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New research shows that pausing for just 25 seconds before buying a chocolate bar can be enough to stave off the craving in favor of a more healthy snack.
A trial using vending machines in the US found that having to wait for sugary treats made them less desirable.
Scientists installed countdown timers on the machines, forcing customers who had ordered chocolate or other unhealthy products to wait 25 seconds before the items became available.
Full report here.
Two Senate Democrats facing tough re-elections next year say they will vote for President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
Sens. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced in statements Thursday that they would vote for Judge Neil Gorsuch.
Manchin says he holds "no illusions that I will agree with every decision Judge Gorsuch may issue in the future, but I have not found any reasons why this jurist should not be a Supreme Court Justice."
Heitkamp says she expects Gorsuch to follow through on his promise of an independent judiciary that "acts as a proper check and balance on the other two branches of government."
There's more at stake in Ecuador's presidential election on Sunday than whether the leftist legacy of outgoing President Rafael Correa will be extended with a victory by his former vice president.
If pro-business candidate Guillermo Lasso upsets former Vice President Lenin Moreno, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (pictured), who has been holed up in Ecuador's London embassy for five years, is likely to lose his safe haven.
Correa granted Assange asylum after accepting his argument that a Swedish arrest warrant on sexual assault charges was politically motivated.
Lasso takes a decidedly different view. On Feb. 20, a day after he finished second to Moreno in the first round of presidential voting to qualify for Sunday's runoff, Lasso was reported by Agence France-Presse as saying the London embassy "isn't a hotel" and that Ecuador was in no position to indefinitely finance the Australian-born Assange's care and feeding.
Full report here.
The coin is in the Guinness Book of World Records.
A gold coin featuring the likeness of Queen Elizabeth II weighing in at a whopping 221 pounds was reportedly stolen in the wee hours of Monday morning from Berlin’s Bode Museum.
A spokesman for the museum quoted by the Associated Press said the thieves, likely more than one considering the weight of the coin, broke in through a window at 3:30 a.m., snatched the “Big Maple Leaf” coin from a cabinet, and escaped before police could get there. He also said, without specifying, the coin is on loan from a private collection.
A police spokesman told Reuters that the coin was secured with bulletproof glass and that the thieves got in through the back of the museum by railroad tracks, where a ladder was later found.
In an interview with NME (New Musical Express), The Who’s Roger Daltrey (pictured) said Hillary didn’t have a chance during the November election.
The singer then took the opportunity to comment further on the 2016 presidential election, saying that Democrats lost the election because they put up a candidate so unpopular that “a dead dog” could have beaten her.
He said Trump didn’t win it. It was Hillary who lost it. He further said that Trump needs to wash his mouth out in order to clean up his language – and get a haircut.
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North Korean officials have issued a new war threat after Sen John McCain said a 'crazy fat kid' was running the hermit state.
McCain has been accused of 'hurting the dignity' of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, calling it the 'manifestation of their worst hostility toward the DPRK'.
'China is the only one that can control Kim Jong-un, this crazy fat kid that's running North Korea,' McCain told MSNBC's Greta van Susterern last week. 'They could stop North Korea's economy in a week.'
Full report here.
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