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A man died early Sunday after at least 10 people were shot during a Memorial Day weekend block party in Virginia that turned into a bloodbath, officials say. The 10 male gunshot victims were rushed to three local hospitals after Saturday night’s shooting in the Holly Cove neighborhood of Chesapeake, police confirmed to WTKR. AtRead moreRead more

Train service to Montauk and the Hamptons will be restored just in time for Memorial Day, MTA officials promised on Sunday. The Long Island Rail Road announced full service to the Montauk Branch for Monday following a train derailment that halted operations to the popular East End destinations early Saturday. LIRR service on the MontaukRead moreRead more

The Big Lie is back in style. Wikipedia tells us that the term was invented by Adolf Hitler to describe what others did — though he was the biggest liar of all. “The broad masses of a nation,” he wrote in “Mein Kampf,” “more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie.”Read moreRead more

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has already accomplished a lot since arriving at the space rock known as Bennu late last year. The spacecraft successfully entered orbit around the asteroid, scanned its surface with a laser and learned a lot about its surface. But its mission is far from over and eventually, the probe will need toRead moreRead more

Lionsgate’s chances of selling its Starz TV network to CBS for $5.5 billion just shrank — by about $2 billion. Investors in the film studio behind “The Hunger Games” made it abundantly clear this week that they don’t see CBS writing a $5 billion-plus check to Lionsgate to acquire Starz, the station behind “The SpanishRead moreRead more

MILWAUKEE — The University of Wisconsin said Sunday that the wife and daughter of men’s basketball assistant coach Howard Moore were killed in a Michigan automobile accident. Moore’s wife, Jennifer, and daughter, Jaidyn, were killed early Saturday in the crash on the M-14 highway in Washtenaw County’s Superior Township, the department said. “There are noRead moreRead more

Memorial Day 2019 weekend is upon us, and the holiday sales are in full swing. Whether you’re shopping for a new mattress, furniture, washers and dryers or looking for a decor upgrade, check out these sales, from staple spots like Home Depot, Best Buy, and more. HOME All Modern | AllModern.com Up to 65 percentRead moreRead more

RENO, Nev. — NASA has launched the final stage of a four-year effort to develop a national traffic management system for drones, testing them in cities for the first time beyond the operator’s line of sight as businesses look in the future to unleash the unmanned devices in droves above busy streets and buildings. MultipleRead moreRead more

At least three people were killed and five injured in two explosions in Nepal’s capital on Sunday — with police suspecting an outlawed communist group as being behind the attacks. The two blasts occurred about an hour apart in separate neighborhoods in Kathmandu, police official Shyam Lal Gyawali confirmed, with the first in the northernRead moreRead more

Tech investor Eric Crown is backing a bid by Marc Lotenberg, chief executive of Surface Media, to buy glossy fashion title W magazine from Condé Nast, according to a well-placed source. Crown, a prominent GOP donor who heads Tempe, Ariz.-based AZ Crown Investments, did not return a call or email seeking comment Friday. Meanwhile, AdamRead moreRead more