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Apple blocked updates to the WordPress blogging app until it added in-app payments for plan upgrades, allowing Apple to get a 30 percent cut. “Get why WordPress is absent for iOS updates”, Matt Mullenweg of WordPress tweeted. ‘We were locked up [the Apple] App Store. In order to be able …

German doctors tried to determine what caused Alexei Navalny to suddenly become ill and enter a coma, hours after the Kremlin critic was evacuated to Berlin. In a statement apparently contradicting Russian doctors who said he was too ill and unstable to leave, the activist group that called for the …

John Brennan was interviewed Friday by U.S. Attorney John Durham as part of the review of all abuse related to the origins of the Russian probe, but the former CIA director was assured that he is not a target in the investigation, he said. a spokesman for Brennan. “Earlier today, …

The Semifinals of the Eastern Conference are set (as is the West). With the Flyers playing the Canadiens in yesterday’s Game 6, they stepped forward on our favorite islanders. (The other collision: Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Boston Bruins.) I like the way we agree against Philadelphia. Carter Hart played generally …

A delegation of West African leaders has arrived in Mali in an effort to push for a speedy return to civilian government following a military coup drawn up after weeks of anti-government protests. Cheerful opposition leaders took to the streets of the capital, Bamako, to march on Tuesday after military …