadist recruits from more than 50 countries, including European nations, the U.S. and Canada, are reportedly in the data.

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Aung San Suu Kyi Apologizes For Not Becoming Myanmar's President

Thursday, March 10, 2016

The Nobel Peace laureate released a letter Thursday explaining the situation and apologizing for "not fully fulfilling the people's desire" by becoming their president.

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A.I. Program From Google Beats Human World Champ In Game Of Go

Wednesday, March 09, 2016

In the first of a series of games pitting Google's AI computer against a human world champion in the ancient game of Go, Google DeepMind's AlphaGo program has narrowly taken Round 1 from Lee Sedol.

Sedol resigned with more than 28 minutes remaining on his clock, after a game that ...

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