California politics updates: Top Democrats square off over gun control, April tax revenues behind expectations April 22 2016, 10:10 AM Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California politics and government news. Here's what we're watching right now:California's lieutenant governor...
Matt Zeller is still here because of his Afghan interpreter. The former Army captain is alive because an Afghan he didn’t know risked his life to shoot and kill two insurgents who were sneaking up on Zeller in the midst of withering rifle fire.
Teresa Allen, 46, had become jealous of her husband's working relationship with the victim and decided to get revenge, Lowell Police Chief Steve Bukala told the Daily News on Friday.
Authorities in Mali on Thursday arrested the suspected mastermind behind last year’s deadly attacks on hotels in the West African nation, BBC News reported. Fawaz Ould Ahmeida of Mauritania is accused of planning, among others, the November raid on the Radisson Blu hotel in the capital of Bamako that left at least 20 people dead.
Romania has been ejected from this year’s Eurovision Song Contest for owing $16m in unpaid bills to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The poor and underdeveloped central European country will not be able to compete with its richer European neighbors this year because state broadcaster Televiziunea Romana (TVR) failed to settle the debt that dates back to 2007. TVR YouTube video: Bangkok Post reports: Romania was to be represented at the event by Ovidiu Anton with his English-language song, “Moment of Silence”... Читать дальше...
Gold futures settled sharply lower Friday on the back of a stronger U.S. dollar, to finish out the week with a loss of 0.4%. June gold dropped $20.30, or 1.6%, to settle at $1,230 an ounce. For the week, prices lost roughly 0.4%, according to FactSet data.
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Volkswagen took a $18.28 billion charge related to the diesel emissions cheating scandal. The news came as the German government revealed conclusions of its emissions scandal report that showed diesel manipulation could be more widespread, although it accused no car maker of criminal wrongdoing. Daniel Michael explains. Photo: Bloomberg
Tech group spun out of Dell cuts IPO price and size of share sale
LAS VEGAS - UNLV has again approved a multimillion dollar contract for a new men's basketball coach after being jilted by the last hire.
Prince nearly overdosed on the painkiller Percocet just six days before the iconic musician’s lifeless body was found.
Industrials: there is a change in tone. I've been talking this week about watching what the big industrials have to say about the global economy.
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When Chief Bruce Shisheesh declared a state of emergency on April 9 for the suicide crisis in the Canadian aboriginal community of Attawapiskat, the news caused an international uproar.
There have been more than 100 attempts and at least one death since September, Shisheesh told CBC.
Canadian media descended on the Attawapiskat First Nation, and provincial and federal officials quickly made plans to fly out to the northern Ontario reserve.
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AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Belastingontwijking en - ontduiking met schimmige brievenbusfirma's moet sneller aan het licht komen. De 28 landen van de Europese Unie gaan gegevens uitwisselen over wie de uiteindelijke eigenaren zijn van bijvoorbeeld brievenbusfirma's. Daarmee hopen de lidstaten dat ingewikkelde constructies met bijvoorbeeld belastingparadijzen sneller naar voren komen.
VERMILLION, South Dakota - University of South Dakota Athletic Director David Herbster says the school has hired Northern Kentucky women's basketball coach Dawn Plitzuweit (PLITZ'-zoo-wyte) to lead the Coyotes.
Tony-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth will reunite with composer Andrew Lippa to bring two trailblazing American historical figures to life onstage for two nights in Maryland this weekend.
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More Americans are taking their own lives today than they have at any other point in the past three decades.
Suicide rates rose close to steadily from 1999 through 2014, the most recent year for which we have data, according to a new report released Friday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The uptick in deaths by suicide during this period is in sharp contrast to the rate of suicides seen in the country between 1986 and 1999, when suicides declined almost consistently each year. Читать дальше...
The Pistons need better bench play.
(ATTN: CHANGES details on para 35) By Chung Joo-won SEOUL, April 22 (Yonhap) -- Apparently the art of lighting has gained a stronger presence among the owners of restaurants and cafes, with the rise of photo- and video-sharing social media platforms
Liverpool fans should raise the roof for returning manager Rafa Benitez when he brings his relegation-threatened Newcastle United to Anfield on Saturday, says Jurgen Klopp.
Читать дальше...Oscar Pistorius’ family hit back on Friday at the two brothers who claimed in a newly published book that Pistorius hit Reeva Steenkamp with a cricket bat before shooting and killing her.
The FCC is just as annoyed as you are at those set-top-box rental fees you see every month on your cable bill.
As a teenager and young adult, I watched an older family member raise her children. From the time they were babies, she was consumed with their education to the point of driving to a preschool a few towns away because it was more "academic." At the time, her daughter was 3.
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