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British singer Vera Lynn died last week at the incredible age of 103. Her career spanned seven decades, but it was her World War II era songs like “We’ll Meet Again” and “(There Will Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover” that made her a cultural icon by providing …

Text size Joe Raedle / Getty Images Crude oil futures are making new gains above $ 40 a barrel, a notable change for a product that briefly traded below $ 0 in April. On Tuesday, futures for Brent crude, the global benchmark, rose 1.2% to $ 43.58 a barrel. West …

Mel Gibson is responding to Winona Ryder’s explosive claims that the Oscar-winning actor and director made anti-Semitic and bigoted comments and accused the “Stranger Things” star of lying about their interactions. “This is 100% false,” a Gibson representative said in a statement to Variety. “She lied about it more than …

fake pictures When the Browns almost traded for Jim Harbaugh, the soccer world narrowly missed a twice-a-year sibling battle that had met in the Super Bowl in early 2013. In early 2012, the soccer world nearly got two Manning bowls per year. An excellent and detailed oral history of Peyton …

Over the weekend, Verkhoyansk, Russia reached a temperature of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit. Researchers are still working to confirm the result, which may be recognized as a record for the Arctic Circle. And the small Siberian town is not alone. Much of Russia has faced a heat wave in recent days, …